Petrarch
['pet,ra:k]
Examples
- And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the scene of action. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Though his love was as chaste as that of Petrarch for his Laura, it had made fetters of what previously was only a difficulty. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- My tutor read to me this morning, an anecdote of Petrarch, the celebrated Italian poet. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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