beretta
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The Bleichrode panel had begun life poorly but honestly as a Franciabigio—a portrait of an unknown Florentine lad with a beretta, the type of which Raphael's portrait of himself is the most famous example.
From The Collectors by Mather, Frank Jewett
One design—a man throwing his face back, and singing, while he plays a mandoline; with long thick hair and fanciful beretta; behind him a fine line of cypress and other trees—struck me as singularly lovely.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington
He smiled and nodded a greeting; then, with his eyes half closed, his lips moving in prayer, his beretta well over his forehead, he followed his surpliced bodyguard, walking in the direction of the sea.
From Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories by Maupassant, Guy de
About his neck he had a white stole, over an arm a snowy maniple, upon his head a priestly beretta.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
The figure stood motionless in the shadow of a column, muffled in a long black mantle, a black beretta partially concealing the face.
From A Golden Book of Venice by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.
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