7 examples of vettura in sentences
There were two other travellers in the vettura, both Frenchmen; the one about forty years of age was a Captain of cavalry en retraite, married to a Hungarian lady and settled at Florence, to which place he was returning; the other, a young man of very agreeable manners, settled likewise at Florence, as chief of a manufactory there, returning from Lyons, his native city, whither he had been to see his relations.
I intend to stop several days here on my return from Naples, for which place I shall start the day after to-morrow having engaged a place in a vettura for two and half louis d'or and to be spesato.
I started from Rome on the 26th September; in the same vettura I found an intelligent young Frenchman of the name of R D, a magistrate in Corsica, who was travelling in Italy for his amusement.
I started from Lausanne with a party of two ladies in a Milanese vettura on the morning of the 20th September.
One was like a slow old Italian vettura all lumbered with luggage and held back by its drag; the other panting and nervous at his work as an American locomotive, and as constantly running off the rails.
* * * To-morrow we're starting for Florence, Truly rejoiced, you may guess, to escape from republican terrors; Sir. C. and Papa to escort us; we by vettura Through Siena, and Georgy to follow and join us by Leghorn.
" Nay, from this very window, one might almost pitch an orange into the empty vettura standing in the courtyard of the Croce di Malta!