"Vino" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... doh'noo ahl mee ee'ohn to drink | trinki | pohr trin'kee A bottle of wine | Botelo da vino | bo-teh'lo dah vee'no What wines will | Kiajn vinojn vi | kee'ahyn vee'noyn vee you have? | deziras? | dehzeer'ahss? Here is the list | Jen la listo | yehn la leest'oh This wine is flat | Tiu cxi vino | tee'oo chee vee'no | sengustigxis | sehn-goost-ee'jees What do I owe? | Kiom mi sxuldas? | kee'ohm mee | | shool'dahss? What is the | Kiom estas? | kee'ohm eh'stahss? charge? ...
— Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation • William W. Mann
... So Pliny, "Hist. Nat." xxv. 95: "Remedio est (cicutae), priusquam perveniat ad vitalia, vini natura excalfactoria: sed in vino pota ...
— Plutarch's Morals • Plutarch
... et cenam paravit. At Hercules postquam cenavit, vinum a Pholo postulavit. Erat autem in spelunca magna amphora vino optimo repleta, quam centauri ibi deposuerant. Pholus igitur hoc vinum dare nolebat, quod reliquos centauros timebat; nullum tamen vinum praeter hoc in spelunca habebat. "Hoc vinum," inquit, "mihi commissum est. Si igitur hoc dabo, centauri me interficient." Hercules tamen ...
— Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader • John Kirtland, ed.
... prima da Noe, E fu cagion lo vin, perche si egge: Ch' egli e un paese, dove Son molti servi in parte di Cathay: Che per questa cagione Hanno a nimico il vino, E non ne ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... suddenly before me across the vineyards and fields, broken walls, of any mediaeval city you please, and hiding, it would seem, emptiness behind them. The desolation of this distant city, with its foreground of squalid hovels, and ill-favoured wine shop and smithies where the very inscriptions, "Vino di Marino," or "Ferracocchio," or "Ova di Giornata," look as if a megalomaniac, escaped from an asylum, had dipped a brush into a paint-pot and splashed all over; this foreground of vague tombs, masonry heaven ...
— The Spirit of Rome • Vernon Lee
... with duty, and all the mere animal instincts and sentiments are laid atrociously bare. The coward shows up more craven, the braggart more boastful, the cruel more merciless, the untruthful more false, the carnal more degraded. 'In vino veritas' expresses, even, indeed, to physiological accuracy, the true condition. The reason, the emotions, the instincts, are all in a state of ...
— Grappling with the Monster • T. S. Arthur |
