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Below the Sorrentine heights, perhaps in General Clark's office-truck headquarters, the American and Briton met.

From Time Magazine Archive

One day, under German mortar fire, he picked a careful way behind stone walls up the limestone and pumice heights of the Sorrentine peninsula.

From Time Magazine Archive

Does it not recall Sorrento and the exquisite Sorrentine landscape—that moonlight on the sea?

From Sir Noel's Heir A Novel by Fleming, May Agnes

The bed of the earth, itself, in all that region, appears to have been but the vomitings of volcanoes; and the Sorrentine passes his peaceable life in the bed of an extinguished crater.

From The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas by Cooper, James Fenimore

Does it not recall Sorrento, and the exquisite Sorrentine landscape—that moonlight on the sea?

From Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir by Fleming, May Agnes