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1. Jorma had no translation for the curses in Portuguese that Herndon bellowed as he ran across the dock and dived into the boat's cabin
2. Besides that, she never knew more than a few words of Portuguese
3. She knew how well that was going, there were few in their third generation, though they were pure bred, that could speak enough Portuguese to get by
4. Herndon cursed something unintelligible in Portuguese and went running up the dock headlong
5. She knew it was a street diagram but it was written in Portuguese with no city identification, it had meant little to her at the time
6. The other was a faded old geological map of the Gengee, where a desolate wasteland deep in the West Gengee Empty was marked up in Portuguese
7. In Goa, the principle of community ownership of property still holds which was formulated under the Portuguese law
8. " It was the only language she could converse in, and what they were using, but he had taught her a few pleasantries in Portuguese
9. Herndon lamented it as much as any of them, but the use of Portuguese was doomed on this world
10. Half of what they talked about didn't have a Portuguese word to go with it and the population difference was still fifty million to one
11. "I like what you've done here," Ernesto said, still in lilting Portuguese
12. We were astounded, even though their Portuguese was very fractured, we were able to understand with the diagrams
13. "In was in that newsletter your 'governador' publishes," she used the Portuguese word, there is really no translation in the native language
14. The greater part, too, of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies, are altogether new markets
15. During the sixteenth century, the Portuguese were the only European nation who carried on any regular trade to the East Indies
16. During the greater part of the last century, those two nations divided the most considerable part of the East India trade between them; the trade of the Dutch continually augmenting in a still greater proportion than that of the Portuguese declined
17. The Portuguese monopolized the East India trade to themselves for about a century ; and it was only indirectly, and through them, that the other nations of Europe could either send out or receive any goods from that country
18. The Portuguese, it is said, indeed, are better customers for our manufactures than the French, and should therefore be encouraged in preference to them
19. The great profits of the Venetians tempted the avidity of the Portuguese
20. Some years before this, while the expectations of Europe were in suspense about the projects of the Portuguese, of which the success appeared yet to be doubtful, a Genoese pilot formed the yet more daring project of sailing to the East Indies by the west
21. After the settlements of the Spaniards, that of the Portuguese in Brazil is the oldest of any European nation in America
22. The Dutch, then, as enemies to the Spaniards, became friends to the Portuguese, who were likewise the enemies of the Spaniards
23. But the Dutch government soon began to oppress the Portuguese colonists, who, instead of amusing themselves with complaints, took arms against their new masters, and by their own valour and resolution, with the connivance, indeed, but without any avowed assistance from the mother country, drove them out of Brazil
24. In this colony there are said to be more than six hundred thousand people, either Portuguese or descended from Portuguese, creoles, mulattoes, and a mixed race between Portuguese and Brazilians
25. In the plenty of good land, the English colonies of North America, though no doubt very abundantly provided, are, however, inferior to those of the Spaniards and Portuguese, and not superior to some of those possessed by the French before the late war
26. In the Spanish and Portuguese colonies, what is called the right of majorazzo takes place in the succession of all those great estates to which any title of honour is annexed
27. The administration of the French colonies, however, has always been conducted with much more gentleness and moderation than that of the Spanish and Portuguese
28. It is to expel those foreign capitals from a trade which their own grows every day more and more insufficient for carrying on, that the Spaniards and Portuguese endeavour every day to straiten more and more the galling bands of their absurd monopoly
29. That such companies are not in general necessary for carrying on the East India trade, is sufficiently demonstrated by the experience of the Portuguese, who enjoyed almost the whole of it for more than a century together, without any exclusive company
30. The Portuguese carried on the trade both to Africa and the East Indies, without any exclusive companies; and their settlements at Congo, Angola, and Benguela, on the coast of Africa, and at Goa in the East Indies though much depressed by superstition and every sort of bad government, yet bear some resemblance to the colonies of America, and are partly inhabited by Portuguese who have been established there for several generations
31. Under the government even of the Portuguese, however, those islands are said to have been tolerably well inhabited
32. But as it was not expected that much profit could be made by this trade, both the Portuguese and French companies, who had enjoyed it upon the same terms before them, having been ruined by it, they were allowed, as compensation, to send annually a ship of acertain burden, to trade directly to the Spanish West Indies
33. I know the Portuguese Security Police paid a bounty on dead terrorists, and since a body or a couple of heads were relatively heavy to carry a flourishing trade in (hopefully) terrorists’ ears began in Angola during the 1960s
34. The Portuguese soon learned to ask for both ears before paying or alternatively paid half price for a single ear
35. Strangely enough we saw the same pattern in Portuguese Mozambique twenty years later
36. The invasion never happened and up to the time that the Portuguese withdrew from Mozambique in 1974 the Rhodesians were winning the war with relative ease
37. It was only after Portugal withdrew from Mozambique and Angola (both Portuguese colonies) which thing heated up and the political decision made to place the area under Army control
38. Unlike his previous campaigns of terror and murder against isolated white Portuguese farmers the new Angolan government was not intimidated by him and actually fought back hard for he threatened their oil production
39. The Army likewise created a legendary fighting force consisting of Angolan soldiers called 32 Battalion or the Buffalo Battalion and in Portuguese Os Terríveis (The Terrible Ones) which indeed they were to their enemies
40. When I say Angolan soldiers I mean they were more of a terrorist origin than the Portuguese Angolan army
41. I know the Portuguese Security Police paid a bounty on dead terrorists and since a body or a couple of heads are relatively heavy to carry a flourishing trade in (hopefully) terrorists’ ears started in Angola during the 1960s
42. They, the Portuguese soon learned to ask for both ears before paying or alternatively paying half for one ear
43. Right in the center of town and not too far one from the other are located the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd and Saint Joseph’s Church, both constructed by the Portuguese and both Catholic
44. Both localities, already described in my Odyssey to Opportunity, presented us with an opportune occasion of talking to Bobby and Danielle about the apparition of the Virgin Mary to the three little shepherds Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta, and about the magnificent “Monasterio de Santa Maria de la Victoria later on in Batalha, which Juan I, first Portuguese king of the Avis Dynasty, ordered to be built to celebrate the defeat that his troops inflicted on the Spanish forces in 1385
45. Wallace would take the side of oppressed people suffering under the failing British, Dutch, French, and Portuguese empires
46. Colling expressed his compliments concerning Mendoza’s choice of wine, and the Brazilian explained that it was Portuguese, from Oporto and called by the name vinho verde, or “green wine
47. ” Senhora Mendoza said something to him in Portuguese, and he laughed again
48. This budget exhibits how is easy to solve the social and economic problems with only an innovative systematics that satisfies diverse countries that are ideologically united in a great community as it is the case of CPLP - Community of Portuguese Language Countries with the following lusophone countries: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, San Tome and Principe and East Timor
49. On page 1, the reader is informed that Burger’s book has been translated into English, Arabic, Indian dialect and soon it will also be available in Portuguese and Russian
50. Naturally, that huge announcement caused neither joy nor satisfaction to a Portuguese professor, born in Lisbon, who accompanied the group in the tour