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  • These "pozzi," or wells, were sunk in the thick walls, under the flooring of the chamber at the foot of the Bridge of Sighs.

    The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal Various

  • Reply to this maria grazia pozzi what a nice interview! another voice, another bridge …

    Global Voices in English » Translator of the week: Carolina Chandra Rumuat 2009

  • I did get Ongania's book on the Wellheads (pozzi) in Venice.

    Giudecca at the End of the 19th Century 2005

  • In the last half century, the wells (or pozzi, as they're known) that grace the campi of the Venice have been sealed over with concrete and then, typically, crowned with a ultra-heavy cast-iron lid.

    Veniceblog: 2005

  • In the last half century, the wells (or pozzi, as they're known) that grace the campi of the Venice have been sealed over with concrete and then, typically, crowned with a ultra-heavy cast-iron lid.

    Master Thieves at Work 2005

  • Most immediately, he knew now where he was: back in the Palazzo Ducale, in the dank cells known as the _pozzi_.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • "The cells of the _pozzi_ are ... only for short stays."

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • It is possible, however, that Jacopo Foscari may have been confined in the _pozzi_ at different times about the middle of the fifteenth century.

    Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878

  • Venetian annals; for it is not to be expected that the less tragic fortunes of Carlo Zeno and Vittore Pisani, who may also have been imprisoned in the _pozzi_, can move the true sentimentalizer.

    Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878

  • To a man, they struggled to shun the illustrious captivity designed them, and escaped from the _pozzi_ by every artifice of fact and figure.

    Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878

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