Still, as of old, "Only her bosom to die on, Only her heart for a home, And a name with her children to be, From Calabrian to Adrian Sea, Mother of cities made free.

Over a very light flannel under-vesture I put on a mail-shirt of fine close-woven wire, which had turned the edge of Mahratta tulwars, repelled the thrust of a Calabrian stiletto, and showed no mark of three carbine bullets fired point-blank.

" "And thy feet warmed with the thought of the bastinado, caro mio?" "I have run too often barefoot over our Calabrian mountains, to tingle at the sole with every fancy of that sort.

" The Calabrian laid a finger on one cheek, and drew the skin down in a manner to give a droll expression to his dark, comic eye, while the whole of his really fine Grecian face was charged with an expression of coarse humor.

The Calabrian recoiled apace, in silence, and stood regarding the individual who had caused this hurried remark, with a gloomy but steady air.

" "Two sequins!" rejoined the Calabrian, enforcing his meaning by a significant grimace.

Thou art well enough to row a gondola in the canals, Gino, or to follow thy master to his Calabrian castle; but if thou would'st know what passes in the wide world, thou must be content to listen to mariners of the long course.

Thou wast speaking to a stranger when I summoned thee to the gondola?" "I was asking the news of our Calabrian hills from one who has come into port with his felucca, though the man took the name of San Gennaro to witness that his former luckless voyage should be the last.

'T were a pity that any other got the liquor which I am certain the Calabrian has in secret.

That the purchase may not fail, I will take a mask and be thy companion, to see the Calabrian.

As the boat approached the end of the canal he began to cast his eyes about him in quest of the well known felucca of the Calabrian.

" The Calabrian was not slow to answer; and in a few moments the padrone and his two visitors were in close and secret conference.

" "Leave me to put a word into the private ear of the Calabrian," said the gondolier, significantly."Stefano

" "Since Gino has entered frankly into the matter," resumed the quick-witted Calabrian, cheerfully, and with an air of sudden confidence to the expectant Annina, "I begin to see more probability of our understanding each other's meaning.

It would seem that an ancestor of Don Camillo was anciently a senator of Venice, when the death of a relation brought many Calabrian signories into his possession.

Were he to renounce the Calabrian lordships, the Neapolitan might lose more than he would gain; and to keep both is to infringe a law that is rarely suffered to be dormant.

Be mine, lovely Violetta, and in the fastnesses of my own good Calabrian castle we will defy their vengeance and policy.

It is enough for our present purposes to say, that, as he proceeded, the young Calabrian noble drew nearer to his side, and listened with growing interest.

Yes, the air is sweet; the Calabrian hills Send us down puffs of mountain air; And in summer time the sea-breeze fills With its coolness cloister, and court, and square.

'He brings his little Calabrian wife and her baby out with him, and they take a small house for the winter and Italian servants, and live just as if they were in their own country and see only their Italian friendsinstead of being utterly wretched in a horrible hotel.'

Thomas Campanella, a Calabrian monk, in his second book de sensu rerum, cap.

Departure from MaltaThe SperonaraOur Fellow-PassengersThe First Night on BoardSicilyScarcity of ProvisionsBeating in the Calabrian ChannelThe Fourth MorningThe Gulf of CataniaA Sicilian LandscapeThe AnchorageThe Suspected ListThe Streets of CataniaBiography of St. AgathaThe IlluminationsThe Procession of the VeilThe Biscari PalaceThe Antiquities of CataniaThe Convent of St. Nicola.

The wind was light, and what little we made by tacking was swept away by the current, so that, after wasting the whole forenoon, we kept a straight course across the mouth of the channel, and at sunset saw the Calabrian Mountains.

The vast belt of smoke at last arched over the strait, here about twenty miles wide, and sank towards the distant Calabrian shore.

CARMELITES, a monastic order, originally an association of hermits on Mount Carmel, at length mendicant, called the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, i. e. the Virgin, in consecration to whom it was founded by a pilgrim of the name Berthold, a Calabrian, in 1156.