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  • "Untitled," from 1973, uses common objects like an inner tube and a piece of wood, which evoke the outline of a gondola and the gondolier's oar.

    The Emperor's New Clues: Hadrian in London 2008

  • The gondolier's name was Coolio Schulman, but I didn't expect really anyone to get that.

    Tougher contests coming 2005

  • The gondolier's name was Coolio Schulman, but I didn't expect really anyone to get that.

    Veniceblog: 2005

  • I don't think I'll lose much ssleep if Alexandra Hai never gets her gondolier's license but I am impressed that she is so determined.

    German Woman Again Denied Gondolier Slot 2004

  • And he said he was thrilled that Ms. Katherine Hepburn was going to show up and of course door opened and there was a young thing in the gondolier's outfit, but they hit it off instantly.

    CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2003 2003

  • Contessa requesting her to remove the gondolier, to which he received for answer that the gondolier's wife had been nurse to one of the

    The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

  • Ballybun Binnacle_, with a misprint about the gondolier's "untanned sole," which caused a fracas in the editorial office.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21 Various

  • Also applied to a vocal or instrumental composition in the style of the gondolier's boat song.

    Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928

  • His train did not start till midnight, and after leaving the restaurant Nick tramped the sultry by-ways till his tired legs brought him to a standstill under the vine-covered pergola of a gondolier's wine-shop at a landing close to the Piazzetta.

    The Glimpses of the Moon 1922

  • I take the liberty of quoting it here, because one gondolier's quarrel is essential to every book that hopes to suggest

    A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903

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