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  • Fortunately, she lived near a landmark -- a drive-in cinema -- so I found my way back by asking the first passerby for directions and then confirming them with other people as I went along, always asking if I was headed in the right direction for "il cinema collo schermo all'aria aperta" (the cinema with the screen outside).

    se tromper - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • The Fly and the Eye: Le mosche si fermano sul collo

    No Fat Clips!!! : [BEST OF] October 2008 – pt.1 2008

  • Fortunately, she lived near a landmark -- a drive-in cinema -- so I found my way back by asking the first passerby for directions and then confirming them with other people as I went along, always asking if I was headed in the right direction for "il cinema collo schermo all'aria aperta" the cinema with the screen outside.

    se tromper - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Tianeus, Jamblichus, and Tritemius of late, that showed Maximilian the emperor his wife, after she was dead; Et verrucam in collo ejus (saith [1189] Godolman) so much as the wart in her neck.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Hic verò Machon, circa annum incarnationis Domini sexcentissimum natus, in Arabia pauper erat gratis pascens camelos, et interdum sequens Mercatores in Aegyptum fordellos illorum proprio collo deferens pro mercede.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Aliqui verò in collo ferri lanceæ vncum habent, cum quo de sella, si possunt, hominem detrahant.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • Sed et aucæ in triplo maiores nostris, plumis indutæ rubris, nisi quod in pectore et collo apparet nigredo.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Est et genus Nucum incredibilis magnitudinis ad quantitatem magni capitis: et bestia vocata, oraflans, vel serfans, corpore in nostrorum aldtudine caballorum, et collo in 20 longitudine cubitorum ad prospiciendum vltra domos et muros, quorum posteriora apparent vt hinniculi siue lerni.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Habent autem in illis, et vlterioribus partibus hunc vsum: si quando castrum ab hostibus fuerit sic obsessum, quòd Dominus eius non possit emittere nuncium amico suo remotè moranti, recipit columbam olim in castro, vel domo amici natam, vel educatam, quam hic sibi per certam prouisionem allatam detinuit incaueatam, et scriptas quas vult literas alligans collo columbæ, dimittit liberam volare, quæ protinus festinat ad focum propriæ natiuitatis.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Est et genus Nucum incredibilis magnitudinis ad quantitatem magni capitis: et bestia vocata, oraflans, vel serfans, corpore in nostrorum aldtudine caballorum, et collo in 20 longitudine cubitorum ad prospiciendum vltra domos et muros, quorum posteriora apparent vt hinniculi siue lerni.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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