cavaliere servente
Example Sentences
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"So this is your daily cavaliere servente," added M. M., with a wry smile, turning his lorgnette upon me.
From White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
She was an honest young woman, and she readily confessed that fluent manners and the air of the cavaliere servente were things she did not love.
From The Half-Hearted by Buchan, John
Sometimes she met Felix there, who amused her after a manner by his jokes, who praised her beauty, and offered himself to her as cavaliere servente.
From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Hausrath, Adolf
"So you are not going?" cried the blonde beauty, who was particularly anxious that her cavaliere servente should be in attendance on this occasion.
From White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
A cavaliere servente to dance attendance on her ladyship day and night?
From The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir
