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  • The original adobe structure, like a walled castle to eastern eyes, was modeled after New Mexico placitas, large square adobe buildings with interior courtyards and defensive towers.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • The original adobe structure, like a walled castle to eastern eyes, was modeled after New Mexico placitas, large square adobe buildings with interior courtyards and defensive towers.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • The original adobe structure, like a walled castle to eastern eyes, was modeled after New Mexico placitas, large square adobe buildings with interior courtyards and defensive towers.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • The original adobe structure, like a walled castle to eastern eyes, was modeled after New Mexico placitas, large square adobe buildings with interior courtyards and defensive towers.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Gallinas, past sleeping freighters 'camps and Mexican _placitas_.

    The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson

  • Before midnight Scot and the doctor reached Sumner, having changed teams twice at Mexican _placitas_.

    The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson

  • Tiberius insisted that Rhescuporis release his brother and come to Rome to explain the situation; Rhescuporis then killed his brother, claiming it was a suicide. 'nec tamen Caesar placitas semel artes mutauit, sed defuncto Pandusa, quem sibi infensum Rhescuporis arguerat [_scripsi_: arguebat _M_], Pomponium Flaccum, _ueterem stipendiis_ et arta cum rege amicitia eoque accommodatiorem ad fallendum ob id maxime Moesiae praefecit'; the previous service mentioned by Tacitus is no doubt the command Ovid is here referring to.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

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