- 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...
- portra**** as a
young adult.
Unlike moralizing fairy heroes, Jack is
often thievish, lazy or foolish, but
emerges triumphant through wit and trickery, resembling...
- 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...
-
Villegas Music by
Simon Angell Erika Angell Production company Time's
Thievish Progress to
Eternity Films Distributed by
Indiecan Entertainment Release...
- ****ociated with witchcraft. In Norway, a
magpie is
considered cunning and
thievish, but also the bird of hulder, the
underground people.
Magpies have been...
- job lie low To lie
concealed life-preserver
Pocket flask light-fingered
Thievish light-weight One
below the
mental or
moral average limb An
impish child;...
- nuisance,
usance ogress,
progress pallor,
valor parsley, sp****ly peevish,
thievish person,
worsen pinto,
Shinto rabid,
tabid rhymeless,
timeless ripened,...
- with her over time. Ben is
entreated by
Fillip and Sot, two of a race of
thievish "G'Home Gnomes" to
rescue some of
their people from a clan of trolls. They...
-
about twelve years of age. They had been
confined about three w****s for
thievish practices. In the
corner of the room, we saw;
shoved together, a quantity...
