Varo

But he is not so odd as the varo one of the most delicious and expensive of Tahitian foods. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

I pondered as to this habit of the _varo_, and would have liked to persuade me that the male, being a courteous shrimp, combatted the invading hooks first in an effort to protect his mate. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

We found lobsters among the rocks, too, and on some beaches a strange kind of lobsterish delicacy called in Tahiti _varo_, a kind of mantis-shrimp that looks like a superlatively villainous centipede. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

Crabs being in the first category -- paapaa, -- would cost about thirteen cents a pound, and the succulent varo the same, whereas they were then two francs, or forty cents a pound. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

I set a grapnel in each hole, and then returned to the first to pull out the varo. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

Catching _varo_ calls for much patience and dexterity. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

Others find that the varo rests uneasy within them, as though each claw or tooth of the comb grasped a vital part of their anatomy. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

Fanno i sepolcri tutto 'l loco varo; but also because of the intrinsic picturesqueness of this avenue of sepulchres beneath green trees upon a long soft grassy field. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)

In the dark forest of aesthetics, particularly, he finds them at every turn, -- "fanno tutto il loco varo." ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

The company named a new CEO, Michael A. Carpenter, in November after the departure of A.varo de Molina. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Kanayo F. Nwanze, the President of the UN International Fund Agricultural Development Fund (IFAD), will meet with President "varo Colom Caballeros and representatives from the IFAD-funded Rural Development Program for Las Verapaces (PRODEVER) to review progress of the programme" s poverty-reduction and market-access projects. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Don Jaime is a veterenatian, so many injured animals are brought to him for care, and many end up taking refuge at P.A. Don Jaimes´s son A.varo is the Segundo at P.A. and speaks excellent English so has been fun to be with. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Skenderian JJ, Siegel JT, Crano WD, A.varo EE, Lac A. Expectancy change and adolescents 'intentions to use marijuana. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The company's directors appointed Michael A. Carpenter, a former Citigroup executive and current GMA. director, to succeed A.varo de Molina, who had run the company since A.ril 2008. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The troubled auto and home lender GMA. Financial Services said Monday that chief executive A.varo de Molina is stepping down and that Michael A. Carpenter, a member of the company's board of directors, has been named his successor, according to the Washington Post.

The king of CnUile deprived the con - ftable of his dignitv, which he gave to the count Don Al~ varo de Luna; and diltributed his ellates, which were very confiderable, amongft/the loids who were mofl; in ❋ Unknown (1782)

Interim certum eft fales non caufticos cry -- ftalHfari, caufticos varo non item. ❋ Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1777)