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  • "Gianbattista," said the priest, "I am grateful to you for your friendship, my boy.

    Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster 1881

  • "Sisters Annamaria and Gianbattista, reportedly upset about their mother superior's authoritarian ways, scratched her in the face and threw her to the ground at Santa Clara convent near Bari in an incident in July that was kept quiet until now."

    Battle ax nuns Terry Nelson 2007

  • Gianbattista, her youngest brother, was her bosom friend; but he was away, she knew, riding to Pisa with their father.

    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

  • Archbishop of Florence, Giacomo di Santacroce, and Gianbattista da

    The Life of Cesare Borgia Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • They had come from Lombardy a long time ago, when they were Piero, Andrea and Gianbattista.

    Masters of the Guild L. Lamprey 1910

  • Gianbattista was for sending for the landlord and making a riot in that hostelry; but I stayed him, and bidding him fetch me a flask of white wine, three lemons, and a glass of eau de vie, I sat down peaceably at one of the little tables in the courtyard and prepared for the quenching of my thirst.

    The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907

  • Suffice it to say that when at nightfall I found Gianbattista the trustee of a letter.

    The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907

  • "_Et cum spiritu tuo_," answered Gianbattista as he left the room.

    Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster 1881

  • To break those promises for no ostensible reason, just as Gianbattista seemed to be growing up to be a sensible man, was an act of injustice which Don Paolo would not permit if he could help it.

    Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster 1881

  • Marzio spoke to him as though there had not been the least difference between them, as though Gianbattista had not proposed to cut his throat the night before, as though he himself had not proposed to marry

    Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster 1881

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