"Poco" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was only too glad to get off so easy. I don't know whether he'd really won the coat at monte or not. In any case, he flew poco pronto, leaving me ...
— Arizona Nights • Stewart Edward White
... flanked by the Polish Lancers and a strong huzzar brigade; a powerful artillery train supported the left, and an infantry force occupied the entire space between the right and the rising ground opposite Poco Velho. Farther to the right again, the column destined for the attack of Fuentes d'Onoro were forming, and we could see that, profiting by their past experience, they were bent upon attacking the village ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... might have been at a loss to reply. But the manly invocation of hell shows me that your foot is already on the upward path. If you had prefaced it by the adjective that gives colour to all the aspirations of the British Army, it would have been better. But I'm not reproaching you, laddie. Poco a poco. It is enough. It shows me you are not going to run away to a neutral country and present the unedifying spectacle of a mangy little British lion at the mercy of a menagerie of healthy hyenas and such-like inferior though ...
— The Rough Road • William John Locke
... school, and as it was an unprecedented fact, I was nicknamed "Gas." I was also once publicly rebuked by the head-master, Dr. Butler, for thus wasting my time on such useless subjects; and he called me very unjustly a "poco curante," and as I did not understand what he meant, it seemed to me ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I • Francis Darwin
... di un genitore, a cui era motta poco innanzi una figlia appena maritata: e diretto al ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron |
