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  • This is music for a church that pretended to splendor and pomp; there were instrumental canzonas before and during the Mass, and somo portions of the service were sung with instrumental accompaniment.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • Can you do a litlle variation with the flaming cane, or somo Vicodin vial?

    Dirty House Dean 2009

  • I just wish he'd keep his distance from Montgomeryshire and allow somo eone who cares about the area to stand instead of him.

    You couldn't make it up. Glyn Davies 2008

  • Alvis knew all the questions because she had somo kind of genetic memory.

    Color Me Blown Away - Last Exile 2003

  • Even the great chief Ratu Epele of Mbau beamed with joy when presented with a screw-capped glass tobacco jar, and Tui Thakau of Somo somo had a veritable weakness for bottles and possessed

    Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous

  • Even the great chief Ratu Epele of Mbau beamed with joy when presented with a screw-capped glass tobacco jar, and Tui Thakau of Somo somo had a veritable weakness for bottles and possessed a large collection of these treasures.

    The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915 Scientific Monthly 1915

  • There are likewise salutations which are used at different times of the day, as “E ning somo” (“Good morning”), etc.

    Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, 1795-7 1893

  • A fortress built in 1740 on the island of Cabrera, was now on a peninsula; and, finally, on two granitic islands, those of Cura and Cabo Blanco, Humboldt observed among the shrubs, somo metres above the water, fine sand filled with helicites.

    Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1874

  • Cabrera, was now on a peninsula; and, finally, on two granitic islands, those of Cura and Cabo Blanco, Humboldt observed among the shrubs, somo metres above the water, fine sand filled with helicites.

    The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841

  • There are likewise salutations which are used at different times of the day, as "E ning somo" ( "Good morning"), etc. The general answer to all salutations is to repeat the kontong of the person who salutes, or else to repeat the salutation itself, first pronouncing the word marhaba ( "My friend").

    Travels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 02 Mungo Park 1788

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