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- noun Plural form of
Perugian .
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Examples
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News of the verdict drew hundreds of Perugians to the courthouse to protest the ruling, shouting: "Shame on you!"
Knox's Exit Leaves Questions Stacy Meichtry 2011
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The scene outside the courthouse resembled a rowdy soccer stadium as men brandishing bullhorns led scores of Perugians in chants against the ruling, which many here saw as a miscarriage of justice by a court that buckled under the pressure of the international media.
Italian Court Overturns Knox Conviction Stacy Meichtry 2011
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The savvy Petrucci allowed them in but separated Archbishop Salviati and Bracciolini from the band of villainous Perugians, requesting that this “honor guard” wait in an adjoining room.
The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010
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There dwelt not long since in Perugia, a wealthy man named Pedro di Vinciolo, who perhaps more to deceive some other, and restraine an evill opinion which the Perugians had conceived of him, in matter no way beseeming a man, then any beauty or good feature remaining in the woman entred into the estate of marriage.
The Decameron 2004
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The Perugians having thus, at their cost, discovered the holiness of the preacher, wished to retain him in their city, and entreated him to choose what place he pleased for his abode.
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe
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Perugians to war against their neighbors of Todi, or even the still burning memories of the sack of Perugia by command of the present pope.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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At length the Perugians, master and men, grew too turbulent, and Pope Paul III. put them down, and sat upon them, so to speak, by building the citadel.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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The Perugians having thus, at their cost, discovered the holiness of the preacher, wished to retain him in their city, and entreated him to choose what place he pleased for his abode.
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Chalippe, Father Candide 1917
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Perugia, Terni, and other cities; in 1324 it was almost destroyed by the Perugians.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Perugians in one of the petty skirmishes so frequent at that time between the rival cities.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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