This sheet of water might even receive a gondola.

"Dost thou use thy gondola to-night, love?"

The crowing infant and the noisy boy were dismissed to their beds, while the lady and the eldest child descended to the gondola.

Her husband kissed her hand fondly, as he assisted her into the gondola, and the boat had glided some distance from the palace ere he quitted the moist stones of the water-gate.

The gondola of the old man was found in the mouth of the Grand Canal, half a league from the body and against the wind!

He would have rejoiced to have been as light of heart as at the moment he handed his fair-haired partner into the gondola that night; but his head had pressed the pillow for many hours, before sleep drew a veil over the solemn trifling with the most serious of your duties, in which he had been an actor.

His conductor led him by many secret ways to a quay, where he instantly embarked in a gondola for the main.

We ought to have had a gondola," he added, as he handed her to the seat in the stern.

catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft, coracle, gondola, carvel^, caravel; felucca, caique^, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe; galley, galleyfoist^; bilander^, dogger^, hooker, howker^; argosy, carack^; galliass^, galleon; polacca^, polacre^, tartane^, junk, lorcha^, praam^, proa^, prahu^, saick^, sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah^; nuggah^;

Those persons who are not rich enough to possess a gondola of their own, hire them, as we do cabs, when they require to go abroad.

"You should be standing in a gondola, holding flowers," Joe said.

Our carriage was a talika, one of those little gondola-like covered wagons common in the country.

It is turned up, at either end, like a gondola, and the sides and gunwales fancifully painted.

And if, at such times, one of the long, narrow barges of the place passes up stream, the illusion is complete; for, as the boat cuts at intervals through the glare of gaslight it looks for all the world like a gondola....

Finally, three months and twenty-seven days from the date of the earthquake, having traversed only 900 odd English miles, I let go in the Venice lagoon, in the early morning of the 10th September, the lateen sail and stone anchor of a Maltese speronare, which I had found, and partially cleaned, at Trieste; and thence I passed up the Canalazzo in a gondola.

"I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola.

They would thread the narrow, solitary silent canals there, stretched out in a gondola, kissing each other between smiles, pitying the poor unfortunate mortals crossing the bridges over them, unaware of how great a love was gliding beneath their feet!

A Group of four drawings representing Couple in gondola, Group of gondolas, Saint Mark's Square and Arsenal, Venice.

A Group of four drawings representing Couple in gondola, Group of gondolas, Saint Mark's Square and Arsenal, Venice.

"I shall return in an hour," he said to his subordinate as he stepped into the black gondola which every Venetian knew so well.

A gondola was approaching them; the cry of the gondolier, awakening echoes beneath the eaves of the old houses, gave to Frà Giovanni that inspiration he had been seeking now for some minutes.

" CHAPTER III Frà Giovanni stepped from his gondola, and stood at the door of the Palazzo Pisani exactly at a quarter to ten o'clock.

Although she painted religious subjects for churches, her special predilection is for views of Venice, preferably those in which the gondola appears.

Good examples of her work are "The Flowers of Cleopatra," "The Return from the Country," "An Excursion by Gondola."

Pietro was truehe adopted immediately the proposal; they stepped into a gondola, and fled towards Florence.