cinque
Example Sentences
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If, my Lord Warden? nay, then I charge you, That all the cinque Ports, whereof you are chief, Be laid forthwith, that he escape us not.
From Sir John Oldcastle by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
This latter then proclaims it—'Prima-estratta, numero venti cinque.'
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
They are lightly traced in much of the cinque cento sculpture; very boldly and grandly in the strange Last Judgment in the porch of St. Maclou at Rouen, described in the “Seven Lamps.”
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin
“Not always,” said Jenny; “not in Italy in the cinque cento, nor in England under Elizabeth.”
From The Three Brides by Charlotte Mary Yonge
We find it in full energy, possessing the public theatres and claiming the attention of all classes, at the close of the cinque cento.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
