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  • In hac tranquillitate annum quintum et septuagensimum excessit, delicato magis corpore quam infirmo; utque novissimus a Nerone factus est consul, ita postremus ex omnibus quos Nero consules fecerat decessit. '

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • It breaks out presently into passionate longing, but the return of the sweet opening theme, ppp motto delicato, brings the feeling of quiet wistful contemplation back again.

    Edward MacDowell Porte, John F 1922

  • There are times when this study seems like light dripping through the trees of a mysterious forest; with the delicato there are Puck-like rustlings, and all the while the pianist without imagination is exercising wrist and ringers in a technical exercise!

    Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

  • For this he substituted a handkerchief which had the prettiest sprig of lilac, on a ground of the most delicato lemon color.

    Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky William Gilmore Simms 1838

  • Misericordie, vestita de i lampi del Sole, e coronata de i raggi delle Stelle, prese il sottile, il delicato, ed il sacro dito di Catarina, humile di core e mansueta di vita, ed il largo, il clémente, ed il pictoso figliuol suo 'o cinse con lo anello.

    Gryll Grange Thomas Love Peacock 1825

  • Quem, Religionis causa oberrantem, Usque ad incertam Bermudae Insulam secuta: Nec Mare vastum, nec tempestates horridas exhorruit: sed, delicato Corpore, quos non Labores ex antlavit? quae non, obivit Itinera?

    Miscellaneous Poems 1681

  • A couple is sitting at a table for two at Warbucks, both sipping their café delicato grandissimos.

    marconews.com Stories 2010

  • Pagina 16 Pagina 17 16 / 17 Basta un dettaglio per cambiare carattere: deciso, il letto PARSIFAL con la testata in massello di pino spazzolato marrone o delicato, il letto LANCILLOTTO con la testata color cipria a contrasto.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Naturae manus ipsa delicato Pinxit sat teneras rubore malas;

    Musæ etonenses: [Herbert, William, dean of Manchester], 1778-1847, [from old catalog] ed 1795

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