Grand Canal

Our way led along the little Rio San Remo and then out into the Grand Canal, which was magnificent that fine afternoon, with just enough of a wind to ruffle the blue water. The trading fleets were due to leave... 

Amen, I said. We were making fast time along the Grand Canal and would be at San Remo in a few moments. It was time to counterattack. And now you and sier Bernardo are worried that donna Alina will fall into the hands of a charlatan clairvoyant, who will milk her of thousands of ducats by preying on her obsession to prove her son s innocence ... 

The wonder was not that a nun had disposed of the book, but that she would even soil her fingers to throw it in the Grand Canal. Had she stolen it with the deliberate intent of delivering it to the Maestro I could not imagine her daring to take it home to the convent. 

Missier Grandeihe chief of police, who carries out the orders of the Ten Molothe waterfront of the Piazzetta, on the Grand Canal... 

I still need to see Karagounis. He lived quite close. But Doctor Modestus is more urgent and I must consult him before they lock up the Ghetto. I don t want to kill the horse, though. The Ghetto is at the far end of the Grand Canal. 

Anything you say,apprentice. His glare would have boiled the Grand Canal. Vasco was untouchable, but I had made another enemy. 

You re looking happy, Alfeo, Giorgio said, as he rowed us sedately along the Grand Canal. 

Is Zeno allowed in thevizio asked disbelievingly. His displeasure was encouraging, for if I were on my way to the galleys, he would be wearing a sneer wider than the Grand Canal. 

Then she glanced past me and brightened like fireworks over the Grand Canal. I turned, expecting to see her husband striding through the doorway in his scarlet counselor robe, but it was merely the nondescript Girolamo in his ministerial violet. 

As Giorgio s strong oar sped us along the Grand Canal toward the Doges Palace, I heard the bells of San Giacomo di Rialto tolling sunset. 

Whew I sat down on the floor with a thud, feeling as if I had just swum the length of the Grand Canal in plate armor. 

So Giorgio slunk off up to the attic, furious at having failed in his duty. I, having drunk enough to fill the Grand Canal, stalked back into thesalone. I could hear the Maestro and Vasco arguing, so I left them to it and went into my room, locking the door behind me. 

The L>5 came down at Lido airfield in a blaze of bright Venetian sunshine. At the dock the admiral s barge was waiting, and we shoved off immediately, heading for the Grand Canal. 

I had never been in Venice before. Little did I think, when as a boy I breathlessly read G. A. Henty s The Lion of St. Mark that I should first enter the Grand Canal in the barge of the admiral commanding the United States Mediterranean Fleet. Yet so it had turned out. 

Some of these things Admiral Sherman and I talked about that day, as the Rochester lay in the Grand Canal of Venice but I would not wish any reader to conclude that the above remarks represent the admiral s views, though he is certainly fully aware of the vital importance of sea power to our position and prospects in the Mediterranean. He is, indeed, one of the ablest officers ever to wear American naval uniform. In his last assignment, as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Operations, he was instrumental in working out the details of the National Security Act of 1947, setting up the National Military Establishment. During the late war he served as deputy chief of staff to Admiral Nimitz in the Pacific and later commanded a carrier division. 

The Roman Pont du Gard in what is now France China s Grand Canal Printing press Steam engine The telegraph system Transcontinental railroad in the U.S. 

He. .. offered to drop plans to build a multi-billion doUar canal from Seoul to Busan, The construction of a grand canal was a part of my election pledge, but I will give up the project if it is opposed by the people. ... 

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