Yes," she said, with a loving smile, "as I owe mine to the sbirri of Cesena.
I was with the mother in a gondola as near as possible to the house, and I had provided a large boat in which the sbirri stowed all the furniture found on the premises.
So he ordered the chief of his sbirrito come and see him the same night.
Never had she fallen upon days more evil; never had more traitors done her dishonour or sbirri stained her streets with blood.
In the midst of the conflict some twenty sbirri appeared.
Then obey me only," said the Captain; "we shall have the sbirri here in half an hour more, unless we come to quarters.
The robbers were not men to be taken by surprise, as the sbirrifound to their cost.
The battle still went on over the Captain; the sbirri wavered,--they yielded, and then fled.
The lieutenant of the sbirri was at length called upon to give an account of the discovery of the dead body and the suspicious circumstances which had led to the arrest of Wagner.
Suddenly a loud cry of horror burst from one of the sections; and when the other hastened to the spot, the sbirri composing it found their comrades in the act of raising the corpse of Agnes.
The old man hastened to obey this mandate, and he conducted the sbirri into the chamber where Wagner, having thrown off his garments, was partaking of that rest which he so much needed.
The prisoner stood between two sbirri in a small pew, in the center of the court.
Wagner, wildly: and he was about to rush from the dock, but the sbirriheld him back.
The sbirri were advancing along the gravel pathway, bearing amongst them the corpse of Agnes upon whose pallid countenance the morning sunbeams were dancing, as if in mockery even at death.
A guard of sbirri must have been passing at the time, for loud knocks resounded at the gate, which the old portress immediately opened before Lomellino or any of his men could interfere to prevent her.
The building had fallen in, and Heaven only knows how many of the nuns and sbirri had escaped, or how many had perished beneath the ruins!
If the sbirri discover us there, we will resist them to the death.
If thesbirri want me they can take me on a warrant.
Thither Fra Palamone went in pursuit of his infamous plans, and there he was found by the sbirri of the Holy Office.
I asked her, "When did you find out that the sbirri were waiting for me?
A few beggars sat in converse on the steps of San Michele, many were asleep in the shade, there were no passengers, no sbirri to be seen until we reached the Via Campidoglio.
Your father," I said, "would have surprised me, and it is easy to guess what he would have done with the two sbirri who were with him.
I was discovered by a man whom I believed to be a hired agent of the Government, who only had to give a glance to one of the sbirri with whom Mestre swarmed to have me arrested.
On another, wider field, and under other conditions, the same men who house for years in caverns, and fight with sbirri in the bush, would become great soldiers like Sampiero and Gaffori.
It was resolved to starve Arrighi into surrender; in the morning some of them went to a spring near the cave to fetch water--the crack of a musket once, twice, and two sbirri fell.
Merely in the heat of conversation; the sbirriare after him; he will be in the macchia by this time.
Some of the sbirri had reached a point above the cave, others guarded its mouth.
The uncertain shots of thesbirri echoed through the darkness.
Meditating revenge, he descended from the hills, and offered to show the sbirri Massoni's lurking-place.
The young girl then, faithful to her word, handed the sbirri a large purse containing the rest of the sum agreed upon, and they left.
The two sbirri departed, and the imprisoned conspirators anxiously awaited their return.
He immediately hired two othersbirri to assassinate Marzio and Olympio.
After a moment, seeing the sbirri reappear pale and nerveless, shaking their heads without speaking, they at once inferred that nothing had been done.
Hearing these words, the sbirri felt ashamed of their irresolution, and, indicating by signs that they would fulfil their compact, they entered the room, accompanied by the two women.
He came to me an hour after you left; the sbirri were on his track; he passed for my son.
The stupidity of Italian sbirri is proverbial, or a Milanese cavalier would have been astonished to conceive himself mistaken for a Bolognese.
Many of the Bolognese sbirri were in pursuit of Angelo.
My life, like every man's, belongs to God, and the lowest of sbirri may take it as I turn the corner of the street; but a king owes something to his people.
With what tools the sbirri were at work he could not guess, but surely they must be such as to leave him but a few moments.
When I was satisfied that I had done for him, I returned with all haste to the village, but had the ill-luck to meet two of the sbirri as I entered it.
All went on well with us until a new chief of the sbirri was sent to our village to take command of the police.
But before accepting a seat in your carriage, I must tell you that you offer it to a proscribed man; since I have little reason to doubt that by this time the sbirri are on my track.
The room was filled with a confusion of voices, and among the groups surging about him Odo noticed a number of the Duke's sbirrimaking their way quietly through the crowd.
This was agreed to; the sbirriwere despatched and Molinos was lodged in the prison of the Inquisition.
Every possible accusation was brought against Molinos, even to a foolish self-laudatory speech made to the sbirri who arrested him, and his admiring certain anagrams made of his name.
Why then followed a whole legion of sbirri and police- officers, and who should be at their head but the Florentine stranger.
Signor Pasquale, with pale death in his face, incapable of uttering a word or a sound, was marched off by the very Sbirri who had come there to protect him from masquerading demons and spectres.
The man was one of the cleverest sbirri I ever had after me, but he did not know me by sight.
The sbirri and the two clerks eyed the gold longingly.
Two of the sbirri at once unstrapped the valises, and laid out the contents on the long table on each side of the Legate, neatly and in order.
For a long way she saw none but such as were in the hands of eager readers, or else fixed on the walls, from which in some places the sbirri were tearing them down.
If there is no other authority in sight they must fall on the sbirri and secure freedom to thieves.
The Sbirri too had done their best, but discovered nothing.
The tower was still in Vendetta siege, and the grave and reverend Signor knew better than to come out, when the Sbirri were gone to the town.
He would fain be amused, and to serve that end he summoned one of his sbirri and bade the fellow drag Boccadoro from his dungeon and fetch him into his presence.
Having satisfied myself that no betraying sign remained about them, I drew the curtains of my litter, and reclining there I gave myself up to pondering the manner in which I should greet the Borgia sbirri when they overtook me.
I could have sworn that her accent and manner were those of a person speaking the truth; still, when the Captain of the Sbirri made way for me I thought I was in the toils.
Sbirri and guards, he would have been massacred by the furious mob.
On each side of the carriage and at the horses' heads the Sbirri and Swiss guards exerted themselves manfully to keep back the people and to clear the way.
His evasions, both of Papal sbirri and the Austrian polizia, furnished instances of astonishing audacity that made his name a byword for mastery in the hour of peril.
Last night I was evading the sbirri in this disguise by the private door of La Scala, from which I expected Carlo to come forth.
They told him that the sbirrihad been searching his room in his absence, but had found everything to be all right, matching the favourable testimony which she, the landlady, had personally given concerning her lodger.
The sbirri who had rushed to that spot, lead by the Grand Captain, as soon as the first indications of the event had started to stir, had found a motionless body in the darkness of the side alley, who had still blood gushing out of his side.
On reaching the block between the columns the Sbirrifell off in files, waiting at a little distance, while Jacopo was left before the engines of death attended by his ghostly counsellor, the Carmelite.
A murmur arose, the multitude wavered, and a small body of the Sbirri came into view.
Senate should wish us back again, it might send all its sbirri after us in vain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sbirri" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
