My gondola is a black sea-swan: San Marco and the shaft Of the slim Campanile steal Into my trance and leave a seal Upon my senses, like the feel Of long enchantment quaffed: Of long enchantments such as songs Of sage Al Raschid waft.
My gondola is a black sea-swan, And makes her mystic way From door to phantom water-door, While carven balconies hang o'er And casements framed for love say more Than love can ever say.
My gondola is a black sea-swan-- Rialto lies behind.
If the length of 9 inches has been decided on, the width of the gondola should be 1-1/4 inches.
Yffim Beg hastened to announce the prohibition, and when the skiffs had departed one by one from the ship, he got into the general's curtained gondola and had himself rowed over to the ship of Haji Baba.
Yet it must not be inferred from this that you are necessarily obliged to use a gondola in order to visit the various parts of the city; for its structure is as follows.
I am not fond of gaudy colours in general, yet I do think a gondola should have a somewhat livelier color than black.
The barge anchored near the Post office and I hired a gondola to convey me to the inn called Le Regina d'Ungheria.
I have visited in a gondolasome of the islands, viz.
I then hired a gondola for four days successively and visited every canal and every part of the city.
But when thegondola was out of sight of the house she wished she knew whether he had looked out or not.
The gondola was therefore a great convenience, besides being a notable economy, and old Francesco Sansovino says that in his day, which was within a lifetime of Angelo Beroviero's, there were nine or ten thousand gondolas in Venice.
In this mood Marietta entered the gondola and seated herself by her father on Sunday morning.
He desires you to bring his gondola at once to fetch him, and I am to bring over his baggage in my skiff.
Marietta had got into the gondola without so much as glancing across the canal to see whether Zorzi were standing there to see them push off, as he often did when she and her father went out together.
Pasquale, who had never done such a thing in his life, actually went out upon the footway to the steps and steadied the gondola by the gunwale while Venier got in.
The porter bowed low as the gondola pushed off, and Giovanni leaned back in the comfortable seat, to repeat again and again in his mind what he meant to say if he succeeded in speaking with the Governor.
The occupant of the gondola might be Contarini himself, coming home.
The gondola pushed off when Beroviero had disappeared under the 'felse' with a final wave of the hand.
By the time the gondola drew alongside of the steps of the Foscarini palace, Marietta was convinced that there was nothing for her but to submit to her fate.
They had reached the gondola by this time, and as the servant sat within hearing at the open door of the 'felse,' they could not continue talking about such a matter.
The gondola glided on, under the Baker's Bridge, but Zorzi could not see whether it went further or not; he thought he heard the sound of the oar, as if it were going away.
The gondola was waiting there, and Beroviero pushed Zorzi gently before him.
Almost every moment you expect your gondola to collide with some other; but by some timely turn the two glide gracefully by each other without touching.
By this time, as there is a gondola near, we, like Jonah, pay the fare thereof, and go down into it.
As thegondola glides swiftly over the waters of the great highway of Venice there comes into sight a group of palaces which occupies the only real angle of the Grand Canal.
Count Karl von Sinzig left his breakfast untasted and hurried along the catwalk to the gondola from which the observation basket was hung.
More Huns emerging from the for'ard gondola of Z64 confirmed the man's statement.
The baronet had noticed a tongue of flame issuing from the centre gondola of Z64.
Of course they had a gondola for their own private use; but Erika was not fond of availing herself of it.
Erika, when, after leaving Constance at home, the two were alone in the gondola on their way to the 'Britannia.
Sssh--sssh--the strokes of the oars sounded monotonously in her ears: the gondola glided rapidly over the water.
The guttering candles in the gondola were burned almost into the sockets.
My gondola had not yet reached the bridge that spans this canal when I heard a loud splash in the water.
Well, you certainly have turned that poor fellow's head," Countess Lenzdorff remarked, leaning back comfortably among the cushions of the gondola as she and Erika were being rowed home.
At the appointed time Luedecke carried down to the gondola the portmanteau containing the gown in which Lozoncyi had seen Erika at Frau von Neerwinden's, and in which he had wished to immortalize her.
She had gone patiently in the gondola from one palazzo to another, and with a pale, calm face had answered question after question as to the terrible catastrophe which her timely presence had been the means of preventing.
He got into his gondola again, uncertain what to do.
He says the Countess Erika left it in the gondola yesterday after the accident,--after the fright, I mean: he told me all about it.
She seemed to be looking for the spot where the gondola the previous night had passed through the silvery radiance of the moonlight.
Really distressed, and a little ashamed of having of late somewhat neglected the poor creature, Erika had a gondola called, and went immediately to the Pension Weber.
Where thegondola had passed there lay a broad moon-glade upon the black water, and mingling with the swampy odour of the lagoon Erika could perceive the breath of spring.
In about a quarter of an hour the gondolastopped before a light-green door with an iron lion's head in the centre of it.
Shortly afterwards Erika found a gondola in which she reached the hotel.
The last strain of distant music now died in air, for the gondola was far upon the waves, and the party determined to have music of their own.
In the evening Cavigni joined the ladies, but Montoni had other engagements; and they embarked in the gondola for St. Mark's, where the same gay company seemed to flutter as on the preceding night.
We see staid families, with prayer-book and beads, enter thegondola dressed in their Sunday best, and float away to church.
The Venetian gondola is as free and graceful, in its gliding movement, as a serpent.
The gondola is painted black because in the zenith of Venetian magnificence the gondolas became too gorgeous altogether, and the Senate decreed that all such display must cease, and a solemn, unembellished black be substituted.
This the famed gondolaand this the gorgeous gondolier!
On his arrival at Fusina the Emperor found the Venetian authorities awaiting him, embarked on the 'peote' or gondolaof the village, and advanced towards Venice, accompanied by a numerous floating cortege.
The Emperor was standing at the back of the peote, and, as each gondola passed near his own, replied to the acclamations and cries of "Viva Napoleone imperatore e re!
The Lord Mayor, according to time-honored custom, must take a trip in a gondola from one of the City bridges to Westminster.
The Lord Mayor's gondola is either rowed by his own bargemen, or it is taken in tow by a steam-tug.
I then called my boatmen, and desired them to get the gondola ready, and conduct her to her own house again, seeing carefully that she did herself no mischief by the way.
The moment I could get out, I took a gondola and went to pay my respects, and to thank his Lordship for his attentions.
One sunny day, as he was sailing in the Grand Canal in a gondola with Stella, he pointed to a beautiful old palazzo.
When we arrived, only one gondola was on duty, the gondolier muffled to his eyes in glistening oilskins, his sou'wester hat tied under his chin.
The motion of the gondola appeared to have a soothing influence on the mind of the invalid.
George, as he rose in the gondola to catch a last glimpse of the Piazzetta, "sea girt city!
It was not long ere the glittering prow of the gondola pointed to Venice.
You won't want me in the gondola just now, I'm sure.
On our way home we dropped from our gondola to have a look at this sacred building.
Nurses are out in the gondola with babies for an airing, and to pass away the sunny hours on the waters.
So, for almost all purposes, thegondola is useful.
From the busy, bustling railway station we were concluded by a Fakena, who brought up our luggage to a gondola lying in the shimmering sea just outside.
Business men come or go in the gondola as we do here in cab or motor.
No cabs or ’bus as at other stations, the gondola seemed to be everywhere.
The gondola is a most handy and quick means of getting about.
So we departed, our gondola was at our hotel door early, we settled up, he swung out and we were at the station and caught the 9.
Just get us a gondola and two rowers, will you, for Torcello.
Venice is the home of the Venetian, and also where the gondola has its nest and rears its young.
The gondola is a long, slim hack without wheels and is worked around through the damp streets by a brunette man whose breath should be a sad framing to us all.
