When Rinaldo degli Albizzi was banished by the vigorous conduct of Cosmo de' Medici, Machiavel tells us the expelled man sent Cosmo a menace, in a proverb, La gallina covava!
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)"
Isaac Disraeli
Jugamos a la gallina ciega en los bosques.
"Libro segundo de lectura"
Ellen M. Cyr
In England we hardly know what a concentrated homeliness it nourishes; inasmuch as, with us, the castes and classes for whom Goldoni and gallina and Signor Fogazzaro have written in the patois of the Veneto, use no dialect at all.
"Essays"
Alice Meynell