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One man muttered quite loudly, "Ang bastos" How rude.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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One man muttered quite loudly, "Ang bastos" How rude.
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The set you see here we call Baraja española; it is widely used in Mexico and includes oros, espadas, copas, and bastos.
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The set you see here we call Baraja española; it is widely used in Mexico and includes oros, espadas, copas, and bastos.
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The set you see here we call Baraja española; it is widely used in Mexico and includes oros, espadas, copas, and bastos.
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When a basto appears upon the scene, man is as often the hunted as the hunter, but we are not hunting bastos now.
Pirates of Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1962
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Siempre solicitados los géneros bastos á precios baratos.
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano
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The pony I was riding did his best, but even then could not avoid a sharp prod that would have ripped him up had not my leather bastos intervened.
Arizona Nights Stewart Edward White 1909
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The Spaniards made bastos, or knotty clubs, the emblem of the ` bold peasantry, 'taken probably from the custom that the plebeians were permitted to challenge or fight each other with sticks and quarter-staves only, but not with the sword, or any arms carried by a gentleman; while the French peasantry were pointed out under the ideas of husbandry, namely, by the trefles, trefoil or clover-grass.
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Thus, we call one suit spades, from the Spanish espada, ` sword, 'although we retain no similitude of the sword in the figure, -- and another clubs, in Spanish, bastos, but without regard to the figure also.
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