Novelette

Usage examples of conte.

He wanted Conte to go to Paul Castellano and get permission to have Sammy killed.

Pere Veret, the confessor of the nuns, Mathurin Rousseau, and Nicolas Benoit, canons, and Conte, a doctor, from whom they learned that Grandier had not been an instant out of their sight for the last two hours.

That kingdom is become of late a meatgrinder of armies, and not even the Holy See has enough money to hire me and mine to follow in the footsteps of old Conte Hreszko.

I turned right onto Hilgard, right again on Le Conte, and right onto Tiverton, where I paid for a parking voucher.

I pulled out of the lot onto Tiverton, and when I reached Le Conte I turned left.

You can bid them cut off the last vestiges of power that their contes and doges may have, even expel those noblemen completely-after all, their guilds and merchants' councils really rule their cities already.

The Tsigane version of Sara and the saints is from Claude Clément's wonderful children's book Contes Traditionelles de Provence, and represents either the iconoclastic extreme or the earliest, least-changed myth.

It flew accurately, needle point forward, and struck Conte Cozonac in the neck, two inches below an ear.

Then, carrying huge Conte Cozonac, he mounted flights of stairs to the roof, unbarred the hatch and clambered out.

The cord was extremely strong, and Doc, still carrying Conte Cozonac, slipped down it to the sidewalk.

Conte Cozonac was planted in a chair, his wrists positioned carefully on the arm rests.

Conte Cozonac chuckled, "and he does not have to be a native of the country, either.

Monk and Ham, their perpetual quarrel for the moment a minor matter, watched Conte Cozonac intently.

Conte Cozonac hesitated, then continued: "My other purpose was to have Baron Damitru Mendl draw up a new set of plans and make a working model of the devilish weapon which he invented.

They had been shut in long enough that any type of diversion, even observing disguised Conte Cozonac, was welcome.