cinque
Example Sentences
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The more usual play is, for a hit, to play two to the cinque point in the player's own, and the other two to the quatre point in the adversary's table.
From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Louis Hoffmann
Nay," said Shakespeare, "wooing, wedding, and repenting is, after all, but a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque pace.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
Trois Deuce.—The approved play is to carry two men from the five in your adversary's outer table to the quatre and cinque points in your own outer table.
From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Louis Hoffmann
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 John Addington Symonds
He developed a quite considerable acquaintance with the plays of William Shakespeare, and in his dreams he wore cinque cento or Elizabethan clothes, and walked about a stormy, ruffling, taverning, teeming world.
From The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
