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  • "Cristo Morto" is currently displayed in a long hallway here.

    Mantegna's Singular Jesus 2007

  • Morto por um regime ilegítimo, Saddam Hussein depressa verá os seus crimes esquecidos e tornar-se-á a figura de um mártir.

    Hoje criminosos... Artur 2006

  • Morto de cansaço é a expressão que melhor define como me sinto neste preciso momento.

    Fadigas Artur 2005

  • He would cast down his eyes and look like a man abashed, and then gently, and with a mournful gesture, allow the words, “Morto, signor,” to come through his lips.

    Eothen 2003

  • Flavio escaped to the Campo Morto, where he is now living, -- an asylum for men guilty of the blackest crimes, where they gradually fall victims to the pestilential vapors which they inhale, and perish beneath the brightest sun while cultivating the soil so soon to become their graves.

    The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various

  • Sixtus IV (1471-84) in the war against Ferrara, and victor at the battle of Campo Morto against the Neapolitans (1482).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • [137] Morto da Feltre is mentioned by Vasari as having assisted Giorgione in the decoration of the Fondaco de 'Tedeschi.

    Giorgione Cook, Herbert 1904

  • He hopes soon to clap on an extinguisher to their fire by planting down two fine big fellows of his own Morto Bay way: we mean to add a couple of old naval six-inchers to this battery.

    Gallipoli Diary, Volume I Ian Hamilton 1900

  • After having gone up and down in this manner for some time, we at last reached an eminence that looked over the Mare Morto, and Elysian fields trembling with poplars.

    Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents Beckford, William 1891

  • Your Tyrolean peasant, however, is not easily disabused of ancient errors, and the Lago Morto, I am told, notwithstanding that public rehabilitation, enjoys its evil reputation to this day.

    Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

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