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Examples

  • "That's why it has the Italian architectural influences, the name Cinque Terre, and also why it has only five exclusive residences."

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Sydnia Yu 2011

  • This immunity, however, deprived them of the privileges which the people of the adjacent towns enjoyed; and was probably the true reason, why this town did not obtain a place among those called Cinque ports.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 535, February 25, 1832 Various

  • They were Dover, Romney, Sandwich, Hastings, and Rye, and were thence called the Cinque Ports.

    How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Rivers of muddy water poured into the narrow cobbled streets and piazzas of the five villages known as the Cinque Terre 'Five Lands', on a spectacular stretch of the coast of Liguria, earlier this week.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Nick Squires 2011

  • Something tells me that judging by her use of capitals above 'Cinque' is not a V.I.P.

    Live blog: The Golden Globes – live! | Hadley Freeman 2011

  • Tried separately from Davis, Magee had adopted the name "Cinque" after the African leader of the 1839 slave revolt on the ship Amistad.

    Workers World news online 2010

  • HB: You wrote that we should honor Jackson's legacy by working to free two California prisoners: Hugo "Yogi Bear" Pinell and Ruchell "Cinque" Magee.

    RVABlogs 2009

  • You wrote that we should honor Jackson's legacy by working to free two California prisoners: Hugo "Yogi Bear" Pinell and Ruchell "Cinque" Magee.

    Indybay newswire 2009

  • You wrote that we should honor Jackson's legacy by working to free two California prisoners: Hugo "Yogi Bear" Pinell and Ruchell "Cinque" Magee.

    Indybay newswire 2009

  • HB: You wrote that we should honor Jackson's legacy by working to free two California prisoners: Hugo "Yogi Bear" Pinell and Ruchell "Cinque" Magee.

    Kasama 2009

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