Word: tagus
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...Portugall, along the river Tagus, & about Lisbon, certaine it is, that when the westwind blowes, the mares set up their tailes, and turne them full against it, and so conceive that genitall aire in steed of naturall seed: in such sort, as they become great withall, and quicken in their time, & bring forth foles as swift as the wind, but they live not above three yeres...
...bridge, and an airplane of German make spins down in flames. But the action shots remain as background to the life of a people suffering from war. The story keeps returning to the village where the ditches are being dug, and ends with the waters of the Tagus River flowing into the fields, timidly, as though the normal productive ways of man were almost, but not quite, beyond hope...
Meanwhile the British cruiser Comics had steamed up the Rio Tejo (Tagus), and was keeping London and the world informed about events at Lisbon with her wireless. It appeared that for two days the Carmona Government had deliberately halted all the railways, posts and electric communications, lest uncensored news leak out of Portugal. When the situation cleared up it was found that the U, S. Consul at Oporto had been extremely lucky. Five minutes after he left his room in the Grande Hotel do Porto†† a bomb was light-heartedly tossed in at the window by a passing...