Nuovo, "--" Ritratto colorito, medaglia e quadruccio, un baiocco tutti, un baiocco tutti, "--" Bambinelli di cera, un baiocco_. "[ ❋ Various (N/A)
The name baiocco is derived from that of the city of ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
A fool I despise, who keeps his _baiocco_ and loses his prize. ❋ Various (N/A)
As I was returning, last night, from a mass at San Giovanni in Laterano, an old man glared at us through great green goggles, -- to which Jealousy's would have yielded in size and color, -- and shook his box for a _baiocco_. ❋ Various (N/A)
It is his high festival as well as the Pope's, and grateful strangers drop into his hand the frequent _baiocco_ or half-_paul_, and thank God and Meluccio as they sink back in their carriages and cry, "_A casa_." ❋ Various (N/A)
They'll write you a fortune and bring you a prize for a single _baiocco_. ❋ Various (N/A)
Thou hast no false pride; great as thou art, thou condescendest to be exchanged for a _baiocco_. ❋ Various (N/A)
Thus, for one _baiocco_ staked _al posto assegnato_, a ❋ Various (N/A)
Sometimes a group of artists, passing by, will pause and steadily examine one of these models, turn him about, pose him, point out his defects and excellences, give him a _baiocco_, and pass on. ❋ Various (N/A)
Meluccio, (the little old apple,) the aged boy in the Piazza San Pietro, whose sole occupation it has been for years to open and shut the doors of carriages -- and hold out his hand for a _mezzo-baiocco_, is in great glee. ❋ Various (N/A)
The souls then descended; and to some she gave the worth of a _grano_ of bread, to some the worth of a _baiocco_, and to others the worth of five _grani_, and the bread was gone in a moment. ❋ Thomas Frederick Crane (N/A)
Pantaloon are borne about for sale, -- or over the heads of the crowd great black-faced jumping-jacks, lifted on a stick, twitch themselves in fantastic fits, -- or, what is more Roman than all, men carry about long poles strung with rings of hundreds of _giambelli_, (a light cake, called jumble in English,) which they scream for sale at a _mezzo baiocco_ each. ❋ Various (N/A)
Here for a _baiocco_ one buys lemonade or orangeade and all sorts of curious little drinks or ❋ Various (N/A)
The player may stake upon one, two, three, four, or five numbers, -- but no ticket can be taken for more than five; and he may stake upon his ticket any sum, from one _baiocco_ up to five _scudi_, -- but the latter sum only in case he play upon several chances on the same ticket. ❋ Various (N/A)
We are all, in measure, beggars; but Beppo, in the large style of kings and robber-barons, asks for his _baiocco_, and, like the merchant-princes, keeps his bank. ❋ Various (N/A)
The priest is received with bows at the door, and when the benediction is over he is rewarded with the gratuity of a _paul_ or a _scudo_, according to the piety and purse of the proprietor; while into the basket of his attendant is always dropped a _pagnotta_, a couple of eggs, a _baiocco_, or some such trifle. ❋ Various (N/A)
Here are to be seen all sorts of curious little colored prints of the Madonna and Child of the most ordinary quality, little bags, pewter medals, and crosses stamped with the same figures and to be worn on the neck, -- all offered at once for the sum of one _baiocco_. ❋ Various (N/A)
Many a woman on the cold side of thirty is wheedled out of a _baiocco_ by being addressed as _Signorina. ❋ Various (N/A)
Some bring with them a hamper of provisions and wine, and, spreading them on the grass, lunch and dine when and where they will; but those who would dine with the artists must have the order of the _mezzo baiocco_ hanging to their buttonhole, which is distributed previously in Rome to all the artists who purchase tickets. ❋ Various (N/A)
At Christmas, all the Roman world which has a _baiocco_ in its pocket eats _torone_ and _pan giallo. ❋ Various (N/A)
