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calla

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Calla \Cal"la\ (k[a^]l"l[.a]), n. [Linn[ae]us derived Calla fr. Gr. ??????? a cock's wattles but cf. L. calla, calsa, name of an unknown plant, and Gr. kalo`s beautiful.] (Bot.) A genus of plants, of the order Arace[ae] . Note: The common Calla of ...

Usage examples of calla.

He saw the twins of the Calla lying sprawled like corpses in the thickest, wettest part of the rice, with the muck oozing through their shirts and pants.

Most of the Calla men came on donks and burros, dressed in their white pants and long, colorful shirts.

Sides of beef beaded with blood, wheels of moist cheese, huge Calla Fundy shrimp like plump orange commas.

Before advancing, however, they must face the evil wolves of Thunderclap, who threaten to destroy the Calla by abducting its young.

The Wheel of Time, and the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, serial fantasy is bigger than everand the exciting, action-packed Wolves of the Calla, delivered in a beautiful, illustrated edition, is sure to be an enormous treat for fans both new and old.

But who would put matters right, if not the men of Calla Bryn Sturgis?

Some might say nothing, that the Wolves have always been a part of our life in Calla Bryn Sturgis, like the occasional cyclone or earthshake.

Although he had been here enough years to build his strange Man Jesus church and convert half the Calla to his way of spiritual thinking, not even a stranger would have been fooled into believing Pere Callahan was from here.

He had undoubtedly come from one of those other worlds the Manni were always babbling about, although he never spoke of it and Calla Bryn Sturgis was now his home.

FOUR Now he surveyed the men of Calla Bryn Sturgis, not even glancing at George Telford.

Are they all names he will later encounter in the Calla, or is that just a booze-hallucination?

Manni cabin in Calla Bryn Sturgis, looking toward the darkness of Thunderclap and listening to Elton John.

Have you not thought about the coincidence of Calla Bryn Sturgis and my own last name, for instance?

Callahan shrieks as he lies on the floor of a cave in the northern arroyo country of Calla Bryn Sturgis, a place he will eventually come to love.

There was no ManPower or Brawny Man office in Calla Bryn Sturgis, but those were good years and there was plenty of work for a man who wanted to workthey were big-rice years, as they do say, although stock-line and the rest of the crops also did fine.