cavaliere servente
Example Sentences
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No cavaliere servente of Old Italy ever had so busy a time as the Tame Cat of the India of to-day.
From The Jungle Girl by Casserly, Gordon
Has not he lately married a young woman; and was not he Madame Talleyrand's cavaliere servente in India years ago?
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas
Corte'jo, a cavaliere servente, who as Byron says in Beppo: Coach, servants, gondola, must go to call, And carries fan and tippet, gloves and shawl.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
My fascinating father, who treats me with the devotion of an Italian cavaliere servente for his lady, had my portrait painted, as I told you, by Mme. de Mirbel.
From Letters of Two Brides by Balzac, Honoré de
For this reason she always regards us as cavaliere servente to the house of Hapsburg.
From Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
