pericolo

Updated: May 28, 2025

Again we saw the dim silhouette of a crouching man and the whisk of the small flame across the window as the signals were renewed. They came mor rapidly than before so rapid that it was hard to follow them. "PERICOLO pericolo eh, what's that, Watson? 'Danger, isn't it? Yes, by Jove, it's a danger signal. There he goes again! PERI. Halloa, what on earth "

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Red Circle

Here is a rare rogue for you, said Eusthenes; here is a pure rogue, a rogue in grain, a rogue enough, a rogue and a half. He is resolved to make good the Lombardic proverb, Passato el pericolo, gabbato el santo. The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. How, after the storm, Pantagruel went on shore in the islands of the Macreons.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4