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relating to Venice or its people- She has a collection of Venetian glass.
- The Venetians joined with France against the Duke of Milan,Nicolo Machiavelli -- The Prince
- ROXANE (lifting her head, and looking down the distant alley): Soft golden brown, like a Venetian's hair.Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
- The view out of my window, covered with venetian blinds, was old cypress trees draped in gray swaying moss.Peter Jenkins -- A Walk Across America
- In a book, called "the Golden Book," were recorded the names of all the children of Venetian noblemen.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- The only thing behind the Venetian blind is a hollow where a window should be.Haruki Murakami -- After Dark
- Then she saw the Venetian mirror down in the chimney's craw, flat and face-up in the cinders.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- I stood there, in total amazement at the striking of the bell in the Torre dell'Orologio, at the incredible paintings, at the rich Venetian colors.Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
- He moves to the window shaded by venetian blinds, pulls the cord to open the slats.Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
- XXV THE VISIT TO LORD POCOCURANTE, A NOBLE VENETIAN.Voltaire -- Candide
- The designer jeans emporium, the Venetian paper knickknack shop, the stocking boutique with its kicking neon leg.Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
- That day I crossed the Venetian plain.Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms
- As I served the hot chocolate and tidied the chamber, Madam rubbed her face with Venetian Bloom Water beauty wash, said to remove wrinkles.Laurie Halse Anderson -- Chains
- I was the other day talking on the sea bank with certain Venetians, and thither comes the bauble, and falls thus about my neck,— OTHELLO.William Shakespeare -- Othello, the Moor of Venice
- When he returned to his office, Henderson adjusted the venetian blinds on his window, though the sun was on the other side of the building.Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
- Though the Venetian blinds were down, light was filtering through the chinks, and the air stiflingly hot already.Albert Camus -- The Stranger
- The door was open to the street, no passers-by but Chinese, though at the windows the Venetian blinds slitted the sunlight as if everyone were hiding.Maxine Hong Kingston -- The Woman Warrior
- The venetian blinds were closed.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
- The huge Venetian boatman behind him looked dreamily over Vic's shoulder.Stephen King -- Carrie
- Before the cocktails appeared, in old Venetian glass, Martin demanded, "Doctor, what problems are you getting after now in your physiology?"Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
Venetians = people of Venice
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