On one of these Sundays I found Roman boys playing an inscrutable game among the busts of their storied compatriots, a sort of "I spy" or "Hide and go whoop," counting who should be "It" in an Italian version of "Oneary, ORY, ickORY, an," and then scattering in every direction behind the plinths and bushes.
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Opera, 1827 48. Le Comte ORY.
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129. What does ORY signify?
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