penna

Example Sentences

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But, alas! with the book the sounds glided away; and "penna" and "pennam" and "pennis" and "pennæ" were confusedly and indiscriminately mingled.

From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

The sharp distinction early made between "contrapunctus 215 a penna" and "contrapunctus a mente" showed that composers and singers to a certain degree actually stood in rivalry in their production of passage work for voices.

From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by Henderson, W. J. (William James)

The word pen comes from the Latin penna, "a feather;" and as in olden days the ordinary pens were "quills" of birds, the name was very good.

From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)

La penna non vale un corno, ne pure quello che la dirigge.

From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Nohl, Ludwig

He rarely abandons himself, without reserve, to the frolic puerilities so common with the sister Muse of Italy,   "Scritta così come la penna getta,   Per fuggir l'ozio, e non per cercar gloria."

From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 by Prescott, William Hickling