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  • “La puzza di sigarette e profumo dozzinale, porta con se la risposta a una domanda vecchia come il mondo.”

    No Fat Clips!!! : TENNESSEE REID NORTON – The Answer 2006

  • 'It is always overloaded; and, to use the naive expression of a justly famous man, the famous chevalier Gluck, our opera stinks of music: puzza di musica.'

    Inventor of Modern Opera Rosen, Charles 1988

  • A sad state of affairs, but -- as an unsavoury Italian proverb correctly says -- _il pesce puzza dal capo.

    Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

  • Di vari fiore ad un grand monte passa, Ch'ebbe gia buono odore, or puzza forte:

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • Pensée du lundi 18 février (Presidents 'Day) brother Nick: A ognuno puzza questo barbaro dominio (This barbarous regime stinks in all nostrils), De principatibus, XXVI.

    vilaine fille vilaine fille 2009

  • And although the ancestors of some Puzzos might have lived near a well (puzza dialect for pozzo ` well or fountain '), the forebears of others may have smelled like a sewer (puzzo ` stench').

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 2 1992

  • Without that protection it is probable that the one line on the donation of Rome by Constantine to Silvester, where the poet speaks ‘puzza forte’ would have sufficed to put the whole poem under an interdict.”

    The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

  • Without that protection it is probable that the one line on the donation of Rome by Constantine to Silvester, where the poet speaks 'puzza forte' would have sufficed to put the whole poem under an interdict. "

    The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • Without that protection it is probable that the one line on the donation of Rome by Constantine to Silvester, where the poet speaks 'puzza forte' would have sufficed to put the whole poem under an interdict. "

    Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 15: with Voltaire Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • Di vari fiore ad un grand monte passa, Ch’ebbe gia buono odore, or puzza forte: Questo era il dono (se pero dir lece) Che

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

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