contadino

• “Italy, ask your contadino, that is, the next country-fellow you meet, some question, and presently he ballots you an answer with a nod, which is affirmative; or a shake with his head, which is the negative box; or”

  The Commonwealth of Oceana

• “The 'contadino' is middle-aged & like the rest of the peasants -- that is to say, brown, handsome, good-natured, courteous, & entirely independent without making any offensive show of it.”

  Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete

• “The 'contadino' brought up their trunks from the station, and Clemens wrote:”

  Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete

• “The ‘contadino’ brought up their trunks from the station, and Clemens wrote:”

  Mark Twain: A Biography

• “The ‘contadino’ is middle-aged & like the rest of the peasants — that is to say, brown, handsome, good-natured, courteous, & entirely independent without making any offensive show of it.”

  Mark Twain: A Biography

• “Naples, I was informed by a contadino, of whom I had asked my way, that”

  The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'

• “The girl was not there; but by the gate into the olive-yard, where there was a lean-to shed for tools, they found her sitting on a cask, whittling a piece of wood and talking to a curly-headed little contadino.”

  Tales from Many Sources Vol. V

• “Every _contadino_ has a pack in his pocket, with the flavor of the soil upon it.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860

• “And by his own mode of reasoning, the poor _contadino_ sees as clearly as possible that he has really won, -- only the difficulty is that he cannot touch the prize without correcting the little variations.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860

• “Mustafa's a contadino; I know his pa and ma; they changed him when only five years old.”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

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