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Usage examples of chianti.

He did not know the Bronx too well, but he would find Sam the Bomber Chianti, and he would deliver this hot shipment of rapidly cooling cargo.

Little Sammy Chianti, seventh grade dropout and neighborhood terrorist, became known as Sam the Bomber and participated in another fifty-six slayings before attaining legal age.

Totti surrendered them and watched interestedly as Chianti examined them.

Then he straightened up and turned a frozen stare toward the Chianti residence.

The stately windows of the room looked out over a spectacular landscape: the hills of Chianti, the deep valley of the Greve.

Franz Dokken lounged in his chair with a glass of Chianti in his right hand, cupping his palm around the smooth crystal.

Finishing off the rest of his Chianti, he ran a tongue along his lips, then began to study the boundaries of the other holdings.

He pushed its sleeves toward his elbows, and the corded muscles of his tanned forearms bulged as his long fingers coaxed the cork from a bottle of Chianti classico.

He poured a generous amount of Chianti into two wineglasses and handed her one.

He said something to the owner in Italian, and the man ran off, perhaps to kill himself, I thought, but he returned shortly with a bottle of Chianti and two glasses.

He chose back roads that wound east past quaint farmhouses, then dipped into the valleys that held the vineyards of the Chianti region.

The waiter began to sing about the Chianti grapes in a beautiful operatic voice.

Full of ham and macaroni, slightly warmed with the Chianti and Montepulciano, and tired with our journey, we stood more in need of slumber than of love, and so we gave ourselves up to sleep till morning.

A waiter with a tray of glasses of Chianti tripped on the big feet of a woman from Chicago, in Rome to check out her roots.

Without any surprise at my appearance, which was, indeed, no worse than his own, he told me that I was in the Vale of Chianti, between Certaldo and Poggibonsi, and that if I persevered upon the road I saw before me I should reach the latter place by nightfall.