cinque
Example Sentences
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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
His open hands had won for this remarkable tenor the nickname, Cinque e cinque fanno dieci!
From My Recollections by Jules Massenet
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 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
Cinque Ace.—Play the cinque from the five men in your adversary's outer table, and the ace from the ace point in his inner table.
From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Louis Hoffmann
