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  • [73] "Collocate e poste una appresso all 'altra con diligenza e cura esatta."

    Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888

  • No doubt the greater part of the poor people were in bed by eight o'clock every evening; only those who had dealings in the outer world were stirring when the _diligenza_ arrived about ten, and I suspect that some of these snatched a nap before that late hour.

    By the Ionian Sea George Gissing 1880

  • English standards, for it meant changing at the Marina for the valley train, and finally going up the mountain side by _diligenza_.

    By the Ionian Sea George Gissing 1880

  • There, however, stood the _diligenza_ which was somehow to convey me to Catanzaro; I watched its loading with luggage-merchandise and mail-bags -- whilst the exquisite evening melted into night.

    By the Ionian Sea George Gissing 1880

  • The fact was, they were waiting for one of the great events of the day at Ravenna, -- the arrival of the diligenza from Bologna.

    A Siren Thomas Adolphus Trollope 1851

  • _diligenza_, passed along the dusty road between the barred and padlocked warehouses, and arrived in good time at the station.

    By the Ionian Sea George Gissing 1880

  • _diligenza_ had just arrived, and that travellers were seizing upon their bedrooms.

    By the Ionian Sea George Gissing 1880

  • [Footnote 124: "Onde se per questa molta diligenza nostra, le avvenisse qualche caso sinistro, si rovinarebbe forse (il che Dio non voglie) ogni speranza della reduttione di quella patria, levando se le forze a questa buona e Catholica regina, overo alienando la de noi par offesa ricevuta."

    The Reign of Mary Tudor James Anthony Froude 1856

  • Lerenzo piaceva fuor di modo la maniera di Lionardo, la seppe cosi bene imitare, che niuno fu che nella pulitezza e nel finir l'opere con diligenza l'imitasse pi� di lui_. "

    The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485

  • Lerenzo piaceva fuor di modo la maniera di Lionardo, la seppe cosi bene imitare, che niuno fu che nella pulitezza e nel finir l'opere con diligenza l'imitasse più di lui_. "

    The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485

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