tener
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Gustavo Arellano: There’s a saying in Spanish: no tener pelos en la lengua.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2018
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
The English tender, the French tendre, the Latin tener are derived from it.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
They must have been in bad straits, because Estudillo found them living deep in the swamp, in a "gran Bolson de Tule, sin poder tener lumbre."
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Sherburne F. Cook
These he made living,—Florence asked no more: and "Credette Cimabue nella pintura tener lo campo."
From Mornings in Florence by John Ruskin
