Liza Minnelli, for one

Usage examples of alto.

Asaverus, envergonhado, repetiu a palavra, agora mais alto, para advertir o contra-regra, mas ainda nada.

E atou Isaac em cima do feixe de lenha, pegou do cutelo e levantou-o ao alto.

Substitit Aeneas gemituque haec edidit alto: Nos alias hinc ad lacrimas eadem horrida belli Fata vocant.

And beyond the arch of the Rive Alto, a tumult of activity was beginning on the waterways, gilded bissone belonging to Stregazzan supporters vying for position with ships of the Serenissiman navy.

In the veranda of his Palo Alto home after many long hours on the telephone, Roger Gordian sat with an untouched plate of scrambled eggs and toast on the table in front of him, a steaming cup of coffee near his right hand, and his cordless, within fast reach of his left.

E me encheram de perguntas que respondi monossilabicamente, percebendo os olhos gulosos de Tom para o meu corpo e como brilhavam enquanto me observava de alto a baixo.

Putting the sopranino down, he took the alto recorder from its canvas case and started adjusting the sections in that mysterious way recorder players put their machines together.

De tarde, arrimaba a la puerta una de las sillas y mateaba con seriedad, puestos los ojos en la enredadera del muro de la inmediata casa de altos.

This woman often sang counterpoint with Tobe, her mellow alto voice intertwined with his pure soprano.

Alto when he wuz there wuz relieved to think that the figures wuz all so noble and impressive.

I planned to catch the 6:51 San Francisco-bound commute each morning, and twenty minutes later get off at the California Street station in South Palo Alto.

In the morning I should have time for breakfast at one of the South Palo Alto restaurants.

I offered to ride back with Laurel to her motel in South Palo Alto and then pick up a cab.

Then I helped her on with the cashmere coat, repeating my offer to drive with her to Palo Alto where I could easily scare up a cab to get me back to Colfax Springs.

Shower, shave, a tepid cup of instant coffee to hold me until breakfast in South Palo Alto.