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  • O mia santissima, mio amore no longer -- my saint for ever, my love no more -- so you were happy, I were happy.

    The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) David Christie Murray

  • As for the Americana, "continued he, before I had time to make rejoinder," _Virgen santissima_! such a maiden was never seen in these parts.

    The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850

  • Amava ala santissima Virgen ternissimamente, ayunava las visperas de sus fiestas, comiendo alas tres de la tar de, ino haziendo colacion. de aqui nacio aqella regalada Cancion que comienca; _Virgen q'el Solmas pura_. fue mui espiritual, i de mucha Oracion, i en ella en tiempo de sus mayores trabajos, favorecido de Dios particularissimamente. con ser de natural colerico fue mui sufrido i piadoso para los que le tratavan. tan penitente i austero consigo, que las mas noches no se acostava en cama, i el que la avia hecho la hallava ala mañana de la misma manera certificalo el Padre Maestro frai Luis Moreno de

    Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

  • Amava ala santissima Virgen ternissimamente, ayunava las visperas de sus fiestas, comiendo alas tres de la tar de, ino haziendo colacion. de aqui nacio aqella regalada Cancion que comienca; Virgen q'el Solmas pura. fue mui espiritual, i de mucha Oracion, i en ella en tiempo de sus mayores trabajos, favorecido de Dios particularissimamente. con ser de natural colerico fue mui sufrido i piadoso para los que le tratavan. tan penitente i austero consigo, que las mas noches no se acostava en cama,

    Fray Luis de Leon Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James 1921

  • The genuine popular feeling is certainly for the Grand Duke ( 'O, santissima madre di Dio!' said our nurse, clasping her hands, 'how the people do love him!'); only nobody would run the risk of a pin's prick to save the ducal throne.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898

  • ( 'O, santissima madre di Dio!' said our nurse, clasping her hands,

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

  • "` Ah! 'exclaimed the padre, ` these guanacos are _hereticos_ -- reckless brutes, they pay no regard to the ropes -- they will break through and let the others escape -- _santissima virgen_! what is to be done?'

    The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850

  • _ "He is perhaps," replied I, "worth twenty or thirty thousand pounds; I do not know what ideas you annex to a _gran riccone_" "_Oh santissima vergine!

    Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781

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