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- adjective Of or characteristic of
Bergamo ,Italy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bergamask, or a Norman to learn the Indian language in a few days, and preach like an Indian.
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Bergamask, on Monday, will have the grace to have a mass said for twelve sous; on Tuesday he will go to the tavern and have no grace; on Wednesday he will have a co-operating grace, which will conduct him to confession, but he will not have the efficacious grace of perfect contrition; on Thursday there will be a sufficing grace which will not suffice, as has been already said.
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God will labor in the head of this Bergamask — sometimes strongly, sometimes weakly, while the rest of the earth will no way concern Him!
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At the present time a Bergamask who travels into the small Swiss cantons, from which he is only separated by a mountain, has the same need of an interpreter as if he were in China.
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This Fra Battista, by birth a Bergamask, accredited to the convent at
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett
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Pupil of Gentile Bellini; influenced by Bergamask and
The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance Third Edition Bernard Berenson 1912
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Salo, provoked by the French, in which the Bergamask mountaineers had captured three hundred of the garrison, mostly Poles.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889
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Bergamask for the future; and Don Ippolito may translate for the foreign ladies. "
A Foregone Conclusion William Dean Howells 1878
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