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  • A scan of their website at sova-center.ru brings up this article about neo-Nazi violence which makes me wonder how commonplace such things are:

    Silenced By Anti-Semitism | Jewschool 2007

  • Tenho todos os sintomas... aquela sensação de ter levado uma sova que me desfez todos os músculos, a cabeça envolta numa névoa permanente que ameaça transformar-se em dor, tosse, pulmões doridos uma boa razão para deixar de fumar.

    Imagem do dia Artur 2005

  • This man, for instance, is still a sova or chief, has his councilors, and maintains the same state as when the country was independent.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • I heard the horned owl call again from the trees, the ushastaya sova, its notes soft and echoeless; the snow -- plough had stopped working over there in the distance, and the winter silence grew vast across the city.

    Quiller Meridian Hall, Adam 1993

  • Spettut orm, bustyvel kvass, eiter-ødle, sleve graa, fare burt fraa denne plass, so vaar dronning sova maa!

    An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Martin Brown Ruud 1913

  • -- Te døy, te sova, alt fraa seg gjort, -- og i ein Sømn te enda dan Hjarteverk, dei tusend timleg 'Støytar, som Kjøt er Erving til, da var ein Ende rett storleg ynskjande.

    An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Martin Brown Ruud 1913

  • "Icke må du sova, konung; kall är marken här och hård, 11 tung blir sömnen, upp! jag för dig snart tillbaka till din gård."

    Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814

  • För Fritiof må du sova gärna till Ragnarök, om du så vill.

    Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814

  • Helt skarpt blev där nu drucket allt i det kungahus, 24 varenda kämpe tog sig ett ärligt julerus, gick sedan bort att sova förutan harm och sorg; men konung Ring den gamle sov hos skön Ingeborg.

    Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814

  • Similarly, names ending with 'nov' or 'tov' (No 5, 6, and 7) are also Russian, and an 'a' at the end ( 'sova', 'lova', No 8 and 9) are girls 'names.

    fishtail 2009

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