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  • But as soon as the fire was kindled, all the people present were not able to endure the horrible stink that came from it, as if the fire had been made of the same ingredients with which seamen use to compose that kind of granados which they call stinkards.

    Hudibras Samuel Butler 1646

  • Whose polished surface beareth those granados, lovely pair;

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • My hue and breasts, granados terms, is there no shame in him?

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • During the recent war whenever the enemy had a temporary advantage with his granados did this traitor to his kind not seize that moment to discharge his piece against the empire of which he is a tenant at will while he trembled for the security of his four per cents?

    Ulysses 2003

  • During the recent war whenever the enemy had a temporary advantage with his granados did this traitor to his kind not seize that moment to discharge his piece against the empire of which he is a tenant at will while he trembled for the security of his four per cents?

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Newgate, Paul's Chain, Watling St.eet, now flaming, and most of it reduced to ashes; the stones of St. Paul's flew like granados, the melting lead running down the streets in a stream, and the very pavements glowing with fiery redness, so as no horse nor man was able to tread on them, and the demolition had stopped all the passages, so that no help could be applied.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

  • Whose polished surface beareth those granados, lovely pair;

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • My hue and breasts, granados terms, is there no shame in him?

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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