Gondolas

When at Choisy, she gave water parties on the river in boats with awnings, which she called gondolas, rowing down as far as the very entrance to the city. ❋ Yonge, Charles Duke, 1812-1891 (1876)

Then I saw a low open car of the sort they call gondolas coming, covered with canvas. ❋ Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 (1929)

One night we rowed in gondolas by moonlight to the Lido; we took the guitar. ❋ William Henry Burton Wilkins (1897)

Apprentice jockey Angel Serpa, Jr. More than 40 skiers rescued after being trapped several hours in German gondolas Skiers rescued from stuck German gondolasBERLIN - Mountain rescue teams rappelled from helicopters to help rescue dozens of people from gondolas stuck high above a southern German ski resort, lowering the stranded skiers to the ground with climbing ropes. ❋ AP (2010)

The hansom cabs were called the gondolas of London. ❋ Various (N/A)

She uttered these words as if the gondolas were a curious faraway craft which she knew only by hearsay. ❋ Unknown (1888)

It appears Abiah, of Pleasantville, was alone in one of the ride's passenger gondolas, which is secured with a double latch, Morey said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The gondolas were your usual cable car ride, you go up, you ooh and ahh at the pretty views, you take a millions photos and you jump off at the end and decide if you want to luge first or Sky Swing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Scott has learned that they are not called gondolas however and are actually called Punts. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The "gondolas" brought down considerable quantities of flour, corn, pork, and iron, much of which was shipped at Georgetown to other ports. ❋ Benjamin Perley Poore (1853)

The infantry crossed the river, either on rafts, or in small boats, and in a kind of gondolas, which were only the trunks of trees, which they themselves had made hollow. ❋ Charles Rollin (1701)

[ "Two long boats that were made in Venice, called gondolas, were by the Duke of Venice (Dominico Contareni) presented to His Majesty;, and the attending watermen, being four, were in very rich clothes, crimson satin; very big were their breeches and doublets; they wore also very large shirts of the same satin, very richly laced." ❋ Samuel Pepys (1668)

[ "Two long boats that were made in Venice, called gondolas, were by the Duke of Venice (Dominico Contareni) presented to His Majesty; and the attending watermen, being four, were in very rich clothes, crimson satin; very big were their breeches and doublets; they wore also very large shirts of the same satin, very richly laced." ❋ Samuel Pepys (1668)

[ "Two long boats that were made in Venice, called gondolas, were by the Duke of Venice (Dominico Contareni) presented to His Majesty;, and the attending watermen, being four, were in very rich clothes, crimson satin; very big were their breeches and doublets; they wore also very large shirts of the same satin, very richly laced." ” ❋ Pepys, Samuel (1661)

Ships plied calm seas, gaily uniformed polemen maneuvered gondolas in Venice, overhead whirled the stars and galaxies of the infinite wheel. ❋ P. G. Sturges (2011)

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 (2010)