penna

Example Sentences

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L’eroe ha movimenti da eroe, il volgar da volgare; e quel che non descriverebbe lingua nè penna, descrive in pochissimi tratti l’ingegno e l’arte di Raffaello.”—p.

From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883

Similarly, I have used the form penna at iv 12 and vii 37, where C offers pinna.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear

A Noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or quality; as, Caesar, Caesar; Rōma, Rome; penna, feather; virtūs, courage.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

In this country the problem is to decline "penna:" in Germany "mensa" is the word.

From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold

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