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I've already seen one of the Promessi sposi and would guess it's going to be the same for Dante.

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I've already seen one of the Promessi sposi and would guess it's going to be the same for Dante.

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And there was different other people also -- love-people, the young ones that go to the field in the spring to take the flower Margherita, and to be pulling the leaves to know the future, plenty many; also sposi, and some that bring the macchina to make the picture, and the bride was to be standing with the colomba in the hand.

Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889

The great house was full of people, of possible new combinations, of the quickened play of possible propinquity, and no appearance, of course, was less to be cultivated than that of his having sought an opportunity to foregather with his friend at a safe distance from their respective sposi.

The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

The great house was full of people, of possible new combinations, of the quickened play of possible propinquity, and no appearance, of course, was less to be cultivated than that of his having sought an opportunity to foregather with his friend at a safe distance from their respective sposi.

The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

It had so happened that she herself was, for the hour, exempt from her husband's, and it will at once be seen that the hour had a quality all its own when I note that, remembering how the Prince had looked in to say he was going out, the Princess whimsically wondered if their respective sposi mightn't frankly be meeting, whimsically hoped indeed they were temporarily so disposed of.

The Golden Bowl — Volume 2 Henry James 1879

We're certainly not, with the relation of our respective sposi, simply formal acquaintances.

The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

It had so happened that she herself was, for the hour, exempt from her husband's, and it will at once be seen that the hour had a quality all its own when I note that, remembering how the Prince had looked in to say he was going out, the Princess whimsically wondered if their respective sposi mightn't frankly be meeting, whimsically hoped indeed they were temporarily so disposed of.

The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

Assingham, for their common, concerned glance at Eaton Square, the glance that was so markedly never, as it might have been, a glance at Portland Place: "What WOULD our cari sposi have made of it here? what would they, you know, really?"

The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

We're certainly not, with the relation of our respective sposi, simply formal acquaintances.

The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879