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  • After lunch on board in La Passe, we headed down wind with light trade winds (SE 9-12k) pushing us wing to wing or "farfalla" (butterfy) as the Italians say a little about 10M northwest to Anse Petite Cour, Praslin where we tied up to a mooring ball which cost $15US for the night.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009

  • New variations appeared among both her interweaving and linear works, from Catastrofe a farfalla, inspired by René Thomas (1923 – 2002) to Anamorphosis (1976).

    Paola Levi-Montalcini. 2009

  • Una farfalla è la protagonista nel video realizzato presso Walter Robot per il progetto musicale di Bill Barminski.

    No Fat Clips!!! : The Sub Atomic Nixons – Hazy Day 2008

  • Dopo aver mangiato una farfalla, un bimbo riesce a volare in questo spot per Once TV, un canale messicano.

    No Fat Clips!!! : If it Happens in your Life 2006

  • Straziante davvero. il cordone ombelicale strappato è la rottura con ogni futuro possibile, il battito di ali della farfalla un sussulto di speranza.

    No Fat Clips!!! : PJOTR SAPEGIN – Aria 2006

  • La farfalla di Dinard - which from the ninety-six pages of the 1956 edition was expanded, from one edition to another, into the 273 pages of the 1960 edition - showed Montale to be an original writer of autobiography and imaginative prose, almost a narrator, with malicious flashes of wit but with an elegiac spirit.

    Eugenio Montale - Biography 1975

  • After a volume of cultural articles, La farfalla di

    Eugenio Montale - Biography 1975

  • We agreed therefore to consider that the beauty of the morning had exhausted the good fortune and, if so, the farfalla had done the thing handsomely.

    Diversions in Sicily Henry Festing Jones 1889

  • I had never committed any -- said that as to the kind of luck the moth would bring, Fortune would not submit to dictation, the most I could do to control her would be to look out farfalla notturna in the book and put

    Diversions in Sicily Henry Festing Jones 1889

  • After coffee we started to walk across the plain back to Custonaci, calling again at the settlement of cottages and waiting for the boats to come in, thinking it possible that the luck brought by the farfalla notturna might take the form of fish.

    Diversions in Sicily Henry Festing Jones 1889

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