What is "gondoliers"

Usage examples of "gondoliers".

The sight of two strong gondoliers made me get into the gondola without anxiety, and we left the shore without being much disturbed by the wind, but when we had gone beyond the island, the storm attacked us with such fury that I thought myself lost, for, although a good swimmer, I was not sure I had strength enough to resist the violence of the waves and swim to the shore.

I should have been in no perplexity if I had been able to take one, but the gondoliers would infallibly make proclamation over the whole of Muran that they had taken a nun to such a convent, and all would have been lost.

My nice companion who had hitherto only spoken to back up the gondoliers, thought himself bound to offer me his consolations.

So saying, I give forty more soldi to the gondoliers, who, highly pleased with my generosity, thank me and call me excellency.

I understood that he was seized with an apoplectic stroke, and called out to the gondoliers to land me at once, in order to procure a surgeon to bleed the patient.

Square, in order to set the curiosity of the gondoliers at fault, and we parted happy, delighted, and certain that we were thoroughly married.

In half an hour the good man returned to announce that the gondoliers were at the wharf, but that they wanted to be paid in advance.

One of them has just told me that Pierrot, having spent the night at the Briati ball, did not find any gondola to return to Venice, and that our gondoliers took him for a sequin.

Those who were most famous in my younger days were Ancilla and another called Spina, both the daughters of gondoliers, and both killed very young by the excesses of a profession which, in their eyes, was a noble one.

Sometimes we would cross the canal, each of us in a different gondola, and take to our heels without paying as soon as we landed on the opposite side, in order to make the gondoliers run after us.

The operation being performed, I ordered the gondoliers to row as fast as possible, and we soon reached St.

And when she saw that the gondoliers were putting back for you to embark she was delighted.

He has likewise every confidence in the two gondoliers, although one of them is sure to be a spy of the State Inquisitors.

When I reached the shore, I looked for a gondola, I called the gondoliers, but, in contravention to the police regulations, there was neither gondola nor gondolier.

I knew the disposition of our gondoliers, and I made up my mind to say no more.