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Examples
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“You are lying,” roared Raskolnikov without restraint, “you lie, you damned punchinello!” and he rushed at Porfiry who retreated to the other door, not at all alarmed.
Crime and Punishment 2002
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He even discovers an Italian punchinello figuring in a Danish puppet-show; and as it was during the month of August that he found himself in Denmark, the weather was not such as to dispel his illusions.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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Yet the public of Vienna are extravagantly fond of display in all its shapes; and punchinello, or a dance of dogs, would bring a head to every pane of glass, from the roof to the ground.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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That ugly couple on the porch of the apple-sauce and wash-pitcher boarding-house -- the mother a mute, dwarfish punchinello, and the daughter a drab woman of forty with a mole, a wart,
The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918
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You are lying, roared Raskolnikov without restraint, you lie, you damned punchinello!
Chapter V. Part IV 1917
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You take very little notice at the time: more of their quaint punchinello _chinoiserie, _ you say.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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"Come, my little punchinello, tell me, now, why have you come back?"
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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"Come, my little punchinello, tell me, now, why have you come back?"
The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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"Come, my little punchinello, tell me, now, why have you come back?"
The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Volume 1 Gilbert Parker 1897
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Throughout the volumes of the Diary there are few things of which he speaks with franker and more enthusiastic delight than the enjoyment which he derives from punchinello.
Among Famous Books John Kelman 1896
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