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  • A few days after, they brought the intelligence that Barbarina had returned; and the councillor dwelt with her in her new house; and the servants were commanded to call the signora Madame Cocceji. as she was his well-beloved and trusted wife. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends
  • Est-ce que vous aviez Chi è vossignoria? jamais un père? Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841
  • As regards Universal Masonry, when announcing his demission and conversion to an officer of the Lodge, Giordano Bruno, at Palmi, Signor Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
  • And now, signore, I have told you everything and I am ill, as you see. MURKY SHALLOWS
  • The signorina is going to move out of the palace in half an hour," said the servant. The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel
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  • This somehow leads to Italy, and to Signor Mussolini.
  • ‘You are a connoisseur in flowers, signor,’ said Beatrice, with a smile, alluding to the bouquet which he had flung her from the window.
  • She'd heard someone moving around about half an hour later and it could only have been the signora returning. MURKY SHALLOWS
  • Our flat, above the camel market, was leased from Signora, an old Italian lady who lived downstairs.
  • This is an extremely positive action on the part of the sales company and our consignors in an effort to accommodate buyers.
  • Not only did the new grande signore treat them well, he shared their pleasures. THE FAMILY
  • Sea Waybill Rule 3 imputes the status of agent for the consignee to the shipper-consignor.
  • Priors, but to increase their distinction the word signori, or lords, was soon afterward adopted. History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy
  • They clattered through the streets of Castellammare, pursued by urchins, crying, "Un sordo, signori! The Emancipated
  • He always accompanied monsignor, and slowed his long-legged gait to match the old man's.
  • Although the current consignor is anonymous, this coin was previously in the collections of Dr. Steven Duckor and Jay Brahin. Fresh Material, Pedigrees and September Coin Auctions — Part 2 : Coin Collecting News
  • Those times were somewhat wild and barbarous, signore, and a gentleman who protected his estates and asked tribute of strangers was termed a brigand, and became highly respected. Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad
  • The consignors then shopped the piece around, and Washington dealer Guy Bush got a very good buy indeed as a consequence.
  • A faint smile crossed the Monsignor's face and faded quickly.
  • Monsignor Rolfe would have no hope of claiming an embargo on it this time. GRACE
  • Goods freight rate is a when influence consignor chooses to carry kind main factor.
  • Signora Luciano narrowed her eyes, like a bocce player studying the arrangement of the balls, planning the next throw. Uprising
  • The maid had called her signora; but that might have been a disguise, like the mask and the patches of court-plaster. The Lure of the Mask
  • `Fratelli D'Italia, l'Italia s'è desta, dell'elmo di Scipio, S'è cinto la testa... "while Signora Cara snored, whistling gently. THE GOLDEN LION
  • Colliva, “Bologna dal XIV al XVIII secolo: ‘Governo misto’ o signoria senatoria?” in A. Delizia!
  • The Signor Conte kept us waiting twenty minutes, whilst he shaved and exchanged his dressing-gown for the suit of sables which is the correct raiment of the Latin race. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
  • I myself saw, in the little museum of Signor Sartoris at Primiero, a small aryballos-shaped vase of yellow clay with red ornamentation, which I should undoubtedly take to be of Etruscan workmanship, and which they told me had been found by himself in a field not far from the town. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
  • The Monsignor described the Abbey as a little corner of England which is irreclaimably French.
  • She'd told him that the Monsignor had arranged an appointment for Grace with a gynaecologist for an internal examination. GRACE
  • This lovely signorina was kind enough to accompany a lonely old man for an aperitif, Lucci went on. Hollywood Savage
  • You must know that the friends of the signora are my friends and that I am always glad to welcome them. The Call of the Blood
  • The assignment price of company bonds shall be agreed upon between the assignor and the assignee.
  • 'If a prince of Eldorado should come, with a pedigree of lineal descent from some signory in the moon in one hand, and a ticket of good-behaviour from the nearest Independent chapel, in the other' --? The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
  • The film is a picaresque ramble through a half-real Rome in which gridlocked cars are turned into living spaces; cardinals, monsignors and fawning aristocrats preside over Vatican fashion shows; and the district of Trastevere becomes a huge fairground teeming with local characters, guitar-strumming hippies, uniformed carabinieri. Finding Fellini
  • However an assignment by way of mortgage - where there is an outright transfer to the assignee mortgagee with the assignor mortgagor having the right to have the debts reassigned to him on redemption - is within the section.
  • To comment first on Monsignor Maniscalco's letter: of course Pius XII was concerned for the Jews and their fate, and he abominated the Nazis.
  • Venetian ambassador, first mentioned the project to his signory November Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
  • They regarded knighthood as a part of their signorial parade. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series
  • You have heard, my good Miss Byron, that the friendship between Mr. Grandison and Signor Je-ronymo was twice broken off: once it was, by the unkindly-taken freedom of the expostulatory letter. Sir Charles Grandison
  • But out of season, you'll have to plead with the tourist office, who will send you to the house of signora Maria, who, if she's not out doing the shopping or visiting any number of relations, may be willing to let you in - at her own pace.
  • O'BRIEN: We're taking a look at Vatican City, which is now filling up with tourists, Monsignor, and pilgrims who have come out, obviously, to pay their last respects to Pope John Paul II, who is in dire, dire shape, as reports from the Vatican come to us. CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2005
  • For the ancients of Pisa have met for the last time; the signory of Florence plots no more; no more will any Emperor with the pride of a barbarian, the mien of a beggar or a thief, cross the Alps, or such an one as Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
  • Italy there were so many forms of government, dukedoms, baronies, marquisates, signories, city republics, each with its own custom regulations, not to speak of each having its own coinage and language, that travelers encountered obstacles almost at every step. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920
  • Moreover, there are not wanting in these poems instances of the term signore, or lord, applied to the beloved lady; which is one of the many periphrastical expressions used by the Romance poets to indicate their mistress. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
  • The portrait of Signorelli in the frontispiece is the half of this painting. Luca Signorelli
  • Now I call on you to support me, signorino," she cried one evening, when the three elders sat together in the room while Goneril watered the roses on the terrace. Tales from Many Sources Vol. V
  • Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia, Sant'Egidio's sort of godfather in the Church, savors Saint Valentine's legacy, because his diocese is in the place where the Saint is said to have lived. Katherine Marshall: Creating Peace In War Zones: The Roman Catholic Community Of Sant'Egidio
  • A process of digging was on view in a remote corner of the Forum, and he presently remarked that if it should please the signori to go and watch it a little they might see something of interest. The Portrait of a Lady
  • Cardinal Sigismondo Gonzaga, a very beautiful kneeling figure, robed in the habit of a Cardinal, with the rochet, which is also a portrait from life; and in front of that Cardinal is a portrait of Signora Leonora, the daughter of the same Marquis, who was then a girl, and afterwards became Duchess of Urbino. Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi
  • Yet even with the arrival in the city of outsiders such as Donatello, Raphael and Signorelli, Trecento mysticism lingered well into the 16th century in the strange, boneless figures, extravagant gestures and intense colours of Domenico Beccafumi. Archive 2007-10-01
  • I've tried for twenty years, signori, and it is hopeless. "The Morons" by Harl Vincent, part 4
  • The title signore, lord of Milan, established (1259); defeat and capture of the (Ghibelline) Visconti and their adherents. 4. Milan
  • - a little extravagant, exaggerated perhaps, as you must have noticed, signora. MURKY SHALLOWS
  • In one school, the headmaster announced a policy specifying that he would address the women by signora or signorina plus last name and the men by their first name.
  • The theatre was all a-quiver, signori miei! though I too did not fall short, I too after him. The Torrents of Spring
  • signoria" into a family possession, though leaving the burghers a share in the government. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
  • Monsignor Rolfe would have no hope of claiming an embargo on it this time. GRACE
  • That he got you back safely to Italy is a miracle, signorina. THE KEYS OF HELL
  • Here and there were high-backed signorial chairs, thrones, and stools. Là-bas
  • Sassarese accepted annually from the Genoese a Podesta, who swore fidelity to their constitution; and the Sassarese assert that while their city was under the protection of Genoa, they only styled that haughty republic in their statutes and diplomas, “_Mater et Magistra, sed non Domina: _” “_non Signora, ma Amica. _” Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
  • Do you see the large man with silver hair, seated beside Signorina Rosalina?"
  • Signora Zarini is offering a huge reward for anyone who returns the Flame Diamond to her.
  • § II.ed. meæ, "quos probe callet, qui signorum ortus et obitus comprehendit, Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes
  • Now see here m'dear, there'll be none of that ‘Signor, Signorina’ business about here.
  • There come the ensigns of our subject towns and signories, Melema; they will all be suspended in San Giovanni until this day next year, when they will give place to new ones. Romola
  • Try mademoiselle," she said, coming into the house," or better yet, signorina. WORST FEARS REALIZED
  • ‘It must raise serious questions as to whether the ministry, currently at least, can be regarded credibly as a waste consignor,’ they concluded.
  • Assignment results in the transfer from the assignor to the third-party assignee of the right to proceed directly against the debtor or obligor.
  • His father was only rarely called "signor," despite the fact that in recent years Cristoforo's earnings had allowed Domenico Colombo to prosper, moving the weaving shop to larger quarters and wearing finer clothing and riding a horse like a gentleman and buying a few small houses outside the city walls so he could play the landlord. Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus
  • At one time, however, "officious" negotiations were kept up between the Holy See and the Italian Government through the agency of Monsignor Carini, Prefect of the Vatican Library and a great friend of Crispi. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • He was rather sceptical about being an Irish patriot -- he suspected that being Irish was being somewhat common -- but Monsignor assured him that Ireland was a romantic lost cause and Irish people quite charming, and that it should, by all means, be one of his principal biasses. This Side of Paradise
  • Signora , " greeted the shop clerk, "can I help you?
  • The good Monsignor's comments on the rushed putting together of the 'restored' Holy Week are fascinating - even more so John XXIII's insistence on having the traditional Vexilla regis sung on Good Friday. A bombshell of an interview. Mons. Domenico Bartolucci on the liturgical reforms and the reform of the reform.
  • A faint smile crossed the Monsignor's face and faded quickly.
  • Monsignor Walter Rossi met John Paul in 1997 and brought back his zucchetto or skullcap. Roman Catholic Church Set to Beatify Pope John Paul II
  • I remember, about ten years ago, the Signor had a quarrel with a cavaliero of Milan. The Mysteries of Udolpho
  • He was rather sceptical about being an Irish patriot—he suspected that being Irish was being somewhat common—but Monsignor assured him that Ireland was a romantic lost cause and Irish people quite charming, and that it should, by all means, be one of his principal biasses. Book 1, Chapter 1. Amory, Son of Beatrice.
  • The driver said mournfully, `For some reason, signor, I doubt whether you're a friend to the Frasconis. A SEASON IN HELL
  • Bi. criminal i loro figli, potranno assistere gratuitamente allanteprima del nuovo film Disney-Pixar Up. Il film che verr lanciato in tutta Italia the partire dal fifteen ottobre racconta la storia di Carl Fredricksen, un anziano signore di 78 anni venditore di palloncini, e di Russell un bambino di 8 anni. Archive 2009-11-01
  • ‘The signorina is here, sir,’ the man behind her said.
  • Went to il duomo and Ponte Vecchio and Palazzo Vecchio and Piazza della signora.
  • Assuredly the feeble signoria will not venture to refuse compliance. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
  • [T] he efforts of the Genoese Cardinal to repair relations between Rome and Ecône remained alive and were greatest in subsequent years, after the suspension a divinis of Monsignor Lefebvre which occurred in 1976 due to the ordination of priests despite the prohibition imposed by the Vatican. Cardinal Siri and Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre
  • What were they really like to live in, those walled and towered cities of hill and plain, those republics and signories of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy?
  • But suddenly the sight of Giuseppe Signori's invitingly lofted ball into the penalty area put a spring in his step.
  • During the year 1770 Charles Burney was travelling in Italy and when he was in Venice he wrote on 12 August that he attended a concert in the house of the patrician, Signor Grimani.
  • Oh, signori and signorine, what an exquisite town this Venice is! Letters of Anton Chekhov
  • Only the consignor and the auction house know the reserve.
  • Bi. criminal i loro figli, potranno assistere gratuitamente allanteprima del nuovo film Disney-Pixar Up. Il film che verr lanciato in tutta Italia the partire dal fifteen ottobre racconta la storia di Carl Fredricksen, un anziano signore di 78 anni venditore di palloncini, e di Russell un bambino di 8 anni. Archive 2009-11-01
  • Another team had managed through a subpoena to get hold of the church records while the monsignor was out. THE SERPENT'S MARK
  • As a result of the grand jury's report on what it called "sordid, shocking acts," Monsignor William Lynn, former secretary of the clergy in the Archdiocese, faces charges of child endangerment. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • Before she had left Holy Oaks, she had called the rectory and had spoken to Monsignor McKindry, uncaring that she was acting like a neurotic mother hen. HEARTBREAKER
  • A perspiring signor rose, mopping his forehead with a white linen handkerchief, his brow furrowed with worry. THE FAMILY
  • Signorelli said that she and other chaplains were told Feb. 23 to “cease and desist from using God in prayers.” To improve decorum, hospice chaplain is not allowed to use the word “God” « Anglican Samizdat
  • Repeated pulls at the bell, and arrivals too numerous to particularise: papas and mammas, and aunts and uncles, the owners and guardians of the different pupils; the singing – master, Signor Lobskini, in a black wig; the piano – forte player and the violins; the harp, in a state of intoxication; and some twenty young men, who stood near the door, and talked to one another, occasionally bursting into a giggle. Sketches by Boz
  • “But that was the 23rd Psalm,” Signorelli said – not, strictly speaking, Christian, as it appears in the Old Testament. To improve decorum, hospice chaplain is not allowed to use the word “God” « Anglican Samizdat
  • - a little extravagant, exaggerated perhaps, as you must have noticed, signora. MURKY SHALLOWS
  • Il signor capitano, he's a hero, a warmonger, and he wasn't about to leave that situation unattended.
  • Monsignor Rolfe would have no hope of claiming an embargo on it this time. GRACE
  • Le foto proibite di una signora per bene, which is available on DVD from Blue Underground as THE FORBIDDEN PHOTOS OF A LADY ABOVE SUSPICION, is only a passable giallo but it is one of the genre's greatest soundtrack albums. It's Ennio's Eightieth
  • He was the finest fly that Barchester had hitherto afforded to her web, and the signora was a powerful spider that made wondrous webs, and could in no way live without catching flies. Barchester Towers
  • Massimo was in fact a small man, who greeted cheerfully the signore with the bambini as Giovanni helped them ashore. MURKY SHALLOWS
  • He felt he could come near to the strange signori. Twilight in Italy
  • We talked to a couple of consignors and, with their approval, we're going to move them into a tent area with temporary stalls for the sale.
  • That he got you back safely to Italy is a miracle, signorina. THE KEYS OF HELL
  • The signore is welcome," replied the old woman as she clattered into the narrow, cheaply furnished little sitting-room, which was in half darkness owing to the _persiennes_ being closed. Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
  • `Actually, signor, come to think of it, I know a pawnbroker called Buscotti who might be able to help. A SEASON IN HELL
  • The master air waybill named the freight forwarder LEP as consignor, and the freight forwarder in the United Kingdom as consignee.
  • I am staying on the bank of the Psyol, in the lodge of an old signorial estate. Letters of Anton Chekhov
  • “The signorine will enjoy,” he told us, “and you will have a more pleasant dinner.” Chocolate for a Lover’s Heart
  • Laudato si, mi signore, per sora nostra morte corporale, de la quale nullu homo vivente po skappare: guai a quilli ke morrano ne le peccata mortali; beati quilli ke se trovarà ne le tue sanctissime voluntati, ka la morte secunda nol farrà male. Life of St. Francis of Assisi
  • Very important were the relationships with Venice and with the signories of Malatesta and De Polenta, before the dominion of Papal State, from 1509 to 1859.
  • Signorina, the beeves are a present from Florence the beautiful Would ye look a gift beef i 'the nose? The Cloister and the Hearth
  • It seems, alas, that I shall not have your charming company, bella signorina. TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
  • But before the signori he was glad also to appear rich. Twilight in Italy
  • Monsignor Kuriakose B. claimed that the Inter Caetera bull had been "abrogated" by two acts that defied the pope's anathema: First, "the unsanctioned and immediate expansion of the territory of Brazil to the west well beyond the treaty of Tordesilla;" second, "the colonization of North America and the Caribbean by the King of France. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • The monsignor is a professor of canon law in Rome, and consultor for the Congregation for Eastern Churches, the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, and other Roman Curia organizations. Challenges of Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue
  • The sea waybill also allows the consignor to vary his delivery instructions to the carrier at any time during the carriage.
  • The signora is my second wife; she is prima donna assoluta of the grand opera, Naples. The Martian
  • As one might lose a pocket watch Signor Papprizzio or some other valuable possession?
  • Alderson said it started after she asked a chaplain – not Signorelli – to say something “inspirational” and “thought-provoking” at a staff meeting. To improve decorum, hospice chaplain is not allowed to use the word “God” « Anglican Samizdat
  • Chigi too had instituted such search as was possible without putting the matter in the hands of the authorities, which would have brought about awkward complications with the signory of Florence. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)
  • I saw the Signora just now, at the window," Artois said, in an undervoice. A Spirit in Prison
  • Try mademoiselle," she said, coming into the house," or better yet, signorina. WORST FEARS REALIZED
  • Duke of Lucca, attempted the like in central Italy; but his signory perished with him. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
  • The envelope was addressed to Signora Giorgia Grigio, her name translated into Italian, which sounded much prettier to her American ears. Georgia’s Kitchen
  • The age of the comunes gave way to the age of the signories when Brescia came under the control of a succession of powerful families, including the Angioni, Visconti and Malatestas.
  • The religious, municipal, signorial, and ecclesiastical functions of the little town are centralised around the open market-place, on which the common people transacted business and discussed affairs. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series
  • Augustus Blockwell M. P., signor Laci Daremo, the robust tenor, blueeyed Bert, the liftboy, Henri Fleury of Gordon Bennett fame, Ulysses
  • Your room is ready, signor, you are overlooking the bay at the back.
  • Signorelli said her supervisor recently singled her out for delivering a spiritual reflection in the chapel that included the word “Lord” and had “a Christian connotation.” To improve decorum, hospice chaplain is not allowed to use the word “God” « Anglican Samizdat
  • Well, Tonti," answered Signor Viti, in a protecting manner, and with an affable smile, "as this is not an affair that is likely to go to the higher courts at Florence, your explanations may be taken as sufficient, and I have no wish to disturb them -- a lugger is a lugger. The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet
  • Kabir un gran signore, nobile di animo e di modi, una grande e rispettosa educazione ed un ottimo attore, dalla fisicit al dash stesso prepotente ed elegante! Archive 2009-11-01
  • So now, Signor Giovanni, drink off your glass of lachryma. Rappaccini’s Daughter
  • Each signory, barony and colony consisted of 12,000 acres, and it was provided that after a certain term of years the "proprietors" should not have power to alienate or make over their proprietorship, but that "it should descend unto their heirs male. The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
  • The signor is a good friend of the young milord and miladi? "questioned the landlord, deferentially, but very anxiously; for just then it flashed upon his memory that two years previous another grand" signor, "of reverend age like this one, had come inquiring about the young pair, and had ended in breaking up their union for the time. The Lost Lady of Lone
  • But the signorino went up to the piano and shook hands with her. Tales from Many Sources Vol. V
  • The first complete afternoon, we passed the duomo, Piazza della Signoria, the Arno River - and in the end we just wanted to find a quiet little restaurant, void of tourist talk and familiar accents.
  • The obligor may exercise aaccretionst the assignee any right of set-off accessible to the obligor against the assignor up to the time notice of assignment was accustomed.
  • Good day to you, Signora Milito," Tony replied, and both adults waited while Frank lowered his demitasse slowly to his saucer. THE VENDETTA DEFENCE
  • In fact, the signora was a sort of lion; and though there was no drop of the Leohunter blood in Miss Thorne's veins, she nevertheless did like to see attractive people at her house. Barchester Towers
  • A perspiring signor rose, mopping his forehead with a white linen handkerchief, his brow furrowed with worry. THE FAMILY
  • At the top I was enveloped in an atmosphere found only in museums, in signorial mansions and old-fashioned merchant houses; it seemed like the smell of something long past, which had once lived and died and had left its soul in the rooms. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
  • The landowning peasants and village elites who were subjected to signorial lordship normally remained landowners, and still were when signorial powers faded again in the thirteenth century.
  • A portly waiter clicked his heels and inquired if Signor Shaw and his family wished another caffe latte. GRACED LAND
  • Catholic Diocese announced Tuesday that former Monsignor Dale Fushek has been defrocked, meaning the church has removed Fushek from his right to scandal, expresses outrage. WN.com - Articles related to Lady Gaga irks Miss America 1989
  • Would you deign to be my instructress, I should prove an apter scholar than if taught by Signor Rappaccini himself.
  • “Buon giorno, signorina,” he said as though she came there every day. One Flight Up
  • Lanziano signore inasprito dalla solitudine, per tenere fede ad una promessa fatta e sfuggire al ricovero in una casa di riposo, si rimette in gioco e parte allavventura. Archive 2009-11-01
  • Why a Saint?" by Monsignor Slawomir Oder, the Vatican "postulator" in charge of the canonization process, says the Polish-born Pope performed self flagellation as a bishop in Krakow and continued to do so in the Vatican after being elected Pope in 1978. FOXNews.com
  • The rule of the earls and the dukes of Urbino triggered a period of civil and cultural development that became apparent during the signory of Federico di Montefeltro.
  • You are always right, madame," agreed the signorino; but he looked as if he thought she were very wrong. Tales from Many Sources Vol. V
  • In the meantime, Giovanni Toriglia, the Governor of Ischia, took advantage of the help he offered to Giovanni of Anjou and sacked Procida, the signory of which had been promised to him.
  • And he who in Signorelli's picture healed the sick, and softened the rich, and felled evil-doers to the earth, who transformed the earth to a paradise and tempted the people to forget heaven. The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel
  • But on Wednesday the Vatican's top official for dealing with sexual abuse of minors, Monsignor Charles Scicluna, said hiding behind a culture of "omerta" - the Italian word for the Mafia's code of silence - would be deadly for the Church. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • Monsignor Rolfe would have no hope of claiming an embargo on it this time. GRACE
  • But you will be available to attend on the signora when she returns. MURKY SHALLOWS
  • The driver said mournfully, `For some reason, signor, I doubt whether you're a friend to the Frasconis. A SEASON IN HELL
  • Crescentini contained a large apartment known as the quarter of the signorino. The Portrait of a Lady
  • Nevertheless, Bertram looked a little more after his friend, and disturbing the monsignore, who was at breakfast with Lothair one morning, Bertram obstinately outstayed the priest, and then said: "I tell you what, old fellow, you are rather hippish; I wish you were in the House of Commons. Lothair
  • “Your sense of humor, signorina, it is…affascinare.” Ann Aguirre » Blog Archive » Early Christmas – day 2 + Chapter 2
  • He playfully wagged a finger at L. M. "It is fortunate for you, Signor, that they did not apply the olio di ricino. 52449_CLARA
  • Lord Berrybender, much excited to be loose amid the game again, had converted their old cart into a kind of fiacre; he raced ahead with Senor Yanez and Signor Claricia, provided with some new guns he had purchased from William Ashley, eager to shoot whatever beasts presented themselves. The Berrybender Narratives
  • As I herded the youngest through, the customs man called out, almost as an afterthought, ‘E brava la signora!’
  • Devereux, Earl of Essex, who received part of the signories of Clannaboy and Ferney, provided he could expel the "rebels" who dwelt there. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
  • The clinical terms are acalculia, for people like Signora Gaddi who lost her sense of numbers after a stroke, and dyscalculia for people who were born without numbers.
  • ‘No one is surrendering today, signorina,’ the chef bellowed.
  • Chaplains still speak freely of the Almighty in private sessions with patients or families but, the Rev. Mirta Signorelli said: "I can't do chaplain's work if I can't say 'God' — if I'm scripted. Out of Proportion
  • I have been lucky, thus far and both places I rented did not require the signor, but most do. Semi-Scheming Way to TJ
  • To all his lands and signories; when he’s return’d, Act IV. Scene I. The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
  • Philpott divided his time between watching the singers on the stage, asking me what was going on, and gazing thoughtfully at the Signorinas Rosalina and Lucia across the way.
  • Dis is Fidilini, signorina, and zat one wif ze white nose is Macaroni, and zat ovver is Cristoforo Colombo. Jerry Junior
  • Laudato si, misignore, per sora nostra morte corporale de la quale nullu homo vivente po skappare guai acquelli ke morrano ne le peccata mortali .... Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
  • Am I such a tyrant?" counter-questioned the signorino. Tales from Many Sources Vol. V
  • I said to myself: 'That Signorelli is not mad; he is a prophet. The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel
  • Citta di Firenze composto ad instantia delli excelsi Signori al tempo di Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts
  • `You are right, of course, signorina ," Giovanni said gravely. MURKY SHALLOWS
  • “Buona sera, signori, rigolleto — hugenotti — traviata!” began the artist, with a theatrical bow. The Schoolmistress and other stories
  • Italian has a wonderful word for the sway of a drunken sailor (or hat-selling signorina): barcollare -- to move back and forth like a boat. The French word for plastered drunk... - French Word-A-Day
  • -- When an author has a number of books out a cunning hand will keep them all spinning, as Signor Blitz does his dinner-plates; fetching each one up, as it begins to "wabble," by an advertisement, a puff, or a quotation. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
  • Signor Amato's government has only a 16-seat majority in the Chamber of Deputies.
  • He was not at liberty to give Signor Gismondi's whereabouts.
  • She'd heard someone moving around about half an hour later and it could only have been the signora returning. MURKY SHALLOWS
  • The consignor is Paris dealer Samuel Roger, whose company Origines -- with a gallery on the rue des Saints-Peres and a showroom in an 18th-century industrial building in Richebourg -- specializes in antique exterior and interior ornamentation. Statues, Fountains in the Garden
  • The province was subdivided into counties, signories, baronies, precincts and colonies. The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
  • Instead of the lost name - Signorelli - two other names of artists - Botticelli and Boltraffio - obtruded themselves.
  • But you will be available to attend on the signora when she returns. MURKY SHALLOWS
  • His father had equipped seven hundred heavy men at arms for him, and, August 18th, the Venetian ambassador reported to the signory that he had been requested by the Pope to ask the Doge to withdraw their protection from Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
  • Venice retained the essential positions of her colonial empire in the Levant, Negrepont and Crete, and the strong citadels of Modon and Coron; her patrician families kept most of their signories in the Archipelago, as did the other Latin states in Greece which were products of the Crusade.
  • The note of unchangeability loomed above all, which is why early rumblings about Mass in ‘the vernacular’ were rudely dismissed by every monsignor to whom I ever handed cruets.
  • - When an author has a number of books out a cunning hand will keep them all spinning, as Signor Blitz does his dinner-plates; fetching each one up, as it begins to "wabble," by an advertisement, a puff, or a quotation. Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
  • Signorino, domani faremo uno giro," called the cabman, with engaging certainty. A Room with a View
  • Yes, yes; she is very young," said the signorino. Tales from Many Sources Vol. V
  • I would not try to say how far the common extended, or how far its privileges; but the land about is mostly held in great estates, like most of the land in England, and no doubt there are signorial rights which overlie the popular privileges. London Films
  • The consignees can make use of the chance to write their comments about the service and the products and forward them to the consignors immediately through the bond, she adds.
  • While this is a relatively minor detail, I was also pleased to see the monsignor is shown wearing a proper amice in some of the images. Photos from the Heralds of the Gospel
  • And though the necessities of modern life, the decay of wealth, the dwindling of old aristocracy, and the absorption of what was once an independent state in the Italian nation, have obliterated that large signorial splendour of the Middle Ages, we feel that the modern Sienese are not unworthy of their courteous ancestry. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series
  • The next election to the signory (governing body) favored the Medici, and Cosimo was recalled (1434). 1405
  • Monsignor Bassano Staffieri, retired bishop of La Spezia in Liguria, said that of the 500 girls born in the city this year, “not one was registered or baptised with the name Maria”. The Church Around the Corner: Offbeat religion stories
  • My _babbo_ had much better wine than _quel signore_," he said. Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners)

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