"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
... avoit sur le plage beaucoup de pinguoins & de lions marins. Ces deux especes d'animaux ne fuyoient pas, & l'on augura que le pays n'etoit point habite; la terre rapportoit de l'herbe large, noire, & bien nourrie, qui n'avoit cependant que cinque pouces ou plus de hauteur. L'on ne vit aucun arbre, ni signe l'habitation."—Voyage du Monsieur de Pages, tom. ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 15 (of 18) • Robert Kerr
... from fixed rule that distinguishes much of the architecture of the earlier Renaissance. The detail is not unfrequently Gothic, especially in the pointed windows; but the feeling of the whole structure, in its airy space and lightness, delicate terra-cotta mouldings, and open loggie, is truly Cinque Cento.[35] ...
— Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 - The Fine Arts • John Addington Symonds
... this gallant squadron. The Fowey men had certainly the defect of their qualities, being proud and stiff-necked under the successes that attended them. It is reported that Fowey was made a member of the Cinque Ports, that very elastic "five"; but its comradeship in that association was clearly of a stormy and high-handed fashion. We read that certain Fowey men, passing near Rye and Winchelsea, "would vaile no bonnet," by which we may suppose is intended ...
— The Cornwall Coast • Arthur L. Salmon
... soldo. dooe saltee 2d. due soldi. tray saltee 3d. tre soldi. quarterer saltee 4d. quattro soldi. chinker saltee 5d. cinque soldi. say saltee 6d. sei soldi. say oney saltee, or setter saltee 7d. sette soldi. say dooe saltee, or otter saltee 8d. otto soldi. say tray saltee, or nobba saltee 9d. nove soldi. say quarterer saltee, or dacha saltee 10d. dieci soldi. say chinker saltee or dacha oney saltee 11d. undici soldi. ...
— The Number Concept - Its Origin and Development • Levi Leonard Conant |
