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The cavan is a measure of the capacity of 5,998 cubic inches, and is subdivided into
Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking
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They are sold by the cavan, weighing nearly a pecul, if of good quality, at about two dollars per cavan.
Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking
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He could eat one cavan of rice and one carabao daily.
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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When he became four feet tall, his daily requirements were a cavan [9] of rice and twenty-five pounds of meat and fish.
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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When the monkey had sold them all in the market, he went back to their hut, and took the cavan which he had borrowed.
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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That of Ylocos is the heaviest, a cavan of it weighing about 140 lbs.
Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking
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Don Toribio then brought a cavan, which equals about twenty-five gantas.
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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[120] As the text of this passage is obscure I give it here: _ ... profundos como de la altura de un hombre, en cuanto pueda el de abajo dar la tierra al de arriba; y cuando los cavan tanto que ya el de arriba no puede alcanzarla, lo dejan asi, y se van a hacer otros pozos ...
Relación de la conquista del Perú. English Pedro Sancho 1918
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Team theatre doing their thang at the 'tec (cavan vocational school) in 1986, with questions from audience including tec students .. aaron binchy, enda sullivan and dolores leddy. also see in the footage .. connor mcgowan, trevor cowan, fintan briody, martin egan, gerard sexton, paul casey, felim reilly, and loads more ... pt 2 to follow.
WN.com - Articles related to Socially responsible art? It doesn't have to send you to sleep 2010
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RTE Borderline programme 1986, team theatre at cavan vocational school (pt1)
WN.com - Articles related to Socially responsible art? It doesn't have to send you to sleep 2010
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