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My dear compatriots, so full of life—my paesani with their friendly lice, brown teeth, and honest black earth under their fingernails—at that moment, they seemed decent and solid people all.
The Book of Unholy Mischief Elle Newmark 2008
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My dear compatriots, so full of life—my paesani with their friendly lice, brown teeth, and honest black earth under their fingernails—at that moment, they seemed decent and solid people all.
The Book of Unholy Mischief Elle Newmark 2008
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My dear compatriots, so full of life—my paesani with their friendly lice, brown teeth, and honest black earth under their fingernails—at that moment, they seemed decent and solid people all.
The Chef’s Apprentice Elle Newmark 2008
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My dear compatriots, so full of life—my paesani with their friendly lice, brown teeth, and honest black earth under their fingernails—at that moment, they seemed decent and solid people all.
The Chef’s Apprentice Elle Newmark 2008
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In transplanting the paesani culture of southern Italy to the hills of eastern Pennsylvania the Rosetans had created a powerful, protective social structure capable of insulating them from the pressures of the modern world.
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My dear compatriots, so full of life—my paesani with their friendly lice, brown teeth, and honest black earth under their fingernails—at that moment, they seemed decent and solid people all.
The Book of Unholy Mischief Elle Newmark 2008
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For centuries, the paesani of Roseto worked in the marble quarries in the surrounding hills, or cultivated the fields in the terraced valley below, walking four and five miles down the mountain in the morning and then making the long journey back up the hill at night.
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As Teodoro Colombo, 75, a retired construction worker from Santa Croce, put it, "We always like our paesani better."
NYT > Home Page By GAIA PIANIGIANI 2010
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The paesani Bella had planned to live with, the ones who’d dreamed of gold and assured Bella, again and again, “Anything is possible in America”—they hadn’t even been allowed off Ellis Island.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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The paesani Bella had planned to live with, the ones who’d dreamed of gold and assured Bella, again and again, “Anything is possible in America”—they hadn’t even been allowed off Ellis Island.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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