Armo

She may have been a Texan, but by procreating with an Armo she was not exempt from the tyranny of her in-laws when she gave birth to her son almost 11 years ago, and was clearly still traumatized by it.

Archive 2004-11-01 2004

She may have been a Texan, but by procreating with an Armo she was not exempt from the tyranny of her in-laws when she gave birth to her son almost 11 years ago, and was clearly still traumatized by it.

Mother May I 2004

The Armo-creeper3, with large fleshy leaves, pale green, red, or crimson, and clusters of bright berries like purple grapes, forms a conspicuous ornament in the valleys.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

“Armo-creeper water,” or more facetiously Dabadalashay: from Damal it bore S.W. 190°.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

"West of it lies the March of Armo-neit, the easternmost of the principalities still liege to Anderle."

The Swordbearer Cook, Glen 1982

She would give him Armand's cues for particular speeches and his impassioned “Armo, I lof, I lof you!” never failed to convulse her, while his pulmonary cough was so deep and sepulchral that it rang through the hotel corridors, making other guests think that Modjeska herself was in the last stages of a disease she simulated unto death nightly.

Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901

The banks were fringed with milk-bush and Asclepias, the Armo-creeper, a variety of thorns, and especially the yellow-berried

First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855

[3] The berries of the Armo are eaten by children, and its leaves, which never dry up, by the people in times of famine; they must be boiled or the acrid juice would excoriate the mouth.

First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855

After a march of two hours, over ground so winding that we had not covered more than three miles, our guides halted under a tree, near a deserted kraal, at a place called El Armo, the "Armo-creeper water," or more facetiously Dabadalashay: from Damal it bore S.W. 190°.

First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855

Dear Armo: Now, ¡Ay, caramba! might not be as popular or as peculiarly Mexican a swear as, say, "pinche puto pendejo baboso," "¡Cu-le-ro!" or the many epithets derived from the word mamá (mother), but Mexicans do say it-but not as often as gabachos would love to believe, Bart Simpson catchphrase notwithstanding.

Tucson Weekly 2009