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  • Unable, single-handed, to raise one of the sheets, he called Balbi to his aid, and between them, assisted by the spontoon, which Casanova inserted between the edge of the sheet and the gutter, they at last succeeded in tearing away the rivets.

    The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • The Atlantic's December 1972 issue featured a regal Van Dyck portrait of a certain Marchesa Balbi on the cover, and a notable addition to the masthead: Peter Davison, newly installed as poetry editor.

    A Life's Work 2005

  • Your first hundred talents are already lodged with the Balbi.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • The Atlantic's December 1972 issue featured a regal Van Dyck portrait of a certain Marchesa Balbi on the cover, and a notable addition to the masthead: Peter Davison, newly installed as poetry editor.

    A Life's Work 2005

  • Your first hundred talents are already lodged with the Balbi.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • The Atlantic's December 1972 issue featured a regal Van Dyck portrait of a certain Marchesa Balbi on the cover, and a notable addition to the masthead: Peter Davison, newly installed as poetry editor.

    A Life's Work 2005

  • You should have banked with Oppius or the Balbi, you really should.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • You should have banked with Oppius or the Balbi, you really should.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Thought I'd mention (for any who don't already know it) that, on the "Grand Canal, from Palazzo Balbi" webcam, there is a traghetto run right behind the San Toma vaporetto stop so you fairly often see a gondola crossing the canal.

    Web Cams In Venice 2004

  • The geographer Balbi has well remarked that an encircled island is an atoll with high land rising out of its lagoon; remove the land from within, and a perfect atoll is left.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

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