silva
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The fans were devastated, had spent a fortune going to the games.. yet tevez and silva walked off pitch laughing and joking - suppose they were going to get their c200k for weeks work.
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2012
In Latin silva is a wood but also the collection of raw materials needed for a building.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Forests, St. Sylvester, because silva, in Latin, means “a wood.”
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Crux fidelis, inter omnes Arbor una nobilis, Nulla silva talem profert Fronde, flore, germine.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Goepp, Philip H.
Woods, St. Silvester, because silva, in Latin, means “a wood.”
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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