rus in urbe
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All of them offer a family-friendly taste of rus in urbe and a chance to meet domesticated animals.
From The Guardian • Jul. 24, 2012
The youngest of famous capitals, it already holds its own with the best of its kind for grandeur and the rus in urbe charm.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 by Various
After the departure of the Legate, Petrarch retired to his rus in urbe.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
The atmosphere pure and cheerful; the spaces open and delightful; meadows, fields, vines, groves, nay, I may say, a rus in urbe.
From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William
There ain't enough rus in urbe about it to suit me.
From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by Henry, O.
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