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Jealousy, politics, and piety, at length put their heads together, and, by the evening of the third day, the _cavalieri_ had agreed that he was some rambling actor, or Alpine thief, the statesmen, that he was a spy; and the Dominicans that he was Satan in person.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828) Various
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(Federici, "Istoria de cavalieri Gaudenti", Codex Diplomaticus, I), and not improbably to St. Dominic, then a canon of St. Augustine.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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He straightway proposed to the tuneful _abbés, cavalieri serventi_, and
Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions William Dean Howells 1878
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King ( "In arcione, cavalieri") which is met by a stirring response from their followers ( "Pronti vedi li tuoi cavalieri"), sung by full male chorus and closing the act.
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876
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This consciousness grew into a positive feeling of disgust when I was driving with several of the cavalieri to the station at Modling, for I was reduced to absolute silence during the hour's drive, as they had literally only the one topic of conversation, by that time so terribly familiar to me!
My Life — Volume 2 Richard Wagner 1848
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Hart and Goodman, the actors, were successively her cavalieri; the former had been a captain in the army; the latter a student at Cambridge.
The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Philip Wharton 1847
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Sancerre and swell the number of your/cavalieri serventi/.
Parisians in the Country Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Sancerre and swell the number of your _cavalieri serventi_.
The Muse of the Department Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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_cavalieri serventi_, the ladies, the nuns, and the husbands, till every class had its share: but the satire was so witty, that, keen as it was, the shouts of the people silenced all disapprobation.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828) Various
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La musica è la Danza dei cavalieri o: I Capuleti e i Montecchi originariamente in Romeo e Giulietta, balletto di Sergej Sergeevič Prokof’ev; presenta anche in Duet.
No Fat Clips!!! : PAUL RAYMENT – Dance of the Neon Knight 2009
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