20 examples of traghetto in sentences

II Many years later one of the great artists of Venice, wandering about at sunset with an elusive vision of some wonderful picture stirring impatience within his soul, found a maiden sitting under the vine-covered pergola of the Traghetto San Maurizio, where she was waiting for her brother-in-law, who would presently touch at this ferry on his homeward way to Murano.

He was still under the spell of his great moment, and he was in the presence of one who should help him to make it immortal; he uncovered his head with a motion of courtly deference he did not often assume as he started forward over the rough planks of the traghetto.

And for the bambino, I will go not only once, but twice this year to confessionthe laws of our traghetto ask not so much, since once is enough.

Gabriele, the jilted lover of Toinetta, over whom Piero had triumphed, soon became the husband of another donzel, handsomer than Toinetta had beenpoor, foolish Toinetta!and the retributive tragedy of her little life had warmed the sullen Gabriele into a magnanimity that rendered him at least a safe, if a moody and unpleasant, member of the traghetto in which Piero had since become a rising star.

They spoil thee at the traghetto; and if a man hath his will always, it will either spoil him or make him noble.

He was beginning to feel a sense of satisfaction, not all barbaric, in the position he had won among men who had some views of order, and to perceive that there might be a lawful use, almost as pleasant, for those very attributes which had rendered him so formidable a foe outside the pale of traghetto civilization.

But of late there had been much unruliness among the younger members of the traghetti, and a growing inability among their officers to cope with increasing difficulties, because of these barcarioli tosi, who lived in open rebellion against this goodly system of law, poaching upon the dearly bought rights of the traghetto gondoliers, yet escaping all taxes.

And now that it was all overwas it all over?there lay the poor little Zuane; and Piero, over the water at his traghetto, was a great care.

He had come to San Maurizio to take a gondola from the traghetto, partly that he might be free to wander without comment wherever his search should lead, partly because he was always ready for a chat with the people; their experiences interested him, and he himself belonged by his artist life, as by his sympathies, to all classes.

There was an instant response from an old man almost past traghetto service, but his age and probable garrulity commended him.

Thou shalt have thy fare, but I will pay for another gondolier also from the traghetto; he must be young and lusty.

"Do they treat thee well at thy traghetto?" "Eccellenza, yes; but I am scarce older than the others; it is the young ones who make us trouble; they keep not the Mariegole, and it is only the old one may depend upon.

The first fare in the day?always for the Madonna of the traghetto.

There are the soldiers for the navy; how many good men does that leave for the traghetto service?

"And many a fare I pay to light the traghetto of San Nicolò; with an ave for the favor of the Blessed Mother to confound the scoundrel Castellani, who threw a good Nicolotto over the Ponte Senza Parapetti, in the last fight; and it cost us oil enough to light Venice for a yearfaith of San Nicolò!to keep them from winning at our regattamaledetti!"

" "By all the saints in heaven, and every Madonna in Venice, and our Lady of every traghetto!"

The fact that he had broken his promise of secrecy did not trouble him, since it was in Marina's service, which made the action honorable; and were it not so, the little perjury was well atoned for by a keg of oil anonymously sent to the traghetto of San Nicolò è San Raffaele, "pel luminar al Madonna"; and Piero had much faith in anonymous gifts, for confessions were not always convenient for an officer of his dignity.

But it was perhaps too much to expect that these poor little traghetto lamps should be more than dimly luminous, since the oil was so largely provided by fines for delinquencies!

Dawn was growing over the water, and the gray and oily surface of the lagoon was closely dotted with gondolas, distinct and black in the morning twilight; they came sweeping on from San Nicolò and Castelloblack and red, breast to breastgathering impetus as they neared the Piazzetta, in numbers which must have left every traghetto of Venice deserted; Nicolotti and Castellaniallies, since they never had been friends!

"Il canale Traghetto de' San Geremia" is in the Museum Rivoltella at Trieste.

20 examples of  traghetto  in sentences