What is "capo"

Usage examples of "capo".

XII The permission of the Maggior Consiglio, under favor of this imperious government, was equivalent to a command and a public betrothal, and for a few ecstatic days the heir of the Ca' Giustiniani went about in a state of exaltation too great to be aware of any home shadows--the slumbering anger of the Capo of the Ten and an inharmonious atmosphere wherein each was intensely conscious of an individual estimate of the great event which touched them all so nearly.

The filing of the decree of the Senate had acted like a charm upon our Capo of the Ten: the importance thus accorded to the Ca' Giustiniani soothed every vestige of wounded pride, while the beauty and grace of his prospective daughter-in-law had filled him with a triumph which only the frigid stateliness of his habitual demeanor enabled him to conceal, so great was the revulsion from his former state of feeling.

The great Al Capone is gonna be in my bed by the end 271 Rita Clay Estrada of the week.

Leopold and Loeb, Capone and Dillinger, Gacy and Gein, Speck and Bundy, and the rest of the parolees from oblivion strolled away, a swaggering gait, leaving the cornfield, hitting the dark road that passed outside the farm, a short walk that would take them into the heart of a town called Plum Creek.

Capo di Monte, and Majolica that it soon became a great problem to tell the real from the imitation, and this has caused collectors no end of trouble.

Diamond, John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Al Capone and all the other folk-heroes I had watched James Cagney and Paul Muni and George Raft impersonate on the silver screen, Saturday afternoon in Painesville, Ohio.

Intanto uno degli agenti di cotesto sacerdozio camminava a capo basso attanagliato nei polsi da Orazio e da Attilio mentre Muzio apriva la via, non facile ad aprirsi, in mezzo a quella moltitudine.

Piquett, with his Capone connections, a pal of Lingle himself, himself a witness at the trial for having seen Lingle shortly before the murder, that this very man Piquett should defend the guy who supposedly shot Lingle.

Attorney Louis Piquett apparently had some friends in high places in Florida- or rather Al Capone did.

Cape Race, which is almost within sight, was the Capo Razzo of its Portuguese discoverer.

Tutti corsero alla marina festosi ad accogliere la cara ospite, seguiti pure dal vecchio capo della famiglia che per gli anni e i malanni divenuto lento seguiva da lontano la giovine e svelta brigata.

Working vertically, with a new bone structure and system of balance, Capo was already preadapted to walking on two feet.

Subito dietro alla Camilla, erano entrati alcuni dei giovani rimasti di guardia al di fuori e al loro capo raccontavano come quella donna al chiarore del lampo li avesse scoperti, come si fosse slanciata verso il loggione, senza che fosse stato possibile, in modo alcuno, trattenerla.

Qui bisogna ordinare la marcia, pensai tra me, e spinger la vecchia in capo fila.

Appena ancorata i nostri amici videro scendere da Capo Liberi, piccolo villaggio che domina il porto, un gruppo di gente che giunse alla marina, imbarcossi in un palischermo e si diresse verso lo Yacht.