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Capella   /kəpˈɛlə/   Listen
Capella

noun
1.
The brightest star in Auriga.
2.
Snipes.  Synonyms: Gallinago, genus Capella, genus Gallinago.



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"Capella" Quotes from Famous Books



... two before the war the quality of his mind and of his style was revealed in THE SEA AND THE JUNGLE—a "narrative of the voyage of the tramp steamer Capella, from Swansea to Para in the Brazils, and thence two thousand miles along the forests of the Amazon and Madeira Rivers to the San Antonio Falls," returning by Barbados, Jamaica, and Tampa. Its author called it merely "an honest book of travel." It is that no doubt; but ...
— Old Junk • H. M. Tomlinson

... VI.'s reign, when a contemporary writer describes it as a quadrangular edifice, enclosed within high walls and towers and constructed in most noble style, and tho it was all most beautiful to look upon, there were three parts of transcendent beauty: the Audientia, the Capella major, and the terraces: and these were so admirably planned and contrived that peradventure no palace comparable to it was to be found in the whole world. The terraces referred to were those raised over the great chapel, and were formed of stone, bedded in asphalt and laid on a staging of stout ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 • Various

... fighting gladiator, are all perfect on the just principles I have mentioned. There is no room for amendment; their propriety is unquestionable; their truth eternal. And so in the works of modern art, we see the same truth and perfection in the Capella Sestina by Michael Angelo, in the Supper by Leonardo da Vinci at Milan, in the Cartoons by Raphael, the St. Peter Martyr by Titian, and the Note ...
— The Life, Studies, And Works Of Benjamin West, Esq. • John Galt

... himself to us,—Tom Rendel and me,—one morning soon after we reached Palermo, when, in the first bewilderment of architects in this paradise of art and colour, we were working nobly at our sketches in that dream of delight, the Capella Palatina. He was himself an amateur archaeologist, he told us, and passionately devoted to his island; so he felt impelled to speak to anyone whom he saw appreciating the almost—and in a way fortunately—unknown beauties of Palermo. In a little ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) - Ghost Stories • Various



Words linked to "Capella" :   Scolopacidae, family Scolopacidae, Gallinago media, bird genus, great snipe, giant star, a capella singing, Gallinago, giant, Auriga, woodcock snipe, genus Gallinago, genus Capella, whole snipe, Gallinago gallinago, Gallinago gallinago delicata, Wilson's snipe, charioteer



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