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Usage examples of paduan.

This was really the truth, as I had only eaten a few oysters with the Paduan girls.

Galileo not only approved of their union but also helped Bartoluzzi find employment with a wealthy Paduan friend of his.

Galileo presented the nova controversy to the public in a dialogue between a pair of peasants speaking Paduan dialect, which he published under the pen name Cecco di Ronchitti.

They mined the dense jumble of his Paduan notes and prepared neat sheets of paper, written extravagantly on one side only, for his review and revision.

Basterga, seeing that Claude was less pliant than he had looked to find him, shunned occasion of collision with him, or the Paduan being in better spirits was less prone to fall foul of his companions, certain it is that life for a time after the outbreak at supper ran more quietly in the house in the Corraterie.

My name is Don Antonio Pocchini, I am of a noble Paduan family, and my mother belongs to the illustrious family of Campo SanPiero.

He was commonly called the Paduan Doctor, from having received his education at that famous university.

But the protection which the Paduan Doctor received from some friends of interest and consequence, enabled him to set these imputations at defiance, and to assume, even in the city of Edinburgh, famed as it was for abhorrence of witches and necromancers, the dangerous character of an expounder of futurity.

Still Taken with the Cabala-- Piccolomini Forges a Bill of Exchange: Results I Am Fleeced, and in Danger of Being Assassinated--Debauch with the Two Paduan Girls-- I Reveal A Great Secret To Esther--I Bate the Rascally St.

I found out directly that they came from Padua, not Venice, as they spoke the Paduan dialect, which I knew very well.

I ordered Le Duc to stay in the ante-chamber, and when he had left the room my Paduan count told me that I had been with his nieces, and had treated them as if they were courtezans, and that he was come to demand satisfaction.

Not only did my fellow Venetians cluster about me when I spun my tales, but also the Genoan warders and guards, and the visiting Brothers of Justice, and also Pisan and Corsican and Paduan prisoners taken by the Genoans in other wars and battles.

Matteo stood and waved to an older man who had just come in, a Paduan trader he knew.

This was the result of Paduan methods meeting at Bologna with Umbrian sentiment.

He was of an observing nature and probably studied Paolo Uccello and Fra Filippo, some of whose works were then in Paduan edifices.