Arno

Arno is shorter and less featured and framed than the Florentine, but it has the fine accent of a marked curve and is quite as bravely Tuscan; witness the type of river-fronting palace which, in half-a-dozen massive specimens, the last word of the anciently

Italian Hours Henry James 1879

I received the Prato gate and the little one of Arno, which is on the way to the mills.

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910

In Pisa, at such an hour, the Arno is the emblem of Despair.

Alone Norman Douglas 1910

I received the Prato gate and the little one of Arno, which is on the way to the mills.

LXXXV 1909

North of the Arno was a wide tract of marshland, which had to be crossed before the Apennine mountains could be reached.

The Red Book of Heroes Mrs. Lang 1909

Will you still contradict me if I maintain -- the Arno is a shallow, narrow stream, just fit to sail a boy's bark-boat.

The Burgomaster's Wife — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867

Will you still contradict me if I maintain -- the Arno is a shallow, narrow stream, just fit to sail a boy's bark-boat.

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

Angelo's house, with his pictures, clothes, and painting implements, just as he left it three centuries ago; on the south side of the Arno is the house of Galileo, and that of Machiavelli stands in an avenue near the Ducal Palace.

Views a-foot Bayard Taylor 1851

But still the Arno is a mountain stream, and liable to be tetchy and turbulent like all its kindred, and no doubt it often finds its borders of hewn stone not too far apart for its convenience.

Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

But still the Arno is a mountain stream, and liable to be tetchy and turbulent like all its kindred, and no doubt it often finds its borders of hewn stone not too far apart for its convenience.

Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834