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c.1780, Anonymous, Cincuenta décimas contra Cernadas:
Mordesme en Papeliños, que leeron moitas Xentes: mordes me, chantasme os dentes chantame agora os focinos: si lendo estes meus termiños fixères xestos, ou mocas, ê contra min te desuocas, ê con Mocas ques ferir me, e focas no Corpo abrirme, Chantame as mocas nas focas.
You bite me in little papers that many people have read You bite me, thrust you teeth in me Thrust now your snout If reading these my terms You do gestures or grimaces and against me you run off at the mouth and with clubs you want to injure me and holes in my body open Thrust the clubs into my holes
1989, Paulo Rangel, O Assassinato do Conto Policial, FTD, →ISBN, page 10:
— Por falar nisso, sabe o que é um foca? — Sei — disse Cotoxó. — Que é? Diga! — Foca é um repórter em início de carreira, que ganha mal, se veste mal, come mal, escreve mal, só diz bobagens, não tem cultura, é tido como idiota e um dia se torna chefe da redação.
“By the way, do you know what a seal is?” “Yes”, said Cotoxó. “What is it? Tell me!” “A seal is a reporter at the beginning of his career, who earns badly, dresses badly, eats badly, writes badly, says nothing but nonsense, has no culture, is considered an idiot and one day becomes head of the newsroom.”
1621, Lope de Vega Carpio, “La Andromeda”, in La Filomena con otras diuerſas Rimas, Proſas y Verſos [The Filomena with Other Diverse Rhymes, Proses and Verses], Madrid: Francisca de Medina, page 106:
Con fieras anſias, con mayor trabajo, La Foca ſepultaua la grandeza Del monſtruoſo cuerpo entre las olas, Si bien moſtraua ya las fuentes ſolas.