What is "guardia"

Usage examples of "guardia".

It was a great relief when they met no Guardia or Carabinero before they drew up as close to the cathedral as he could get.

Quirinale e delle sue prigioni e direttori, custodi, ufficiali di guardia, dragoni, birri, tutto quanto si trovava nel palazzo era posto in arresto per ordine perentorio dello sdegnato ministro.

A guardia marshal stood by the ticket booth, both to keep order and to make sure no under-five summerlings from town creches sneaked in without notes from their clan mothers.

Un suono simile rispose da una capanna di guardia, situata sopra uno dei detti tumuli, capanna che Orazio certo doveva conoscere e della quale i suoi compagni non si erano accorti.

John White, the old chief deputy, called him Una voidable Delay Guardia.

Guardia Civil man to step out from behind one of the palm trees and clap a set of magnetos on him before he reached the far side.

To this day the Guardias Civiles have plenary power to shoot whomsoever they think fit - flight and resistance being equally fatal.

He was preceded and followed by cardinals, bishops, arch-bishops, monsignori, abbots, the apostolic prothonotaries, generals of the religious orders, officers of the state, of the army, of his household, and the Guardia Nobile.

Frankie rented was located in the rear of a frame house on Guardia Street.

Subito dietro alla Camilla, erano entrati alcuni dei giovani rimasti di guardia al di fuori e al loro capo raccontavano come quella donna al chiarore del lampo li avesse scoperti, come si fosse slanciata verso il loggione, senza che fosse stato possibile, in modo alcuno, trattenerla.

In quasi tutte le coste del Mediterraneo vi sono torri di guardia, che servivano al tempo dei pirati barbareschi per dar avviso delle loro apparizioni.

Although the CPUSA refused to support the demonstration through hatred for Trotskyism and their support for the Democratic mayor, Fiorello La Guardia, whose police were protecting the Bund, many of its multinational rank and file did attend.

He mooched around the departure lounge at La Guardia, sipping the free coffee and thinking about Mal Malone.

He felt glad that Father Quixote had not seen her in that state, half on her side against the wall, the windscreen in smithereens, one door wrenched off its hinges, the other caved in, her tyres flattened by the bullets of the Guardia: there was no more of a future for Rocinante than for Father Quixote.

His faithful Rocinante an antiquated motor-car, his Sancho Panza a deposed communist mayor, his windmills the Guardia Civil.