How To Use Gondola In A Sentence
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DIDIER GONDOLA, AUTHOR, "HISTORY OF CONGO": The short answer would be that Congo has been cursed by its natural resources.
CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2006
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That was until a gondola linking the village to the much fêted Verbier was installed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr Fournier will spend around three hours ascending in an enclosed lightweight gondola before deflating the balloon and parachuting back to earth in six minutes and 25 seconds.
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Its impressive network of canals may lack the gondolas of its Italian sister, but the view at dusk is pretty and romantic while standing on any number of foot paths and bridges dotting the city.
Magda Abu-Fadil: The Other Face of Hamburg (PHOTOS)
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A party of us embarked in a sort of light boat called a caique, than which no species of vessel, save the gondola, cuts more softly and noiselessly through the waters.
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833
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She was bent over the bridge videoing a gondola as it floated down the canal.
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The three areas have over two dozen ski lifts, mostly chairlifts and gondolas, serving a multitude of trails and runs from the valley floor to open slopes above treeline.
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Hit the peaks by gondola or cable car and ride and slide to the bottom.
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It started in a vague dream of getting off the ski-lift gondola at a mountain ski lodge, and stepping out on the metal grate.
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The Victorian steam yacht was originally designed in the form of a Venetian gondola and was first launched in 1859 on Coniston Water.
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No doubt you imagine yourself a romantic gondola ride along narrow canals and under delicate bridges.
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Depending on where you roam, your transportation may range from the ultramodern, like the high-speed trains of Japan, to the traditional, like the eccentric jitneys of the Philippines or the gondolas of Venice.
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Sightseers will be able to hire boats, resembling Venetian gondolas, to take trips on the canal.
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Our gondola ride was a little underwhelming.
The Sun
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Today, he was riding in it, punting along with a rubber ended broom handle, playing on the kazoo, and attempting to look like a gondola owner.
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The TLC will handle lumber, steel, aluminum and food products, and is designed to load and unload all types of railcars from centerbeams to boxcars and gondolas.
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Ateneo Honeymoon and silver anniversary couples staying 5 nights or more receive dinner on arrival and a complimentary gondola ride.
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Each village has its own chair lift or gondola starting from the town centre.
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Then the streets become calmer and you really notice the gondolas because all the delivery boats have finished making their rounds.
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It is believed that the original carnival was a much bigger and rowdier affair with fights, bear baitings and puppet shows, bull fights and secret assignations in gondolas.
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The signalmen (who would more plausibly have been signalwomen) would have kept watch from here with telescopes, would have run their flags up one of the immense cables from which the gondola hung.
Exodus From The Long Sun
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The solution was to suspend a gondola from a 160 feet high gantry by what are known as trolley wires, in order that this strange craft could ply (as it still does) across the River Tees with foot passengers and up to nine cars.
Suspending Belief
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Amongst other things you can: go up the mountain with gondolas, teleferics and chairlifts, come down the mountain with mountain karts, downhill mountain bikes… also trips on quads, trekking, horse-riding…
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The Victorian steam yacht was originally designed in the form of a Venetian gondola and was first launched in 1859 on Coniston Water.
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Of course, these podiums did not literally resemble the gondolas in the canals outside, except in very general terms - their sweeping curves and elevated tips.
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At the base of Grouse Mountain I entered into another means of transportation: the Skyride, a 6 minute gondola/tram ride to the main complex at the top of the Mountain.
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She looked so miserably old and weary that he called a gondola to his landing and made her get into it with him.
A Foregone Conclusion
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Workers there build and repair different types of rail cars, including coal hoppers, gondolas, and cars that carry steel coils.
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They are particularly keen to trace two young men who were riding in the gondola immediately in front of the one carrying Miss Savage.
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Second place wins a collectible (or would be if it didn't have a little crack in the horn) cow standing in a gondola and wearing a gondolier costume, except in the daringly naked udder area.
Style Invitational Week 890: A contest to combine two sports team names
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We easily transformed the spelling into "gondola," and in fancy were afloat on Venetian waters, under some overhanging balcony, perhaps at the very Palace of the Doges, -- willingly blind to the reality of a mudscow leaning against some rickety wharf posts, covered with barnacles.
A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)
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As our river bus weaves in and out among the swarm of vaporetti, traghetti, gondolas and private craft, Venice begins to reveal itself.
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Replace those tired old tracks and trains with canals and gondolas.
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Another of the pictures from the mantelpiece shows her during that period, sailing on a gondola down the canals of Venice.
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There are 12 lifts, including a gondola, chairlifts, button tows and T-bars, which cover most of the mountain.
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The next day we venture to Livigno's highest runs on the Carosella 3000 gondola and plunge back down to earth.
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The average gondola has cost its owner about 50,000, and he is liable to be a bit touchy about the paintwork.
Times, Sunday Times
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We can take the gondola/cable car/whatever you want to call it all the way up and go luging!
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I've never been to Tuscany, haven't floated down a canal in a Venetian gondola, nor thrown a coin into the Trevi Fountain.
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As well as riding the Cairngorm funicular and the Nevis Range gondola, visitors are being encouraged to pursue a widening variety of warm weather sports.
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It is a dangerous place, a place where vagrants live, where "lost boys" roam the catacombs, and where the dark figure of Drood and his two steersmen usher Dickens on a gondola to the deepest recesses of Underworld.
Archive 2010-01-01
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The company has 80 employees engaged in everything from building the gondolas to piloting the ships, and four $5 million blimps in inventory.
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Wow. I'll bet . But he wasn't in her gondola too?
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The common gondola car is a freight car with low sides and ends, a solid floor, and no roof.
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Tens of millions of people inhabiting coastal and lowland areas may be poling gondolas where they once walked.
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She'd done a rubbishy job, but I was grateful as I left, promising to send along any passing gondolas and vote something-or-other.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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As you walk along narrow alleys, there is a chance that you will see a door and behind it a gondola, or a harpsichord, a fresco or a baroque orchestra rehearsing for an evening concert.
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A cabman who sits on a box and whips his horse, or a chauffeur who turns a wheel, is that and nothing more; but a gondolier is a romantic figure, and a gondola is a romantic craft, and the poor fellow has had to do it all himself, and did you hear how he was panting? and do look at those dark eyes!
A Wanderer in Venice
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DIDIER GONDOLA, AUTHOR, "HISTORY OF CONGO": A short answer would be that Congo has been cursed by its natural resources, and that's why - one of the reasons why so much violence has taken place in that country.
CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2006
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It is a dangerous place, a place where vagrants live, where “lost boys” roam the catacombs, and where the dark figure of Drood and his two steersmen usher Dickens on a gondola to the deepest recesses of Underworld.
Archive 2009-02-01
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We couldn't stay in northern Italy without a visit to Venice, that amazing city of canals, gondolas, bridges and churches.
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A gondola is more beautiful, but the steam-launch takes one places, and an electric car is more comfortable than the hump of a camel.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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Most of those in the video are ground launches from suspended gondolas or from gimbaled launch rails.
NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: February 2005 Archives
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In Europe you'll take a few lifts in a row and then a tram or gondola to get to the top of the mountain for a half hour run whereas most resorts that I've been to in the States are much shorter with one or two lifts to the summit.
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Why do we stretch to the limits of our stamina and sometimes risk our lives climbing mountains, when chair lifts and gondolas provide comfort?
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The Grand Canal adjoining the fountain, with gondolas and rowing boats afloat, was once the scene of many festivities and was called Petit-Venice (little Venice).
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Successive displays chronicle the Greek trireme, perhaps the ultimate statement of rowing power, the Venetian gondola, the Thames wherry, wooden-hulled lifeboats and arctic whaleboats.
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And there's a gondola which is suspended from the crane, and I'm going to be getting in there.
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It was mid-November 1816, when Lord Byron, accompanied by his friend John Hobhouse, first stepped off a gondola onto the damp and fogbound flagstones of the Grand Canal.
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Skipping around Covent Garden or taking a picnic in Hampstead, maybe even piloting a gondola down Regent's Canal!
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The porter who seized my valise in the station, inferred from some very polyglottic Italian of mine the nature of my wish, and ran out and threw that slender piece of luggage into a gondola.
Venetian Life
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Scottish weather stations recorded gusts topping 70mph on the Cairngorms and the Nevis range, near Fort William, where skilifts and gondolas were closed.
Hurricane Katia: 80mph winds as Britain takes a battering
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The gondola takes visitors on a twelve-minute ride up the mountain high above the lake.
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History fans will appreciate the vintage ski clothing and attire as well as some of the actual chairs and early gondolas and other devices used in the first ski lifts.
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Mrs. Vervain gave a frailish start from the chair, into which she had sunk, "Oh, do let us be off at once, then," she said; and when they stood on the landing-stairs of the hotel: "What gloomy things these gondolas are!" she added, while the gondolier with one foot on the gunwale of the boat received the ladies 'shawls, and then crooked his arm for them to rest a hand on in stepping aboard; "I wonder they don't paint them some cheerful color.
A Foregone Conclusion
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While you munch on your antipasti, you can view looped clips on flat screens of the duomos and gondolas of Italy and snippets of an actress admiring ancient Roman statues.
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After the ceremony they went on a dream honeymoon in Venice and took a romantic gondola ride.
The Sun
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A ride on a gondola will give you a fascinating view of Venice.
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The gondola is French-built, made by lift company Poma, but given the 16-year construction period, it isn't what you'd call state of the art.
The Guardian World News
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We were off the ski trail now, under what had been the old gondola line.
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New rolling stock such as ore jennies, three bay hoppers, gondolas and billet flat cars began replacing the aging fleet during the 1970s.
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The ride, which girl band Honeyz opened on May 20, is described as a cross between waltzers and a rollercoaster, in which gondolas seating four passengers rotate as they travel around a tubular track up to 12 metres above the ground.
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Today hundreds of brightly painted gondolas line the canalside and can be hired out by the hour or half-hour.
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A tourist attraction to open in France will invite visitors to race a motorised gondola, crack a safe and save the world from destruction by defusing a nuclear bomb.
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Instead of gondolas, there are magenta-coloured barges which transport tourists along a two-mile stretch of river, past the native cypresses and gaudy glass-fronted hotels.
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To the average person, the gondola is even more a symbol of Venice than the lion of St. Mark.
Veniceblog:
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The Rolls-Royce is a beauty and sailed along all day like a gondola.
A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium
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A tourist attraction will invite visitors to race a motorised gondola, crack a safe and save the world by defusing a bomb.
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One by one the receding gondolas turned and came nearer, one bright eye gleaming at each prow, as they stole like conspirators upon the gaily lanterned barge.
A Venetian June
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Successive displays chronicle the Greek trireme, perhaps the ultimate statement of rowing power, the Venetian gondola, the Thames wherry, wooden-hulled lifeboats and arctic whaleboats.
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No doubt you imagine yourself a romantic gondola ride along narrow canals and under delicate bridges.
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In September, the bright green craft with a two-man gondola flew over the San Diego headquarters of Chicken of the Sea - part of Greenpeace's effort to stop what it calls a "tuna terrorist" from using fishing practices that it says cause the "needless deaths of sharks, billfish, turtles and other animals.
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At the top of the gondola we went on the luge which is a bit like go-carting downhill.
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Our gondola ride was a little underwhelming.
The Sun
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The gondola with the music comes every evening at the same time, rejoicing me as I listen.
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Surely not a rocket, she thought, then spotted the low-slung gondola with its attached propellers and radial engines.
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There were private yachts, Adriatic liners, all brilliant with illumination, and hundreds of gondolas, bobbing, bobbing, like captive leviathans, bunched round the gaily-lanterned barges of the serenaders.
The Lure of the Mask
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A new gondola cable car will take you to dizzy heights, enabling you to appreciate the mountains in their true splendour.
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Mountain Village is connected to Telluride by a free, public gondola.
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As they are clambering up the ropes hanging from the gondola, the balloon abruptly takes off again, leaving the men dangling.
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Successive displays chronicle the Greek trireme, perhaps the ultimate statement of rowing power, the Venetian gondola, the Thames wherry, wooden-hulled lifeboats and arctic whaleboats.
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The gondola had a swinging lantern on one end and carried a robed and cowled figure with a pole.
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New rolling stock such as ore jennies, three bay hoppers, gondolas and billet flat cars began replacing the aging fleet during the 1970s.
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The departure bell chimed as the gondola approached, and the doors opened with a hissing outrush of air once the gondola was safely docked.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
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The Venetians will be following the route used by gondolas chosen by Charles II to escort his Royal barge in 1662 from Hampton Court to Whitehall.
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There is no quay, the canoe must act gondola; the wharf is a mere platform with steps, and in places the filthy drains are not dry even at this season.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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Gondi, let's call her, weighs several pounds and balances on a gondola well over a foot long.
Style Invitational Week 890: A contest to combine two sports team names
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He will spend the next 13 days or more in the gondola of the balloon, a space not much bigger than himself.
Times, Sunday Times
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I then called my boatmen, and desired them to get the gondola ready, and conduct her to her own house again, seeing carefully that she did herself no mischief by the way.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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The three areas have over two dozen ski lifts, mostly chairlifts and gondolas, serving a multitude of trails and runs from the valley floor to open slopes above treeline.
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Our gondola ride was a little underwhelming.
The Sun
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Such a bag with sufficient capacity to lift a suspended gondola or other payload.
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You must go up the mountain on the Skyline Gondola so that you can experience the fun of luging back down again- 5 times!
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I at once announced my return to Cornelius by sending him a small Venetian gondola, which I had bought for him in Venice, and to which I added a canzona written with nonsensical Italian words.
My Life — Volume 2
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He was a larger-than-life character who went on to build a replica of Venice - including a Grand Canal, with gondolas - inside his new hotel, the Venetian.
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When a man wants to start a gondola, he will begin by buying one already half past service -- a _gondola da traghetto_ or _di mezza età_.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
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As the ride starts, the gondola rocks back and fourth then under gravity, rotates 360 degree.
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For skiers, the hotel couldn't be more handy: It's a short stroll from the Telluride Ski & Golf Company's gondola and chair-lift.
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On a warm night, in a gondola off the Grand Canal, he popped the question.
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She strolled round the shops and then took a gondola ride with her mum and brother.
The Sun
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Keep the gondola, the mask too.
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The village itself is on the valley floor, so you need to ride the gondola up and down from the ski area.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, it was the photo opportunity in a gondola that proved to be a huge success and dozens of people lined up in couples, trios and large groups for a chance to capture the moment on film.
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Another of the pictures from the mantelpiece shows her during that period, sailing on a gondola down the canals of Venice.
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But, with the passing of years, gondolas on Windermere, Coniston, and Ullswater and steam trains to Lakeside have come to symbolize a bygone age of tranquillity.
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The Venetian has gondolas with gondoliers who imitate Italian accents.
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Thus the total weight of the balloon, the air inside, the gondola, the fuel tanks (needed to heat the air inside the balloon), and the passengers is less than the weight of the air the balloon displaces.
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Or take a leisurely open-air gondola to float over the greenery and gawp at the views.
The Sun
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Ride the gondola to a log lodge on the top of Winter Park Mountain and watch the alpenglow wash over the granite tops of the Indian Peaks, turning the clouds orange and pink.
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And whether riding a gondola in Venice, wearing a sombrero in Mexico or joining local traditions, this pope always added a touch of style.
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Among items sold were box cars, flat cars and side-dump gondola cars.
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A whistle-stop tour of the home of Renaissance painting, by gondola, vaporetto and on foot, with Sir Tim as our indefatigable guide.
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Workers there build and repair different types of rail cars, including coal hoppers, gondolas, and cars that carry steel coils.
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I couldn't help thinking that the gondolas looked like coffins, especially at night with the Grand Canal lit up, the boats appearing black and the faces of the gondoliere skeletal in the confusing play of light and shadow.
Death on the Caribbean
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Lift options include the new 12-person gondola which departs from the centre of Soldeu, and several chair-lifts that offer access to La Solana summit and the Riba Esorxada.
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Vaporetti (water buses) are far cheaper than the speedier water taxis or gondolas, and run frequently.
Times, Sunday Times
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For more than 30 years, this has been a great way to treat your lady to a lovely cruise on an authentic Venetian gondola.
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In addition to enjoying the experience itself, volunteers are allowed to ride the lifts and gondola at Grouse for the rest of the day after the lessons end at noon.
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They have built gondolas for airships, flight simulators and floating offices, but Jim's boat posed a real challenge.
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At our feet stretched a shimmering sheet of water, its surface, in our immediate vicinity, black with countless gondolas, the men standing up in them clamouring loudly for custom.
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But not too sad, because I really had no desire to see Laura huddled in an acrophobic lump on the floor of a gondola.
Luxor deluxe
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The gondola sat at the loading dock with both of its doors open.
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The most crucial part of the attempt is releasing himself from the balloon 's gondola.
Times, Sunday Times
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The beautifully illuminated Gondola, which was so greatly admired a year ago, will recommence nightly voyages.
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The fact that it was served in a gondola-shaped dish was inexplicable considering the restaurant's Bulgarian theme, but at least it added novelty value.
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We succumbed to the sales pitch for a gondola ride on Venice's Canals and paid 80 euros for the 110 euro tour, but our gondolier didn't sing -- or talk much either.
Eileen Ogintz: Family Travel In Venice
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The TLC will handle lumber, steel, aluminum and food products, and is designed to load and unload all types of railcars from centerbeams to boxcars and gondolas.
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Gondolas loaded with small rocks and rubble discharged the load in two huge Austin crushers that operated much like a grist mill pulverizing the stone.
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You have seen boats and gondolas floating in the lake.
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The gondola is a slow moving vehicle, hence the opportunity for snacking, drinking and of course, romance.
Journey to Amore Aboard a Venetian Gondola with Gondola Getaway
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After I had taken care of all the gold she had won, I gave her my arm, and we left the 'ridotto', but remarking that a few inquisitive persons were following us, I took a gondola which landed us according to my instructions.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 08: Convent Affairs
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Part of the fun is getting to the restaurants: by gondola, snowmobile, multipassenger snow cat, sleigh - even snowshoes or skis.
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Its streets have turned into canals in which dugout canoes take the place of elegant gondolas.
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The skiing is immediate and world-class; one lift and one gondola terminate three blocks south of Colorado Avenue, which everyone calls Main.
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The gondoliers are protesting a law prohibiting gondola rides in Venice's famed canals during the morning rush hour.
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In a bed, well lit by candlelight, Maria was not the fierce and dimly seen rutter she had been in the bottom of a gondola, lit by nothing more than a crescent moon.
The Shadow Of The Lion
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Or take a leisurely open-air gondola to float over the greenery and gawp at the views.
The Sun
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It is also established as the best place in the world to go mountain biking, largely because it has the longest vertical descent in North America, and because all the gondolas and ski lifts can also take bikes.
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Successive displays chronicle the Greek trireme, perhaps the ultimate statement of rowing power, the Venetian gondola, the Thames wherry, wooden-hulled lifeboats and arctic whaleboats.
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Together in our full regalia we had fun in the sun; jet boating, paddling in the sea at Sumner, making enormous sandcastles, looking in on the new casino, going up the gondola and meditating in the wizard's nest.
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The hotel is about five minutes’ walk from the Eagle Bahn gondola.
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If gondola were a disease, and if a scrofula were a beautiful boat peculiar to a beautiful city, the effect of each word would be exactly the reverse of what it is.
Yet Again
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Just as you come off the gondola, there's the ski bar, where the patron rings his cowbell to entice you in.
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In 1960, Air Force test pilot Joseph W. Kittinger Jr. stepped out of a balloon gondola at 102,800 feet and set the record for the world's highest skydive.
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Yet a gondola loaded with chilled, fresh tagliatelle and spaghetti is now a must-have fixture in any supermarket catering for the middle classes.
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A handsome young man, perhaps a year or two older than me, stood at the stern of an Italian gondola made of a rich, dark wood.
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A ride up the gondola here will enable visitors to get a bird's eye view of the majestic Canadian Rockies mountain range.
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Located across the valley, you take a bus to the old-school Rendl gondola, which drops you on the complete opposite side of the mountain.
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‘Gee, look Cindy, they got gondolas,’ crooned an overweight woman to her massive friend.
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This boat song, a barcarolle of tender grace, gently rocks with the gondola in the meandering waterways.
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Ateneo Honeymoon and silver anniversary couples staying 5 nights or more receive dinner on arrival and a complimentary gondola ride.
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I was in a perspiration, and the weather was cold; I threw myself into a gondola, and in order not to get chilled I landed at the 'ridotto'.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 08: Convent Affairs
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Ride the gondola for great free activities at Adventure Ridge such as bocce ball, slackline park, horseshoes, and disc golf.
Vail Daily - Top Stories
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DIDIER GONDOLA, AUTHOR, "THE HISTORY OF CONGO": A short answer would be that Congo has been cursed by its natural resources and that's why one of the reasons why so much violence has taken place in that country.
CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2006
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Two conflicting thoughts occur as you sit with Stu Thomson in a Nevis Range gondola and wend your way slowly up the north face of Aonach Mor, all the way to 2,150 ft and the top of the World Cup downhill course.
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Ateneo Honeymoon and silver anniversary couples staying 5 nights or more receive dinner on arrival and a complimentary gondola ride.
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And when the sun sets, the moon shimmers as you board one of the many gondolas and ride along the canals of the ancients.
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The air was sweet as a cool bath, the stars were peeping noisily beyond the their neons, and the citizens of the Queendom, in their jeans and separates, were floating down the Shaftesbury avenue canals, like gondolas.
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They have built gondolas for airships, flight simulators and floating offices, but Jim's boat posed a real challenge.
