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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

  • 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.

    The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage 1859

  • Having passed this row of crio-sphinxes we ascended three broad steps, on each side of which towered a lofty

    The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage 1859

  • 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

  • Mi fydda i'n teimlo'n well un diwrnod, ond ar hyn o bryd, dw i jyst eisiau crio.

    Blogiadur.com 2008

  • _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

  • 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

  • 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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