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  • I played over and over again ( "Mi tradi quell 'alma ingrata" and "Fuggi, crudele, fuggi").

    Becoming Susan Sontag Eisenberg, Deborah 2008

  • It's Dante: Per correr miglior acque alza le vele / omai la navicella del mio ingegno, / che lascia dietro a sé mar sí crudele Purgatorio, i.1-3.

    About the name... Miglior acque 2005

  • It's Dante: Per correr miglior acque alza le vele / omai la navicella del mio ingegno, / che lascia dietro a sé mar sí crudele Purgatorio, i.1-3.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Miglior acque 2005

  • I'm in love with phrases like naso adunco and crudele, sarcastico e sgradito a tutti gli studenti.

    News from the House of Sticks - 2004

  • And suddenly the whole world centered for him on anticipation of the next note, the next phrase, and everything in the world was divided into three beats: “Oh mio crudele affetto.” ...

    War and Peace 2003

  • Verum sententia ejus mihi non crudelis, -- quid enim in tales homines crudele fieri potest?

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Haec primo paulatim crescere, interdum vindicari; post, ubi contagio quasi pestilentia invasit, civitas immutata, imperium ex justissimo atque optimo crudele intolerandumque factum.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • The key-note to Pistoja is given in that saying of Macchiavelli's, that the Florentine people "per fuggire il nome di crudele lascio distruggere Pistoia."

    Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

  • And then, as if struck with compassion for the fate of her victims, she repeated in a low tone -- as if talking to herself -- the words of a famous Italian preacher, which she had often been heard to quote before: "_E la pieta lor ser crudele, e la crudelta lor ser pietosa_" ( "Mercy would be cruel to them, and cruelty merciful").

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

  • I should say some thousands of nymphs are constantly engaged in weaving garlands there, and the swains keep such a piping on those familiar notes, -- _Amore, dolore, crudele_, and _miele_.

    Italian Journeys William Dean Howells 1878

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