soldo

• “Not even Vicenzo da Lozzo, the letter-writer, was glad of the day, although people besieged his desk under the court-house loggia, and were more than willing to pay him a soldo a word, if they only might write a line of farewell on this their last day to their dear ones far away.”

  The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel

• “The sparings of the whole week which have not been laid out for chances in the lottery, are spent for this evening's amusement; and in the vast pit you see, besides the families of comfortable artisans who can evidently afford it, a multitude of the ragged poor, whose presence, even at the low rate of eight or ten soldi [Footnote: The soldo is the hundredth part of the”

  Venetian Life

• “Maidens with water-jars on their heads which might have been dug up at Pompeii; priests with broad hats and huge cloaks; sailors with blue shirts and red girdles; urchins who almost instinctively cry for a "soldo" and break into the Tarantella if you look at them; quiet, grave, farmer-peasants with the Phrygian cap; coral-fishers fresh from the African coast with tales of storm and tempest and the Madonna's help -- make up group after group of Caprese life as one looks idly on, a life not specially truthful perhaps or moral or high-minded, but sunny and pleasant and pretty enough, and harmonizing in its own genial way with the sunshine and beauty around.”

  Stray Studies from England and Italy

• “Un soldo risparmiato è un soldo guadagnato da spendere senza pensarci su cose frivole ma divertenti.”

  No Fat Clips!!! : Kiwi: Crazy Train

• “The cheapest dishes, at one soldo, consisted of a slice of pizza, or four or five fritters made from bits of cabbage stalk and fragments of anchovy, or nine boiled chestnuts swimming in a reddish juice.”

  Simon & Schuster: Delizia!

• “He cuts them into so many slices worth one soldo each, and gives them to a boy who goes off to sell them from a portable table at some street corner.”

  Simon & Schuster: Delizia!

• “I grandi uomini in tempo di guerra vanno via tre al soldo.”

  Archive 2006-05-01

• “They meant him to be a priest, and raked and scraped every soldo to educate him.”

  Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878

• “It was just the life he loved, the ideal life, and it wasn't costing him a cent -- no, not a _soldo_, to speak more in the Venetian manner.”

  The Spinner's Book of Fiction

• “A man in a barrier hut stopped him and made him understand that he had to pay a soldo.”

  Jenny: A Novel

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