cinque

Example Sentences

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“Not always,” said Jenny; “not in Italy in the cinque cento, nor in England under Elizabeth.”

From The Three Brides by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Six Deuce.—Move a man from the five in your adversary's outer table to the cinque point in your own table.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis

It adapts the pastoral form to that ideal of civility dependent upon culture, which took so strong a hold upon the imagination of the cinque cento.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

His diction, in like manner, judged by the standard of the cinque cento, is far from choice—loaded with Lombardisms, gaining energy and vividness at the expense of refinement and precision.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

In Italy a form goes:— Pan uno, pan duo, Pan tre, pan quattro, Pan cinque, pan sei, Pan sette, pan otto, Pancotto!

From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Ford, Robert