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  • Chapter 11: Bobo Brazil Meets the Sheik†   (source)
  • Yes, it was just as he said: Serenna veriformans, a plant found abundantly in fossils more than two hundred million years old, now common only in the wetlands of Brazil and Colombia.†   (source)
  • There were children from Lebanon, Cambodia, Kosovo, Brazil, Norway, Yemen, Mozambique, Palestine, Guatemala, the U.S. (New York), South Africa, Peru, Northern Ireland, India, Papua New Guinea, Malawi, to name a few.†   (source)
  • He looked like a former downed pilot, a veteran of crash landings, or shoot-outs in the sky— Dan Needham told me that Captain Wiggin had been a bomber pilot in the war, and Dan would know: he was a sergeant himself, in Italy and in Brazil, where he was a cryptographic technician.†   (source)
  • The guide shows them agate from Brazil and violet amethysts and a meteorite on a pedestal that he claims is as ancient as the solar system itself.†   (source)
  • A brass plaque on the door said, "This ambulance is a gift of the British residents of Brazil."†   (source)
  • Anyway, it was in Brazil.†   (source)
  • Brazil would be amazing….†   (source)
  • Number one was Brazil.†   (source)
  • Next, I wound up in Brazil, where I read about Bahia tobacco, the abundance of coffee, the one and a half million inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco and Sao Paulo and, last but not least, the Amazon River.†   (source)
  • All we have to do is say a name, Mr. MacAdorey or Mr. Leibowitz down the hall, and Dad will have the two of them rowing up a river in Brazil chased by Indians with green noses and puce shoulders.†   (source)
  • I dunno, a letter from Brazil, or somewhere.†   (source)
  • Soon the priests were holding mass baptisms on shore and marching their converts onto ships bound for sugar plantations in Brazil, slaves to the higher god of commodity agriculture.†   (source)
  • On the night before the Ouster retreat, Kassad left the command conference on the HS Brazil, farcast to his HQ in the Indelibles north of the Hyne Valley, and took his command car to the summit to watch the final bombardment.†   (source)
  • She went to the SeeChange portal and watched feeds from beaches in Sri Lanka and Brazil, feeling calmer, feeling warmer, and then remembered that a few thousand college kids, calling themselves ChangeSeers, had spread themselves all over the planet, installing cameras in the most remote regions.†   (source)
  • Athena had been lecturing us for years about how Mount Olympus might migrate to Brazil someday, and we should all be prepared for the possibility.†   (source)
  • In Brazil, McDonald's has become the nation's largest private employer.†   (source)
  • She gets a phone call from Brazil.†   (source)
  • It wasn't the nice kind of rain that rinses you clean, but the sort of rain I imagine they must have in Brazil.†   (source)
  • Today many of these jobs are in Korea or Brazil.†   (source)
  • One company offered them immediate work on a tanker bound for Brazil, and, indeed, the two would now have been at sea if their prospective employer had not discovered that neither man possessed union papers or a passport.†   (source)
  • Otto says we probably met in a New Jersey Greyhound Station, but we've heard all these exciting stories about how we met in Brazil or Colombia or Peru that we got to believing them.†   (source)
  • That in our DNA is stored genetic memories of when we were an evolving species and when you take the stuff the Indians of Brazil take you'll access your genetic library all the way back to cellular experience.†   (source)
  • As far as I could remember, there wasn't much east of Brazil… until you got to Africa.†   (source)
  • In many countries--China, Brazil, and most of sub-Saharan Africa--prostitution is widespread but mostly voluntary (in the sense that it is driven by economic pressure rather than physical compulsion).†   (source)
  • One who surrendered months after the Marines left later emigrated to Brazil, too shamed to live in Japan.†   (source)
  • That's your Uncle Mateo, who went to Brazil on some scheme that had to do with emeralds, but a fiery mulatta gave him the evil eye.†   (source)
  • The Emperor has cut short his visit and abandoned his plans for a state visit to Brazil.†   (source)
  • His ichthyological studies have taken him to Ireland, Brazil, and Tasmania.†   (source)
  • But then in August the Constitution defeated the British ship Guerriere off Nova Scotia, and later sank the British frigate lava, near Brazil.†   (source)
  • Rounded Cape Horn, the coast of Brazil, stopped for carnival in Port-of-Spain.†   (source)
  • "But that might not be the best twenty players," scoffed a boy from Brazil.†   (source)
  • When the carpetbaggers commenced takin' over, them Stokeses built a rock wall around the fam'ly graveyard and took off for Brazil, lock, stock, and barrel.†   (source)
  • The governments of Britain, Germany, France, Thailand, Indonesia, Brazil …. a dozen others are pulling out the stops.†   (source)
  • Thailand, South Carolina, Brazil, Peru— Oh, wait, no, I'm banned from Peru.†   (source)
  • The women in Brazil will do anything you want.†   (source)
  • He cut it off himself after crushing it against some rigging in '09 on the southern passage to Brazil.†   (source)
  • I'm not a baker, and I've never been to Brazil.†   (source)
  • The terns travel down the coast of Brazil or Africa to get to their wintering ground every year.†   (source)
  • Present are the presidents of the United States and Russia, prime ministers of Britain, France, Germany, Japan, China, India, Brazil.†   (source)
  • Or give it to Brazil?†   (source)
  • Isn't that in Brazil?†   (source)
  • Oh, I see — so you've never been to Brazil?   (source)
  • As the snake slid swiftly past him, Harry could have sworn a low, hissing voice said, "Brazil, here I come…."   (source)
  • Boa Constrictor, Brazil.   (source)
  • Photos from Brazil, with plenty of three-toed sloths in situ.†   (source)
  • The tables aren't in alphabetical order, so I just start wandering around trying to find Brazil.†   (source)
  • The national colors of Brazil toppled into the army, squashing a dracaena.†   (source)
  • However, today the argument was about Brazil.†   (source)
  • More than ten times that number were brought to Brazil during the same period.†   (source)
  • Strangely, Dick's disappointment exceeded Perry's: "Brazil!†   (source)
  • "Maybe he got on a plane to Brazil after shooting two people in Enskede," Bublanski said.†   (source)
  • The majority of Africans were brought to Cuba or Brazil.†   (source)
  • We were going back to Brazil, starting there.†   (source)
  • Now what bright young scholar can tell me what product we drink from Brazil?†   (source)
  • Bill had a penfriend at a school in Brazil … this was years and years ago … and he wanted to go on an exchange trip but Mum and Dad couldn't afford it.†   (source)
  • Outside of employing a number of New Orleans natives, Zeitoun had hired men from everywhere: Peru, Mexico, Bulgaria, Poland, Brazil, Honduras, Algeria.†   (source)
  • Armed to the eyeballs:
    A combat ukulele
    Magic Brazil scarf
    SUN GODS ARE NOT GOOD at sleeping during the day, but somehow I managed a fitful nap.†   (source)
  • I accidentally set a boa constrictor on my cousin Dudley at the zoo once — long story — but it was telling me it had never seen Brazil and I sort of set it free without meaning to that was before I knew I was a wizard —†   (source)
  • There was going to be a battle something like if Godzilla met King Kong, or if Frankenstein met Dracula, or like when champion wrestler Bobo Brazil meets the Sheik!†   (source)
  • Brazil.†   (source)
  • I talked with one of them, and she was bored with yachts and bored with flying around in airplanes and bored with skiing in Switzerland at Christmas and bored with the men in Brazil.†   (source)
  • "No, he won't; I'm on public Wi-Fi in an Applebee's using an IP address that locates me in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.†   (source)
  • Instead of King Kong and Godzilla it was like King Kong and Bambi; instead of Bobo Brazil and the Sheik it was like Bobo Brazil and Captain Kangaroo; instead of Dracula and Frankenstein it was like Dracula and a giraffe, and Byron was all neck.†   (source)
  • I finally find Brazil, a guy in a bow tie, and other people are raising their hands with notes for me to deliver.†   (source)
  • Upstairs in his office there is a brass Ganesha sitting cross-legged next to the computer, a wooden Christ on the Cross from Brazil on a wall, and a green prayer rug in a corner.†   (source)
  • I am not one given to projecting human traits and emotions onto animals, but many a time during that month in Brazil, looking up at sloths in repose, I felt I was in the presence of upside-down yogis deep in meditation or hermits deep in prayer, wise beings whose intense imaginative lives were beyond the reach of my scientific probing.†   (source)
  • She'd come all the way from Brazil to Brooklyn to study the path of Thoth, god of knowledge, and we'd already pegged her as our future librarian; but when the dangers were real, and not just in the pages of books … well, she had a tender stomach.†   (source)
  • Ekman didn't know which view was right, so, to help him decide, he traveled to Japan, Brazil, and Argentina—and even to remote tribes in the jungles of the Far East—carrying photographs of men and women making a variety of distinctive faces.†   (source)
  • I traced her as far as Texas, but then I followed a false lead down to Brazil—and really she came here.†   (source)
  • Matilda is a hurricane that formed off Brazil a few weeks ago and yesterday tore straight through Paramaribo, the capital of Surinam.†   (source)
  • Whether you were up meeting God, down in Brazil hating Yankees, or out West somewhere loving a Mexican woman, to those left behind, you had just plain disappeared.†   (source)
  • Go to Brazil.†   (source)
  • Fact: T'he highest offices in England, Thailand, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Japan, and India, plus another six nations, had gone oddly silent over the past three days.†   (source)
  • One study, by an Italian development economist, Eliana La Ferrara, examined the impact of a television network, Rede Globo, as it expanded in Brazil.†   (source)
  • It's in Brazil.†   (source)
  • I like Brazil for the World Cup.†   (source)
  • The Paw is a paw—it's an extension of the ship that is currently in geosynchronous orbit over Brazil.†   (source)
  • When Granny passed away herself, I thought how dying was a lot like what happened when the Stokeses went to Brazil or when Uncle Buson rode off into the night.†   (source)
  • Since we're going straight up from Huntsville to a ship over Brazil, that seems like the straight route.†   (source)
  • Thus it's no surprise that a particularly large Flynn Effect has been detected in developing countries such as Brazil and Kenya.†   (source)
  • The British antislavery efforts led to a brief war with Brazil in 1850 and to war scares with the United States in 1841 and with Spain in 1853, as well as to sustained tense relations with France.†   (source)
  • The Dutch man brought him to Pedro Blanco's Lomboko slave factory and sold him to a Portuguese ship captain who was running a slaver to Brazil.†   (source)
  • Figeroa owned the Tecora and had selected its crew, which was mostly Portuguese, but also included a few Spaniards, and Paolo, the mulatto from Brazil.†   (source)
  • It turns out that when the Globo network reached a new area in Brazil, in the following years there were fewer births there--particularly among women of lower socioeconomic status and women already well along in their reproductive years.†   (source)
  • Portugal and Brazil had no treaty with the British or United States regarding slave trade, and Cuba, with the winking complicity of the Spanish government, continued importing Africans.†   (source)
  • Tracing Brazil with my finger as the announcer gave the details, I told them that Brazil produced most of the world's coffee.†   (source)
  • "Brazil," some of them answered.†   (source)
  • "Brazil," they shouted together.†   (source)
  • The world map, pinned on the same spot probably for several years, could have been an anatomical chart of an earthworm for all they knew When the announcer told the world that terrorists had abducted the American ambassador to Brazil, I put my finger on a big yellow blotch on the map and whispered, "This hunk of yellow on the map is the country of Brazil."†   (source)
  • He was in on a deal to buy some macaroni in Brazil and sell it in Helsinki.†   (source)
  • There were a dozen scarlet coffee bins with adventurous words written across the front in black China ink: Brazil!†   (source)
  • There he goes to Canada or to Brazil.†   (source)
  • All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and in the mysterious, forbidden lands beyond the frontiers, in the streets of Paris and Berlin, in the villages of the endless Russian plain, in the bazaars of China and Japan — everywhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure, made monstrous by work and childbearing, toiling from birth to death and still singing.†   (source)
  • Is it near Hy Brazil?†   (source)
  • Saint Felix-Brazil, I've always stuck to that sort.†   (source)
  • Brazil somewhat attracted him as a new idea.†   (source)
  • But this idea of Brazil is quite a recent one.†   (source)
  • "I am going to Brazil alone, Izz," said he.†   (source)
  • He wanted her to go off to Brazil with him.†   (source)
  • I have come home rather in a hurry because I've decided to go to Brazil."†   (source)
  • Why do I secretly give Miss Shepherd twelve Brazil nuts for a present, I wonder?†   (source)
  • 'These trees are indigenous to the South American countries of Brazil, Guiana, and Cayenne.†   (source)
  • Lord George gave up his post on the European continent, and was gazetted to Brazil.†   (source)
  • "Brazil," said one gossip to another, with a grin—"Brazil is St. John's Wood.†   (source)
  • He had explored in Brazil, seen service in the Boer War, hunted in India and Africa—matters of experience of which he never spoke.†   (source)
  • And I thought your Brazil was excellent, but it has to be handled like a young, spirited colt, otherwise the same thing might happen that happened to you with those two little imported cigars, when your chest started heaving and you almost kicked the bucket—but it turned out all right, so we can laugh about it now.†   (source)
  • In brief he was strongly inclined to try Brazil, especially as the season for going thither was just at hand.†   (source)
  • Then he hunted up the old letter sent on to him in Brazil, which Tess had written from Flintcomb-Ash, and re-read it.†   (source)
  • Angel's original intention had not been emigration to Brazil but a northern or eastern farm in his own country.†   (source)
  • He had come to this place in a fit of desperation, the Brazil movement among the English agriculturists having by chance coincided with his desire to escape from his past existence.†   (source)
  • In going hither and thither he observed in the outskirts of a small town a red-and-blue placard setting forth the great advantages of the Empire of Brazil as a field for the emigrating agriculturist.†   (source)
  • XL At breakfast Brazil was the topic, and all endeavoured to take a hopeful view of Clare's proposed experiment with that country's soil, notwithstanding the discouraging reports of some farm-labourers who had emigrated thither and returned home within the twelve months.†   (source)
  • Going to Brazil.†   (source)
  • At this moment he was lying ill of fever in the clay lands near Curitiba in Brazil, having been drenched with thunder-storms and persecuted by other hardships, in common with all the English farmers and farm-labourers who, just at this time, were deluded into going thither by the promises of the Brazilian Government, and by the baseless assumption that those frames which, ploughing and sowing on English uplands, had resisted all the weathers to whose moods they had been born, could…†   (source)
  • Brazil!†   (source)
  • …subsequent to her marriage they were under the impression that she was ultimately going to join her husband; and from that time to the present she had done nothing to disturb their belief that she was awaiting his return in comfort, hoping against hope that his journey to Brazil would result in a short stay only, after which he would come to fetch her, or that he would write for her to join him; in any case that they would soon present a united front to their families and the world.†   (source)
  • There were also heaped up the products of a commerce which extends to Mexico, Chili, Peru, Brazil, Europe, Asia, and all the Pacific islands.†   (source)
  • Much to Ned Land's displeasure, Captain Nemo had no liking for the neighborhood of Brazil's populous shores, because he shot by with dizzying speed.†   (source)
  • "This is very different from the Pope's leaving Rome and going to Brazil, very different from the ball on Lake Como!"†   (source)
  • Over the dimly lighted strand there trod the huge mammals of the first ages of the world, the leptotherium (slender beast), found in the caverns of Brazil; the merycotherium (ruminating beast), found in the 'drift' of iceclad Siberia.†   (source)
  • It is the whale which for more than two centuries past has been hunted by the Dutch and English in the Arctic seas; it is the whale which the American fishermen have long pursued in the Indian ocean, on the Brazil Banks, on the Nor' West Coast, and various other parts of the world, designated by them Right Whale Cruising Grounds.†   (source)
  • It goes down south, skirts equatorial Africa, warms its waves in the rays of the Torrid Zone, crosses the Atlantic, reaches Cape São Roque on the coast of Brazil, and forks into two branches, one going to the Caribbean Sea for further saturation with heat particles.†   (source)
  • * *That part of the sea known among whalemen as the "Brazil Banks" does not bear that name as the Banks of Newfoundland do, because of there being shallows and soundings there, but because of this remarkable meadow-like appearance, caused by the vast drifts of brit continually floating in those latitudes, where the Right Whale is often chased.†   (source)
  • Then the band would play a march, an amnesty would be declared, the Pope would agree to retire from Rome to Brazil; then there would be a ball for the whole of Italy at the Villa Borghese on the shores of Lake Como, Lake Como being for that purpose transferred to the neighbourhood of Rome; then would come a scene in the bushes, and so on, and so on--as though you did not know all about it?†   (source)
  • But people knew better; he never returned from that Brazil expedition—never died there—never lived there—never was there at all.†   (source)
  • With inexhaustible zest, the popular press took potshots at feature articles from the Geographic Institute of Brazil, the Royal Academy of Science in Berlin, the British Association, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., at discussions in The Indian Archipelago, in Cosmos published by Father Moigno, in Petermann's Mittheilungen,* and at scientific chronicles in the great French and foreign newspapers.†   (source)
  • The same thing is to be noted in the French of Haiti, in the Portuguese of Brazil, and even in the Danish of Norway.†   (source)
  • And in Latin-America, to come nearer to our own case, the native philologists have produced a copious literature on the matter closest at hand, [Pg006] and one finds in it very excellent works upon the Portuguese dialect of Brazil, and the variations of Spanish in Mexico, the Argentine, Chili, Peru, Ecuador, Uraguay and even Honduras and Costa Rica.†   (source)
  • Every thing shall be delivered to you when you come to Brazil.†   (source)
  • See, whate brawnes* hath this gentle priest, *muscles, sinews So great a neck, and such a large breast He looketh as a sperhawk with his eyen Him needeth not his colour for to dyen With Brazil, nor with grain of Portugale.†   (source)
  • Having now a fair wind for Brazil, in about twelve days time we made land in the latitude of five degrees south of the line.†   (source)
  • And should I take from you what you have, and leave you at Brazil, why, this would be only taking away a life I had given.†   (source)
  • He bought my boat of me for the ship's use, giving me a note of eighty pieces of eight, payable at Brazil; and if any body offered more, he would make it up.†   (source)
  • I next went to Lisbon, taking my man Friday with me, and there arriving in April, I met the Portuguese Captain who had taken me on board on the African coast; but, being ancient, he had left off the sea, and resigned all his business to his son, who followed the Brazil trade.†   (source)
  • Again I considered that if this was the Spanish coast, certainly, one time or other, I should see some ship pass by; and if it was not, then it must be the savage coast, between the Spanish country and Brazil, which abounds with cannibals or man-eaters.†   (source)
  • However, he had ordered his don,(then at Brazil), to act by procuration upon my account, and he had taken possession of my sugar-house, having accounted himself for eight years with my partner and trustees for the profits, of which he would give me a very good account.†   (source)
  • All things being ready for the voyage, my old partner told me there was an acquaintance of his, a Brazil planter, who having fallen under the displeasure of the church, & in fear of the Inquisition which obliged him to be concealed, would be glad of such an opportunity to make his escape, with his wife & two daughters; & if I would allot them a plantation in my island, he would give them a small stock to begin with, for that the officers had already seized his effects and estate, and…†   (source)
  • _ To this day I worked on the wreck, and with great difficulty loosened some things so much with the crow, that at the first flowing tide several casks floated out, and many of the seamen's chests, yet that day nothing came to land but pieces of timber, and a hogshead which had some Brazil pork in it.†   (source)
  • After a few embraces, I began to enquire of my concerns; and then the old gentleman told me that it was nine years since he had been at Brazil, where my partner was then living, but my trustees were both dead; that he believed I should have a good account of the product of my plantation; that the imagination of my being lost, had obliged my trustees to give an estimate of my share to the procurator fiscal, who, in case of my not returning, had given one third to the king & the rest to…†   (source)
  • But he told me he could save me that trouble, and so caused me to enter my name with a public notary, as likewise my affidavit, with a procuration affixed to it; and this he ordered me to send in a letter to one of his acquaintance, a merchant in Brazil; and, indeed, nothing could be more faithfully and honourably observed; for, in seven months time, I had a very faithful account of all my effects, what sums of money were raised, what expended, and what remained for myself!†   (source)
  • But all the stones of the island being of a mouldering nature, rendered my search fruitless; and then I resolved to look out for a great block of hard wood, which having found, I formed it with my ax and hammer, and then, with infinite labour, made a hollow in it, just as the Indians of Brazil make their canoes.†   (source)
  • …might expect from others in such calamity; so we took them up to save them, not to plunder them, or leave them naked upon the land, to perish for want of subsistance, and therefore would not accept their money: but as to landing them, that was a great difficulty; for being bound to the East Indies, it was impossible wilfully to change our voyage upon their particular account, nor could my nephew_ (who was under charter party to pursue it by was of Brazil) _answer it to the freighters_.†   (source)
  • Having lived four years in Brazil, I had net only learned the language, but contracted acquaintance with the most eminent planters, and even the merchants of St. Salvadore; to whom, once, by way of discourse, having given account of my two voyages to the coast of Guinea and the manner of trading there for mere trifles, by which we furnish our plantations with Negroes, they gave such attention to what I said, that three of them came one morning to me, and told me they had a secret…†   (source)
  • …any disgust, they should have separated, or turned pirates, and so made the island a den of thieves, instead of a plantation of sober pious people: but leaving them in a flourishing condition, with a promise to send them further relief, from Brazil, as sheep, hogs, and cows (being obliged to kill the latter at sea, having no hay to feed them) I went on board the ship again, the first of May, 1695, after having been twenty days among them: and next morning, giving them a salute of five…†   (source)
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