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  • I'm trying to use tramp on a W$ box to connect to an AIX machine ( "porco") via telnet because I can't install ssh on porco, and I'm having to use "plink - telnet" because the default telnet client is broken - both "telnet" and "plink - telnet" work when I run them in

    EmacsWiki: RecentChanges 2010

  • Has you seen porco rosso? is mai husbands faverite.

    Subway cat available - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

  • Roversi, “Il ‘Testamento del porco’: Note di storia gastronomica Bolognese,” in Strenna Storica Bolognese, 1969.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • A receita original pede para ser feita com carne de vitela, mas a experiência e os habituais conteúdos do meu frigorífico ensinou-me que com carne de borrego, porco ou até novilho também fica bem.

    Carne à moda da minha avó Artur 2005

  • Christiani, alij mercatores, et alij transeuntes per terram, vndè maximè fui miratus quo modo tot corpora hominum poterant simul habitare: in ea est maxima copia victualium, scz. panis et vini, et carnium de porco praecipué cum alijs necessarijs.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • 'Aira!' cried the exhilarated Greeks, and, 'Figlio di puttana di stronzo d'un cane d'un culo d'un porco d'un pezzo di merda!' cried the soldiers.

    Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

  • Europe, is Italian; _porcellana_ being in that language the name of those univalve shells forming the genus _cypraea_ of the conchologist, which have a high arched back like that of the hog (_porco_, Ital.), and are remarkable for the white, smooth, vitreous glossiness of the surface about the mouth of the shell, and sometimes, as in the common cowry (_Cypraea moneta_), over the whole surface.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 548, May 26, 1832 Various

  • ” E quello porco dello giorge nun scherzava, perché le diece pezze se le pigliaie!…

    Appendix 2. Non-English Dialects in America. 5. Italian Henry Louis 1921

  • In vano mangio carne di porco, e ricomincio esser una bella Gooda!

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

  • In a prayer sanctioned by the pontifices for use at the making of a new clearing, we read: "Si deus, si dea sit cuius illud sacrum est, _ut tibi ius siet_ porco piaculo facere illiusce sacri coercendi ergo," [341] _i. e.

    The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

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