Usa "terra firma" in una frase
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terra firma
1. Even when at last convinced that they were different, be still flattered himself that those rich countries were at no great distance; and in a subsequent voyage, accordingly, went in quest of them along the coast of Terra Firma, and towards the Isthmus of Darien
2. Still, the people had to hold on to the belief that one day they’d emerge back onto natural Terra Firma, in a world cleared of radiation
3. “Up, mother-fucker!” Then the nose tilted and she was clear of terra firma
4. concept of other terra firma and Chin began to wonder whether
5. Advised of his condition, Manzoni wished to leave something of himself in terra firma as evidence that he had been here and done something
6. And no animal on terra firma was safe from the speed of their horses and range of Mongol bows
7. lying on his stomach, and that the sole of his foot would not strike terra firma
8. one down on Terra Firma, it appears to have a higher output
9. weakling free-pressing a few quadrillion kilos of terra firma? Or a home-on-her-back amphibian carrying the big blue marble atop all her sub-worldly goods? One helluva choice
10. Ears stopped up with their owners’ fingers won’t hear a thing down here on old terra firma, either
11. Ears stopped up with their owners' fingers won't hear a thing down here on old terra firma, either
12. Datu Ilak and the rest of the warriors stayed in the focal terra firma of their tribe to protect the females and the young ones, including Reyna Kaya and Sesa Sanaya
13. Believe me, and take comfort, this is better for me than tons of gold and cases of diamonds, even were they not as problematical as the clouds we see in the morning floating over the sea, which we take for terra firma, and which evaporate and vanish as we draw near to them
14. cargo was out of The Young Amelia and on terra firma
15. As for his suspicions, once on terra firma, once that he had seen the indifferent, if not friendly, appearance of his hosts, his anxiety had quite disappeared, or rather, at sight of the goat, had turned to appetite
16. And then they returned to terra firma, that is to say, to some passage that led them to the little girls' dancing-school, where brats between six and ten were practising their steps, in the hope of becoming great dancers one day, "covered with diamonds
17. As a result, a lot of Armada players were defecting to play Terra Firma
18. After, the Mikes tried to cajole me into joining them for a Terra Firma mission, but I mumbled something about having homework and said I’d see them at school tomorrow
19. It was an ATS-31 Aerospace Troop Shuttle, one of the ships used by the Earth Defense Alliance in both Armada and Terra Firma
20. But, as you’re probably now realizing, Armada and Terra Firma aren’t just games
21. Unfortunately, he must have whispered it out loud, because Ray was now staring at me with the same amused smirk he gave me every time he schooled me in a Terra Firma death match
22. “My Terra Firma ranking is too abysmal to say out loud,” I said, laying on the false modesty with a trowel
23. “And we’ve fed every ounce of that data into the Terra Firma and Armada training simulations, to ensure that they would be effective in preparing you to face real enemy drones in combat
24. None of the Sobrukai ships had ever exhibited behavior like this in Armada or Terra Firma
25. “So that he could share new builds of Terra Firma and Armada with us as soon as they were ready for testing
26. The boy is playing Armada on their giant television, while the girl sits beside him playing Terra Firma on her handheld tablet
27. Certainly, too, it is neither an attractive nor an easy task to undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, where terra firma comes to an end and where mud begins, to rummage in those vague, murky waves, to follow up, to seize and to fling, still quivering, upon the pavement that abject dialect which is dripping with filth when thus brought to the light, that pustulous vocabulary each word of which seems an unclean ring from a monster of the mire and the shadows
28. “Crash! All them rockets fallin’! Screamin’, dyin’! Bang! God Almighty, I’m glad I’m right here on old terra firma
29. They went to work at once, plowing, barrowing, rolling, furrowing, in admirable order, as if they were bent on making this a model farm; but when I was looking sharp to see what kind of seed they dropped into the furrow, a gang of fellows by my side suddenly began to hook up the virgin mould itself, with a peculiar jerk, clean down to the sand, or rather the water—for it was a very springy soil—indeed all the terra firma there was—and haul it away on sleds, and then I guessed that they must be cutting peat in a bog
30. Deep ruts and "cradle-holes" were worn in the ice, as on terra firma, by the passage of the sleds over the same track, and the horses invariably ate their oats out of cakes of ice hollowed out like buckets
31. It did not simply flutter like a butterfly, nor soar like the larger hawks, but it sported with proud reliance in the fields of air; mounting again and again with its strange chuckle, it repeated its free and beautiful fall, turning over and over like a kite, and then recovering from its lofty tumbling, as if it had never set its foot on terra firma
32. For not only do fabulous rumors naturally grow out of the very body of all surprising terrible events,—as the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi; but, in maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to
33. At Jacmel two schooners were hired, on board of which your petitioners were sent, under the care of a number of officers, whose wariness still remained unabated; and on the 27th March, 1806, the ship, accompanied by the two schooners, proceeded towards the coast of Terra Firma, where, after touching at the island of Aruba for refreshments, she arrived on the 28th of April, when two armed vessels hove in sight, which after some manœuvring the ship engaged but soon ran away, leaving the two schooners to be captured
34. " Send your vessels to the Brazils, you meet them there intriguing against your commerce; to Buenos Ayres, you find them there; to Cayenne, there also; to Terra Firma, you there find them in conjunction with Miranda intriguing and counteracting your commerce; to Barbadoes, Surinam, Demerara, Trinidad, Martinique, Guadaloupe, Jamaica, &c
35. It has been said, a military chieftain, by an easy transition, may become a civil ruler, and that the commander of an army has often become a despot, while no such event could happen from a naval commander, as such an office gave no power on terra firma