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“Trovisi giu,” Karp told the dog, who wagged the nub of his tail at the visitors—he was a lover, not a fighter, unless commanded otherwise—and then trotted over to the easy chair where Marlene was reading a newspaper and slumped to his belly with a sigh.
Malice Robert K. Tanenbaum 2007
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_ Ne muge haue {n} no lif on giu bute ge liue {n} bi mi fleis ⁊ bi mi blod. þ̵ husel þe ge understonden {;} is his holi fleis ⁊ his blod.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Diu is, by inaccurate ears, or inaccurate pronunciation, easily confounded with giu; then the Italians form a substantive of the ablative of an adjective, and thence giurno, or, as they make it, giorno; which is readily contracted into giour, or jour 'He observed, that the Bohemian language was true Sclavonick.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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The "_giu u toalang_" is one of the colossal trees of the Jungle for it reaches from 40 to 46 yards in height.
My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) Giovanni Battista Cerruti 1882
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And the symbolism is fully explained by a large wooden sotoba planted beside the shrine, and bearing, among other inscriptions, the words, 'Bato Kwan-ze-on Bosatsu, giu ba bodai han ye.'
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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"Cignesi con la coda tante volte, quantunque gradi vuol che giu sia messa."
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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"Cignesi con la coda tante volte, quantunque gradi vuol che giu sia messa."
Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859
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_Diu_ is, by inaccurate ears, or inaccurate pronunciation, easily confounded with _giu_; then the Italians form a substantive of the ablative of an adjective, and thence _giurno_, or, as they make it, _giorno_; which is readily contracted into _giour_, or _jour_ 'He observed, that the
Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767
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Movie: Love in a Puff Chinese: 志明與春嬌 (Chi ming yu chun giu) Director: Ho-Cheung Pang Writer:
WN.com - Articles related to Uruguay weakens smoking laws 2010
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Movie: Love in a Puff Chinese: 志明與春嬌 (Chi ming yu chun giu) Director: Ho-Cheung Pang Writer:
WN.com - Articles related to Uruguay weakens smoking laws 2010
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