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Francesco, the driver, on foot, urged the tired horses onward with blows and the most powerful language he could bring to bear; he accused the off-horse of being a pickpocket and an _arciprete_, and a robber of
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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The course is for the arciprete of the Matrice, who is the head of the clergy of the district, to determine what the story shall be and how it is to be told.
Diversions in Sicily Henry Festing Jones 1889
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He was doing for the campagna what the Cyclopean arciprete had asked the Madonna to do for Berto and Giuseppina.
Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889
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The arciprete read the words and, at the proper moment, I handed the tazza, from which he took the ring and gave it to the bridegroom, who placed it upon the bride's finger.
Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889
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_arciprete_ making us pay them for every mouthful of bread we eat, or wine we drink, or wood we burn. '
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