Though we might fill many pages with instances of the two great sins of the translator, commission and omission, the poco piu and poco meno, we will content ourselves with taking, ad aperturam libri, an example.
I In A major Poco sostenuto The laving tide of inarticulate air Breaks here in flowers as the sea in foam, But with no satin lisp of failing wave: The odor-laden winds are very still.
Spagna, et passo per Italia et per Germania in Fiandra, lascio impressione da per tutto che fosse d'animo severo et intrattabile; et pero fu poco grato a Italiani, ingratissimo a Fiamenghi et a Tedeschi odioso.
Et battendosi il petto come poteva, essendoli mancata la virtu a poco a poco, ritirandosi la vita quasi da membro in membro espiro con molta tranquilita et constanza.
En estepoco an tenido, y tenian entonces costumbre de echar hombres vivos en sacrificio a los dioses en tiempo de seca, y tenian no morian aunque no los veyan mas.
Had he been born in Poco Poco and reared on a ranch, it is at least likely that he would not have been a professor in an Eastern university.
Down in Poco Poco they tell some great tales about the old Indian gods going man-hunting by moonlight.
The biggest game of six years was pulled off down in Poco Poco last week and you wasn't there.
But I'm going to chip in now with this: I know that Last Ridge country from horn to tail, and all the gold that's in it or has ever been in it wouldn't buy a drink of bad whisky in Poco Poco.
The dreamy triplet passages of the poco a pocopiu mosso are comparable to galleries that connect the various blocks of buildings.
The story goes that Patti once sang "Una voce poco fa," with her own frills added, to Rossini, in Paris.
And yet she heeds them not: Tanto d'ogni altrui donopoco si cura Questa vaga angioletta umile e pura.
Such touches as the following:[41] Pensier canuto ne molto ne poco Si puo quivi albergare in alcun core: are wholly beyond the scope of Boiardo's style.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poco" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
