Cicerone

Derived from the ancient Roman orator and writer Marcus Tullius Cicero, “the word cicerone has been used in England for 400 years to indicate a knowledgeable and learned guide,” Daniels noted. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Mr. Henry, * my host and very able cicerone, is an American missionary, and as such carries with him the gospel of peace on earth and good will to men. ❋ Isabella Lucy (1883)

All such questions became vital to Rachel Mott when NASA employed her to act as a kind of cicerone to the families of the six new astronauts. ❋ Michener, James (1982)

I was looking up synonyms for ‘guide’ in a thesaurus when lo and behold, I saw the word ‘cicerone.’ ❋ Unknown (2011)

The requirements to become a “certified cicerone” are more stringent. ❋ Unknown (2011)

As always, Chamberlain is that rare cicerone for the reader, displaying learning, empathy, and deep understanding on every page. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Sir James; but though he was fortunate enough to find a zealous and well-informed cicerone in Mr. Thomas Haddow, and had every assistance from the kindness of Mr. Alexander Finlay, the resident ❋ Unknown (2008)

A friend of the author, well acquainted with the circumstances of the battle, was standing near this large stone, and looking on the scene around, when a highland shepherd hurried down from the hill to offer his services as cicerone, and proceeded to inform him, that Dundee was slain at that stone, which was raised to his memory. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I sallied from Castle Treddles, determined to make the best of my way to Duntarkin, and my cicerone hung by me for a little way, giving loose to his love of talking — an opportunity which, situated as he was, the seneschal of a deserted castle, was not likely to occur frequently. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“But,” said my cicerone, “you may halt a blink till next morning at the Treddles Arms, a very decent house, scarce a mile off.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Not here, not exactly here, and please your Majesty,” said the old Seneschal, stepping with the eager haste of a cicerone who shows the curiosities of such a place. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But then I had a guide and cicerone, almost equal to Greatheart in the ❋ Unknown (2008)

Having bid adieu to our venerable and kind cicerone, we proceeded on our tour, winding round the tremendous mountain called Cruachan Ben, which rushes down in all its majesty of rocks and wilderness on the lake, leaving only a pass, in which, notwithstanding its extreme strength, the warlike clan of MacDougal of Lorn were almost destroyed by the sagacious ❋ Unknown (2008)

“I could have sworn now,” said I to my cicerone, “that yon tree and waterfall was the very place where you intended to make a stop today.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

It chanced that the good lady I have mentioned was, in the discharge of her function, showing the apartments to a cockney from London — not one of your quiet, dull, commonplace visitors, who gape, yawn, and listen with an acquiescent “umph” to the information doled out by the provincial cicerone. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Lousteau performed the part of cicerone to admiration; with every sentence he uttered Dauriat rose higher in ❋ Unknown (2007)

With him as a very able _cicerone_ I had the pleasure of visiting Cambridge University, which reminded me more of England than anything I saw in America; indeed there are features in which it is not unlike its English name sake. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I had no convenient cicerone in the pattern of the Utopian books. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

As they were laughing, rattling, wondering, mimicking, the cicerone attending them with his nasal twaddle, anon pausing and silent, yielding to the melancholy pity and wonder which the aspect of that strange and smiling place inspires, — behold they come upon another party of English, two young men accompanying a lady. ❋ Unknown (2006)