Pisan
Americannoun
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Pisans
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Pisan pictured a city of women; Lincoln believed in union; King had a dream.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2017
The peacock dinner is suggested twice in Pound’s Pisan Cantos, which he wrote, accompanied only by his memories, decades later while imprisoned for treason in a six-foot-by-six-foot cage:
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 24, 2015
He wrote his acclaimed Pisan Cantos during his stay.
From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 25, 2013
“Over the years, he’s adjusted to all these issues, different decades, different players, changing times,” Pisan said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2012
Other Pisan works of like date are very barbarous, and some of them may be also from the hand of Giunta.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
Intruders have been leaving their footprints ever since: Phoenicians, Romans, Pisans, Catalans, billionaire yachtsmen, crabby and indolent writers.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2014
The request was ignored by Pisans, who complained that a reduced water supply would greatly inconvenience the townspeople and local industry in the middle of a hot summer.
From Time Magazine Archive
But quarrels broke out with the Pisans, who were his allies, and with Pope Innocent, for whose cause he was fighting, and he finally set out for Germany, without even visiting Rome.
From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Bayard Taylor
Uguccione da Faggiuola with the Pisans took the city of Lucca and stole the treasure of the Church.
From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Giovanni Villani
Certainly they rode out to Cerretello, whither the Pisans had marched with their army, and they forced them to withdraw from it again, as though defeated, in the month of October.
From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Giovanni Villani
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