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  • I will explain that a facchino is a general-utility domestic.

    The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories 1872

  • Doesn't the GOP want everyone to swear by marriage so every politician can cheat endlessly and still keep his wife at his side for campaigning ...? jaime facchino

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  • The priest's Italian was adequate, but hardly standard; it made the facchino grin with delight every time Ruiz opened his mouth.

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

  • The priest's Italian was adequate, but hardly standard; it made the facchino grin with delight every time Ruiz opened his mouth.

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

  • In New York itself, my friend told me, a facchino, or species of porter, or some such good-for-nothing, had said to him, including a slap on the shoulder,

    The Beautiful Lady Booth Tarkington 1907

  • A _facchino_ served us, with clumsy good-will; and when we had induced our nervous old host to sit down with us and partake of his own hospitality, we succeeded in forming a passably jolly dinner-party, forgetting over our sour wine and cigarettes the coming hours from ten until sunrise, which lay before us in a dubious mist.

    Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories Ralph Adams Cram 1902

  • He trotted nervously up and down the station for a minute, then he called the _facchino_.

    Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories Ralph Adams Cram 1902

  • A _facchino_ came in, and we four sat down and regarded the situation judicially.

    Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories Ralph Adams Cram 1902

  • It was with crowding apprehensions which we strove in vain to joke away that we set out at last to retrace our steps to the mysterious villa, the _facchino_ Giuseppe leading the way.

    Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories Ralph Adams Cram 1902

  • The _facchino_ was gone, and we waited anxiously for his return.

    Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories Ralph Adams Cram 1902

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