Gondoliers are known more by their numbers and their traghetti than their names.
Our gondoliers told us of some places where the murazzi were broken in a gale, or sciroccale, not very long ago.
As their name implies, it is the first duty of the gondoliers upon them to ferry people across.
On all these occasions I have found these gondoliers the same sympathetic, industrious, cheery affectionate folk.
The gondoliers have two proverbs, which show how desirable it is, while taking a fixed engagement, to keep their hold on the traghetto.
This champion turned out a fine fellow--Corradini--with one of the brightest little gondoliers of thirteen for his son.
As we are urged along the channels by the stalwart gondoliers with rhythmic strokes, lagoons, islands and mainland villages unfold themselves to our sight.
The grand bissone (festal gondolas) are brought forth, decked with brilliant colours, some of them manned by a score of gondoliers in gorgeous old Venetian costume, and we then catch a glimpse of what Venice was in her splendour.
Among the gondoliers who serve the English--to whom history here reads the lesson of their future fate--there are descendants of long dead Doges whose names are older than those of sovereigns.
It was no use trying to make him believe that I had told the gondoliers to go to Fusina whilst I intended to go to Mestre; he said I could not have thought of that till I got on to the Grand Canal.
As soon as we had passed the custom-house, the gondoliers began to row with a will along the Giudecca Canal, by which we must pass to go to Fusina or to Mestre, which latter place was really our destination.
But the gondoliers of Venice are a strong breed, and powerful men are common enough among them.
Several times we turned corners, for I heard the long, sad cry which these gondoliers give when they wish to warn their fellows that they are coming.
The gondoliers are quite as clamorous as the liveried omnibus legion.
But thegondoliers give it a special quality by prolonging certain tones--as when distant rays of brilliant light are reflected on the waves.
In Venice thegondoliers know by heart long passages from Ariosto and Tasso, and often chant them with a peculiar melody.
An anonymous gentleman has greatly obliged me with his account of the recitation of these poets by the gondoliers of Venice.
Those gondoliers might leave us on one of the outer islands, and we could not get back to the hotel, for we do not know a single word of Italian.
The gondoliers call these beggars "crab-catchers," because they cling about the mooring-steps of the canals to beg centimes from the passengers in the gondolas.
At last the patience of the gondoliers was exhausted, and one of them called out, "Somebody fetch the Bucintoro, and take this gentleman to the Lido for seventy-five soldi!
Yet after all, though the gondoliers are not the gondoliersof imaginative literature, they have qualities which recommended them to my liking, and I look back upon my acquaintance with two or three of them in a very friendly spirit.
The gondoliers relate that when the sentence was pronounced, Veneranda said to the Chief of the Ten, "But as for me this sentence will never be carried out.
The facchini in every square take up their collections; thegondoliers have their plates prepared for contribution at every ferry; at every caffè and restaurant begging-boxes appeal to charity.
The gondoliers rang and rang again, while their passenger "Divided the swift mind," in the wonder whether a door so grimly bolted and austerely barred could possibly open into a hotel, with cheerful overcharges for candles and service.
I walked there freely, for though there were already many gondoliers at the station, not one took me for a foreigner or offered me a boat.
The head waiter was standing there engaged in an excited conversation with the gondoliers who, having placed the traveller's trunk in the hall, were cursing and crying aloud for their money.
The nobles and the gondoliers decide for or against, and Venice is divided into two great parties: the first for the King of Prussia, the latter for the Austrian empress, Maria Theresa.
The clouded faces of the waiters and gondoliers cleared immediately, and they gazed at the traveller with a significant smile as he mounted the splendid steps with the host.
In vain did the gondoliers resist the intrusion of the fugitives: all considerations of rank and property were lost sight of in the terror of the moment, and some of the boats sank under the weight of the multitudes that poured into them.
There were four huge panels in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington, which were still to be filled by historical paintings, and a committee in Congress was appointed to select the artists to execute them.
It was at first thought necessary to insulate the whole length of the wire, and it was not until some time afterwards that it was discovered that naked wires could be successfully employed.
This brush he afterwards presented to the National Academy of Design, where it is, I believe, still preserved.
I shall do nothing in regard to the matter until I see you.
Morse had been led to hope that his bill was going to pass by acclamation, but in this he was rudely disappointed.
But, if you leave us, I very much fear that the fabric will crumble to pieces.
I know not what the issue will be and wish to be prepared, and have you all prepared, for the worst in regard to the bill.
He comprehended its important future, and, in the midst of the skepticism that clouded its cradle, he risked his character for sound judgment in venturing to stand godfather to the friendless child.
A close vote after the expectations raised by some of my friends in the early part of the session, but enough is as good as a feast, and it is safe so far as the House is concerned.
Morse, Dear Sir, It is many a day since I last had the pleasure of seeing and conversing with you, and, if I am not mistaken, it is as long since any communications have been exchanged.
Those gondoliers do their work with consummate skill.
On the high walls of the great white station its rays fall with startling brightness and cast long shadows of waitinggondoliers upon the plaza floor.
Sidewards on the balcony, a young man blowing a shell-shaped horn; and in front of them, the sea with a richly ornamented gondola flying the Venetian ensign, with two gondoliers on board of it.
Well, I had earned a quattrino or two, bought a new jacket, and came among the gondoliers as one of themselves.
The two sable gondoliers wore themselves out in Kitty's service, and Margaret's kind, round face grew more and more puzzled and distressed.
Gondoliers and punters, like poets, are born, not made.
My own Luigi comes of a race of gondoliers dating back two hundred years, and punters must spring from just such ancestors.
His Majesty was conducted through the lagoons as far as the fortified gate of Mala-Mocca, and the gondoliers gave as he returned a boat-race and tournament on the water.
The way the gondoliers scolded me was enough to have frightened a prizefighter, but I learned to expect scoldings and not to mind them.
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