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"I was a slave in Tunisia. I was sent to Rome, and when I grew so large I was sold as a gladiator."

"The season was mild enough to encourage the project of extending the wedding journey as far as Rome, and Mr. Casaubon was anxious for this because he wished to inspect some manuscripts in the Vatican."

"Mrs. Casaubon, born Dorothea Brooke, had taken her wedding journey to Rome."

"They were not married then. I didn't know they were coming to Rome."

"Indeed I think it is one among several cities to which an extreme hyperbole has been applied— 'See Rome and die:' but in your case I would propose an emendation and say, See Rome as a bride, and live henceforth as a happy wife."

"I have gone about with just the same ignorance in Rome. There are comparatively few paintings that I can really enjoy."

"Mr. Casaubon gravely hoped that Will was passing his time profitably as well as pleasantly in Rome—had thought his intention was to remain in South Germany—but begged him to come and dine to-morrow, when he could converse more at large: at present he was somewhat weary."

"Oh, stay till Mr. Casaubon comes, said Dorothea, earnestly. I am so glad we met in Rome. I wanted to know you."

"Do you think it nice to go to Rome on a wedding journey?' said Celia, with her ready delicate blush which Dorothea was used to on the smallest occasions."

"“What do you think of foreign travel? You have been lately in Rome, I think.”"

"I have tried to learn a great deal since we were in Rome," said Dorothea."

"I should like you to stay very much," said Dorothea, at once, as simply and readily as she had spoken at Rome."

"… with those barriers of habitual sentiment which are more fatal to the persistence of mutual interest than all the distance between Rome and Britain."

"She had been at Rome, and visited the antiquities, as we know; and she always declined to call Mr. Casaubon anything but 'your master,' when speaking to the other servants."

"I might as well be at Rome; she would be no farther from me."

"The meeting was very different from that first meeting in Rome when Will had been embarrassed and Dorothea calm."

"Will thought that her face looked just as it did when she first shook hands with him in Rome; for her widow's cap, fixed in her bonnet, had gone off with it, and he could see that she had lately been shedding tears."

"…kept alive from a very little seed since the days in Rome—after her lost joy of clinging with silent love and faith to one who, misprized by others, was worthy in her thought…"

"Rome, Italy 1811–1989"

"winding suddenly round the hill, all Rome opened to our view."

"Being wholly intent on futurity, the bustle and tumults of a busy metropolis became so irksome that he supplicated Urban for leave to retire; and, having obtained it, left Rome, and immediately seeking the wilds of Calabria, there sequestered himself in a lonely hermitage."

"Rome 4 1 1 ... ..."

"non pas à Rome et à Venise, comme on l’avait supposé"

"when a load of white soldiers came in, fresh from battle outside Rome."

"For almost two hours she studied an old issue of Vogue she picked up in the poolhouse, her attention fixed particularly on the details of the life led in New York and Rome by the wife of an Italian industrialist."

"Mexico was my Paris and my Rome."

"‘But isn’t that silly?’ … ‘We could go to Paris and to Rome or to Jerusalem. I would dearly love to see the Colosseum.’"

"“I really wanna go to Greece, though. And Rome too.”"

"I’ll go further and say that after several short trips to Paris, Madrid, Rome, I realized that I’d been going in the wrong direction; the further east you got the further back in you were."

"on the walls those weird swatches of wallpaper you sometimes used to see in Italian restaurants: columns from Rome or Naples, with the Mediterranean in waves going off to the far comers of the room,"

"They were like the barbarians outside the gates of Rome, only they were already inside, polluting the creek and crapping in the woods, threatening people and spraying graffiti all over everything, and where was it going to end?"

"Griffin takes a deep breath and says, 'Hey, you wanna go to my house? Parents are in Rome for Christmas."

"“Oh, very good, very good. I just got back from Rome.”"

"…is supposed to feel like ancient Rome (that is, if the streets of ancient Rome were lined with homeless black people, bomb-sniffing dogs, tour buses, and cherry blossoms)."

"I knew better than to expect Rome, Nairobi, Cairo, or Kyoto."