manine

“I that might have had little hands (_manine_) under my chin many's the time if Buonaccorso had not died so old.”

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition

“Perugia and Siena, in the delicate flowers there, the honeysuckle which the country people call _le manine della Madonnina_ -- the little hands of the Virgin, and even in the people sometimes, in their soft gestures and dreamy looks.”

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition