The vetturino requested him to jump up quickly, and a howl of "No smoking in Milan--fuori!
Our traveller had ordered his vetturino to drive slowly to his hotel, that he might take the features of this novel scene.
The vetturino noted that his conveyance acted as a kindling-match to awaken cries in quiet quarters, looked round, and grinned savagely at the sight of the cigar.
The vetturino seized the image at once to strike home his instance of the danger of outraging the will of the people.
Some of these, the common Vetturino vehicles, are drawn by three horses abreast, decked with smart trappings and great abundance of brazen ornament, and always going very fast.
The crafty vetturino had had the art to glean a fair reputation even from his crimes.
The vetturino touched his hat, with the air of a man who would be very sorry not to see them.
My old vetturinowoke me up at four o'clock in the dark, and the horse crawled off with us both.
Last night I was again in grand quarters: I had made an agreement with thevetturino for board and lodging, and all I required.
Early on the morning of his departure, she had sought her station within sight of Godolphin's palazzo; and ten minutes after his departure the vetturino bore her, delighted but trembling, on the same road.
On this journey, according to the custom of travellers in Italy, we pay the vetturino a certain sum, and live at his expense; and this meal was the first specimen of his catering on our behalf.
The vetturinohad stipulated, as his share of our bargain, to be allowed to add four persons to our number, on condition that they offered no opposition to a first halt of five or six hours at Cannes, and a second halt at Grasse.
Their carriage was at the door, and the vetturino and his men were at work putting on the trunks and baggage.
They are aware that the vetturino knows what the charges ought to be, and they are afraid, if they overcharge him for his party, that then he will take his next party to some other hotel.
Whereas, when thevetturino pays, the hotel keepers are much more reasonable.
The vetturino was already grumbling, and it required a pretty strong remonstrance from Buttons to silence him.
After a decision has been reached, there is but one way in which you can hold your vetturino to his bargain, and that is to bind him to it by securing his name to a contract.
When our travellers had returned to the hotel, and were enjoying themselves in general conversation, the vetturino bowed himself in.
That's true," yawned out Beecher; "vetturino work must be detestable.
A miserable-looking vetturino carriage stood at the inn door, and was dragged hastily out of the way to make room for the more pretentious equipage.
Vetturino travelling is not like extra-post, my Lord," said Spicer, fawningly.
We reached Avessa without one word being exchanged, and as the vetturino stopped there only to water his mules, we did not get out of the coach.
The vetturino went away, and the 'sbirri' followed him in the greatest consternation, except two who remained.
We were five at supper, for it is usual for the vetturino to supply his travellers with their meals, unless some private agreement is made otherwise, and to sit down at table with them.
The vetturinowas to have changed horses at Magione, thirteen miles from Perugia, but there were none to be had, and our poor beast was obliged to perform the whole journey without rest or food.
The vetturino whipped our old horse into a gallop, and we were borne on in unison with the scene, which would have answered for one of Hoffman's wildest stories.
The vetturino did not arrive there till after dark; he was to leave before dawn; the distance was five miles, and the roads very bad.
After a great deal of bargaining, the vetturino agreed to take us to Florence that night for five francs a piece, provided one person would sit on the outside with the driver.
We gave a little more than half of what the vetturino demanded, which was still an exorbitant price--two scudi each for a ride of thirty miles.
Our vetturino chose that to the left, the Via della Scrofa, leading off towards the bridge of St. Angelo.
We left Geneva in a Vetturino for Turin, a Journey which took up 8 days longer than it naturally should have done, but our Coachman was taken ill, & we were on his account obliged to travel slowly.
It occasioned Mr. William no inconvenience to leave Thomas behind for a day, since, though Thomas usually travelled in the same carriage with the family, the vetturino himself always drove.
The vetturino never will let me have his whip," said he.
As the vetturino drove across the street, Chesney got out his pocketbook.
The vetturino nearly drew the poor nag onto its haunches.
The vetturino glanced up, struck by the new, firm ring in his voice.
I shall be your courier, dear lady,' he said, and commenced his professional career in her service by shouting to thevetturino to drive on.
The vetturino wants to know at what hour the Signori will start, it is getting late.
The vetturino was leading his horses to a shed in the rear, and Maria, the girl who had been singing in the kitchen, was displaying a generous expanse of red stocking as she pursued an elusive chicken.
The vetturino will never take me as bail for such an amount," I said to Medini, "and even if he would I should never be so foolish as to contract such a debt.
As Medini was endeavouring to staunch the blood in a basin of water, the vetturino told him that as I refused to be his surety he must go to prison.
Just then the poor vetturino came in and kissed my hand, saying that if I would go bail for the count he would let me have three months wherein to find the money.
I told the vetturino that I would on no account be Medini's surety, or be answerable for him in any way.
When I had given the vetturino his acknowledgment and paid the four or five crowns charged by the police, Medini told me that he had more to say to me; but I turned my back on him, and went home to dinner.
When I arrived at Senegallia, at three stages from Ancona, my vetturino asked me, just as I was going to bed, whether I would allow him to accommodate a Jew who was going to Ancona in the chaise.
I was astonished, and could not understand how the bill could amount to more than the value of all the clothes I saw on the floor, so I asked the vetturino to tell me the extent of the debt.
Poor Cary made me laugh by a story she picked up somewhere of a Scotch gentleman who had contracted with his vetturino to be carried from Genoa to Rome and fed on the road,--a very common arrangement.
A word upon this vetturino system ere I leave it,--I hope forever.
The vetturino held the horse's bridle, and the pretended count did his best to snatch it away from him.
The vetturino was evidently what is called wide awake.
In a quarter of an hour I heard the sound of a dispute in the court-yard, and on looking out, there were the Frenchman and the vetturino arguing hotly.
The vetturino would require an extra horse, and even then would have taken four hours.
We begged the vetturino to restore it to us, but he was inflexible; and as he was in the right we had to submit.
I told Betty that I acted in this sort to obviate any difficulties which the vetturino might make about taking us back to Sienna, as he might feel it his duty to place her in the hands of her supposed husband.
All my efforts were in vain, so I called the vetturino to tell him that I wanted to start directly after dinner.
We were awoke by the vetturino who informed us, greatly to our astonishment, that we were at Monterosi.
I guessed the bone of contention: the Frenchman had no money, and the vetturino asked in vain for his due.
The landlord asked me if the vetturino paid my expenses, and I answered in the negative; and the girl then told him to ask the vetturino if he was paying for her.
I gave the poor devil of a vetturino two sequins, telling him that I should like some coffee and to start in a quarter of an hour.
And we shall want a vetturino for Spezia," added my Garibaldian; "let him be here by eleven.
Waiter, tell the vetturino he'll have plenty of time to throw a feed to his cattle before I start.
The vetturino went out, but a voice said within me, "You must take this poor Israelite;" and in spite of my repugnance I called back the man and signified my assent.
In the morning, we had just fallen asleep, when the vetturino knocked at the door.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vetturino" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: coachman; driver; hack; teamster; truckman; wagoner; whip
