Greca

About two hundred miles square, the plain is cut off on the north and west by the peaks of the Pollino, towering and snowcapped for most of the year; on the south by the steep twisting hills of the Sila Greca; and to the east by the sea.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

On the other hand, her version of the pigment known as cochineal red, a concoction made from the carapaces of a certain kind of beetle, eventually achieved an electric intensity that has almost no equal; only the Italian architect Felice della Greca, who worked in Rome in the 1650s, ever mixed cochineal red with oranges and purples in such boldly fluorescent combinations, and he drew buildings and cityscapes rather than insects, birds, and flowers.

The Flowering Genius of Maria Sibylla Merian Rowland, Ingrid D. 2009

About two hundred miles square, the plain is cut off on the north and west by the peaks of the Pollino, towering and snowcapped for most of the year; on the south by the steep twisting hills of the Sila Greca; and to the east by the sea.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

About two hundred miles square, the plain is cut off on the north and west by the peaks of the Pollino, towering and snowcapped for most of the year; on the south by the steep twisting hills of the Sila Greca; and to the east by the sea.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

About two hundred miles square, the plain is cut off on the north and west by the peaks of the Pollino, towering and snowcapped for most of the year; on the south by the steep twisting hills of the Sila Greca; and to the east by the sea.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

Greca, which dates from the first decades of the second century, shows seven persons seated on a semi-circular divan before a table of the same form.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

The name given to a fresco in the so-called "Capella Greca" in the catacomb of St. Priscilla situated on the Via Salaria Nova.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

A wearisome climb of two hours brought me to the _Croce Greca, _ the

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

One of them, whose slender bust emerged from her flowered bell-like skirts with pale and pointed face, a faded knot of ribbon in her short hair, was the notable woman of the family, she who had been called "La Greca" on account of her knowledge of Hellenic letters.

The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

I have placed them in your rudimentary series, as examples of "quella vecchia maniera Greca, goffa e sproporzionata."

Val d'Arno John Ruskin 1859