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Eu não crio para a gaveta... até fico lisonjeado e agradecido, por teres gostado do fragmento da fotografia.
Arte Artur 2006
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Palaces, with gorgeous façades and triple stories of colonnades, composed street after street, while fountains and statues and propyla, temples, monoliths, andro-sphinxes and crio-sphinxes presented, as I rode along through this superb “City of the Sun,” an endless spectacle of architectural grandeur and marble magnificence.
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Having passed this row of crio-sphinxes we ascended three broad steps, on each side of which towered a lofty
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Egypt, -- the _andro-sphinx_, with the head of a man and the body of a lion; the _crio-sphinx_, with the head of a ram and the body of a lion; and the
Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849
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Mi fydda i'n teimlo'n well un diwrnod, ond ar hyn o bryd, dw i jyst eisiau crio.
Blogiadur.com 2008
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_andro_ or _crio_ sphinxes, the one formed by the union of the lion with the man, and the other of the lion with the ram.
Sketches Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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The crio-sphinx, then, belongs to the Ammonian mythology, and is a distinct symbol from the andro-sphinx and female sphinx, which, probably, are connected with the worship of Osiris and Isis. "
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855
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A finna'n mynd i'r siambar a gorfadd ar y gwely a crio am ei bod hi mor hen. "
Blogiadur.com 2009
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