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I loved it especially the flora of Pandora good anti-war anti-corporate greed theme but as my dear Berserker friend sayas they could have made it without any story line like a NAtional Geographic Special and it would have been great and the preview for Tim Burton's Alice assured that I'll be going to the theatre for that as well if you read the Science article it causes many of those
Robert Parker RIP Steven Barnes 2010
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"Some people assume that this body is like a car we're driving around and the spirit dwells within," sayas Burke.
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But just as he was about to press forward and break through all, suddenly from among some trees two shepherdesses of surpassing beauty presented themselves to his sight — or at least damsels dressed like shepherdesses, save that their jerkins and sayas were of fine brocade; that is to say, the sayas were rich farthingales of gold embroidered tabby.
Don Quixote 2002
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Kambayas are used as sayas, or outer petticoats, by the native or
Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking
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Mestiza girls, and are generally made of cotton cloth, although, of late, jusè and silk sayas appear to be more generally worn than they used to be.
Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking
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She was presented with enough cloth for two or three camisas and sayas, a mirror, and a string of beads, and she finally gave an unwilling assent to the entreaties of her relatives, and the ceremony was performed in the manner already described.
Negritos of Zambales William Allan Reed
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That is to sayas Mr. Buchan has put it -- they are misinformed on many subjects, although highly educated in others.
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Mexican women, whose white-flounced sayas were monotonously rising and falling to the strains of two melancholy harps, Miss Mannersley rejoined us from the house.
Selected Stories of Bret Harte Bret Harte 1869
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Among those who went forth to welcome the supposed patriots were a number of women dressed in the narrow _sayas_ above described.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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But just as he was about to press forward and break through all, suddenly from among some trees two shepherdesses of surpassing beauty presented themselves to his sight -- or at least damsels dressed like shepherdesses, save that their jerkins and sayas were of fine brocade; that is to say, the sayas were rich farthingales of gold embroidered tabby.
The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581
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