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  • It ended with a story about what was happening "closer to home," how black people from Tiburon, Florence, and Orangeburg were marching today all the way to Columbia asking the governor to enforce the Civil Rights Act.†   (source)
  • He would have known them if he bumped into them on the streets of Florence at the height of the season.†   (source)
  • Two years later, the Mona Lisa was discovered hidden in the false bottom of a trunk in a Florence hotel room.†   (source)
  • He put a hex on me, Professor Dumbledore, and I was only teasing him, sir, I only said I'd seen him kissing Florence behind the greenhouses last Thursday...†   (source)
  • Quite a palace it was, furnished with sofas and wingback chairs and side tables and coffee tables and footstools; vases of fresh flowers bloomed all over the place, making it smell like the botanical gardens of Florence.†   (source)
  • Hudson tells us that Florence is a prodigy, with one of the highest IQs in his school.†   (source)
  • In A Room with a View (1908), for instance, Lucy Honeychurch travels to Florence, where she sheds much of her racially inherited stiffness while losing her heart to George Emerson, the freethinking son of an elderly radical.†   (source)
  • He recalled a recent visit to Florence.†   (source)
  • We could have circled over Miletus and Athens, Jerusalem and Alexandria, Rome and Florence, London and Paris, Jena and Heidelberg, Berlin and Copenhagen ....†   (source)
  • I went to Florence with three of my Houston Ballet friends.†   (source)
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  • I climbed up on the examination table, thinking: "I am climbing to freedom, freedom from fear, freedom from marrying the wrong person, like Buddy Willard, just because of sex, freedom from the Florence Crittenden Homes where all the poor girls go who should have been fitted out like me, because what they did, they would do anyway, regardless...."†   (source)
  • His warehouse at that time occupied almost a whole block and it was a hothouse of fantasy, with reproductions of the bell tower of Florence that told time with a concert of carillons, and music boxes from Sorrento and compacts from China that sang five-note melodies when they were opened, and all the musical instruments imaginable and all the mechanical toys that could be conceived.†   (source)
  • Once, long ago, travelling among the marbles of Rome and Florence, he had seen women like this, kept in stone instead of Ice.†   (source)
  • How far is it from Florence to Volterra?†   (source)
  • He requested another pass after telling the doctor he had some friends at the Siuslaw Bay at Florence who would like to take eight or nine of the patients out deep-sea fishing if it was okay with the staff, and he wrote on the request list out in the hall that this time he would be accompanied by "two sweet old aunts from a little place outside of Oregon City."†   (source)
  • Each time the fall of a city like Naples, Rome or Florence seemed imminent, Major — de Coverley would pack his musette bag, commandeer an airplane and a pilot, and have himself flown away, accomplishing all this without uttering a word, by the sheer force of his solemn, domineering visage and the peremptory gestures of his wrinkled finger.†   (source)
  • He's more beautiful than the picture of a young Greek god in our history books, or the statue of David in Florence, Italy.†   (source)
  • Some people think he was the genius behind the rise of the Medici in Florence.†   (source)
  • They'd pile us on the bus and we'd spend the summer with my grandmother's sister, Aunt Florence.†   (source)
  • I've been under this terrible deadline to complete the maps of Florence Below for the Magnificent—†   (source)
  • He came to the front door, mumbling something about a town in Italy ....Florence, was it?†   (source)
  • The walls were papered with dated, now faded murals of Venice, Rome and Florence; the softly piped-in music was predominantly operatic arias and tarantellas, and the lighting indirect with pockets of shadows.†   (source)
  • When I returned to Florence, I began to model nude at my art school, something I'd vowed I'd never do.†   (source)
  • Just for this visit home Alessandro had ridden from Bologna by way of Florence and Sienna, and it had taken eight days.†   (source)
  • During our last year at Harding University, we spent the summer in a study-abroad program in Florence, Italy.†   (source)
  • One year when I was young, the wild grapes were so abundant in the old Ruby Florence field that they filled all of our tubs and buckets with rich, purple-red fruit.†   (source)
  • Go to the Ufizzi in Florence, the Louvre in Paris, and you are so crushed with the numbers, once the might of greatness, that you go away distressed, with a feeling like constipation.†   (source)
  • Well, actually, next month I'm lecturing at a conference in Florence.†   (source)
  • Remember Florence and Edward, the wayward spouses with heart trouble?†   (source)
  • I've been to this park in Florence," Pietro Crespi would say, going through the cards.†   (source)
  • I would love nothing more than to meet you in Florence, Robert.†   (source)
  • I know only the Foas of Rome and Florence.†   (source)
  • — when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!†   (source)
  • A golden cherub has been ordered, cast in Italy by artisans in Florence.†   (source)
  • But Florence is still a bit too near the actual fighting to suit me.†   (source)
  • She was eight years old, living where she always had, Orfanotrofio di Siena, a Catholic orphanage near Florence, deserted by parents she never knew.†   (source)
  • He advanced steadily from local Ohio politics only because he was pushed by his wife, Florence, and stage-managed by the scheming Harry Daugherty and because, as he grew older, he grew more and more irresistibly distinguished-looking.†   (source)
  • Florence's IQ is higher than Poole's.†   (source)
  • If a particular radio operator was with a particular unit and transmitting from Florence, and then three weeks later you recognized that same operator, only this time he was in Linz, then you could assume that that particular unit had moved from northern Italy to the eastern front.†   (source)
  • Not only had Milton made a well-documented 1638 pilgrimage to Rome to "commune with enlightened men," but he had held meetings with Galileo during the scientist's house arrest, meetings portrayed in many Renaissance paintings, including Annibale Gatti's famous Galileo and Milton, which hung even now in the IMSS Museum in Florence.†   (source)
  • I was awestruck by Florence.†   (source)
  • Your grandmother surely's seen it—you go through town on Main Street till it turns into the highway to Florence.†   (source)
  • Florence and Edward are ill, of course.†   (source)
  • What is more interesting is that Poole's mind can leap from violent imagery to sex to people jumping out of buildings without missing a beat, and Florence's mind can't.†   (source)
  • Where is Florence's imagination?†   (source)
  • Even so, embarrassed officials at Florence's Uffizi Gallery immediately banished the painting to a warehouse across the street.†   (source)
  • During all these years, and quite unbeknownst to him, his wife, Florence, and the husband of the other couple, Edward Ashburnham, carry on a passionate affair.†   (source)
  • His name is Florence.†   (source)
  • In Florence?†   (source)
  • I'd transferred here after a semester of art school in Rhode Island and another semester in Florence.†   (source)
  • I probably should have watched out the window as first the city of Florence and then the Tuscan landscape flashed past with blurring speed.†   (source)
  • MORE THAN a hundred years before, Raphael's portrait of Bindo Altoviti, "when he was young," had traveled by horse cart from Florence to Munich.†   (source)
  • Certainly, I'd like to be up in Florence, too, where I could keep in closer touch with ex-P. F.C. Wintergreen.†   (source)
  • The dark road was the hardest part; the bright lights at the airport in Florence made it easier, as did the chance to brush my teeth and change into clean clothes; Alice bought Edward new clothes, too, and he left the dark cloak on a pile of trash in an alley.†   (source)
  • 13 MAJOR — DE COVERLEY Moving the bomb line did not fool the Germans, but it did fool Major — de Coverley, who packed his musette bag, commandeered an airplane and, under the impression that Florence too had been captured by the Allies, had himself flown to that city to rent two apartments for the officers and the enlisted men in the squadron to use on rest leaves.†   (source)
  • Once, in Florence, on seeing a lovely.†   (source)
  • Milan, Florence, Rome, Naples, Villa San Giovanni, Messina, Taormina†   (source)
  • Such are the broke characters to whom ancient names belong, in Florence in front of Gilli's Cafe, or the young men in tight pants who wait around at the top of the funicular in Capri for Dutch or Danish girls to pick up.†   (source)
  • He had a roof-and-gulley high conviction; with careful tucked-in elbows he weighted down the heated Toytown street-car, staring painfully at the dirty pasteboard pebbledash of the Pisgah Hotel, the brick and board cheap warehouses of Depot Street, the rusty clapboard flimsiness of the Florence (Railway Men's) Hotel, quaking with beef-fed harlotry.†   (source)
  • Unable to be idle, she installed herself at a table outside St. Peter's to give advice to Japanese tourists; later, she became a tourist herself, in Florence, Padua, Assisi, Venice, Milan, and Paris.†   (source)
  • Also, in other chambers, front and back, Mr. Conway Richards, candy-wheel concessionaire with the Johnny L. Jones Combined Shows, Miss Lily Mangum, twenty-six, trained nurse, Mr. William H. Baskett, fifty-three, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, cotton grower, banker, and sufferer from malaria, and his wife; in the large room at the head of the stairs Miss Annie Mitchell, nineteen, of Valdosta, Georgia, Miss Thelma Cheshire, twenty-one, of Florence, South Carolina, and Mrs. Rose Levin, twenty-eight, of Chicago, Illinois, all members of the chorus of "Molasses" Evans and His Broadway Beauties, booked out of Atlanta, Georgia, by the Piedmont Amusement Agency.†   (source)
  • Anyway, I was in Florence; I travel all over; a few days before I had been in Sicily where it was warm.†   (source)
  • Not long ago I was in Florence, Italy.†   (source)
  • This being an ambassador couldn't be envisioned as in the old days—a Guicciardini arriving from Florence with his clever face, or a Russian coming to Venice, or an Adams—such grandeurs have sunk down as the imagination has been transferred from the bearer of his country's power walking on rugs to his blowing shellac through the waterpipes of Lima to stop the rust.†   (source)
  • I was in Florence and I heard she was here so I came down last week.†   (source)
  • I foresaw at Florence that her quiet, uneventful childhood must end, and it has ended.†   (source)
  • He was a member of the residential colony who had made Florence their home.†   (source)
  • —she asked me which of the galleries I liked best in Florence.†   (source)
  • He diverted it as follows: "The Emersons who were at Florence, do you mean?†   (source)
  • Giotto—they got that at Florence, I'll be bound.†   (source)
  • Ever since that last evening at Florence she had deemed it unwise to reveal her soul.†   (source)
  • No, she wasn't wonderful in Florence either, but I kept on expecting that she would be.†   (source)
  • Her first morning was ruined, and she might never be in Florence again.†   (source)
  • You met her with my daughter in Florence.†   (source)
  • "'The scene is laid in Florence,'" repeated Cecil, with an upward note.†   (source)
  • Well, she would leave Florence so stupidly.†   (source)
  • But remember the mountains over Florence and the view.†   (source)
  • The view thence of Florence is most beautiful—far better than the hackneyed view of Fiesole.†   (source)
  • They are on a hillside, and Florence is in the distance.†   (source)
  • "I saw him in Florence," said Lucy, hoping that this would pass for a reply.†   (source)
  • She renewed it when the two carriages stopped, half into Florence.†   (source)
  • Let me introduce Mr. Honeychurch, whose sister you will remember at Florence.†   (source)
  • But by that time the Bride was near the end of the first day's journey towards Florence.†   (source)
  • Florence Scape, Fanny Scape, and their mother faded away to Boulogne, and will be heard of no more.†   (source)
  • You should go to Florence if you like houses in which things have happened—especially deaths.†   (source)
  • He spends but twenty-four hours in Florence?†   (source)
  • She and Madame de Cruchecassee kept house at Florence together.†   (source)
  • I shall invite her to spend the autumn with me in Florence.†   (source)
  • I see that I shall not only go alone to the Duke of Bracciano's, but also return to Florence alone.†   (source)
  • Go and see my little daughter before you leave Florence.†   (source)
  • "And yet, to go to Florence," the girl exclaimed in a moment, "I'd promise almost anything!"†   (source)
  • Oh, by the house of Fenzi, one of the best in Florence.†   (source)
  • And heaven knows there are hills enough between Rome and Florence by the way of Aquapendente!†   (source)
  • I go abroad with my aunt—to Florence and other places.†   (source)
  • But he remained silent, and she only got a letter from Florence and from the Countess Gemini.†   (source)
  • "I shall leave Florence to-morrow," he said without a quaver.†   (source)
  • They're very bad in America, but I've five perfect ones in Florence.†   (source)
  • His life on his hill-top at Florence had been the conscious attitude of years.†   (source)
  • There's something I should like you to do at present in Florence.†   (source)
  • Florence was not an austere city; but, as Mrs. Touchett said, she had to draw the line somewhere.†   (source)
  • At Florence there were no celebrities; none at least that one had heard of.†   (source)
  • I wonder if I should forsake my natural mission if I were to settle in Florence.†   (source)
  • But the emotion was of a kind which led her to say: "I should like very much to go to Florence."†   (source)
  • "His name's Gilbert Osmond—he lives in Florence," Ralph said.†   (source)
  • Isabel exclaimed, remembering something he had referred to in Florence.†   (source)
  • After she had left Florence Gilbert Osmond met Madame Merle at the Countess Gemini's.†   (source)
  • It was an audience hall built in the eighteenth century for some high official, and though of wood had reminded Fielding of the Loggia de' Lanzi at Florence.†   (source)
  • At that moment Lloyd Mallam, the poet, owner of the Hafiz Book Shop, was finishing a rondeau to show how diverting was life amid the feuds of medieval Florence, but how dull it was in so obvious a place as Zenith.†   (source)
  • And when I thought of Florence, it was of a town miraculously embalmed, and flower-like, since it was called the City of the Lilies, and its Cathedral, Our Lady of the Flower.†   (source)
  • bought at the price of a terrible sin; Gian Maria Visconti, who used hounds to chase living men, and whose murdered body was covered with roses by a harlot who had loved him; the Borgia on his white horse, with Fratricide riding beside him, and his mantle stained with the blood of Perotto; Pietro Riario, the young Cardinal Archbishop of Florence, child and minion of Sixtus IV.†   (source)
  • For some time no more was heard of them; then news came of Ellen's marriage to an immensely rich Polish nobleman of legendary fame, whom she had met at a ball at the Tuileries, and who was said to have princely establishments in Paris, Nice and Florence, a yacht at Cowes, and many square miles of shooting in Transylvania.†   (source)
  • He had spent a winter in Florence and a winter in Rome, and now was passing his second summer abroad in Germany so that he might read Goethe in the original.†   (source)
  • And had the cousins ever heard of a Signore Brunetto, Settembrini asked, Brunetto Latini, who had become the town clerk of Florence around 1250, and had written a book on virtue and vice?†   (source)
  • He said it lightly, carelessly, as he might have imparted any casual item of information, such as the hour at which their train was to leave for Florence the next evening.†   (source)
  • I need only, to make them reappear, pronounce the names: Balbec, Venice, Florence, within whose syllables had gradually accumulated all the longing inspired in me by the places for which they stood.†   (source)
  • You studying in Florence?†   (source)
  • He stands by the dozen before the Botticellis in Florence, and he sits on all the benches of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.†   (source)
  • He was also a good deal in debt: it was difficult to live in London like a gentleman on three hundred a year; and his heart yearned for the Venice and Florence which John Ruskin had so magically described.†   (source)
  • What moved me was the thought that this Florence which I could see, so near and yet inaccessible, in my imagination, if the tract which separated it from me, in myself, was not one that I might cross, could yet be reached by a circuit, by a digression, were I to take the plain, terrestrial path.†   (source)
  • All the more—and because one cannot make a name extend much further in time than in space—like some of Giotto's paintings themselves which shew us at two separate moments the same person engaged in different actions, here lying on his bed, there just about to mount his horse, the name of Florence was divided into two compartments.†   (source)
  • had secreted in the name of Venice; I could feel at work within me a miraculous disincarnation; it was at once accompanied by that vague desire to vomit which one feels when one has a very sore throat; and they had to put me to bed with a fever so persistent that the doctor not only assured my parents that a visit, that spring, to Florence and Venice was absolutely out of the question, but warned their that, even when I should have completely recovered, I must, for at least a year, give up all idea of travelling, and be kept from anything that wa; liable to excite me.†   (source)
  • During this month—in which I went laboriously over, as over a tune, though never to my satisfaction, these visions of Florence, Venice, Pisa, from which the desire that they excited in me drew and kept something as profoundly personal as if it had been love, love for another person—I never ceased to believe that they corresponded to a reality independent of myself, and they made me conscious of as glorious a hope as could have been cherished by a Christian in the primitive age of faith, on the eve of his entry into Paradise.†   (source)
  • them because they were its opposite and could only have weakened its effect, was substituted in me the converse dream of the most variegated of springs, not the spring of Combray, still pricking with all the needle-points of the winter's frost, but that which already covered with lilies and anemones the meadows of Fiesole, and gave Florence a dazzling golden background, like those in Fra Angelico's pictures.†   (source)
  • And, alas, he forbade also, most categorically, my being allowed to go to the theatre, to hear Berma; the sublime artist, whose genius Bergotte had proclaimed, might, by introducing me to something else that was, perhaps, as important and as beautiful, have consoled me for not having been to Florence and Venice, for not going to Balbec.†   (source)
  • Even in spring, to come in a book upon the name of Balbec sufficed to awaken in me the desire for storms at sea and for the Norman gothic; even on a stormy day the name of Florence or of Venice would awaken the desire for sunshine, for lilies, for the Palace of the Doges and for Santa Maria del Fiore.†   (source)
  • When my father had decided, one year, that we should go for the Easter holidays to Florence and Venice, not finding room to introduce into the name of Florence the elements that ordinarily constitute a town, I was obliged to let a supernatural city emerge from the impregnation by certain vernal scenes of what I supposed to be, in its essentials, the genius of Giotto.†   (source)
  • They became even more real to me when my father, by saying: "Well, you can stay in Venice from the 20th to the 29th, and reach Florence on Easter morning," made them both emerge, no longer only from the abstraction of Space, but from that imaginary Time in which we place not one, merely, but several of our travels at once, which do not greatly tax us since they are but possibilities,—that Time which reconstructs itself so effectively that one can spend it again in one town afte†   (source)
  • Doubtless, if, at that time, I had paid more attention to what was in my mind when I pronounced the words "going to Florence, to Parma, to Pisa, to Venice," I should have realised that what I saw was in no sense a town, but something as different from anything that I knew, something as delicious as might be for a human race whose whole existence had passed in a series of late winter afternoons, that inconceivable marvel, a morning in spring.†   (source)
  • have devoted to the reconstruction of all the insignificant details that made up the daily round on the Cote d'Azur in those days, if it could have helped him to understand something that still baffled him in the smile or in the eyes of Odette, more enthusiasm than does the aesthete who ransacks the extant documents of fifteenth-century Florence, so as to try to penetrate further into the soul of the Primavera, the fair Vanna or the Venus of Botticelli.†   (source)
  • She remembered their last evening at Florence—the packing, the candle, the shadow of Miss Bartlett's toque on the door.†   (source)
  • There will be a deal of local colouring, descriptions of Florence and the neighbourhood, and I shall also introduce some humorous characters.†   (source)
  • He asked the girl whether she knew Florence well, and was informed at some length that she had never been there before.†   (source)
  • I blush when I think how I interfered at Florence, and you so well able to look after yourself, and so much cleverer in all ways than I am.†   (source)
  • After you left Florence—horrible.†   (source)
  • Well, I must say I've only seen her at Tunbridge Wells, where she was not wonderful, and at Florence.†   (source)
  • So Miss Lavish proceeded through the streets of the city of Florence, short, fidgety, and playful as a kitten, though without a kitten's grace.†   (source)
  • As he had put it to himself at Florence, "she might yet reveal depths of strangeness, if not of meaning."†   (source)
  • Standing there, he had seen that view of the Val d'Arno and distant Florence, which he afterwards had introduced not very effectively into his work.†   (source)
  • There are some working men whom one would be very willing to see out here in Florence—little as they would make of it.†   (source)
  • One could play a new game with the view, and try to find in its innumerable folds some town or village that would do for Florence.†   (source)
  • It would be hard indeed if I stopped you doing as you liked at Florence, when I am only here through your kindness.†   (source)
  • Lucy would rather like to go out, as it was her first day in Florence, but, of course, she could go alone.†   (source)
  • The well-known world had broken up, and there emerged Florence, a magic city where people thought and did the most extraordinary things.†   (source)
  • But Miss Lavish had said so much about knowing her Florence by heart, that Lucy had followed her with no misgivings.†   (source)
  • She was even glad that Miss Bartlett had made her promise secrecy, that last dark evening at Florence, when they had knelt packing in his room.†   (source)
  • You remember that church at Florence?†   (source)
  • I do hope Florence isn't boring you.†   (source)
  • As her time at Florence drew to its close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.†   (source)
  • "Since Florence did my poor sister so much good," wrote Miss Catharine, "we do not see why we should not try Athens this winter.†   (source)
  • He read: "'Afar off the towers of Florence, while the bank on which she sat was carpeted with violets.†   (source)
  • To one who loves the Florence of Dante and Savonarola there is something portentous in such desecration—portentous and humiliating.†   (source)
  • Now, the English colony at Florence, Miss Honeychurch—and it is of considerable size, though, of course, not all equally—a few are here for trade, for example.†   (source)
  • "Now, a clergyman that I do hate," said she wanting to say something sympathetic, "a clergyman that does have fences, and the most dreadful ones, is Mr. Eager, the English chaplain at Florence.†   (source)
  • "Mr. Beebe!" said the maid, and the new rector of Summer Street was shown in; he had at once started on friendly relations, owing to Lucy's praise of him in her letters from Florence.†   (source)
  • And now celestial irony, working through her cousin and two clergymen, did not suffer her to leave Florence till she had made this expedition with him through the hills.†   (source)
  • To one of her upbringing, and of her destination, the weakness of men was a truth unfamiliar, but she had surmised it at Florence, when George threw her photographs into the River Arno.†   (source)
  • She wanted to leave Florence, and when we got to Rome she did not want to be in Rome, and all the time I felt that I was spending her mother's money—.†   (source)
  • Satisfactory that Mr. Emerson had not been told of the Florence escapade; yet Lucy's spirits should not have leapt up as if she had sighted the ramparts of heaven.†   (source)
  • She tried to remember her emotions in Florence: those had been sincere and passionate, and had suggested beauty rather than short skirts and latch-keys.†   (source)
  • I have said both to her and Cecil that I met the Emersons at Florence, and that they are respectable people—which I do think—and the reason that he offered Miss Lavish no tea was probably that he had none himself.†   (source)
  • Living in delicate seclusion, some in furnished flats, others in Renaissance villas on Fiesole's slope, they read, wrote, studied, and exchanged ideas, thus attaining to that intimate knowledge, or rather perception, of Florence which is denied to all who carry in their pockets the coupons of Cook.†   (source)
  • I'm sick of Florence.†   (source)
  • Chapter II: In Santa Croce with No Baedeker It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.†   (source)
  • He spoke of Florence.†   (source)
  • If you will not think me rude, we residents sometimes pity you poor tourists not a little—handed about like a parcel of goods from Venice to Florence, from Florence to Rome, living herded together in pensions or hotels, quite unconscious of anything that is outside Baedeker, their one anxiety to get 'done' or 'through' and go on somewhere else.†   (source)
  • A mania prevailed, a bubble burst, four stock-brokers took villa residences at Florence, four hundred nobodies were ruined, and among them Mr Nickleby.†   (source)
  • I had perhaps dreamed of such a bridge, but never seen such an one out of an illuminated manuscript; for not even the Ponte Vecchio at Florence came anywhere near it.†   (source)
  • The Oratory of Italy, established at Florence by Philip de Neri, and the Oratory of France, established by Pierre de Berulle.†   (source)
  • The sentimental vicissitudes of the Princess X—led to a discussion of the heart history of Florentine nobility in general; the duchess had spent five weeks in Florence and had gathered much information on the subject.†   (source)
  • He would not return to Florence for ten days more, and in that time she would have started for Bellaggio.†   (source)
  • These chapters are right, now, in every detail, for they were rewritten under the immediate eye of William Hicks, who studied law part of a while in southwest Missouri thirty-five years ago and then came over here to Florence for his health and is still helping for exercise and board in Macaroni Vermicelli's horse-feed shed, which is up the back alley as you turn around the corner out of the Piazza del Duomo just beyond the house where that stone that Dante used to sit on six hundred years ago is let into the wall when he let on to be watching them build Giotto'†   (source)
  • For ten long years I roved about, living first in one capital, then another: sometimes in St. Petersburg; oftener in Paris; occasionally in Rome, Naples, and Florence.†   (source)
  • I will go away directly he is married, somewhere a long way off—to Dresden or Florence, and will live there till I—' Pavel Petrovitch moistened his forehead with eau de cologne, and closed his eyes.†   (source)
  • Because I was arrested at Piombino, and I presume that, like Milan and Florence, Piombino has become the capital of some French department.†   (source)
  • In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Venice, a heroic history, sublime ruins, magnificent ruins, and superb cities, you are, like ourselves, poor.†   (source)
  • On the other, the south side, of the road was an octagonal building with a high roof, not unlike the Baptistry at Florence in outline, except that it was surrounded by a lean-to that clearly made an arcade or cloisters to it: it also was most delicately ornamented.†   (source)
  • Given under my hand this second day of January, 1893, at the Villa Viviani, village of Settignano, three miles back of Florence, on the hills—the same certainly affording the most charming view to be found on this planet, and with it the most dreamlike and enchanting sunsets to be found in any planet or even in any solar system—and given, too, in the swell room of the house, with the busts of Cerretani senators and other grandees of this line looking approvingly down upo†   (source)
  • You shall sojourn at Paris, Rome, and Naples: at Florence, Venice, and Vienna: all the ground I have wandered over shall be re-trodden by you: wherever I stamped my hoof, your sylph's foot shall step also.†   (source)
  • They sat in their equipage of state, with Mrs General on the box, for three weeks longer, and then he started for Florence to join Fanny.†   (source)
  • But he wrote back a kind and respectful letter to Mrs. Rebecca, then living at a boarding-house at Florence.†   (source)
  • Since we left Venice we have been in a great many wonderful places, Genoa and Florence among them, and have seen so many wonderful sights, that I am almost giddy when I think what a crowd they make.†   (source)
  • So Becky, who had arrived in the diligence from Florence, and was lodged at an inn in a very modest way, got a card for Prince Polonia's entertainment, and her maid dressed her with unusual care, and she went to this fine ball leaning on the arm of Major Loder, with whom she happened to be travelling at the time—(the same man who shot Prince Ravoli at Naples the next year, and was caned by Sir John Buckskin for carrying four kings in his hat besides those which he used in playing at ecarte )—and this pair went into the rooms together, and Becky saw a number of old faces which she remembered in happier days, when she was not innocent, but not found out.†   (source)
  • Papa having always intended to go to town himself, in the spring,—you see, if Edmund and I were married here, we might go off to Florence, where papa might join us, and we might all three travel home together.†   (source)
  • Pending whose appearance, she showed to great advantage on a sofa, completing Mr Sparkler's conquest with some remarks upon Dante—known to that gentleman as an eccentric man in the nature of an Old File, who used to put leaves round his head, and sit upon a stool for some unaccountable purpose, outside the cathedral at Florence.†   (source)
  • I have met him several times at Florence, Bologna and Lucca, and he has now communicated to me the fact of his arrival in Paris.†   (source)
  • You know the same thing was done for Saint Stephen of Florence, Saint George, Constantinian of Parma, and even for the Order of Malta.†   (source)
  • 'Major Cavalcanti, a worthy patrician of Lucca, a descendant of the Cavalcanti of Florence,'" continued Monte Cristo, reading aloud, "'possessing an income of half a million.'†   (source)
  • Just what you please; you may speak of her country and of her youthful reminiscences, or if you like it better you can talk of Rome, Naples, or Florence.†   (source)
  • It was at his house in Florence; do you remember that afternoon when she brought you there and we had tea in the garden?†   (source)
  • Isabel wrote to Mrs. Touchett to apologise for not presenting herself just yet in Florence, and her aunt replied characteristically enough.†   (source)
  • At the same time that the steamer disappeared behind Cape Morgion, a man travelling post on the road from Florence to Rome had just passed the little town of Aquapendente.†   (source)
  • Isabel came back to Florence, but only after several months; an interval sufficiently replete with incident.†   (source)
  • Towards the beginning of the year 1838, two young men belonging to the first society of Paris, the Vicomte Albert de Morcerf and the Baron Franz d'Epinay, were at Florence.†   (source)
  • I am (as you have said) the Count Andrea Cavalcanti, son of Major Bartolomeo Cavalcanti, a descendant of the Cavalcanti whose names are inscribed in the golden book at Florence.†   (source)
  • She had felt pain and displeasure on receiving early that day the news he was in Florence and by her leave would come within an hour to see her.†   (source)
  • As to Franz, he had no letter of credit, as he lived at Florence, and had only come to Rome to pass seven or eight days; he had brought but a hundred louis, and of these he had not more than fifty left.†   (source)
  • She made her way down to Rome without touching at Florence—having gone first to Venice and then proceeded southward by Ancona.†   (source)
  • Of course, as I've no daughters, and as Mrs. Touchett resides in Florence, I haven't had much chance to notice about the young ladies.†   (source)
  • Isabel was to have three days in Florence before the 4th of June, the date of Mrs. Touchett's departure, and she determined to devote the last of these to her promise to call on Pansy Osmond.†   (source)
  • When Franz had once again set foot on shore, he forgot, for the moment at least, the events which had just passed, while he finished his affairs of pleasure at Florence, and then thought of nothing but how he should rejoin his companion, who was awaiting him at Rome.†   (source)
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  • I first found one under Bonnie, then Clyde—whom I immediately renamed Clydette—and one more in Florence's bed.   (source)
    florence = a character in the story
  • Miss Nightingale, who was never to be referred to as Florence, had been in the Crimea long enough to see the value of discipline, strong lines of command and well-trained troops.   (source)
  • For some reason, the stretch of I-95 just south of Florence, South Carolina, is the place to drive a car on a Friday evening.   (source)
  • When I returned to Los Angeles, I moved to Boyle Heights and later to neighborhoods such as White Fence, Florence, South Pasa, La Colonia Watts and Gerahty Loma.   (source)
  • Florence's punishment for being late was to stand in the middle of the aisle with his arms outspread.   (source)
  • When Carl heard that a hot dog cart was for sale — on Florence Avenue across from the Goodyear factory — he decided to buy it.   (source)
  • A photograph of her father dominated the first page-a studio portrait taken in 1922, the year of his marriage to the young Indian rodeo rider Miss Florence Buckskin.   (source)
    florence = the name of a person or other place
  • The bull was here, in Florence, South Carolina, which made no more sense than it had in McLeansville last October.   (source)
    florence = a character in the story
  • On recess from the Treason Trial, Frances Baard and Florence Matomela organized women to refuse passes in Port Elizabeth, their hometown.   (source)
  • Florence had done her undergraduate work at Mississippi State University, which was about as far away from Duke University as you could get.   (source)
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  • Tonight the legendary actress Laura Keene is celebrating her one thousandth performance in her signature role as Florence Trenchard.   (source)
  • I entered Florence, Alabama, across the Tennessee River from Sheffield, and went right to a phone booth.   (source)
  • Florence, who smoked the cigarette in the circus, had a hard cough.   (source)
  • My mother had the colored cook—her name was Florence, I remember—fix me a big paper bag full of fried chicken and I had a thermos of cold milk—very gourmet travel cuisine, you understand, and I gobbled my lunch somewhere between Richmond and Washington, and then along about midafternoon the bus stopped in Havre de Grace—   (source)
  • At the bend of River Road they caught up with Alice Cooksey riding Florence's Western Union bicycle.   (source)
  • She had a letter, too, from Florence, and it was perhaps this novelty that distracted her attention.   (source)
  • CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY, Florence of Arabia   (source)
  • D'you think Florence Mills would sing?   (source)
  • Florence Fitzgerald.   (source)
  • And Lancelot has killed three of our brothers, besides Florence and Lovel.   (source)
  • The visitors upon that day were, let us suppose, Ronny Norman, Eveline Godley, Elsa Bell and Florence Bishop.   (source)
  • You see, that fellow impressed upon me that what Florence needed most of all were sleep and privacy.   (source)
  • But Madeline insisted, and it required only a few words and a persuading smile to win Florence over.   (source)
  • —Ever, SUSANNA FLORENCE MARY BRIDEHEAD.   (source)
  • Now Florence's mama hadn't a particle of taste, and Amy suffered deeply at having to wear a red instead of a blue bonnet, unbecoming gowns, and fussy aprons that did not fit.   (source)
  • THEN Sir Florence called to him Sir Floridas, with an hundred knights, and drove forth the herd of beasts.   (source)
  • And then, if we could contrive it, the trumpet would be skilfully transferred to Florence Bishop.   (source)
  • I closed the door behind me, shutting out the bondieuserie, the low ceiling, the chintz, the lambskin bindings, the views of Florence, the bowls of hyacinth and potpourri, the petit-point, the intimate feminine, modern world and was back under the coved and coffered roof, the columns and entablature of the central hall, in the august, masculine atmosphere of a better age.   (source)
  • …would be irritated: Florence Bishop would too and [would] withdraw her unlucky remark—that he looked well;   (source)
  • And then, quite suddenly, in the bright light of the street, I saw Florence running.   (source)
  • She was watching when Florence returned with the glass.   (source)
  • —Your affectionate cousin, SUSANNA FLORENCE MARY BRIDEHEAD.   (source)
  • At the same time Florence had such a pressing desire to talk about something.   (source)
  • Think no more than you can help of SUSANNA FLORENCE MARY.   (source)
  • "Here comes Bill—in trouble," laughed Florence.   (source)
  • Perhaps she got it up out of Baedeker before Florence was up in the morning.   (source)
  • "O Susanna Florence Mary!" he said as he worked.   (source)
  • "I hate these Greaser places," said Florence, with a grimace.   (source)
  • However, she prevailed over his hesitancy, and with Florence also in the car they set out.   (source)
  • She was certainly doing right in trying to warn me that Florence was making eyes at her husband.   (source)
  • That, for instance, was the way with Florence's maid in Paris.   (source)
  • "Take a look with the glasses," said Florence.   (source)
  • For Florence had never undeceived him on that point.   (source)
  • Florence appeared cautious, deliberate, yet she lost no time.   (source)
  • So Florence would go on babbling and Leonora would go on brushing her hair.   (source)
  • Florence handed the field-glass to Helen and bade her look.   (source)
  • And then Leonora had said to Florence with perfect calmness: "I wish you would go with those two."   (source)
  • She was watching for Florence, listening for some sound fraught with untoward meaning.   (source)
  • That was why, just a fortnight after Florence's suicide, I set off for the United States.   (source)
  • Florence, isn't that Don Carlos's black horse over there in the corral?   (source)
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