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  • 'commendatore' of I don't know what order, and various other dignities beside, all recited and set forth in the lease.

    Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Charles James Lever 1839

  • Unlike the EU's mostly dreary leaders, at least "il commendatore" has style and panache.

    Eric Margolis: Zorba - Less Dancing, More Work Eric Margolis 2011

  • Unlike the EU's mostly dreary leaders, at least "il commendatore" has style and panache.

    Eric Margolis: Zorba - Less Dancing, More Work Eric Margolis 2011

  • I lurched after them like the statue of the commendatore in Don Giovanni.

    WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories Holland, Barbara 1999

  • The commendatore Giustino Morena -- familiarly known as Don Giustino or, by his enemies, as "the assassin" -- was a Southerner by birth, a city product.

    South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

  • John Stuart Mill had given me an introduction to Pasquale Villari, who, even at that time, was commendatore professore, and held a high position on the Board of Education, but was still far from having attained the zenith of his fame and influence.

    Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906

  • In 1867, while watching with my friend commendatore Visconti (the present director of the Vatican Museum) the excavations of the Sacred Grove of the Arvales, on the Via Campana, five miles outside the Porta Portese, I witnessed for the first time the discovery of a catacomb.

    Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888

  • John Stuart Mill had given me an introduction to Pasquale Villari, who, even at that time, was _commendatore professore_, and held a high position on the Board of Education, but was still far from having attained the zenith of his fame and influence.

    Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 1884

  • Don Juan; why don't you take the note from the commendatore? '

    Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841

  • Such a symbolic car for Ferrari and named after il commendatore.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Andrew English 2011

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