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"Corpo di Bacco! there would be little peace in Venice, if the Council of Three should take it into their heads to loosen the tongue of yonder man in that rude manner." "But they say, Gino, that thy Council of Three has a fashion of feeding the fishes of the Lagunes, which might throw the suspicion of his death on some unhappy Ancona-man, were the body ever to come up again."
We all started as though a pistol had been fired in our ears, and the Marchese Gualdro burst out laughing. "Corpo di Baceo!" he cried. "At last you have awakened from sleep! Were you all struck dumb, amici, that you stared at the table-cloth so persistently and with such admirable gravity?
And I have been as dull as the chair I sit upon, to deny myself so many years the comfort and counsel of such a But, /corpo di Bacco!/ forget all about rank; and so now to bed. One must not holloa till one's out of the wood," muttered the ungrateful, suspicious villain, as he lighted the chamber candle.
"Corpo di Baccho!" exclaimed the rider. "I shall sleep for a century." He stretched luxuriously and, unslinging a gun from his shoulder, leaned it against the wall. Blake was surprised to find it a late model of an American repeating rifle. "Francesca!" he called loudly. "Madonna mia, I am famished!" "Francesca was here a moment ago," Norvin volunteered. "In a frightful temper, too." "Just so!
He made a suave, swelling gesture with his hands and arms and heaved up his great bulk gracefully. "'Ow 'e can play! 'Ow 'e can play!" "He is Andy Gordon!" I exclaimed. "What is he? A weaver?" "Comment?" "A weaver? Makes cloth like this?" I held up the corner of the tablespread. "Corpo, no!" ejaculated the astonished Pigalle. "Handy ees violinist-a." From The Midland
Then, when she was about to proceed, she saw that the halberdier at the head of the Giant's stairway was smiling at her indecision, like one accustomed to such scenes. "Is there danger in quitting the palace?" she asked of the rough mountaineer. "Corpo di Bacco! There might have been an hour since, Bella Donna; but the rioters are muzzled and at their prayers." Gelsomina hesitated no longer.
"It certainly does look like it," said Mr. Greene, peering over his wife's shoulder. "There's no doubt about the box," said Sophonisba. "Not the least in life," said I, trying to assume an indifferent look. "Mon Dieu!" said the Boots. "Corpo di Baccho!" exclaimed the landlord, who had now joined the party. "Oh h h h !" screamed Mrs.
The saint or angel became an occasion for the display of physical perfection, and to introduce 'un bel corpo ignudo' into the composition was of more moment to them than to represent the macerations of the Magdalen. Men thus learned to look beyond the relique and the host, and to forget the dogma in the lovely forms which gave it expression.
I pray you, sirs, to honor my unworthy roof so far. A light, Giacomo! There are five steps up. Now two more. So! Here we are at last in safety. Corpo di Bacco! I would not have given ten maravedi for my head when those children of the devil were pushing us against the wall.
There is a small engraving by Bonasoni, in a series of the Life of the Virgin, apparently after Parmigiano, in which the apostles bear her on their shoulders over rocky ground, and appear to be descending into the Valley of Jehoshaphat: underneath are these lines: "Portan gli uomini santi in su le spalle Al Sepolcro il corpo di Maria Di Josaphat nella famosa valle."
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