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  • That is the _cucullo_, which Mr. Hazard, in his book on Cuba, calls a "bright peripatetic candle-bearer, by whose brilliant light one can not only walk, but even read."

    Cuba, Old and New 1893

  • Italum quam Britannum, marem quam foeminam, mitratum quam coronatum, togatum quam armatum, cucullatum hominem quam sine cucullo virum: sed ilium cujus pacatior, civilior, fidelior et utilior est conversatio diligit. '

    Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866

  • It should be a warm and still evening; and then with a fire crackling merrily at the prow, you may launch forth like a cucullo into the night.

    Excursions Henry David Thoreau 1839

  • Quin, virtute mea junctum est diadema cucullo, Dum mihi regnanti patuit Gesperia. "

    Castilian Days John Hay 1870

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