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Sin embargo, luego del ataque a Columbus en 1916 que provocó la expedición Pershing, Villa se convirtió en el "villano favorito" de los norteamericanos.
Ger��nimo, Skull and Bones y la cabeza de Francisco Villa 2009
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Sin embargo, luego del ataque a Columbus en 1916 que provocó la expedición Pershing, Villa se convirtió en el "villano favorito" de los norteamericanos.
Ger��nimo, Skull and Bones y la cabeza de Francisco Villa 2009
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Merlini, Saggio di ricerche sulla satira contro il villano, Turin, 1894.
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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The gentleman (_galantuomo_, who is also called _cappeddu_ or _cavaleri_) forms the highest caste, and is above the master (_maestro_), who in turn must not be confounded with the countryman (_villano_), the lowest grade in the social scale.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various
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When he had climbed up, and stepping forward, stood ready to receive the _terno_, the crowd jeered and cheered the _villano_, making fine fun of his goat-skin, and not a little jealous that a _contadino_ should take the money out of the city.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy Various
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Oh! _diavolo_, the _villano_ will only have one third of the _terno_; and may he die of apoplexy! '
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy Various
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I seemed an anomaly in so gloomy a place, and more than once did I think of departing and seeking out my poor old mother in her mountain home, contenting myself hereafter with labouring like any honest villano born to the soil.
The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Fool had placed her, it could interest you but little to read in detail, nor could it interest you to know of the gentle patience with which she cheered and humoured me during the period that I sojourned there, tilling the little plot she owned, reaping and garnering like any born villano.
The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Boccadoro, the Fool, was not known; and many a villano, who had never noticed the features of the Lord of Pesaro, could have told you the very colour of his jester's eyes; which, after all, is no strange thing, for -- sad reflection!
The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Petrarch says, — ‘Amor che fa gentile un cor villano’.
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