In Turin we saw the scene of the riot--the "grosser rebellion," which our carabinieri friend told us about.
The cocked hats of the Italian carabinieri are as wide as their handsome shoulders and they make striking figures.
We had been looking with admiration at the carabinierifor days.
So rigid are the precautions against unauthorized visitors that, though accompanied by two officers of the Staff and travelling in a staff-car, we were halted by the Carabinieri and our papers examined seven times.
A strong force of Carabinieri were the first troops to enter the city, and not until they had taken complete possession and had assumed the reins of the local government, were the line troops permitted to come in.
There stand two Carabinieri in their splendid uniforms, surveying this noisy world; an officer passes with his wife, leading his son by the hand; you may see him lift his sword as he steps on the pavement.
The captive brigands were absolutely impassive: not a glance: only, as the small train puffed onward, one of them lifted a manacled arm behind one of the carabinieri and made a singular sign to some one.
Each is topped by two slender towers, and is wide enough to allow only one vehicle to pass at a time, and at each there is a guard of Carabinieri in their grey lantern-hats, to stop and examine all questionable traffic.
The traffic block grew worse and worse, and there were too few Carabinieri to exercise proper control.
The carabinieri came at a double to the rescue of the Victorious Tartuca, for the men of the Oca were attempting to mob him.
A patrol of horse carabinieri galloped round the course.
Donkeys are not allowed inside, and we thought probably not horses either, but the carabinieri came in and showed us the way down.
The carabinieri were always near, opened two or three gates for us, and only left us when we were quite close to the town, well past the gates of the Aldobrandini Villa.
The piazza was fairly crowded (but not the compact mass we used to see in the old days when the Pope gave the Easter blessing from the balcony), all the Colonnade guarded by Italian troops, carabinieri and bersaglieri.
The sergeant in command of the carabinieri stepped up to the car, saluted, and curtly asked for our papers.
At one side of the road was a picket of Italian carabinieri in field-gray uniforms, their huge cocked hats rendered a shade less anachronistic by covers of gray linen, with carbines slung over their shoulders, hunter fashion.
Out rushed the valiant carabinieri with the air of men hurrying to a storm, cleaving their way through the crowd--striking, buffeting, trampling all before them.
These scoundrels have their agents in every town, men who keep them informed as to persons travelling, whom it would be worth while to capture, and of any movements of the carabinieri in their direction.
As soon as he learned that a strong force of carabinieri had been ordered out in pursuit, he had returned to the hut occupied by his chief.
Then the carabinieri would use every effort to kill those who were in the secret, and being in earnest for once, they probably did kill the chief and those with him.
The captain of the carabinieri testified that he had found an English portmanteau and many articles, some of which bore the initials "L.
Yes, it would be a grand exploit," the sergeant said eagerly, "for us to accomplish what the Neapolitan troops and carabinieri have so long failed to do.
Carabinieri are not allowed to marry so long as they are in service, or rather they may marry but only on condition of depositing a sum of money which is fixed at an amount beyond anything they are likely to be able to lay their hands on.
Lean-visaged, swarthy men peered forth from the folds of shawls or from beneath shapeless caps of many colors; a pair of carabinieri idled past, a soldier in jaunty feathered hat posed before the contadini.
That is why he comes and goes and the carabinieri can never trace him.
I must ride down to San Sebastiano and meet the colonel of carabinieri from Messina.
Now, however, he seems real enough, and I learn that thecarabinieri believe in his existence.
Four carabinieri were sent to the appointed place, ahead of time, with directions to conceal themselves, and Ferara carried out his part of the programme.
If he were flesh and blood the carabinieri would certainly have caught him--there were enough of them.
Three carabinieri entered furtively, they noticed what was on the floor, lying by the wall, but did not disturb it, they had other business in hand and concealed themselves behind doors and furniture.
The three carabinieri came from their hiding and took him.
After them came the maresciallo dei carabinieri in the uniform he wears for a festa, with a plume in his three-cornered hat.
I pointed to one which I knew to be the Palazzo dei Carabinieri at a corner of a street leading out of the station piazza, but my porter replied: "You are looking at a corner of it and can only see two walls.
Four Dominican monks were next attacked--they had not taken part in the demonstration; it was enough for the carabinieri that they belonged to the Yugoslav party.
Near Šibenik the boat collided with the isle of Zlarin; he and the other prisoners attempted to get out of their cabin, but carabinieri kept them there by flourishing revolvers in their faces.
Whenever anybody uttered one of the forbidden exclamations one or more of the carabinieri would fling themselves into the crowd and attempt, with the help of vigorous kicking, to reach the culprit.
Because of this the carabinieri took him to the military headquarters.
People were not rushing towards us, but away from us--with furious carabinieri behind them.
The people of Korčula, not being allowed to take the men to their houses, came down quietly to the harbour with coffee and bread, but the carabinieri drove them away.
The carabinieri were being helped by soldiers--one of these I saw in the act of loading his rifle--and the noise was tremendous.
The encounter ended in three carabinieri and seven or eight soldiers being wounded.
Numbers of the soldiers, marines and carabinieri may have been animated, when they landed in Dalmatia, with excellent intentions, but their months amid an alien population had produced in them too often a deplorable effect.
The carabinieri cut up their bread, put it on their knees and then, without unbinding the ropes, left them to eat it as best they could.
Commands, menaces, blows inflicted by carabinieri and officers, houses searched night after night, and so on.
Then there was hell let loose, the carabinieri fired back, and people were bolting and fighting like devils.
The carabinieri were busy arresting the men who had fallen and been trodden underfoot, or who had foolishly let themselves be taken; perhaps half a dozen men, half a dozen prisoners; less rather than more.
A sudden startling challenge of trumpets, and out of nowhere a sudden rush of grey-green carabinieri battering the crowd wildly with truncheons.
In utmost amazement he saw the greeny-grey uniformed carabinieri rushing thick and wild and indiscriminate on the crowd: a sudden new excited crowd in uniforms attacking the black crowd, beating them wildly with truncheons.
Grey carabinieri, and carabinieri in the cocked hat and fine Sunday uniform pressed forward officiously.
The next moment a dozen carabinieri swept into sight, the moonlight gleaming brightly on their white cross-belts and polished mountings.
Those carabinieri are not guarding the roads for nothing.
They were talking of the soldiers; a large detachment of carabinieri had been stationed at Palestrina, and the mountain roads were being patrolled.
The first thing in the morning, I shall send into Palestrina for some carabinieri to patrol the place.
It seems that thesecarabinieri have remark-able memories; the old affair.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carabinieri" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
