It is a relief to mark at no great distance on the hill-side a contadino guiding his oxen, and from a lonely farm yon column of ascending smoke.
Far and wide, the country round us gleamed with bonfires; for it was the eve of the Ascension, when every contadino lights a beacon of chestnut logs and straw and piled-up leaves.
A waggon drawn by two white oxen has just entered its channel, guided by a contadino with goat-skin leggings, wielding a long goad.
It is a relief to mark at no great distance on the hillside a contadino guiding his oxen, and from a lonely farm yon column of ascending smoke.
Then the contadino or asinaio had Bagnai brought before the Podesta, and claimed damages for his injured animal.
First of all he got two jars, and paid a contadino to catch for him as many living vipers as would fill them both, saying it was for the apothecary of his convent to make teriaca or Venetian treacle, which is a cure for serpents' bites.
Yet it was a trifling adventure such as a country girl would perhaps ponder on till some ruddy contadino made acceptable love to her, when she would break her resolution of secrecy and get at the truth that she was free.
Hitherto she had met no one but an occasional contadino with mules, and the many turnings of the road on the level prevented her from seeing that Maso was not very far ahead of her.
Here they felt no better off and were afraid of the houses falling on them, but Giuseppe's soldier servant, Giulio Giuli, a contadino of Nocera, appeared among them.
This occurred in the house of a contadino who was standing with a lighted candle in his hand and had brought his wife.
At another he believed that his fear had played him a trick, that the movements of the figure were those of an old man, some plodding contadino of the hills.
The suspicion, the intensity of the bargaining contadino came to the surface.
One day Gaspare told him a story of a contadino who had bought a house in the village, but who, being unable to complete the payment, had been turned out into the street.
She saw only an old contadino in a long woollen cap riding slowly into the recesses of the hills on a donkey, and a small boy leading his goats to pasture.
In one of Thackeray's novels occurs a mention of a young artist who sent to the Royal Academy a picture representing "A Contadino dancing with a Trasteverina at the door of a Locanda, to the music of a Pifferaro.
The contadino and the contadino's wife were for once satisfied with the same thing.
The house of a contadino has less changed than almost any other building in Italy.
The very man," said the contadino to himself; "he'll tell me just what I ought to do.
At the house of the contadino all went on favourably likewise.
The contadino was glad to get away unquestioned; and, unlocking the door, he issued forth from his house.
Rafael spoke to the smiling contadino and asked if they might follow him to the harvest.
If Andrea, a contadino by birth, an artisan by education, was not originally of the most refined nature, his artistic training did not go far towards refining him.
It is a painting in encaustic, and has been used as a door for his oven by the contadino who dug it up--yet it remains a marvel of genius.
When the year's lease was up, the contadino wrote to her declining to renew it.
All the latent superstition that dwells in the contadino was stirred as dust by a wind.
The fancy pleased him, and he talked awhile with the contadino about the things he had found in the galleries that honeycomb for miles the whole Campagna.
Even the old contadino was on his way back to his wretched hut, and as he passed he begged his excellency to get back to the railway with the most rapid expedition.
An old contadinocame up suspiciously to watch the stranger; Audouin offered him the remainder of the wine, and the man drank it off at a gulp and thanked his excellency with Italian profuseness.
Audouin let the man run on as long as he chose, and when the contadino was tired of conversation, he lay back upon the dry yellow grass, and thought bitterly to himself about life and fate, and Gwen and Hiram.
Would his excellency buy a coin, thecontadino went on slowly, with the insinuating Roman begging whine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contadino" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
