How To Use Mantua In A Sentence
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When giving a guest the map of Mantua, why not indicate with a cross where the restaurant you've booked for him is located?
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Mrs. Rich, the favourite mantuamaker of those days, within whose power it lay to transform provincial newcomers, often already over-stocked with ill-made costumes and absurdly trimmed bonnets, into women of fashion!
A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66,
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Patrick came home with the Secretary: I am more plagued with Patrick and my portmantua than with myself.
The Journal to Stella
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Guastalla to Mantua, but sold the marquessate of Casale to France
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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He heard Æsop say, dryly, "Some men of Italy are fools," and might perchance have flamed again, to his misluck, but that Staupitz, breathing thickly in his ear, whispered: "Idiot, he mocks a Mantuan.
The Duke's Motto A Melodrama
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'I now exulted in our prospect of success in my deliverance: I grew more cheerful, my uncle was tender and affectionate; I bore his caresses without any repulses, but left the room soon as possible I employed myself in packing up a few necessaries in a small portmantua, with what little valuables I had, and was tolerably supplied with money, as I thought, knowing little of the expences of a journey.
The Castle of Wolfenbach
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Set in the 15th century court of the Duke of Mantua, the opera offers the cast and crew an opportunity to go the full hog with the lavish costumes of the period.
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Piero del Tovaglia, a Florentine silk merchant, acted from 1469 onward as intermediary in the negotiations regarding the project between Florence and Mantua, legally becoming Lodovico Gonzaga's procurator in Florence in August 1470.
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Tiziano Vecellio's Portrait of Isabella d'Este, Marchioness of Mantua 1534 - 1536 is a technical tour de force that exhibits what this great master, who was known as Titian, can do to paint objects that have totally unrelated surfaces and qualities.
Terence Clarke: Masters of Venice, at The de Young Museum, San Francisco
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She was buried in Mantua in the habit of a Franciscan tertiary, with the cord and the scapular, as the Modenese chronicler Lancellotti reports.
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But what surprised them was that she requested them to address her as Madame Gonsalez, under cover to her mantuamaker in Savannah, whose address was given.
A romance of the republic
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The possession of Mantua was decisive of Italian destiny, for its holder could command a kind of overlordship in every little Italian state.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
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In Mantua, the preparation of food is so central to questions of local pride and self-definition that it has become a subject of sociological study.
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His most notable acquisitions include a jade flask belonging to Clive of India, and a newly rediscovered renaissance Mantuan roundel of Vulcan and Venus.
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Homes in this corner of Mantua that once went for $350,000 are now worth nothing.
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The three most fabulous collections of the past hundred years—those of Charles I, the dukes of Mantua, and Mazarin—had all now been dispersed, and Pierre eagerly followed the trails of the works among them which were still on the move.
The Dragon’s Trail
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She was buried in Mantua in the habit of a Franciscan tertiary, with the cord and the scapular, as the Modenese chronicler Lancellotti reports.
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When Claudia went one day to her mantuamaker to have her mourning fitted, she met a couple of ladies who had formerly been constant visitors at the house and regular attendants at her parties.
Beulah
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She quitted the apartment with a flood of tears, and coming, found the breakfast ready, and soon after a chaise at the gate; Joseph conveyed her portmantua and box to the carriage; Albert stared a little at the latter, but said nothing.
The Castle of Wolfenbach
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Scarce a single advertisement of wares of milliner or mantua maker can he found in eighteenth century newspapers that does not contain in some form of spelling the word marcasite, and scarce
Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771
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Ratisbon as "Lerch, the mantuamaker," had told him to keep watch, and impressed it upon him to let no one, no matter who it might be, enter her rooms on the ground floor except the cantor knight, as she called Wolf.
Barbara Blomberg — Volume 03
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Haan proposes that some primal ideas from a Mantuan fable involving an apple tree and a covetous neighbor flowered into an epic inspiration for Milton.
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They laughed brutally, -- these cruel minions of the law, -- and disengaged his arm from the waist of the wooden dummy which they had come to reclaim for the mantuamaker.
Condensed Novels
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It appears that Margaret Reay was the daughter of a stay-maker in Covent-garden, and served her apprenticeship to a mantuamaker.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
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A woman originally wore a mantua as a robe when resting at home, but by the late 17th century it became fitted at her waist.
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Just like the Mantuan character, in fact: a complex sauce, long in the making, with nothing remotely nouvelle about it.
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Mantuan poet > (Virgil, 70-19 BC, who was born near Maro, in Mantua, northern Italy) incompared > unmatched (SUS) 612 Whose garland now is set in highest place,
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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_ Now it comes into my head, the duke of Mantua makes an entertainment to night in masquerade: If you love extravagancy so well, madam, I'll put you into the head of one; lay by your nunship for an hour or two, and come amongst us in disguise.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04
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Homes in this corner of Mantua that once went for $350,000 are now worth nothing.
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Three of the four dedications involve members of the Gonzaga family, two of whom lived in Rome, the third one (Duchess Eleonora of Austria) residing at the court in Mantua.
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With a plausible excuse, and seeming indifference, he gracefully opened conversation with the mantuamaker as only a Parisian can.
Condensed Novels
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This was a mistake, for Lord John would have considered himself quite as free to attempt a flirtation with Drumcarro's daughter in Argyllshire as in London, and with as little intention of any serious result, the daughter of a poor laird however high in descent, being as entirely below the level of the Duke's son as the mantua-maker.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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His son Ludovico III, "il Turco", who reigned from 1444 to 1478, divided the marquessate between his two sons, leaving Mantua to
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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But Little John was already gone to the saddle-bags, and returning he laid the Bishop's cloak upon the ground, and poured out of the portmantua a matter of four hundred glittering gold pieces.
Robin Hood
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When Mantua fell, and Austria saw herself driven from Italy, she had called her ablest general, the Archduke Charles, from the Rhine, and given him an army of over one hundred thousand men to lead against Bonaparte.
The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte
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The white tontongee still girdled her loins; but Coomba's climate was her mantuamaker, and indicated more necessity for ornament than drapery.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
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Examples of 19-course chitarrones have survived in Mantua and Paris.
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Lord Forbes's man has brought back my portmantua, and Patrick is come; so I am in Christian circumstances: I shall hardly commit such a frolic again.
The Journal to Stella
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Born near Dublin, the son of a silversmith and a mantua maker, he'd run away from grammar school at 16 and joined a bank of strolling players.
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This appeared in a collection of six alternatim settings all based on the chant Kyrie orbis factor, and all by composers connected in some way or other with S Barbara and Mantua.
Archive 2009-06-01
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The republic had to act fast, though, because the duke of Mantua was trying to lay his hands on this valuable goose.
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Mantua-makers also made all sorts of loose garments, cloaks, cardinals, capuchins, etc.
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The Florentines recalled the marquis of Ferrara, and engaged the marquis of Mantua; they also as earnestly requested the Venetians to send them Count Carlo, son of
The History of Florence
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She was clothed in a pretty mantua and her face was set in a gentle tranquil smile.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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Secretary: I am more plagued with Patrick and my portmantua than with myself.
The Journal to Stella
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She decidedly chooses rather to be a mantuamaker and milliner, than go to service.
Letter 298
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`She was simply in the mantua she had worn for the demonstration of the Passions.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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_ Bid the footman receive the trunks and portmantua; and see them placed in the lodgings you have taken for me, while I walk a turn here in the garden.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06
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'Pierre put the horse into a little out-house which held their firing and his working implements, and returned with a portmantua to the lady.
The Castle of Wolfenbach
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He would have wildly darted into the shop, but just then the figure of the mantuamaker appeared in the doorway.
Condensed Novels
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Add two-thirds cup grated Parmesan and a quarter-cup olive oil, stirring until the pesto is smooth and creamy. — chefs Tony Mantuano and Sarah Grueneberg, Spiaggia in Chicago
Goodbye Basil,
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The princess wore a mantua and petticoat, white damask with the finest embroidery of rich embossed gold.
