One word to his gondolier and in two hours he could be on the train for Milan, Paris, London--then indefinite years of turning about in the crowd, of jostling and being jostled.
There the gondolier labored in the viscous sea- grass.
So they gathered their thoughts and followed the gondolier to the bank.
Irma gave a little scream, but already the gondolier had pushed his craft away so adroitly that they barely felt the swash.
The gondolier was not aware of what had happened; and my uncle, though he knew very well, uttered no complaint.
The gondolier ran up, weeping bitterly and begging to be pardoned.
La Putta Onorata obtained a similar success, and met with emphatic approval from the gondolier class, whose sentiments and manners had been studied in its composition.
The gondolier now guided the graceful craft to a flight of marble steps up which Mollie and her friends mounted to the Piazza San Marco.
In an instant I was in the boat and the gondolier was pushing out into the dark lagoon.
I placed my hand upon my heart as I swore it, and at that instant the gondolierfell upon me from behind.
I allowed these rascals to seize me, and I was led from the room, the gondolier walking at my side with a long naked knife in his hand.
The gondolierwas on me with his knife, but I met him with a kick on the body which stretched him on his back.
But no noise disturbs my rest, unless perhaps a belated gondolier moors his boat beneath the window.
At any one of these a gondolier during the season is sure of picking up some foreigner or other who will pay him handsomely for comparatively light service.
My friend Eustace brought his gondolier Antonio with fair-haired, dark-eyed wife, and little Attilio, their eldest child.
The gondolier has no place where he can do this for himself.
It is therefore a great point for a gondolier to make such an arrangement with his master as will leave him free to show his number.
When vacancies occur on the traghetti, a gondolier who owns or hires a boat makes application to the municipality, receives a number, and is inscribed as plying at a certain station.
Mark fought their duel to the death out in the Chioggian harbours, down to these days, when your Venetian gondolier will tell you that the Chioggoto loves his pipe more than his donna or his wife.
The heaviest anxieties which beset a gondolierare then disposed of.
The gondolier contemporary with Byron was correctly described as songless.
In the year 1819 an English traveller asked for a song of a man who was reported to have once chanted Tasso alla barcaruolo; the old gondolier shook his head.
I ran to it, hoping some gondolier might be found who would row me over to the city.
Then, if you showed curiosity and wanted to know further, the gondolier would have told you more about this strange man.
The first business of a tourist in Venice is to secure a gondolier with intelligence enough to understand his proclivities, and patience enough to humour them.
I have more than once or twice had to thank my gondolier for shewing me old work which otherwise I should never have seen, and I am grateful accordingly.
I don't know where my gondolier took me; we floated aimlessly about in the lagoon, with slow, rare strokes.
I know a little man from whom I can hire what I should want for a few months, for a trifle, and my gondolier can bring the things round in his boat.
After hearing two or three masses, I used to take a gondola, the gondolier of which could not feel any curiosity about me.
It was the gondolier giving warning before he turned the corner.
The gondolier slept stretched out in one of the curving ends of his boat and Renovales, sitting beside the black canopy, painted his Venetian water-colors, a new type that his impresario in Rome received with the greatest enthusiasm.
In trying to hold him up his gondolier let go the oar, which struck Tiepolo's arm and broke it.
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 gondolier waited by the landing at the Frari till it was dark, and then returned to the palace, supposing that the two had walked home and had forgotten to dismiss him, for this had happened once or twice already.
But, in the eyes of Pignaver, a musician was not a man, any more than a servant or a gondolier could be.
Yes, it was below; the old head gondolier had taken Ortensia to the Frari as usual, but he said she had returned on foot.
Where the tide Of the broad lagoon sinks plumb into the sea, There the mystic gondolier hath won his bride.
At the prow the gondolier May not hear, May not see our furtive kiss; But he lends with cadenced strain The refrain To our ripe and silent bliss.
Lord Byron has told us that with the independence of Venice the song of the gondolier has died away-- In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more.
It is, therefore, a great point for a gondolier to make such an arrangement with his master as will leave him free to show his number.
Elena was afraid of the chill of the churches for Insarov; but she remembered the academy delle Belle Arti, and told the gondolier to go towards it.
They went back to the gondola, took their seats, told the gondolier to take them without hurry along the Canal Grande.
On the broad lagoon which separates Venice from the narrow strip of accumulated sea sand, called the Lido, a gondola was gliding--swaying rhythmically at every push made by the gondolier as he leaned on the big pole.
We ordered the gondolier to follow at a certain distance, and spent an hour or two just keeping within the softened sound of the instruments.
I was not very curious to enter it, but thegondolier assured us that it was a common visit for strangers, and we consented to go in.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gondolier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boatman; ferryman; gondolier; oar; oarsman; sculler; yachtsman
