tener
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Gustavo Arellano: There’s a saying in Spanish: no tener pelos en la lengua.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2018
Tenera is the feminine form of tener, slender, delicate.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
The arms of the latter, with his lance and banner, are shown at the Ayuntamiento, or town-house; I do not admire his commercial motto— Quien lanza sabe tener, Ella le da de comer.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Auxiliary verbs are the pedagogue's delight, but who begins Spanish by trying to discriminate between tener and haber, or ser and estar, or who learns tables of exceptions to improve his French?
From Cambridge Essays on Education by Various
These he made living,—Florence asked no more: and "Credette Cimabue nella pintura tener lo campo."
From Mornings in Florence by Ruskin, John
