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"We had searched every foot of the prairie for a mile round, and had almost come to the conclusion that the fierce brutes had eaten you up." "Eat monsieur up! No! tre million buffles no him eat. Mon Dieu! Ha, Sleep-head!" This exclamation of the Canadian was addressed to Hibbets, who had failed to warn my comrades of where I lay, and thus placed me in such a dangerous predicament.
"Eh!" said the piffero, showing all his teeth, and shrugging his shoulders good-naturedly, while the other echoed the pantomime. "Dal Regno" for so the Abruzzi peasants call the kingdom of Naples. "And do you come every year?" "Sì, Signore. To this the old zampogna bent his head on one side, and said, assentingly, "Eh! per trenta tre anni."
William Spence; another, the Villa dei Tre Visi celebrated in one of Boccaccio's tales belongs to the Earl of Balcarres. This site is much esteemed for the views it commands of the beautiful plains and valleys by which fair Florence is environed.
So Signora Steno returned to the "Tre Re;" a little alarmed at the thought that she had passed herself off for another person and a somewhat different one, but charmed with the courtesy and kindness of the Marchese. And in less than an hour the strangers from Venice heard two voices below in the entrance of the locanda inquiring for two Venetian ladies who had recently arrived in Ravenna.
"A worthy name, and, as I think, of Cornish lineage; for what says the south proverb 'By Pol, Tre, and Pen, You may know the Cornish men. Shall I say the worthy Master Tressilian of Cornwall?" "Say no more than I have given you warrant for, mine host, and so shall you be sure you speak no more than is true.
I was dreadfully exhausted at the end of the play; there is nothing so killing as an ineffectual appeal to sympathy, and, as the Italians know, "ben servire e non gradire" is one of the "tre cose da morire." ... Tuesday, 3d. Went to the theater to rehearse.... In the evening the house was good, and the play went off very well.
My young and beautiful companion, starting at the sound, wiped away her tears, and seemed to regret the lateness of the hour; and noting each vibration as it fell on her ear, she commenced with her thumb, and then advancing to the tip of each tapering finger, counted, with a whisper in her native language, "En, twå, tre, fyra, fem, sex, sju, åtta, nie, tie, elfva!"
The weighty chapter in Alberti's Treatise on Painting, lib. iii. cap. 5, might be used to support this paragraph. Quercia, born 1374; Ghiberti, 1378; Brunelleschi, 1379; Donatello, 1386. They are engraved in the work cited above, Le Tre Porte, seconda Porta, Tavole i. ii. The bas-reliefs of S. Petronio were executed between 1425 and 1435.
Nevertheless she leaned on Cucurullo's arm as they climbed the ascent, for it was very steep, and the last part of it was the long flight of steps which still leads up from the Tre Cannelle and comes out close to the little church of San Silvestro, where the great and good Vittoria Colonna once met Michelangelo.
It was an occasion not to be passed over in silence, so, although I am not good at speech-making, I rose with my glass in my right hand and, laying my left on Giovanni's shoulder said "Quattro sono le cinque parti del mondo e sono le tre seguenti: Sicilia, Inghilterra."
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