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  • His final recordings, poignant in their exuberance, include "Funiculi, Funiculà" and "O sole mio".

    Best of Salvatore Licitra – review 2012

  • Funiculi funicula is the one that always messes me up, too.

    The Princess Debut Rebellion SVGL 2008

  • And to everyone that mentioned Funiculi Funicula ...

    The Princess Debut Rebellion SVGL 2008

  • I too intend to eventually get everything though (but I cannot for the life of me master Funiculi Funicula, and that's keeping me from getting a gold in Latin Ballroom mode; I don't know why, as I find every other dance in the first set quite easy).

    The Princess Debut Rebellion SVGL 2008

  • May set her cup down, opened a sheet of music, and played something called "Hide Thou Me," and then "Funiculi, Funicula!"

    Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995

  • "Funiculi funicula Vincente y Blasco Ibanez vermicelli sul campo della gloria risotto!" said the second waiter clinchingly, and scored a technical knockout.

    The Adventures of Sally 1928

  • After which the company joined in the chorus of "Funiculi, funicula" and "Gaudeamus igitur" -- for the patrons of the "Boheme" were nothing if they were not cosmopolitan.

    Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

  • For I tell you here and now, Matilda Anne, I, poor, puny, good-for-nothing, insignificant I, have heard that music of the spheres as clearly as you ever heard _Funiculi-Funicula_ on that little Naples steamer that used to take you to Capri.

    The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912

  • Her imagination was almost furiously alive, and as the Padrone talked, waving his hands and striking postures like those of a military dictator, she saw the dead Empress, with her fan before her face, nodding her head to the jig of "Funiculi, funicula," while she watched the red cloud from Vesuvius rising into the starry sky; she saw Sarah

    A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • We swam round the Castello until we were opposite your windows, and sang 'Funiculi, funicula!' in the water, to serenade you.

    A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

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