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  • She is the daughter of one of the leading business families of Milan, sister to the Marchese Ponti, who was for long Sindaco of that great city, and intimately concerned in its stormy industrial history.

    Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918

  • But Donna Elisa held the envelope fast and asked: Signor Sindaco, what do you intend to do with it?

    The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel 1915

  • In the thirteenth century the Sindaco caused his own name to be stamped upon the coins, and, consequently, we have coins of Brancaleone, of

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • But the Sindaco, the French-speaking Sindaco, understood me not in the least, and it seemed a wicked thing in me to expose him in his old age, so I waited till he spoke.

    The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • Then they led me away to their barracks while they fetched the Sindaco, and so I was imprisoned.

    The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • Very soon I was again following up the street, and we came to the house of the Sindaco or Mayor.

    The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • The Café of the simple inn where they stayed was the meeting-place of the notabilities of the little city; the _Sindaco_, the

    Trivia Logan Pearsall Smith 1907

  • Sindaco, there is the fugitive assassin, the betrayer of an innocent girl.

    The Fool Errant Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • She is the daughter of one of the leading business families of Milan, sister to the Marchese Ponti, who was for long Sindaco of that great city, and intimately concerned in its stormy industrial history.

    A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 Humphry Ward 1885

  • For if Don Gennaro went to the syndic and said, 'Signor Sindaco, Ruggiero of the Children of the King has threatened to kill me,' then the syndic would send for the gendarmes and say, 'Take that Ruggiero of the Children of the King and put him in, as we say, and see that he does not run away, for he will do a hurt to somebody.'

    The Children of the King 1881

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