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"E detto questo, la sua gran sciagura nell 'animo recatasi, e la perdita del caro amante ricordandosi, deliberando di più non vivere, raccolto a se il fiato, e per buono spazio tenutolo, e poscia con un gran grido fuori mandandolo, sopra il morto corpo, morta ricadde."
Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical 1827
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I opened my eyes, and saw a white man, of good countenance, who sighed, and who said between his teeth: '_O che sciagura d'essere senza coglioni!
Candide 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736
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I opened my eyes, and saw a pretty fair-faced man, who sighed and muttered these words between his teeth, O che sciagura d’essere senza coglioni!
Candide 2007
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12/05/2010 13: 16 Libia: primo ministro olanda, numerosi connazionali tra vittime sciagura aerea
ITnews 2010
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I opened my eyes, and saw a pretty fair-faced man, who sighed and muttered these words between his teeth, 'O che sciagura d'essere senza coglioni! "'
Candide 1918
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