fosse

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Se fosse seguida pela OMS, a organização recomendaria que crianças de todo o mundo fossem amamentadas por seis meses, em vez da recomendação anterior de quatro a seis meses, explicou.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2017

Beyond it was a deep fosse lost in soft shadow, but the grass upon its brink was green, as if it glowed still in memory of the sun that had gone.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

There was a road paved with white stone running on the outer brink of the fosse.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

The great fosse by which it was once surrounded is entirely obliterated save on the west side, where it is nearly twenty feet in depth.

From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.

Round210 this spot they raised a rampart, encircled by a fosse.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter