cinque
Example Sentences
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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 Louis Hoffmann
By the best sculptors it is always used with this symbolic meaning, by the cinque cento sculptors as an ornament merely.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin
I have been calculating"—Mr. Buzzacott turned his pale green eyes towards his guest—"that I may be able to afford that pretty little cinque cassone, after all.
From Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley
Double Quatre.—Play two men from the ace to the cinque point in the adversary's inner table, and two from the five in his outer table.
From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Louis Hoffmann
Many a passer-by stops to look at the pretty sight, and the vendor's tongue is never still, "A quatto, a cinque, a sei a sordo, 'e purtualle 'e Palermo."
From Naples Past and Present by Arthur H. Norway
