"Cinque" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... egli ebbe a parlar cominciato Del re Marsilio, e di stare in suo corte. Rinaldo gli rispose infuriato: Chi non e ineco, avverso me sia detto; E cominciogli a trassinar l'elmetto. E trasse un mandiretto e due e tre Con tanta furia, e quattro e cinque e sei, Che non ebbe agio a domandar merze, E ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 • Leigh Hunt
... rose diamonds, form D 5, surmounted by a large rose surrounded by smaller ones, and a cinque-foil in roses, the chatons alternated, below a ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 41, March, 1861 • Various
... the Royal Society in 1665, he attained the distinction of being its President in 1684. He was Master of the Clothworkers' Company, Treasurer and Vice-President of Christ's Hospital, and one of the Barons of the Cinque Ports. In 1699, four years before he succumbed to a long and painful disease borne with fortitude under the depression of reduced circumstances, he received the freedom of the City of London, principally for his services ...
— Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) - Or A Discourse of Forest Trees • John Evelyn
... 5. Forms of Air (Clouds). Hardly more manageable than flames, and of no ornamental use, their majesty being in scale and color, and inimitable in marble. They are lightly traced in much of the cinque cento sculpture; very boldly and grandly in the strange Last Judgment in the porch of St. Maclou at Rouen, described in the "Seven Lamps." But the most elaborate imitations are altogether of recent date, arranged ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) • John Ruskin
... rule, the common people treat the priests respectfully, but once I heard several attacking one warmly on the score of eternal punishment. "Sara," said one, "per cento anni, per cinque cento, per mille o forse per dieci mille anni, ma non sara eterna; perche il Dio e un uomo forte—grande, generoso, di buon cuore." {16} An Italian told me once that if ever I came upon a priest whom I wanted to tease, I was to ask him if he knew a place called La Torre Pellice. ...
— Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino • Samuel Butler
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