Brenta

If I hadn't been told, too, that the Brenta was a river big in Venetian history if not in size, I should have taken it for one of my favourite canals, with its slow traffic of lazy barges, and its hundred canals crossing it with long green arms that stretched north and south to the horizon.

My Friend the Chauffeur Frederic [Illustrator] Lowenheim 1901

a barge to _Padua_, stopping from time to time to give refreshment to our conductors and their horse, which draws on the side, as one sees them at Richmond; where the banks are scarcely more beautifully adorned by art, than here by nature; though the Brenta is a much narrower river than the Thames at Richmond, and its villas, so justly celebrated, far less frequent.

Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781

* Brenta Blevins, "Mercury 13 -- And Beyond," poem/sf/1960s/space flight.

I spy with my sky blue eye the Retro Spec ToC ravenelectrick 2010

Chizine has a new issue of dark fiction up with fiction by Paul Tremblay, Alex O'Neal, and Brenta Blevins. [via SF Scope]

SF Tidbits for 10/7/08 2008

If Brenta or Jaimie come, I haven't seen them since high school!

Archive 2009-09-01 Allison 2009

If Brenta or Jaimie come, I haven't seen them since high school!

Early and Edited TTT Allison 2009

Candide and his friend Martin went in a gondola on the Brenta, and arrived at the palace of the noble Pococuranté.

Candide 2007

Brenta exhibited a continued landscape of beauty, gaiety, and splendour.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

The noble Brenta, pouring its broad waves into the sea, now appeared, and, when she reached its mouth, the barge stopped, that the horses might be fastened which were now to tow it up the stream.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

Montoni having determined not to leave Venice, till towards evening, that he might avoid the heats, and catch the cool breezes of night, embarked about an hour before sun-set, with his family, in a barge, for the Brenta.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004