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  • Il cane però non ne vuole sapere di riportare il bastone.

    No Fat Clips!!! : Colin and Cumberland: Fetch! 2008

  • O magari le inseguono con un bastone, credendo si tratti di gigantesche piñata.

    No Fat Clips!!! : MTV Prime: I Am Cloud 2007

  • {Poco Usato} Correntemente » Fare pubblicità è come agitare un bastone nel trogolo dei maiali.

    The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos Guest Author 2005

  • The bastone di S. Giuseppe had begun to come up and the tufts of grass were full of lily-leaves preparing for the spring.

    Diversions in Sicily Henry Festing Jones 1889

  • From old Florentine novels -- moreover, from life: Buona femmina e mala femmina vuol bastone.

    Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

  • Simplizio called him _bestiaccia_! and then, softening it, _poco garbato_! and proposed to Ser Francesco that he should leave the bastone behind, and take the crab-switch he presented to him, giving at the same time a sample of its efficacy, which covered the long grizzle hair of the worthy quadruped with a profusion of pink blossoms, like embroidery.

    Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819

  • But his style of la scherma col bastone da passeggio is by no means the only one in Italy.

    Steph's blog 2009

  • Se la vita ci richiede di camminare su un sol piede non conviene indietreggiare ma piuttosto affrontare ed il nuovo fronteggiare anche se in tali congiunture si fanno avanti vecchie paure che prospettano sciagure per tutte le zone oscure, succede di reagire in modo scomposto con la ragione fuori posto, ci si ribella alla creazione si va in sterile ribellione ci si arrende mancando l'occasione invece di appogiarsi al bastone.

    Sicily Scene 2008

  • Let _a b_ be the width of the light from a window, which falls on a stick set up at one foot from _a c_ [Footnote 6: _bastone_ (stick).

    The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485

  • Let _a b_ be the width of the light from a window, which falls on a stick set up at one foot from _a c_ [Footnote 6: _bastone_ (stick).

    The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485

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