All 24 Uses of
piazza
in
A Soldier of the Great War
- I haven't seen a naked piazza in ten years.†
Chpt 1
- In the center of the village was a piazza, and in the center of the piazza, a fountain.†
Chpt 1
- In the center of the village was a piazza, and in the center of the piazza, a fountain.†
Chpt 1
- 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.†
Chpt 1
- Is it a street or a piazza?†
Chpt 1
- The dark ribbon you see is the Tiber cutting through the light, and those white flakes, like mica, are the large piazze.†
Chpt 1
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- Two women, and a man with a voice that echoes in the piazza.†
Chpt 2
- "If they're so good," Alessandro asked, "why do they sing in the piazza?†
Chpt 2
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- After each song, the piazza is beaten by a hailstorm of silver.†
Chpt 2
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- 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.†
Chpt 3
- On the Piazza San Marco, behind the columns.†
Chpt 3
- 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.†
Chpt 5
- 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.†
Chpt 5
- He works on the next street over, between here and the piazza.
Chpt 6 *piazza = Italian for a plaza
- Suddenly, darkness became light as hundreds of clear electric bulbs illuminated a children's carnival on the Piazza Navona, in the days before Christmas.†
Chpt 6
- As he raced through streets and piazzas and the warrens and alleys that surrounded them like masses of brambles, he smelled chocolate, coffee, and hot milk in expresso bars, and fish frying in olive oil, beef roasting, bread baking.†
Chpt 7
- He loved Rome most when the wind was cold and the piazzas were empty.†
Chpt 7
- I want that tunnel so crowded with the braying enemy that no room will be left for us, but, should you not make it back to a table in the piazza, you will have died in the best place for dying the world has ever known.†
Chpt 7
- The streets were shadowy canyons with floors illuminated now and then by the sunlight that flooded across piazzas, or as they made widening turns in the direction of the sun.†
Chpt 7
- The road curved left and then back to the village by way of rocky shelves in the hills, but if you were to descend to the floor of the valley, cross the river, and go up again, you would come to the church and the piazza directly, after passing rows of olive trees, and stone walls, and through fields in which sheaves of silver-blond hay stood like dispersed infantrymen.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(piazza) architecture: Italian term for a plaza (large open square created or defined by several buildings forming a perimeter enclosure)