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  • Serrano attempts to sever the bull's spinal cord after a failed "estocada."

    Catalonian Bullfighting: Amazing Photos Of A Dying Spanish Custom From GlobalPost GlobalPost 2010

  • And even more disturbing is the grinning faces of those who've investigated details for the purpose of gossip and their pride en par with a torero, in a bullfighting arena, who has gracefully thrown himself over the horns of the fighting bull performing a perfect estocada -- the act of thrusting the sword ensuring a "clean death."

    Fahad Faruqui: (Not) Giving In To Gossip Fahad Faruqui 2011

  • Ortiz hizo lo correcto, callar hasta encontrar el momento acertado para dar una estocada final: la seriedad de los Noticieros y Programas de Opinión de Ecuavisa estarán ya no en entredicho de aqui en adelante, sino que su credibilidad tocaría asintóticamente el CERO.

    Global Voices in English » Ecuador: The Departure of a Television Anchor 2009

  • And even more disturbing is the grinning faces of those who've investigated details for the purpose of gossip and their pride en par with a torero, in a bullfighting arena, who has gracefully thrown himself over the horns of the fighting bull performing a perfect estocada -- the act of thrusting the sword ensuring a "clean death."

    Fahad Faruqui: (Not) Giving In To Gossip Fahad Faruqui 2011

  • Así venzo de una estocada la primavera acuática y gris que cae del cielo.

    veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2008

  • For ten minutes after a good estocada, the matador is the most popular man in Spain.

    Castilian Days John Hay 1870

  • (Riñen, y le da una estocada.) (They duel and he gives him a sword thrust)

    Don Juan Tenorio Jos�� Zorrilla 1855

  • When Marin delivered the estocada, a half tonne bull dropped to the sand, just as reflections of the sun faded in the matador's suit of light.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Fiona Govan 2011

  • One arm curved up and over from behind her like a scorpion's tail, and with two extended fingers she delivered a symbolic estocada - the matador's final, mortal thrust - to the entire audience.

    Evening Standard - Home Clifford Bishop 2012

  • Having just praised the spanish. .also have to question how retarded they are with their bullfighting and running of the bullshit ... fbjohan estocada!

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010

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