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'I istoria ton gynaikon, I istoria ton filon, kai i feministiki istoria: Methodologikes kai theoretikes diadikasies' (The history of women, the history of gender, and feminist history: Methodological and theoretical processes).
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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It was another surprise, and our last, this snowy reef with jagged crest, at least 500 metres long, forming the finest display of an exposed filon we had as yet seen; but — the first glance told us that it had been worked.
The Land of Midian 2003
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A narrow gorge opens upon a semicircular hollow lined with ochraceous or ferruginous matter; in fact, part of the filon, which sends off fibrils in all directions.
The Land of Midian 2003
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The quartz mountain is, like almost all the others, the expanded mushroom-like head of a huge filon or vein; and minor filets thread all the neighbouring heights.
The Land of Midian 2003
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(John's) son, because John is the subject, but we must say "lian filon" if the brother's son is meant.
The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians Helen Fryer
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Hieraux mi renkontis vian filon, kaj li gxentile salutis min. Antaux tri tagoj mi vizitis vian kuzon, kaj mia vizito faris al li plezuron.
The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians Helen Fryer
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In the sentences -- Yesterday I met your son, "Hieraux mi renkontis vian filon"; He will go in the evening, "Li iros vespere"; They sat there,
The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians Helen Fryer
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Dum Tell cxirkauxprenis la filon, la tirano demandis "Kial vi havas tiun ceteran sagon en la mano."
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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En cxi tiu letero la patrino diris per la plumo ke sxi amas la filon.
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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The quartz mountain is, like almost all the others, the expanded mushroom-like head of a huge filon or vein; and minor filets thread all the neighbouring heights.
The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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