68 examples of gemma in sentences

The Nile, from its source, proceeds with so inconsiderable a current that it is in danger of being dried up by the hot season; but soon receiving an increase from the Gemma, the Keltu, the Bransa, and the other smaller rivers, it expands to such a breadth in the plains of Boad, which is not above three days' journey from its source, that a musket-ball will scarcely fly from one bank to the other.

It was in the same year, probably, as that in which the "Vita Nuova" was composed and published, that Dante himself was married to Gemma Donati.

And it would have ended there had not the sun, reaching in through a casement toward the group of silent women, touched the face of old Grangioia's youngest daughter, Madonna Gemma.

From the crown of her head, whence her hair fell in bright ripples like a gush of gold from the ladle of a goldsmith, to her white feet, bare on the pavement, Madonna Gemma was one fragile piece of beauty.

" That morning Lapo Cercamorte espoused Madonna Gemma Grangioia.

Madonna Gemma, finding herself in this prison, did not weep or utter a sound for many days.

On the third day of Cercamorte's absence, while Madonna Gemma was leaning on the parapet of the keep, there appeared at the edge of the woods a young man in light-blue tunic and hood, a small gilded harp under his arm.

He sat by the fireplace on the guests' settee, beside Madonna Gemma.

The crone was there also, pretending to doze in the shadows; and so was Foresto the horse-boy, whose dark, still face seemed now and again to mirror Raffaele's look of exultationa look that came only when Madonna Gemma gazed away from him.

A golden haze was changing Madonna Gemma's prison into a paradise.

His disfigured face still insolvable, Lapo Cercamorte plunged his stare into Madonna Gemma's eyes, then looked into the eyes of Raffaele.

And presently Madonna Gemma, peering from her chamber window, saw her husband, with a ghastly pretense of care, lead young Raffaele Muti down the hill into the darkness from which there came never a sound.

In the air that Madonna Gemma breathed was always a chill of horror.

if only one had a skin as soft, white, and delicate as a girl's!" At this Madonna Gemma left the table.

Because he was silent, deft, and daintier than a horse-boy ought to be, Lapo finally bade him serve Madonna Gemma.

Every morning, when he had inquired after Madonna Gemma's health, and had sent her all kinds of tidbits, he went down to sit among his men, to play morra, to test swordblades, to crack salty jokes, to let loose his husky guffaw.

Even while wearing that garmentat thought of which Madonna Gemma, isolate in her chamber, still shivered and moanedCercamorte resembled one who prepares himself for a wedding, or gallant rendezvous, that may take place any moment.

Madonna Gemma was alone, wrapped in a fur-lined mantle, warming her hands over an earthen pot full of embers.

" "All false, every word," Madonna Gemma answered.

The rays illuminated Madonna Gemma, who all the while had been standing close beside them.

" They led him upstairs, Lapo on one side, Madonna Gemma on the other, and Foresto lighting the way.

But quicker than Foresto was Madonna Gemma, who, with a deer's leap, imprisoned his arms from behind.

Madonna Gemma sat by the bed all day, and lay beside him at night.

Douglas Clark (C); 28Sep59; R242798. CLARK, JOHN P. Gemma Galgani.

Henry M. Robert III, Corinna Fowler Mathews, Gemma d'Auria Houston, Helen d'Auria Holt, Dewitt C. Redgrave, Jr. & Priscilla Redgrave Hague (NK); 14Apr71; R504509. ROBERT, HENRY M., III.

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