Word: gondola
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...subject represents a brilliantly lighted interior with a furnace, and a man standing before it, seen through a square dorway from a dark canal. At one side is the end of a gondola, above which a face is just visible peering out of a window...
...Smith's delightful short stories and novels are widely known and read. Among the best are "Col. Carter, of Cartersville," "Gondola Days," "The Under Dog," "Col. Carter's Christmas" and "The Wood Fire...
...though I had a good lookout from one of the men-of-war in the harbor, I could with difficulty perceive his landing on the steps of the ducal palace directly opposite me. The evening was devoted to the illumination of the Grand Canal. After dark I took a gondola and floated...
...gondola carries me down the Canal in silence, only broken by the cry of some gondolier, shooting out from the shadow into the Canal. He looks like some Charon in the gloomy light of the candles looming through the mist. Soon the hum of many voices breaks on me, and, turning a bend, I come on the Rialto, which is one mass of fire...