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  • We order a portion of fiori di zucca fritti (fried zucchini flowers) because we can't resist.

    Dr. Irene S. Levine: A Day in Bologna 2010

  • Handel would have expected it; Mozart would have expected it (and when he didn't want it he made sure it wouldn't happen - cf "Non piu di fiori", Vitellia's final aria in "La Clemenza di Tito"!).

    Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009

  • Le scale sono il mezzo per arrivarci; i fiori, una traccia evanescente del passato, come monumenti ad una storia che semplicemente scompare.

    No Fat Clips!!! : Bajzel – Window 2008

  • Maggio, mese primaverile, quando i fiori inondano il paesaggio, gli insetti si riproducono, ed il sole splende su un nuovo ciclo vitale.

    No Fat Clips!!! : OCTAVI ROYO – Maig 2008

  • My 7 year old niece can make fiori di zucca better then Mozza.

    Tuna Toast Tokyoastrogirl 2006

  • Somewhat later he let a few drops of fiori d'Alpini roll around his tongue and trickle down his throat.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • Somewhat later he let a few drops of fiori d'Alpini roll down his throat.

    The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein Heinlein, Robert A. 1966

  • Sei zitelle sostenevano de'galanti panieri di freschissimi fiori pendenti dal loro collo, con nastri bianchi e gialli, relativi allo stendardo

    The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Charles Michael Baggs

  • You pay a paul, (and give the bouquet to -- your landlady's daughter,) while the departing _mercante di fiori_ assures you that he never, no, never expects to make a fortune at flowers; but if he gains enough to pay for his wine, he will be very tipsy as long as he lives!

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

  • And our mille-fiori glass, which came to us way back from the Egyptians, is another famous variety.

    The Story of Glass Sara Ware Bassett 1920

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