Solomon John proposed that they should open the window, which Agamemnon could do with his long arms. Then Elizabeth Eliza should go round upon the piazza, and open the piano. Then she could have her music-stool on the piazza, and play upon the piano there.英文原著 · 《The Peterkin Papers》
The daughters of the lady from Philadelphia were sitting on shawls on the edge of the window that opened upon the piazza. It was a soft, warm evening, and some of the young people were on the piazza. Everybody was talking and laughing, except those who were listening.英文原著 · 《The Peterkin Papers》
She was well enough now to take longer drives; and she found strange, lonely can- yons, wild and beautiful, where yellow waters burst through rocky barriers with roar and fury, -- tortuous, terrible places, such as she had never dreamed of. Coming back from one of these drives, two days after her conversation on the piazza with Peter Roeder, she met him riding a massive roan. He sat the animal with that air of perfect unconsciousness which is the attribute of the Western man, and his attire, even to his English stock, was faultless, -- faultily faultless.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
The hall was almost dark, and the night concierge came from his little room on the right of the door to turn on the light and accompany Artois to the lift. "There is a lady waiting in your room, Signore," he said. Artois, who was walking quickly towards the lift, stopped. He looked at Gaspare. "A lady!" he said. "Shall I go back to the Piazza, Signore?"
He half turned towards the swing door. "Wait a minute. Come up-stairs first and see the Signora."
The lift ascended.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
He would not have brandy or whiskey, though he would not have refused wine had it been offered to him. "Where have you been?" Artois asked him. "Signore, I have been all over the Piazza di Masaniello and the Mercato. I have been through all the streets near by. I have been down by the harbor. And the Signorina?"
He stared at Artois searchingly above his glass. His face was covered with perspiration. "I only saw her for a moment.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
Looking up, I see windows filled with heads; the Piazza, Into which you remember the Ponte St. Angelo enters, Since I passed, has thickened with curious groups; and now the Crowd is coming, has turned, has crossed that last barricade, is Here at my side. In the middle they drag at something. What is it? bare swords in the air, held up? There seem to be voices Pleading and hands putting back; official, perhaps; but the swords are Many, and bare in the air. In the air? they descend; they are smiting, Hewing, chopping--At what?英文原著 · 《Amours de Voyage》
My words do traverse that regal canal like a vaporetto gliding to the Piazza San Marco.美剧 · 《Billions》