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  • The table was perfect—shaded, with a view of the piazza's central fountain, and heavy enough, we were sure, to secure an excitable hundred-pound Lab.†   (source)
  • Everywhere he looked, there were wide piazzas and traffic-clogged streets.†   (source)
  • Endless monuments and sculptures, the history of the Medici family, masterpieces by Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Masaccio, the Piazza del Duomo and Piazza della Signoria.†   (source)
  • Clara ran her eyes over everything and found it all quite lovely, just as she had politely approved of a sunset on the high seas, the Piazza San Marco, and her diamond jewelry.†   (source)
  • That's what enabled Western man to spend decades building a Gothic cathedral or a Renaissance piazza.†   (source)
  • There was Churchill Road starting at the railway station and making a steep rise to the Piazza, with a handful of cars and buses plying its slope.†   (source)
  • "And not only that," he said in a voice that both mocked and marveled, "you took him out and sat him down on the gallery, veranda-piazza-whatever they call it now'days-and introduced him to the quality!"†   (source)
  • A winding road with trees in clumps leads to the house, and all around the house it looks wild and rural as uncultivated nature…… You enter under a piazza into a hall and turning to the right hand ascend a staircase which lands you in another [hall] of equal dimensions of which I make a drawing room.†   (source)
  • The person dipped and circled like a bat in a square behind the Piazza San Marco.†   (source)
  • At four o'clock on Sunday, less than two weeks before Thanksgiving, Mr. Clem held his drawing on the hotel piazza.†   (source)
  • Abigail St. Croix was waiting for me on the lower piazza.†   (source)
  • It was there, ten years earlier, in a small office off the ghetto's broad piazza, that Gabriel had seen her for the first time—the beautiful, opinionated, overeducated daughter of the city's chief rabbi.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he was on the piazza, as now, sometimes at a second-floor window, and sometimes high up on the captain's walk.†   (source)
  • They all saw him pass, unrobbed and unaided, through the archway into the big Piazza ind away into the sliding life of the streets, and then Mama brought her handkerchief up to her face like a little nosegay of tears.†   (source)
  • I was the first to reach the runaway table as it surged and scraped down the piazza.†   (source)
  • Descending a long staircase, he said, "Ahead is the Piazza di Spagna where we'll spend the night.†   (source)
  • The conductor of the orchestra at the Piazza.†   (source)
  • I'd met her the day before at Piazza di Spagna.†   (source)
  • Incredibly, though, not even a citadel of this magnitude could dwarf the piazza before it.†   (source)
  • He found he was walking through the door of the Piazza at 12:01 for lunch.†   (source)
  • Like a shark patrolling a moonlit bay, the vehicle circled the perimeter of the piazza.†   (source)
  • Vittoria took a deep breath and scanned the piazza.†   (source)
  • Then you can whisk her to the Piazza for a little dancing.†   (source)
  • "Oh, I see," said the Count, feeling a little insulted on the Piazza's behalf.†   (source)
  • It was only 10:46 P.M. when a black van emerged from the alleyway on the far side of the piazza.†   (source)
  • The rear of the piazza looked like a parking lot crowded with a dozen or so trailer trucks.†   (source)
  • And this is the chap from the Piazza, you say?†   (source)
  • In other words, the waiters of the Piazza knew their trade to the crumb, the spoon, and the kopek.†   (source)
  • As they rounded the corner into Piazza della Rotunda, the Pantheon rose before them.†   (source)
  • In the center of the piazza rose Caligula's 350-ton Egyptian obelisk.†   (source)
  • So he waves his baton in the Piazza, ostensibly putting the classical repertoire behind him.†   (source)
  • In front of him in the distance, Piazza del Popolo.†   (source)
  • But of all the waiters at the Piazza, of all the waiters in the world, why would he choose this one?†   (source)
  • But the Piazza did not aspire to elegance, service, or subtlety.†   (source)
  • They split up and spread out along the piazza perimeter, quietly unloading men at select points.†   (source)
  • I think you will find the Piazza positively delightful.†   (source)
  • He gazed out at the piazza, his pulse climbing.†   (source)
  • Cars to Piazza della Rotunda, Via delgi Orfani, Piazza Sant'Ignacio, and Sant'Eustachio.†   (source)
  • Like those of a Parisian café, the Piazza's waiters could best be complimented as -efficient."†   (source)
  • Now, across the piazza, men moved in and out of the church.†   (source)
  • Olivetti pointed to Piazza del Popolo and traced a straight line exactly southwest.†   (source)
  • Langdon was huddled now on the fringes of Piazza Navona, pulling his jacket around him.†   (source)
  • Piazza Navona, he thought, knowing he could get there in plenty of time and stake it out.†   (source)
  • The piazza seemed subtly filled with Illuminati significance.†   (source)
  • Langdon nodded, arching left across the piazza.†   (source)
  • He tailed the Alpha Romeos through a hard left swerve around Piazza Risorgimento.†   (source)
  • The piazza had exploded into a frenzy of aggression.†   (source)
  • The media and fire department racing with sirens blaring to Piazza Navona would be no help at all.†   (source)
  • Vittoria Vetra whipped out her cell phone as she dashed into Piazza della Rotunda.†   (source)
  • The only reason I know about it is because I'm usually on piazza duty.†   (source)
  • Langdon looked out at the monolith in the piazza in front of them.†   (source)
  • We can't see the entrance unless we move into plain view on the piazza.†   (source)
  • They skidded to a stop on the south side of the Piazza del Popolo just before eight.†   (source)
  • The same army, he knew, had now fanned out and surrounded this piazza.†   (source)
  • The piazza was the sight of a controversial subway stop.†   (source)
  • The vaulted structure had been overlooking the piazza for centuries.†   (source)
  • In Bernini's day, Langdon now realized, Piazza Barberini had contained an obelisk!†   (source)
  • "The church is on Piazza Barberini," Olivetti said, killing the siren and checking his watch.†   (source)
  • I want you across the piazza, out of sight, watching the front entrance.†   (source)
  • The first two markers had been located on or near piazzas that contained obelisks!†   (source)
  • He glanced up at the ship as if to get his bearings, then pointed across the piazza.†   (source)
  • After each song, the piazza is beaten by a hailstorm of silver.†   (source)
  • I've been going to the Piazza every Sunday."†   (source)
  • The first few katoblepones lumbered into the piazza, bellowing in anger.†   (source)
  • All around the Piazza del Colosseo, traffic had come to a standstill.†   (source)
  • Mark stood watch in the shadows of the piazza, observing an elderly couple crossing Meeting Street.†   (source)
  • Two women, and a man with a voice that echoes in the piazza.†   (source)
  • The rain washed off a coat of ennui that had enveloped the Piazza.†   (source)
  • Dark clouds began to gather over the piazza.†   (source)
  • I haven't seen a naked piazza in ten years.†   (source)
  • The next day in the Piazza, I found the Chuck Berry 45 in a record shop.†   (source)
  • Halfway across the piazza, everything went wrong; but it had nothing to do with ghosts.†   (source)
  • Just ahead, past a big piazza, a wooden bridge spanned one of the widest canals.†   (source)
  • On the Piazza San Marco, behind the columns.†   (source)
  • In the center of the village was a piazza, and in the center of the piazza, a fountain.†   (source)
  • "If they're so good," Alessandro asked, "why do they sing in the piazza?†   (source)
  • He loved Rome most when the wind was cold and the piazzas were empty.†   (source)
  • Presently she called from the piazza, "Mister Randy, it's for you.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, from your description, the Bernini you refer to is the one in the Piazza Barberini, not the Piazza Navona.†   (source)
  • Windows looked out on what Johnny called the "piazza" and I could see up the staircase to a large, yellow-brown church above, and down to the square where a boat-shaped fountain tossed water into the evening stillness.†   (source)
  • We loaded the boys and the dog into the minivan and headed to Mizner Park, the downtown shopping plaza modeled after an Italian piazza with wide sidewalks and endless dining possibilities.†   (source)
  • But for a hopeful young man trying to impress a serious young woman, the menu of the Piazza was as perilous as the Straits of Messina.†   (source)
  • And the Count went on to tell Sofia about the Christmas that he had celebrated with her mother in the Piazza in 1922.†   (source)
  • For if one has chosen to dine at the Piazza, one should expect to have one's waiter leaning over the table and scratching away on his little pad.†   (source)
  • He only conducts at the Piazza in order to make ends meet-One must make ends meet," confirmed Audrius matter-of-factly, "or meet one's end."†   (source)
  • "I still can't believe it's that fellow from the Piazza," said Richard with another shake of the head.†   (source)
  • He was tempted in turn to ask (with a glint in his eye) if she had had an "hors d'oeuvre" at the Piazza, but thought better of it.†   (source)
  • Dangling at the bottom of the golden parabola was the pendant the Count had first observed at the Piazza, but it was neither a lucky charm nor locket.†   (source)
  • As did the four telephones in the Piazza, the three in the coffeehouse, the eight in the executive offices, and the two on the Bishop's desk.†   (source)
  • More than simply a restaurant, the Piazza was designed to be an extension of the city—of its gardens, markets, and thoroughfares.†   (source)
  • Admittedly, the Piazza could not challenge the elegance of the Boyarsky's decor, the sophistication of its service, or the subtlety of its cuisine.†   (source)
  • Whether dining in the Piazza or riding the elevator to the fifth floor, a little girl in the Metropol would not go unnoticed for long.†   (source)
  • It was definitely the very same fellow who waved his baton so blithely on the bandstand in the Piazza.†   (source)
  • But at this particular moment, what the architect was working on was a detailed drawing of a crowded restaurant that looked very much like the Piazza.†   (source)
  • Granted, Sofia was not so unworldly as to be unfamiliar with elephants, but she had never seen anything quite like the Piazza.†   (source)
  • As the blonde concluded her geography lesson, a fourth member of the party jogged up from the direction of the Piazza.†   (source)
  • And now here she was, sitting before him in the Piazza looking about the room without a smile on her face or a word on her lips.†   (source)
  • The word hardly did justice to the young man's skills as an artist, for he had captured the Piazza perfectly.†   (source)
  • Nor was he receiving a trim in the barbershop, lunching at the Piazza, or reading the papers in the lobby.†   (source)
  • The egg (which presumably had been liberated from the Piazza's kitchen) was held precisely, released exactly, and timed to the centisecond.†   (source)
  • When Sofia completed her survey of the Piazza's paradoxes, she seemed to understand instinctively that such a setting deserved an elevated standard of behavior.†   (source)
  • One evening in late December, as he was walking the hallway to the Piazza, the Count distinctly felt a gust of frozen air, despite being fifty yards from the nearest exit to the street.†   (source)
  • Dead center of Piazza Navona, outside the church of St. Agnes in Agony, Bernini had forged one of his most celebrated sculptures.†   (source)
  • Today, the dining room was nearly empty and the Count was being served by someone who appeared not only new to the Piazza, but new to the art of waiting.†   (source)
  • Let us adjourn to the Piazza where—having placed our order and made ourselves comfortable—we shall investigate all the whys and wherefores of my father's clock.†   (source)
  • "Piazza del Popolo," Glick insisted.†   (source)
  • The piazza was quiet except for the laughter of a handful of locals seated outside the popular Rosati Cafe-a hot spot of the Italian literati.†   (source)
  • There would still be a few of the hotel's guests returning from late suppers, a few stragglers in the bar, the clearing and setting up of the Piazza, the vacuuming of the lobby.†   (source)
  • Langdon had imagined the killer escorting his last victim across the piazza on foot, like he had at St. Peter's, giving Langdon an open shot.†   (source)
  • But as the Count continued with his description of the Piazza's advantages, he noticed that Sofia was staring at his father's clock with an expression of surprise.†   (source)
  • December in the Piazza ...From the day the Metropol opened its doors, the good people of Moscow had looked to the Piazza to set the tone of the season.†   (source)
  • Langdon pointed to the imposing Porta del Popolo-the high stone archway at the far end of the piazza.†   (source)
  • In the Piazza, Russians cut from every cloth (or at least those who have access to foreign currency) gather to linger over coffee and happen upon friends.†   (source)
  • As the caravan of Alpha Romeos tore out of Piazza del Popolo, everyone was in too much of a hurry to notice the BBC van pulling out behind them.†   (source)
  • He knew the piazza contained a major church, but he had already traced his finger through that piazza and considered the church there.†   (source)
  • There were two restaurants in the Hotel Metropol: the Boyarsky, that fabled retreat on the second floor that we have already visited, and the grand dining room off the lobby known officially as the Metropol, but referred to affectionately by the Count as the Piazza.†   (source)
  • This was the very woman who, as a child herself, had crossed the Piazza without hesitation in order to become his friend; who had shown him the hidden corners of the hotel and bestowed upon him, quite literally, the key to its mysteries.†   (source)
  • Piazza Navona was only about a mile away, but Langdon had no intention of wasting precious energy on foot.†   (source)
  • Langdon and Vittoria observed Piazza Barberini from the shadows of a small alleyway on the western corner.†   (source)
  • At 12:10 the Piazza was not yet bustling; but perhaps this was just as well, as the Count and Sofia received an excellent table and prompt attention from Martyn—a capable new waiter who pulled back Sofia's chair with an admirable sense of politesse.†   (source)
  • The Church of Santa Maria del Popolo stood out like a misplaced battleship, askew at the base of a hill on the southeast corner of the piazza.†   (source)
  • He could be dining in the Piazza when a couple would approach his table with the clear intention of taking it as their own; or he could be standing near the front desk when a harried guest would nearly knock him off his feet.†   (source)
  • Tourists wandered, nuns chatted along the perimeter of the piazza, a girl fed pigeons at the base of the obelisk.†   (source)
  • When Nina left the Piazza to join her father, the Count's intention had been to settle the check, proceed to the Boyarsky (for an herb-encrusted lamb chop), and then retire to his study with a glass of port to await the chime of twelve.†   (source)
  • Gunther Glick and Chinita Macri sat parked in the BBC van in the shadows at the far end of Piazza del Popolo.†   (source)
  • The Count picked up Mishka's letter with the intention of reading on, but as he turned the page, three youths leaving the Piazza happened to stop on the other side of one of the potted palms to carry on some weighty conversation.†   (source)
  • The Count explained how a few days after the incident in the barbershop, her mother had popped up at his table in the Piazza to ask, in essence, the very same question that Sofia had just asked: Where did they go?†   (source)
  • The springtime sun was setting behind St. Peter's Basilica, and a massive shadow spread, engulfing the piazza.†   (source)
  • Langdon looked out at the piazza again.†   (source)
  • As such, it was with a touch of disappointment that the Count entered the Piazza on this winter solstice to find the room ungarlanded, the balustrades unstrung, an accordion player on the bandstand, and two-thirds of the tables empty.†   (source)
  • Then skipping across the street, they enter the Metropol Hotel where, as they pass the concierge's desk en route to the Piazza, they are admired by a distinguished-looking man with a touch of gray in his hair….†   (source)
  • Standing there atop the magnificent stairs that spilled down to the piazza below, Langdon felt like a reluctant player on the world's biggest stage.†   (source)
  • A block from the piazza, Olivetti turned into an alley, gunned the car halfway down, and skidded to a stop.†   (source)
  • With eighty tables scattered around a marble fountain and a menu offering everything from cabbage piroghi to cutlets of veal, the Piazza was meant to be an extension of the city—of its gardens, markets, and thoroughfares.†   (source)
  • He looked out at the other media vans in the distance and watched Macri tailing the mysterious couple across the piazza.†   (source)
  • When the last of the brandy was dispensed, Emile—who given the hour was nearly in a state of ecstasy—suggested they all head downstairs for another round, a little more dancing, and to bring the festivities to Viktor Stepanovich, who was still on the bandstand in the Piazza.†   (source)
  • When he leaned in to examine where he had placed the final mark, Langdon was surprised to find that the fourth point lay dead center of Rome's famed Piazza Navona.†   (source)
  • December in the Piazza ….†   (source)
  • Art historians knew the fountains marked the exact geometric focal points of Bernini's elliptical piazza, but it was an architectural oddity Langdon had never really considered until today.†   (source)
  • When Sofia had gone off to meet a friend, the Count went to the Piazza and treated himself to a glass of wine with lunch—something that he had done on a daily basis in his thirties and had rarely done since.†   (source)
  • When Richard left, the Count looked once around the room to see if there was anyone he knew, and was pleased to discover that the young architect from the Piazza was at a table in the corner, bent over his sketchbook, presumably rendering the bar.†   (source)
  • As he scanned the piazza and waited, Langdon realized that despite the encroachment of modern buildings, the piazza still looked remarkably elliptical.†   (source)
  • When the Count had received the Bishop's summons in the Piazza, he had assumed the matter must be urgent because the messenger had waited for him to finish his demitasse and then led him promptly to the executive suite.†   (source)
  • Langdon felt himself sweating now in his Harris tweed in the backseat of the Alpha Romeo, which was idling in Piazza de la Concorde, three blocks from the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • The path intersected the Margherita Bridge, Via Cola di Riezo, and passed through Piazza del Risorgimento, hitting no churches at all until it dead-ended abruptly at the center of St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • As he listened to Sofia breathing, he went back to the moment that he woke on the hardwood floor, and by systematically reconstructing his various visits to the lobby, the Piazza, the Boyarsky, Anna's suite, the basement, and Marina's office, he carefully calculated how many flights of stairs he had climbed or descended over the course of the day.†   (source)
  • Two waiters in the Piazza carrying trays to their tables collided; four customers in the Shalyapin spilled their drinks and one was pinched; trapped in the elevator between the second and third floors, the American, Pudgy Webster, shared chocolate bars and cigarettes with his fellow passengers; while alone in his office, the hotel's manager vowed "to get to the bottom of this."†   (source)
  • "Piazza Navona," Langdon shouted.†   (source)
  • Through the scattered tourists, the white marble ellipse of Bernini's West Ponente stood out against the gray granite cubes that made up the rest of the piazza.†   (source)
  • Twenty years ago, construction of the subway terminal had created a stir among art historians who feared digging beneath Piazza Barberini might topple the multiton obelisk that stood in the center.†   (source)
  • Those buildings across the piazza?†   (source)
  • As if connected by some sort of universal consciousness, every last media screen in the piazza cut away from their countdown clocks and their Vatican experts and began transmitting the same picture-a jiggling action footage swooping up the Vatican stairs.†   (source)
  • In front of the basilica, bordering the vast oval common, 284 columns swept outward in four concentric arcs of diminishing size …. an architectural trompe de l'oiel used to heighten the piazza's sense of grandeur.†   (source)
  • As they crossed the open expanse of St. Peter's Square, Langdon sensed Bernini's sprawling piazza having the exact effect the artist had been commissioned to create-that of "humbling all those who entered."†   (source)
  • He crossed Piazza Barberini.†   (source)
  • The piazza is that way.†   (source)
  • Piazza Barberini.†   (source)
  • Piazza Navona.†   (source)
  • Piazza Navona.†   (source)
  • The piazza was deserted.†   (source)
  • Next to Piazza Barberini.†   (source)
  • I could point out to tourists who happened by while I was reading on the wicker couch on the lower piazza, the enormous stone quoins at the entranceway, the exceptional stuccowork in those princely downstairs rooms, and the intricate delicacy of the woodwork.†   (source)
  • This one will cause the Tiber to flood its banks so we can reenact a naval battle right in the Piazza Navona!†   (source)
  • He drove through the Piazza from one end to the other, and then, after a beer at St. George's, decided it was time to go home.†   (source)
  • Jason and Leo touched down in a big piazza lined with white marble government buildings and outdoor cafés.†   (source)
  • He wasn't in the mood for the Ibis or one of the big bars in the Piazza that employed thirty hostesses.†   (source)
  • THE AVAKIANS WERE LOCKING UP their bottled-gas store, and beyond their shop the lights of the Piazza, the transitory illusion of Roma, came to an end.†   (source)
  • They'd arrived in a smaller piazza.†   (source)
  • A woman read a pink pamphlet that had been dropped over the Piazza and Merkato by an air force plane.†   (source)
  • He strapped Hazel's sword to his belt, morphed his backpack into a quiver and bow, and raced toward the piazza where he'd fought the cow monsters.†   (source)
  • The last thing Leo wanted was some alone time with the monkey dwarfs, but the Kerkopes were already disappearing around the far corner of the piazza.†   (source)
  • Upgrades to the furniture, two foosball machines, and a new television set made her bar the equal of the best in the Piazza.†   (source)
  • The days are numbered when flocks of sheep are driven through the Piazza Navona, and, as things change, Rome will become more and more like Paris, London, and Berlin.†   (source)
  • At one, when the female singer finished her last aria, the doors and windows that faced the piazza were filled with a hundred clerks who made their silver coins into a short and violent hailstorm.†   (source)
  • None of the locals seemed to notice the huge Greek warship hovering over the piazza, or the fact that Jason and Leo had just flown down, Jason wielding a gold sword, and Leo …. well, Leo pretty much empty-handed.†   (source)
  • Bachelli up in the Piazza was marginally competent in obstetrics but unreliable after two in the afternoon, and his Eritrean mistress was deeply suspicious of him leaving on "house calls."†   (source)
  • Just a week ago, Ghosh had been shocked to see Bachelli drunk and singing the "Giovinezza," goose-stepping down the middle of the road in the heart of the Piazza.†   (source)
  • Anyone walking in the dark little streets near the Piazza Navona would see orange suns blazing inside the shops and restaurants, as fragrant apple wood and oak burned in terra cotta stoves.†   (source)
  • In the Piazza he had once pointed out the stigmata of congenital syphilis in a listless boy who was squatting on the sidewalk: "Saddle nose, cloudy eyes, peg-shaped incisor teeth …."†   (source)
  • Suddenly, darkness became light as hundreds of clear electric bulbs illuminated a children's carnival on the Piazza Navona, in the days before Christmas.†   (source)
  • They're from Africa, so that's why they sing in the piazza, and that's why no one pays them even though they sing like angels and they should be in La Scala.†   (source)
  • And looking at Bachelli's face, so flushed with liquor and pride, as he did his victory march in the Piazza, Ghosh had realized it must have been Bachelli's proudest moment.†   (source)
  • NOT A single light burned, and the moon had not risen, but the piazza and the buildings surrounding it were of a pale color that amplified the starlight enough to outline shapes and give away anything that moved across fields of varying contrast.†   (source)
  • The Ibis in the Piazza saved him.†   (source)
  • Trailing after Hema and Ghosh in the Piazza, or threading between gharries and lorries into Motilal's Garments in the crowded Merkato of Addis Ababa, I never heard Hema say, "That blue shirt will look so good on Shiva," or "Those sandals are perfect for Marion."†   (source)
  • It made him think of Rome in autumn, of looking down the Via Condotti from the Piazza Trinita dei Monti at dusk, when the fires began to blaze in restaurants along the Tiber and a darkening orange sky silhouetted the royal palms on the Gianicolo.†   (source)
  • They went on the Via del Corso all the way to the Piazza del Popolo, but instead of turning to cross the Tiber and make their way home they galloped into the Viale del Muro Torto and through the Porta Pinciana to the small triangle of land for which the attorney Giuliani had traded the garden.†   (source)
  • I went to the Piazza.†   (source)
  • In the Piazza San Marco a beautiful young woman with a solid figure, shoulder-length blond hair, and the bluest eyes was holding aloft a small red umbrella and haranguing a group of overweight old ladies, in German.†   (source)
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