"Viva" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... curtain rises, and straightway we are in Seville—Seville, after Pentonville! Count Alma-viva, lordly, gallant, and gay beneath his disguise, twangs his guitar, and what sounds issue from it! For every instrument that was ever invented is in ...
— Peter Ibbetson • George du Marier et al
... is impossible to give the full significance of Dante's words in a literal translation, owing to the double meaning of pieta in the original. Qui viva la pieta quando e ben morta. That is: "Here liveth piety when pity is ...
— The Divine Comedy, Volume 1, Hell [The Inferno] • Dante Alighieri
... was called 'Il Barone,' so that when he passed through the land many cried 'Viva Il Barone!' and the ...
— Stray Studies from England and Italy • John Richard Green
... it," said the priest, fiercely: "you know it. Besides, I hold here the mandate of the King;" and he brandished the paper, shouting at the same time, "Viva el Rey!" at which all the men caught up the same cry and ...
— A Castle in Spain - A Novel • James De Mille
... see that coal was used where needed, and that it was not needed too frequently, that fleeces were not broken, and were thoroughly burred and nicely tied; and the Mexicans, ceaselessly chattering, singing, laughing, calling jokes to each other, crying, "Viva Rito!" "Viva Encarnacion!" ran for their checks, dashed in for their sheep, and kept the shears clashing, while the perplexed ewe, with an uproar perhaps more distinctly justifiable, called to the lamb she had left in the pen, and the lamb answered cry for cry. All this went ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 • Various
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