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  • This wasn't as odd as it sounded -- San Serano was situated in the dry chaparral hills beyond A.oura, as deserted an area as you could get that close to L.A. Though parking lot crime was generally limited to the more ostentatious vehicles -- 'Vettes, Porsches, and four-wheelers -- being looted or stolen outright, it was still a spooky walk across the enormous paved emptiness late at night.

    The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

  • Well, if me lan is to be given to Patsy and his like, I'm goin oura dhis.

    John Bull's Other Island George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • The oura was instantly withdrawn, and Tahitua received it in his bag.

    Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

  • The oura lances were five feet long, not thicker than a fat finger, and fitted with three slender prongs of iron -- nails filed upon the basalt rock.

    Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

  • In a couple of hours we found ourselves with a full creel of eels and oura, and I a trifle dismayed at facing the march home.

    Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

  • Time Warner Cable did not return oura call to comment on this story.

    13WHAM: Top Stories 2010

  • S to ry wa s to o s h ort (a pp e a re d no t fin is h e d) b u t s tu d e n t s h o u ld b e e nc oura g e d to g o fu rth e r with h is a p p ro a c h ..

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Professor Rida M.S. Obaid, a former member of the S.udi S.oura Council and former rector of King Abdulaziz University, was the chief guest.

    unknown title 2009

  • The word "squirrel" means "shadow tail," from the Greek word for squirrel, skiouros - skia, shadow, and oura, tail.

    The Acorn 2009

  •  Th e y e nc oura g e s tude nts to proble m s olve, s tra te g iz e, a nd pla n.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

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  • Greek Tail.

    July 11, 2008