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  • Nel quarto si mostrano le liste del presentar le vivande in tavola, cosi di grasso come di magro ….

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • In Pd II 76-8, 'sì come comparte | lo grasso e 'l magro un corpo, così questo | nel suo volume cangerebbe carte', where the moon is compared to a book whose pages are of varying thickness.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Miglior acque 2008

  • It is available on market days in many towns from a truck; one can request it “magro” (lean), “grasso” (fat) or “misto” or “mezzo-mezzo” (mixed, half-and-half).

    A Tasty Sandwich Near Siena - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • In Pd II 76-8, 'sì come comparte | lo grasso e 'l magro un corpo, così questo | nel suo volume cangerebbe carte', where the moon is compared to a book whose pages are of varying thickness.

    Tom Phillips, Dante's Inferno Miglior acque 2008

  • Sam Donaldson invited his guest, Richard Grasso, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, to comment on the "crisis of confidence" in corporate America. grasso: We've got to root out the bad people, punish them, and we've got to make certain that the accountants and the independent directors that oversee the more than twelve thousand publicly traded corporations in America perform their job …

    Books About Schnooks 2004

  • Sam Donaldson invited his guest, Richard Grasso, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, to comment on the "crisis of confidence" in corporate America. grasso: We've got to root out the bad people, punish them, and we've got to make certain that the accountants and the independent directors that oversee the more than twelve thousand publicly traded corporations in America perform their job …

    Books About Schnooks 2004

  • But opposites cure opposites, (contrary to the homoeopathic rule,) and their _magro_ makes them _grasso_.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

  • There was now an interval of peace, during which the greater guilds (known as the popolo grasso) strove gradually to restrict the rights of the lesser guilds, which in the end found themselves shut out from all public offices.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • And he had chattered idly to Gaspare about Sicilian things, always Sicilian things; about the fairs and the festivals, Capo d'Anno and Carnevale, martedì grasso with its

    The Call of the Blood Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • Giovedi grasso, when an acrobat descended by a rope from the summit of the Campanile to the feet of the Doge, who was a spectator from the loggia of the Ducal Palace.

    Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) Various 1885

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