How To Use Corsican In A Sentence
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I also scarfed a plate of charcuterie which featured decent chorizo, a peppered salami and some sort of good cured pork loin which reminded me of Corsican lonzo, but could have been from anywhere, I'm no expert.
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Corsican was designated as a patois, a provincial dialect.
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The exclusion of the Corsicans in the high administration, the legal inequalities and the economic situation started a succession of jacqueries.
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What distinguishes the Corsican clementine from other varieties of clementines?
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Two rare and endemic herbivore subspecies, mouflon (Ovis aries musimon) and Corsican red deer (Cervus elaphus corsicanus), persist on islands.
Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests
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Two rare and endemic herbivores, mouflon (Ovis aries musimon) and Corsican red deer (Cervus elaphus corsicanus), still persist in the Sardinian forests.
Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests
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The only sound is the thwack of a Corsican mountain breeze.
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The English diarist James Boswell wrote in 1769, only a year after the Genoese ceded the island to France, of the excellence and diversity of Corsican wines.
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It appeared that while his comrades had been attending on Giuseppe, the third Corsican (whom they called Ste, or Stephanu) had filled up his time by rifling our camp; and of all our possessions he had chosen to select our half-dozen spare muskets and a burst coffer, from which he now extracted and (for his comrade's admiration) held aloft our chiefest treasure -- the Iron Crown of Corsica.
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756
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Don't you remember," said the patron, "I told you that among the crew there were two Corsican brigands?
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The musty odour of Corsican charcuterie fills the shop, making you either ravenous or nauseous.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Corsican steadied herself with her broom, bent down and picked up a jujube.
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We made plans for the Riffian to present himself to a Corsican garageman named Serrutti, in Taza, but he never came.
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs
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The musty odour of Corsican charcuterie fills the shop, making you either ravenous or nauseous.
Times, Sunday Times
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The musty odour of Corsican charcuterie fills the shop, making you either ravenous or nauseous.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mountainous region around the small Corsican town of Bastilyica breeds a hardy, proud people.
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Roasted garlic with sheep's milk cheese is the quintessential Corsican meal.
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Roasted garlic with sheep's milk cheese is the quintessential Corsican meal.
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Ahead of us the greys, cool greens and off whites of the Corsican mountains spread out toward the horizon.
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The Corsican Vendetta has been taken as the basis of more than one romantic story, but, handled by M. M.rimée, it has acquired new and fascinating interest; and he has enriched his little romance with a profusion of those small traits and artistical touches which exhibit the character and peculiarities of a people better than folios of dry description.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
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I am well aware that there is a Sicilian _in fabula_ who is not "mafioso"; that the crude banditism which sits in every Corsican's bones has raised him to the elysium of martyrs and heroes and not, where he ought to have gone, to the gallows; that the Maltese are not merely cantankerous and bigoted (Catholic) Arabs, but also sober, industrious, and economical.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
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He also stated that the Corsican economy could develop harmoniously around the tourism industry.
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Roasted garlic with sheep's milk cheese is the quintessential Corsican meal.
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In Spain we know _montebaxos_, or coppice shrubs (as you might call them), and we know _tomillares_, or undergrowth; but in Corsica nature heaps these together with both hands, and the Corsican, in despair of separating them, calls them all _macchia_.
Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales
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Da Tè à Mè" is a collaboration involving three different artists: Sardinian trumpet player Paolo Fresu, Italian bandoneonist Daniele Di Bonaventura and Corsican all-male choral group A Filetta, who joined forces for the upcoming album
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The vendetta was the chief law of Corsican society up to comparatively recent times; and its effects are still visible in the life of the stern islanders.
The Life of Napoleon I 01
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They also enjoyed the scimitar-horned oryx, axis deer, fallow deer, sika deer, blackbuck antelope, eland, Corsican rams and their various cousins, aoudad, impala, bison and many more species calling the Rio Bonito home.
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In his own case, the correctness of his first impressions -- what he himself called laughingly his _ "coup d'oeil" _ -- is in a measure proved by a note-book, now lying before the writers, in which he recorded his views of Bastia and the Corsicans after a very brief acquaintance -- that view requiring scarcely any modification when first impressions had been exchanged for real knowledge and experience.
The Slave of the Lamp
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Roasted garlic with sheep's milk cheese is the quintessential Corsican meal.
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The mountainous region around the small Corsican town of Bastilyica breeds a hardy, proud people.
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The dramatic colours, earthy abundance and fruitful generosity accentuate the passionate spirit that is essentially Corsican.
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His composure and distribution are complemented by the Corsican, a natural left-footed player.
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What's changed in our business?" asks second-generation pecan merchant and sheller George Martin, president of Navarro Pecan Co. in Corsicana, Texas.
Shell Shock: Chinese Demand Reshapes U.S. Pecan Business
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Triumphant in roman toga or plain and corporal-like in long coat and bicorne hat, there are statues of the great Corsican everywhere, streets and squares named after him, prints and portraits of him in every bar and café.
