beretta
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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.
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
Of its present numbers all, at some period of their lives, held high office under the Republic—they were senators, secretaries of state, ambassadors—and three among that little group of thirty lived to wear the beretta.
From A Golden Book of Venice by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.
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
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)
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