The contadinilive in scattered houses; and he says the estate would be greatly improved by doubling the number of these dwellings, and letting the sub-divided farms to more energetic people.
I noticed two young contadini in one field, whom Frederick Walker might have painted with the dignity of Pheidian form.
Soon the sunlight was gone, and moonrise came to close the day, as we rolled onward to Sarzana, through arundo donax and vine-girdled olive trees and villages, where contadini lounged upon the bridges.
Coming out of this wood on the dusty road in the golden heat, between fields of cucumbers, you meet market carts and contadini returning from the city.
The contadini take an uncanny pleasure in showing us the way, in pointing out and naming the various sites that witnessed the struggle.
I tasted a sip or two of a flask which the contadini sent us for trial,-- the rich result of the process I had witnessed in the barrel.
The grass-grown pavement, which wound into the plain by a hundred graceful twists and plunges, was now given up to ragged contadini and their donkeys, and to such wayfarers as were not alarmed at the disrepair into which it had fallen.
The contadini from near and far had congregated in force and were crowding into the church or winding up the slope.
I took in the greater picture, but I lost nothing else; and I talked with the contadini about antique sculpture.
They are now represented by descendants from females, and by contadiniwho preserve their name and boast a pedigree of which they have no records.
Autumn comes, when the contadini of Lucca and Siena and Pistoja go forth to work in the unwholesome marshes of the Maremma, or of Corsica and Sardinia.
The contadini live in scattered houses; and he says the estate would be greatly improved by doubling the number of these dwellings, and letting the subdivided farms to more energetic people.
Down the long straight roads, between rows of poplars, they creep on; and on the shafts beneath the pyramid of fruit lie contadini stained with lees of wine.
Contadini crowded round the sacred images, and especially round the toe of S.
Though the Tuscan contadini are always singing, it rarely happens that The plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago.
Florence ought to take care of her own citizens, instead of opening her gates to famine and pestilence in the shape of starving contadini and alien mendicants.
It was half-past eight on the day of which I speak, and the shops were not yet open; the Piazza deserted but for a flock of goats and the attendant contadini who milked them from one door to another for their customers.
The contadini hospitably offered Kenyon a sample of the new liquor, that had already stood fermenting for a day or two.
But the contadini sometimes added, shaking their heads and sighing, that the young Count was sadly changed since he went to Rome.
But, first of all, I must summon one of the contadini from the farmhouse yonder, to take your horse to the stable.
The contadini (who, by this time, knew Kenyon well) found many clusters of ripe grapes for him, in every little globe of which was included a fragrant draught of the sunny Monte Beni wine.
At a door, that has been broken through the massive stonework where it was meant to be strongest, some contadini are winnowing grain.
He was almost as superstitious as the contadini among whom he labored.
Here, bright light from a casina where the contadiniare loading mules with grapes to be pressed in the city up there near the stars!
A Contadini showed me where thirty-seven braves are buried beneath a heap of wall that fell upon them in the shock of one cannonade.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contadini" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
