As much vocal virtuosity is required to interpret successfully the music of Falstaff, in Verdi's opera, as is necessary for Maometto secondo or Semiramide by Rossini.
"Style in Singing"
W. E. Haslam
Poor rates, quarter sessions, turnpikes, corn-laws, next assizes, rail-roads and parish matters, with a touch of the horse and dog between primo and secondo genitur, for variety.
"The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete"
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The air was still; the sky cloudless; a faint wind just breathing upon the deep, lightly bore its surface against the steps of a chapel in the island of Saint secondo, and waved the veil before its portal, as we rowed by and coasted the walls of its garden, overhung with fig-trees and topped with Italian pines.
"Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents"
William Beckford