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  • Tell that to whoever - the new padrone's sending after me.

    Greenmantle De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1985

  • A couple of days later we find what's left of him hanging in one of the padrone's warehouses.

    Greenmantle De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1985

  • Thereupon Gaillo wagged his tail, and looked piteously into _padrone's_ face, as much as to say he would be grieved indeed.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

  • At last, everything was disposed of, and the padrone's agent's big truck pulled up to their curb.

    Across the Fruited Plain Florence Crannell Means 1935

  • She would save him, and he would save her from the padrone's revenge, on condition that she should dress as a girl (he had not, of course, suspected that she really was one at the time -- had always been one, in fact).

    We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

  • The boy had forgotten tea-time, had forgotten everything, in his desire to carry out his padrone's instructions.

    The Call of the Blood Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • His great eyes were fastened on his padrone's face.

    The Call of the Blood Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • He must be down there on that beach searching, calling his padrone's name, perhaps.

    The Call of the Blood Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • He is intensely jealous of any one who seeks to disturb the intimacy between his padrone and himself, or to enter into his padrone's life without frankly letting him know it and the reason for it.

    The Call of the Blood Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • At this moment he was busily recalling the book he had been reading for many weeks in Sicily, the book of his padrone's character, written out for him in words, in glances, in gestures, in likes and dislikes, most clearly in actions.

    The Call of the Blood Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

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