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Across the piazzetta from the Doges Palace is a jumbo Breitling watch ad featuring an image of an intrepid "John Travolta, Professional Pilot."
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She was sitting in a café overlooking the piazzetta of the town of Capri one wet December morning in the late 1960s, doing the Times crossword puzzle, when two tall Englishmen entered and occupied the table next to hers.
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They apparently also took communion, after which they allegedly spit the communion wafer out on the ground outside St. Mark's in the piazzetta dei Leoncini.
Veniceblog: 2005
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They apparently also took communion, after which they allegedly spit the communion wafer out on the ground outside St. Mark's in the piazzetta dei Leoncini.
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Rome; a dark and massive structure overlooking a sunny piazzetta in the neighbourhood of the Farnese Palace.
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Nicholas felt the small hairs at the back of his neck stir, and he was electrified by an image of himself, striding across a cobblestone piazzetta.
The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983
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This was the piazzetta in his vision, and though he knew that it had been of a time long gone, still the unmistakable scent of war was in the air.
The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983
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Covered passageways, supported by slender pillars, extend around three sides of the piazzetta, and add a delicate charm to the enclosure.
The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Louis Christian Mullgardt
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If the Piazza was wonderful, so, too, was the piazzetta with the Ducal
Chico: the Story of a Homing Pigeon Lucy M. Blanchard
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As he landed on the piazzetta a cup of beauty was lifted to his lips, and he drank with a sense of disloyalty.
A Passage To India Forster, E. M. 1924
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