Soldi grow only in the street," and, picking up the organ, she led the way down the stairs.
There are as many soldi to be found in Venice as anywhere, and with the organ and Carina we shall get along, even with two extra mouths to feed!
I've got ten soldi in my pocket that I picked up when Luigi wasn't looking, and I'm as hungry as a bear.
When they left the cook-shop, with its rows of bright copper pots and pans and its delicious smells, Beppo had only a few soldi left in his pockets, and as for Beppina, there had been nothing but a handkerchief in hers from the beginning.
The children remembered their steps, and there were more soldi in the tambourine, even though Ugolone sat firmly down upon his haunches and refused to budge.
Luigi rowed the boat slowly about on the Grand Canal, and the sweet voices of the children, floating out over the still waters, attracted the gondolas about them, and many soldi were flung to the singers.
It costs half a lira to enter by this gate, and to leave by that road; to cross this bridge, or descend into that cavern; and troops of children beg soldi of you at every turn.
Red tape is all right in the right place, but it should be cut off in proper lengths, so that officials need not be obliged to quibble over a few soldi while individuals lose a dozen francs or more in valuable time.
There is no resisting Cupid, so I let him think he had got the better of me, gave him four soldi and added his coin to my collection of similar pieces, while he frisked away back to his friends boasting of his success, as Cupid will.
For days before the festa they go about Catania with trays collecting soldi from all they meet.
He was such a jolly little fellow that just for the pleasure of seeing him smile again I gave him the soldi in exchange for his coin and he danced away in delight.
Orsi up there in the museum and he will give you plenty of soldi for it--more than you can count, and no questions asked about honour.
So I gave him two soldi and another for himself and saw him scamper happily away and join a knot of brother Cupids who were playing together round a lamp-post.
They had begged, borrowed, stolen, or, it may be, possibly even earned enough soldi to begin their new life upon another soil and under other skies in a new world.
Much better spare your soldi now, signorino, and buy something at the auction.
Signorino Marchesino, I do when I have any soldito buy them with.
Then before Artois could reply, he said: "After all, what do a fewsoldi matter?
Giacomo stole it, and this was of the value of 24 soldi (1 lira 4 S.
Salai 14 soldi for binding, the making of the cloak 25 soldi.
That alms shall be given to the poor of the Hotel-Dieu, to the poor of Saint Lazare d'Amboise and, to that end, there shall be given and paid to the treasurers of that same fraternity the sum and amount of seventy soldi of Tours.
Above on the said river there are waterfalls of 400 braccia in height, which are fine to see; and there is good living at 4 soldi the reckoning.
Had he or had he not paid two soldi more than he should have done for the packet?
The conductor turned to him first, and when she proffered her four soldi she found that he had paid for both.
The schools allow fifteen soldi an hour, but the signorino is paying me twenty-five soldi.
At noon she went down into the Borgo and bought fried polenta for five soldi and a slice of chestnut cake at the cook shop, and filled her kettle with clear cold water from the fountain in the courtyard.
Fifteen soldi the hour, from five to seven-thirty," said the professor.
He cannot smoke the cigars which my husband bought for him, and they cost three soldi apiece.
Here, Beppo, are some soldi for the brothers and sisters.
They insisted on my turning out all my pockets, which contained only three francs in paper and sixteensoldi in copper.
The women are sure to beat you down, but you will make ten or twelve soldi for yourselves.
If I can sell the faggots for a fewsoldi over that we shall be able to buy something for ourselves.
Its breadth from north to south is not equal throughout, being at the eastern end three cubits three soldi and one-third, and at the west two cubits sixteensoldi and two-thirds.
Marcia had exhausted her soldi in Genazzano, and with a laughing shake of her head she motioned them away.
So saying, I give forty more soldi to the gondoliers, who, highly pleased with my generosity, thank me and call me excellency.
Now, I spend only ten soldi in one year on wax which I mix with goat's grease, and there I have an excellent pomatum.
He writes from England, where he found that a good meal could be had for ten soldi [2s.
Haarlem and Amsterdam, and the lowest, the exception just spoken of, is the sixteen soldi [3s.
Zelphine bribed the singers with soldi to an encore; but, alas!
If I were to carpet your path with violets it would be a cheap pleasure for me at the rate of two soldi a bunch!
She was evidently pleased to have her picture taken, as these peasants always are, especially if a few soldi are thrown in to seal the contract.
If you must know more about his actual existence, catch a child and give him a few soldi to escort you to the foot of the Vico Mezzocannone, away on the further side of the city, where the lanes drop steeply to the harbour.
The woman lets down a basket by a rope; a few soldi are jingling in the bottom; the basket goes up packed with green stuff, and the padulano loafs on beside his patient donkey.
You may get much more than this from the child, though confidence is hard to gain, and soldi will not always buy it.
And when he dismounted, he began to make the tour of the circus, with his harlequin's cap in his hand, and everybody threw soldior sugar-plums into it.
The thirty soldi were already obtained, and more kept pouring in; and the very smallest who had no money made their way among the big girls, and offered their bunches of flowers, for the sake of giving something.
I had two soldi ready; but when he got in front of me, instead of offering his cap, he drew it back, gave me a look and passed on.
The members of the fourth class came, and the soldi showered down.
The portress tells my mother everything: my sister Silvia heard him screaming from the terrace one day, when his father had sent him headlong down stairs, because he had asked for a few soldito buy a grammar.
If anyone else wants it, she must manage to find two soldi in her pocket.
The soldi are thrown out through the window, and each one remembers her own number.
If I fling a few soldi from my bed towards the window, this facilitates the search.
And thanks for thesoldi and the cake and the wine.
I will engage you as ballet master and character actor and offer you a hundred soldi a month.
Good, Master Pandolfo, I'll stay with you if from now on, in addition to my keep, you will pay me thirtysoldi more a week.
If you find favor in my eyes, young friend, you shall have a hundred soldi a month.
I pay my two soldi for a chair and sit there, lost in thought and admiration.
When he distributed the letters it was as if he conferred a favor; when he handed out a money-order he had an air of condescension as if he were doling the soldi from his purse.
I'll wager five soldi of Victor Emanuel against a crown of your emperor that if they were here and smelled this odor they wouldn't make such a to-do about it or talk like lawyers.
The numbers he has chosen do not come out and he considers that he has won his four soldi and has put them by.
Calogero an act of faith," said the sceptical guard, "and yet when a gambler puts a few soldi on any number he may have dreamt of, we call it superstition.
He chooses two numbers every week, according to what occurs to him as though he were going in for an ambo and, instead of buying a ticket, puts four soldi into an earthenware money-box.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "soldi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
