Italian pals

Usage examples of paisanos.

The paisanos paid no attention to him until at last Jesus Maria, that prey to the humanities, untied Big Joe’s thumbs and gave him a jar of wine.

The paisanos are clean of commercialism, free of the complicated systems of American business, and, having nothing that can be stolen, exploited, or mortgaged, that system has not attacked them very vigorously.

Because of this expression, the paisanos of Monterey knew that his head had not grown up with the rest of his body.

The paisanos received his bounty and made use of it: fresh fish, half pies, untouched loaves of stale bread, meat that required only a little soda to take the green out.

But for a long time her baited trap caught nothing but poor Indians and paisanos who owned no houses, and whose clothes were sometimes fugitive from better wardrobes.

The paisanos of Tortilla Flat did not come out of their houses, but from every chimney a blue column of pinewood smoke drifted so that the air smelled clean and fresh and perfumed.

While the paisanos looked on, Danny reached under his pillow, brought out the canvas bag, and deposited the new quarter.

His morals were probably untouched, but it would have been safe to prophesy that never again would he steal from the paisanos of Danny’s house.

The paisanos were glad they had guarded his money, for even they took a little holiness from the act.

When he got out of his bed in the night and stepped over the sleeping paisanos, he was angry with them for being there.