"Mano" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Freda. mia cara, da su mano!" The dog squatted on her haunches, and lifted her paw in the vague, bored way of big dogs when requested to perform civilities. She was a lovely creature—the purest brindle, without a speck of white, and free from the ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... isopo en el mano de un palo corto muy labrado, y por barbas o pelos del isopo ciertas colas de unas ...
— Animal Figures in the Maya Codices • Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen
... que no se enterrase sino que el cuerpo arreado se ponga junto al altar y a Tizona en la su mano; asi estuvo mucho tiempo que ...
— Rosinante to the Road Again • John Dos Passos
... (said by father), Churi, Niato, Poen. Son (said by mother), Cari huahua, Tauqu, Poen. Daughter (said by father), Ushushi, Coniat or cuniato. Daughter (said by mother), Huarmi huahua, Itum. Own father, Quiquin yaya, Cuqu mano. Own mother, Quiquin mama, La cuano. Step-father, La yaya, Tama quira. Step-mother, La mama, Tama quira (mama?). Own son, Quiquin churi, Ia cuniana. Step-son, Quipai churi, Saquina cuniana. Elder son (said by father), Cura (or naupa) churi, Cuniapira. Elder son (said by mother), Cura (or naupa) ...
— The Andes and the Amazon - Across the Continent of South America • James Orton
... sin espinas. 2. No es oro todo lo que reluce. 3. Mas vale pajaro en mano que cien volando. 4. Mas vale tarde que nunca. 5. La caridad empieza por nosotros mismos. 6. Todas las aves con sus pares. 7. Tal padre, tal hijo. 8. El hombre propone y Dios dispone. 9. Sobre ...
— A First Spanish Reader • Erwin W. Roessler and Alfred Remy
... 95% (including Kpelle, Bassa, Gio, Kru, Grebo, Mano, Krahn, Gola, Gbandi, Loma, Kissi, Vai, Dei, Bella, Mandingo, and Mende), Americo-Liberians 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the US who had been slaves), Congo People 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the Caribbean who had ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... now in the Dresden Gallery, in the year 1525, when it was in the house of Jeronimo Marcello at Venice, we learn that it was finished by Titian. The text says: "La tela della Venere nuda, che dorme ni uno paese con Cupidine, fu de mano de Zorzo da Castelfranco; ma lo paese e Cupidine furono finiti da Tiziano." The Cupid, irretrievably damaged, has been altogether removed, but the landscape remains, and it certainly shows a strong family resemblance to those which enframe the figures ...
— The Earlier Work of Titian • Claude Phillips
... destrier via piu che neve bianchi Sopr' un carro di foco un garzon crudo Con arco in mano, e con saette a' fianchi.... ... Vidi un vittorioso e sommo duce Pur com' un di color, che 'n Campidoglio Trionphal ...
— The Story of Rouen • Sir Theodore Andrea Cook
... colored reproductions of actresses in languid attitudes, of peasants dancing, of babies smiling, of elaborate young people with carefully dressed hair making love with "Molti Saluti!" "Una stretta di Mano!" "Mando un bacio!" "Amicizia eterna!" and other expressions of friendship and affection, scribbled in awkward handwritings across and around them. And mingled with them were representations of saints, such as are sold at the fairs ...
— The Call of the Blood • Robert Smythe Hichens
... destruction. She chants a magnificent hymn ("Guerra, guerra"), which is full of the very fury of battle. Pollione, who has been intercepted in the temple, is brought before her. Love is still stronger than resentment with her. In a very dramatic scena ("In mia mano alfin tu sei") she informs him he is in her power, but she will let him escape if he will renounce Adalgisa and leave the country. He declares death would be preferable; whereupon she threatens to denounce Adalgisa. ...
— The Standard Operas (12th edition) • George P. Upton
... wailing, and prayed and exhorted him to pardon those who had caused his death. It appears that Grifonetto was too weak to speak, but that he made a signal of assent, and received his mother's blessing at the last: 'E allora porse el nobil giovenetto la dextra mano a la sua giovenile matre strengendo de sua matre la bianca mano; e poi incontinente spiro l' anima dal formoso corpo, e passo cum infinite benedizioni de sua matre in cambio de la maledictione che prima li aveva date.'[5] Here again the style ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds |
