16 adjectives to describe gondolas

The movement of the arm which directed the light gondola was dexterous and still strong, though the hairs of him who held the oar were thin and white.

at Verona it rained as hard as ever, and we made our way from the railway station at Venice, cowering in the coffin-like cabin of a damp and extremely draughty gondola, while cold flurries of an Alpine-born wind swept across the Grand Canal.

"The noble ladies will proceed thither in the ducal gondola which attends them.

There is yet time for one skilful as thou to outstrip the fleetest gondola on the canals.

"And Gabriele" "Fash not thyself for a man of his measure, that is fitter to 'beat the fishes' like a galley-slave than to serve an honest gondola!"

The very morning after the mysterious gondola had rested so long before the Manfrini Palace, Venetia rose for the first time since the flight from Rovigo, refreshed by her slumbers, and tranquil in her spirit.

" Giorgio threw a glance of surprise back at his comrade, but the obedient gondola shot by the gloomy, though rich abode, as if the little bark had suddenly obeyed an inward impulse.

The pliant gondola obeyed, and amid a shout which passed from the Piazzetta to the Rialto, it glided ahead.

The prize will be a silver gondola to him who is lucky or skilful enough to win; and then we shall have the nuptials with the Adriatic.

The hunting-horns echoed through the wooded banks, and through the arches above which the château was built passed great highly colored barges, including a fleet of gondolas to remind the queen-mother of her Italian daysthe ancestors perhaps of the solitary gondola which to-day floats idly by the river-bank just before the grand entrance to the château.

The sombre gondola writhed its sinuous course and deposited us all forlorn in the near neighbourhood of the Piazza San Marco.

His walk had carried him out to the bank of a narrow, winding canal, at whose quays once-splendid gondolas were rotting in neglect.

Shall we stand in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, and then take this stereoscopic gondola and go through it from St. Mark's to the Arsenal?

He is gone; though he is not far; still is he beyond the reach of the swiftest gondola in Venice, praised be St.

A cry rang down the Canal Grande from the gondoliers of the Ca' Giustiniani, who were waiting this sign to start their own train from the palazzo; for the bridal gondolas were coming in sight, with felzi of damask, rose, and blue, embroidered with emblems of the Giustiniani, bearing the noble maidens who had been chosen for the household of the Lady Marina, each flower-like and charming under her gauzy veil of tenderest coloring.

He saw, at a glance, it was the treacherous gondola by which he had been duped.

16 adjectives to describe  gondolas