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“Growing up we didn’t have snacks. It wasn’t like I got home from school, and I said, ‘abuela tengo hambre’ and my grandma would hand me a bag of chips,” Melian recalls.
From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2022
Like Melian, I learned by watching my grandmother and mother cook, but that was unconscious, really — knowledge through osmosis.
From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2022
Athens insisted that Melos join its alliance, noting threateningly that the powerful do what they want and the weak must accept it, according to the historian Thucydides in his famous "Melian Dialogue."
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2015
So while she may be an important figure, I don't get the impression Melian is much present in the books?
From Time • Jan. 5, 2013
Under the powerful lens, Melian was brought within thirty yards, and with the sight, his heart seemed to stand still within him.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram
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