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Notwithstanding their efforts, however, the _mostra_ or duello between two persons, by which the combat should begin, was often converted into the _frotta_ or mêlée, in which all pressed forward without order.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various
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Cornewall Lewis, one is often reminded of what Sainte-Beuve somewhere says of the great scholar Letronne, when he had spent the hour of his lecture in demolishing some pretty or popular belief: "Il se frotta les mains et s'en alla bien content."
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871
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