- La
gazza ladra (Italian pronunciation: [la ˈɡaddza ˈlaːdra], The
Thieving Magpie) is a
melodramma or
opera semiseria in two acts by
Gioachino Rossini,...
- Spanish, the name
means magpie,
derived perhaps from
Latin furax,
meaning "
thievish", in
reference to the magpie's
tendency to
collect shiny items. The name...
-
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Simon Angell Erika Angell Production company Time's
Thievish Progress to
Eternity Films Distributed by
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- Thieves).
Wrote Pigafetta, "Those
people are poor, but
ingenious and very
thievish, on
account of
which we
called those three islands the
islands of Ladrones...
- nuisance,
usance ogress,
progress pallor,
valor parsley, sp****ly peevish,
thievish person,
worsen pinto,
Shinto rabid,
tabid rhymeless,
timeless ripened,...
- the city much harm. For, in the oligarchy,
Critias turned into the most
thievish and
violent and
murderous of all,
while Alcibiades, in the democracy, was...
- ****ociated with witchcraft. In Norway, a
magpie is
considered cunning and
thievish, but also the bird of hulder, the
underground people.
Magpies have been...
- fond of
other men and neglectful, even contemptuous, of her husband; The
thievish-wife (chorisama or corabhariya: an
alternate translation is “robber-wife”)...
- Woodbridge: Boydell. ISBN 978-0-85115-803-7. Rothenstein, John (1970). Time's
Thievish Progress. London: C****ell. ISBN 978-0-304-93578-9. Secrest,
Meryle (1984)...
- Ricans. They are
beyond doubt the dirtiest, laziest, most
degenerate and
thievish race of men ever
inhabiting this sphere. It
makes you sick to
inhabit the...
