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  • On this day, in Madrid, takes place the washing of the feet of the poor in the Royal Palace -- a function that savours a good deal of the ridiculous, but which was never omitted by the _piadosa_

    Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin

  • Algo semejante decía por lo menos el tío Juan Gómez a su piadosa mujer, la seña [100-4] Torcuata, defendiéndose, en el rincón del fuego, de los argumentos con que nuestra amiga le rogaba

    Novelas Cortas Pedro Antonio de Alarc��n 1862

  • La muerte fue tan piadosa Death was so gentle, I suppose, con su cándida hermosura, with her in her purity, que la envió con la frescura that it sent her the beauty las tintas de la rosa. of the fresh tint of the rose.

    Don Juan Tenorio Jos�� Zorrilla 1855

  • Judas besa a Jesús y deja impresa en su rostro de Dios, la felonía, mientras la Magdalena con sus besos fortifica piadosa su agonía.

    VivirLatino 2009

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