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  • Nao era assim antes porque a economia ia de vento em popa, e as empresas contratavam gente ate pra girar manivela.

    Global Voices in English » Japan: For the Price of a Plane Ticket…? 2009

  • Contact you dream? you listen? spoken word? vasko popa | shadow of a shewolf

    vasko popa | shadow of a shewolf « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007

  • How much is this, and where can I get one? archangelos-popa Says:

    CORRUGATED CARDBOARD LAPTOP CASE | Inhabitat 2006

  • Octavian watched the night skies with him during his vigil, and his perfect white bull accepted the hammer and the knife of popa and cultrarius so calmly that the watching senators suppressed twinges of apprehension—a year of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa was a year too many.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Octavian watched the night skies with him during his vigil, and his perfect white bull accepted the hammer and the knife of popa and cultrarius so calmly that the watching senators suppressed twinges of apprehension—a year of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa was a year too many.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • The various colleges of priests were clustered waiting near the altar, and the professionals who would do the actual killing were there too-popa, cultarius, slaves.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • As the popa released the head to lie turned to the right, Caesar handed the cultarius his chalice, and the cultarius caught some of the blood so accurately that not a drop spilled down the side of the vessel.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • The victim, a plump and perfect cream-colored heifer, was waiting in the care of popa and cultarius, chewing her drugged cud and watching the frenzied pre-banquet activity within the marketplace through gentle brown eyes.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • The popa moved to stand in front of the bull, his stunning hammer held loosely by his side.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • Like the popa stripped naked to the waist, the cultarius took the horns in both his hands and lifted the bull's limp head toward the sky, the muscles in his arms standing out ribbed and sinewy, for the bull's head weighed more than fifty pounds.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

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