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But the trick he most frequently played me before others, one of which my warmth was always dupe, was suddenly to interrupt an important argument by a 'sproposito' of buffoonery.
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But the trick he most frequently played me before others, one of which my warmth was always dupe, was suddenly to interrupt an important argument by a 'sproposito' of buffoonery.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 12 Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715
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But the trick he most frequently played me before others, one of which my warmth was always dupe, was suddenly to interrupt an important argument by a 'sproposito' of buffoonery.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715
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Io rischio di dire uno sproposito, ma lo dico: il Signore tanto ama l'umiltà che, a volte, permette dei peccati gravi.
Compunction Terry Nelson 2006
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I can't say her genius is equal to her beauty: she every day says some new sproposito.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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A sproposito: un addestratore si è assicurato che l’animale non venisse maltrattato.
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