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Mark Glazer discusses a collection of 152 variants from the Rio Grande Folklore Archive at Pan American University in Texas and states that the legend is “part of a culture which believes in miracles, mystery, and romance” (1987, 35).
Métro: Grande Arche de La Défense, then bus 258, or RER to rueil-Malmaison, and then walk.
The road then continues through the 4,000-hectare (9,884-acre) park to the La Laguna Grande restaurant, a hospitable, rough-and-ready sort of place, which is very popular with walkers.
The winding road continues on through the sprawling settlements of Quinta Grande and Campanário.
Nor, at the other end of the scale, can we match the Spanish superlative suffix - ísimo , e.g., grandísimo, altísimo, bellísimo (rendered in English as the `biggest,' the `highest,' the `most beautiful,' although for an exact equivalency one would use the other superlative form in Spanish, más grande, más alto, más bello ). Nothing I have ever heard in English can match the breadth of lighthearted insult expressed by a Spanish wit some years ago who used the suffix with reference to the notoriously pampered, well-connected, well-heeled, well-placed brother-in-law ( cu ñado ) of Francisco Franco.