The following tribute to the egg tombola is from Ella W.
The tombola in the Piazza Tosti drew together a large crowd; and then it was that Rocjean was in his element, Caper delighted, and Dexter rejoiced in the study of costumes and motives for paintings.
Tombola commenced, and Pepe at once supervised all the tickets within reach.
Somebody won the tombolaat last, and Pepe told Caper he should wait for the fireworks and the concert.
Here the tombolawas held, and here the crowd was excited as usual; the lucky ones bearing off the prizes were in such rapturous state of bliss--'one might have stuck pins into them without their feeling it.
The Roman tombolashould be seen in the Piazza Navona democratically; in the Villa Borghese, if not aristocratically at least middle classically, or bourgeois-istically.
But the curtain rose; that is to say, the tombola commenced.
It is passed to the judges, and is then read aloud, and exposed to view, in conspicuous figures, on a stand or stands; and so on until the tombola is won or the numbers all drawn.
Fortunately for Caper, no stampede took place on Advent Sunday, so that he lived to attend another grand tombola in the Villa Borghese.
The total amount to be played for that day, the tombola being for the benefit of the Cholera Orphans, was one thousand scudi, and was divided as follows: Terno,.
How many tickets were issued, Caper was never able to find out; but he was told that for a one thousand dollar tombola the number was limited to ninety thousand.
Well, the office of the Tombola is solemnized upon a raised stage, whereon stand divers officials, two seedy trumpeters, and a small boy in fancy costume, whose duty soon becomes apparent.
Our second was divided between the Tombola just described, in the afternoon, and the quiet of the American Chapel in the morning.
Last Sunday I attended a Tombola at Piazza Navona--not a state lottery, but a private enterprise brought to issue in the most public manner.
If the figure be painted with oil-colors, the Tombola can be made to perform his pranks in a basin of water.
The next thing is to paint or draw on it the figure of an old gentleman like our picture, and you have the Tombola complete.
Three old ladies in Trim decided to get up a Tombola for the poor this winter, and of course they sent Murphy a sheaf of tickets.
Some of them blamed McAroon, while others said that Murphy knew all the time what a Tombola really was and that he ought to be ashamed of himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tombola" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: drawing; raffle; sweep
