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Examples
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Mr. Happy incontra il suo piccolo amico mentre una nuvola gli piove addosso.
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Not one of the company, at his quitting it, seemed inclinable to piove.
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The whole day long the tumult followed us, and seemed to culminate at last in the screams of a parrot, who thought it fine to cry, "_Piove! piove! piove_!"
Italian Journeys William Dean Howells 1878
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It would be the same thing if one should undertake to confront all antiquity, and piove against all the histories, that the Emperors of Rome were no more than generals of armies, and that every Roman general was Emperor of Rome, because he could find the word lmperator sometimes applied to the general of an army.
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This difobedience of the Moon will piove The Sun's bright oib does not the planet move.
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Then after the first ten days of rain, which seemed to refer us fatally to Alfieri's 'piove e ripiove,' came as perpetual a divine sunshine, such cloudless, exquisite weather that we ask whether it may not be June instead of November.
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Then after the first ten days of rain, which seemed to refer us fatally to Alfieri's 'piove e ripiove,' came as perpetual a divine sunshine, such cloudless, exquisite weather that we ask whether it may not be June instead of November.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898
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The Italian saying piove, governo ladro (it’s raining, blame the government) had never been more appropriate.
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“E questo cielo non ha altro dove che la mente divina, in che s’accende l’amor che il volge e la virt ch’ ei piove.”
The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage 1293-1381 1916
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