gondola

• Thou hast heard of the Austrian nobles who came with me in my gondola, and were never seen again Yes, but that story is false It is true. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
• On coming to the surface he saw nothing--neither the gondola, the Bucentaur nor his beloved. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
• As the hotel porter handed the young ladies from the gondola, the Colonel paused to have a word with the gondolier. —  A Venetian June
• "I always said that I should like to cross the ocean with you I would rather the Signore stayed here," Vittorio exclaimed, while a flashing smile lit up his handsome face; "I would rather the Signore took a little palace and stayed here in Venice Before the Signore had had time to give this time-honoured proposition the consideration which it merited, the gondola was lying alongside the steps at the bankers' door, and his attention was distracted by a very ragged, but seraphically beautiful urchin, who was excitedly wriggling his body through the railing of the adjoining ferry-landing, with a view to pressing his services upon the foreign gentleman. —  A Venetian June
• The kind of man that would stick in a woman's memory, I should say And then, just as the gondola was passing the house where the little stone girls keep their uncomprehending outlook upon the world, a sharp pang took him, followed by a strange--was it a disloyal?--sense of relief, and he exclaimed, under his breath, "I never asked her VI A Festa You didn't tell us what a beauty Mrs. Daymond was, Uncle Dan," said May, as they sat at dinner that evening They had a small table to themselves, close by one of the long glass doors opening out into the garden. —  A Venetian June

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