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  • I went to see the old palace of the Capulets, which is still distinguished by their cognizance (a hat carved in stone on the courtyard wall).

    The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856 Charles Dickens 1841

  • "You put the Montagues as denim-wearing, Chevy-driving, and the Capulets are the yuppy preppies vacationing," Troy said.

    The Green Bay Press-Gazette Latest Headlines 2009

  • "Capulets" and "Mantises" or suffer the unpleasantness of an industrial worker facing a dehumanized assembly line.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows comeniusfeijoo 2010

  • The house originally belonged to the Cappello family — thus the link with the fictional Capulets.

    Juliet has a history, a home and a inexplicable draw 2010

  • His Catholicism came to seem rather seductive on another level: I come from a long line of reliably anti-papist WASPs, and that faint whiff of familial prejudice lent the beginnings of our relationship a Montagues and Capulets style allure, defiance being the great aphrodisiac of the young.

    Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011

  • His Catholicism came to seem rather seductive on another level: I come from a long line of reliably anti-papist WASPs, and that faint whiff of familial prejudice lent the beginnings of our relationship a Montagues and Capulets style allure, defiance being the great aphrodisiac of the young.

    Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011

  • On September 26, 1957, when West Side Story opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre, audiences were shocked and awed by the way Shakespeare's tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, had been updated with the Capulets and Montagues being replaced by street gangs on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

    George Heymont: New Stars Are Born George Heymont 2011

  • You listen to the stories now, poke into the history of the Manchester clubs, and it is easy sometimes to think they were not always football's equivalent of the Hatfields and McCoys or Capulets and Montagues …The night, for example, City clinched the 1968 title and the victorious team headed for the Cromford Club alongside the United players they had just condemned to second place.

    Manchester's feuding clans get ready to remember the 'Barson Barge' 2011

  • Descendants of the Montagues and Capulets who tried to pass on to us their grudges and hatreds.

    Yoani Sanchez: Julia Stiles and Me, An Embrace is Possible Yoani Sanchez 2011

  • Descendants of the Montagues and Capulets who tried to pass on to us their grudges and hatreds.

    Yoani Sanchez: Julia Stiles and Me, An Embrace is Possible Yoani Sanchez 2011

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