pregustazione

Updated: April 30, 2025

"E cattivo vento che non e buono per qualcuno debbo a questa burrasca la pregustazione d' un piacere," he said, with a mingling of ceremonious politeness and sunny geniality that was of his age and race. Peter instinctively he could not have told why put a good deal more deference into his bow, than men of his age and race commonly put into their bows, and murmured something about "grand' onore."

Henry Harland - The Cardinal's Snuff-Box