It occurred to him, with a pang of dismay, that in the absence of any cicerone he might go away no wiser than he had come, and he remembered with regret the personally conducted tour he had made through the Reynolds Club.
Michael Angelo's speech about them is inserted in every guide-book, and repeated by every cicerone who shows them.
Americans visiting Dusseldorf find an efficient and able cicerone in Henry Lewis, Esq.
Being admitted through the curious old oaken wicket to the inner court, the attendant cicerone will lead the visitor to several objects in due succession: the most remarkable are .
The cicerone told me nothing more, but one could fill several volumes if he wished to collect all the traditions of the Cid which are current in Spain.
While I was reading these words thecicerone told me a popular legend about the death of the hero.
The Cicerone suddenly sprang forward with a despairing gesture to prevent her.
He attempted to rise, but was too late; she had evaded the Cicerone by ducking, and, facing in the direction of the Barbarian, clapped the hat on her head.
Come; as you have a friend with you, I will be your cicerone myself about the house, and show you whatever mouldy objects of interest it contains.
That occupying the niche to the right, my Cicerone recognised to be Krésna.
The chapel immediately opposite (on the south side) contains some handsome tombs, and another picture, representing the Virgin, attributed by the ciceroneof the place to Michael Angelo.
Here the cicerone directs your attention to an old half-rotten oaken chest, fixed against the wall at a considerable height.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleugh proved a noble host and hostess, but they could provide no such cicerone for the Queen as was furnished for George IV.
As I wished to see the harbour called in former times Centum cellae and now Civita-Vecchia, I gave up the remainder of my time to that visit, and I proceeded there with a cicerone who spoke Latin.
He gave me a pleasant welcome, shewed me his library, and entrusted me to the care of one of his abbes, a man of parts, who acted as my cicerone every where.
I thought the arrangement very ingenious and during the day I sent the cicerone to tell her the hour at which I intended to leave, and where I would wait for her outside of the Porto del Popolo.
I had almost forgotten the handsome adventuress, when, two days before my departure, my cicerone gave me the information that he had found out where she lived, and that she was with the same officer.
In the north wall is the monument of the Infante Alfonso, their son; and against the south wall is a sort of throne with very lofty and elaborate canopy, which is said by the cicerone to be for the use of the priest who says mass.
No attentive and intelligent cicerone anticipated our reflections in this place; nor did the creature-comforts of a good inn debase our Roman reveries, though we could well have pardoned their so doing.
Mr. Samuel Erin was not indeed a very good cicerone to such a spot, for folks of their age; though he would have been invaluable to some distinguished foreigner with a thirst for information.
The governor had told him also to offer himself as cicerone for the morrow, the cart having been ordered for our trip to Dechani.
The duty to see is indeed the death of real vision; the official cicerone leads you anywhere but to the place or thing that you are in the mood to behold or understand.
Germans arriving, led by the fever-shaken ciceronewhose aid I had a little earlier refused.
Not at all, it was the call of the cicerone who had something to impart.
We stayed, silently musing at the windows, till the old cicerone ventured to remind us that his time was precious.
A very dirty village, a dirtier hotel, and a cicerone all rags and ruffianism, are somewhat dampers to anticipation.
The cicerone knew nothing about it, and I dismissed her and went into a cafe.
They had agreed to see the Carnival at Rome that year, and that Franz, who for the last three or four years had inhabited Italy, should act as cicerone to Albert.
The horses only arrived at two o'clock, and the cicerone did not bring the passport till three.
The cicerone reclosed the door, and sprang up by the side of the coachman.
Franz and Albert descended, the carriage approached the palace; their excellencies stretched their legs along the seats; the cicerone sprang into the seat behind.
