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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 1915

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 William Dean Howells 1878

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 John Richard Greene 1860

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

No Fat Clips!!! : Kiwi: Crazy Train 2008

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.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

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.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

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

Archive 2006-05-01 Decio Biavati 2006

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

il blog: Gretchen's quotes collection Decio Biavati 2006

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

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

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 Various