"Padrone" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... about the weather. His opinion was that it would clear up during the night; I said that if it did we would go to Selinunte, and this confirmed his view; so, on the understanding that there was to be no rain, I appointed him padrone of the expedition and promised to ...
— Diversions in Sicily • H. Festing Jones
... on his guitar, When over the olives the star Of eve, like a rose touch'd with gold, Doth slowly its sweet rays unfold. Perchance 'tis in some city square, And the people all follow us there. Don, donna, slim chulo, padrone, The very dog runs with his bone; One half of the square is in the shade, On the other the red sunset fades; The fount, as it flings up its jets, Responds to my brisk castanets; I wear a red rose at my ear; And many a whisper I hear: "If she were a lady, behold, None ...
— Old Spookses' Pass • Isabella Valancy Crawford
... in my head," replies Cassandra, defiantly. "My master, the padrone of the Pelican Hotel, is not a man one sees ...
— The Italians • Frances Elliot
... even here, with care," said he, pointing to the trees. "I think I have said that before to the Padrone." ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 • Various
... padrone distributed to each one his beast and a piece of black bread, and started them off, to beg for a sou or dance a Catalina. Those who, at night, brought back less than fifteen sous were beaten, oh! how they were beaten! so that they were heard to cry from one end ...
— Mysteries of Paris, V3 • Eugene Sue
... offices. He was at once surrounded by the strange medley of a Californian ranchero's service, peons, Chinese, and vaqueros. Jeff briefly stated his business. "Ah, Carrajo!" This was a matter for the major-domo, or, better, the padrone—Wilson! But the padrone, Wilson, called out by the tumult, appeared in person—a handsome, resolute, middle-aged man, who, in a twinkling, dispersed the group to barn and stable with a dozen orders of preparation, and then ...
— Jeff Briggs's Love Story • Bret Harte
... It was the padrone or tenant of the Giardino, who came up and parleyed with them. Yes, 'Vostra Eccellenza' might put down their baskets and make their tea. He pointed to a bench behind the shed. The forestieri came every day; he turned away ...
— Eleanor • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... THEY TURN OUT ILL, which I cannot imagine, stay, however, a month, that your departure may not seem a step of discontent or peevishness; the very suspicion of which is by all means to be avoided. Whenever you leave Hanover, be it sooner or be it later, where would you go? 'Lei Padrone', and I give you your choice: would you pass the months of November and December at Brunswick, Cassel, etc.? Would you choose to go for a couple of months to Ratisbon, where you would be very well recommended to, and treated by the King's Electoral ...
— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield |
