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

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

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

The order was instantly obeyed, and the door afloat in the fosse, and springing upon it, he impelled himself with a pike towards the opposite bank.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison

Hum dia, que pregando ao povo estava, Fingiram entre a gente hum arruido: Ja Christo neste tempo lhe ordenava Que, padecendo, fosse ao ceo subido.

From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Barbosa, Duarte