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  • Gubernatis, I saw the remains of a bath, fronting the portal of the temple, which I have described in a former letter; and here were some shafts of marble pillars, particularly a capital of the

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • In the following years, when she was in her early twenties, she collected folklore as a scholar, partly in collaboration with Angelo de Gubernatis and the

    Grazia Deledda: Voice of Sardinia 2002

  • There are some subterranean vaults, through which the water was conducted to this bath, still extant in the garden of the count de Gubernatis.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • Neither is much weight due to the fanciful comparison of Gubernatis: "The moon is the watcher of the sky, that is to say, she sleeps with her eyes open; so also does the hare, whence the _somnus leporinus_ became a proverb."

    Moon Lore Timothy Harley

  • That the Mouse is the Night (Gubernatis), or the Lightning

    Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878

  • Some one -- Gubernatis, I think -- has explained the naked sword of Aladdin, laid between him and the Sultan's daughter in bed, as the silver sickle of the

    Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878

  • Gubernatis in his "Zoological Mythology," chap.i. sect.

    Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore William Ralston Shedden Ralston 1858

  • Gubernatis, "Zoological Mythology," vol.ii. p. 397.

    Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore William Ralston Shedden Ralston 1858

  • Gubernatis ( "Novelline di Sante Stefano de Calcenaja," p. 47), occurs the popular incident of the original.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Paris, 1855-66); "Dizionario biografico degli senittori contemporanei", ed. de Gubernatis (3 vols.,

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

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