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It is an elliptical tunnel of brick, placed under ground, and marked by turrets of brick and stone placed along its course. The Vento water is the best thing Havana has, and indispensable. The old sources of supply are intolerable. The main water supply is the Zanja.
But we reached our haven and found shelter from the weather. High above us where we stood the snow-flakes tossed and rioted, but before they fell upon us being out of the wind, they drifted idly down, come ... in Alpe senza vento. The whole valley was purely white, its outlines blurred by the slant-driving snow.
Spain however already contained Roman settlers, and at a later period it contained numerous Roman colonies: in fact the Peninsula was completely Romanized, of which the Spanish language and the establishment of the Roman Law in Spain are the still existing evidence. M. Perperna, the grandfather of this Perperna, was consul B.C. 130. Perperna Vento had been prætor. Epist.
Sol equis iter repressit ungulis volantibus; Constitere amnes perennes, arbores vento vacant. This last passage affords us a glimpse of the way in which the poet worked up his original poems. -Constitit credo Scamander, arbores vento vacant, Thus in the Phoenix we find the line: -stultust, qui cupita cupiens cupienter cupit,
It seems the Austrian general-in-chief shared this opinion, for, after his army had carried with terrible sacrifices the positions of Monte Vento and Custozza, it did not appear, nor indeed did the Austrians then give any signs, that they intended to adopt a more active system of warfare.
Yet there can be no doubt that the recent discovery of Brazil on the eastern coast of South America is here alluded to: Consequently, instead of the lebeccio vento, or S.W. wind of the text, it would naturally have required a S. E. wind to force the Portuguese fleet so far to the westward of its intended course.
In May, June, July, and August, which they call Mesi di Vento, or windy months, the prevalent winds are from the south, southeast, and southwest; but the island is sheltered by the continent from the north, northeast, and northwest winds; The summer months are December, January, and February, when the heat is excessive, and the atmosphere being continually loaded with vapour, occasions the air to feel like the steam of boiling water.
"A girl out here in August called them Paolo and Francesca. Do you think," she asked Cope, "that those names are suitable?" "Oh, I don't know," he replied, looking at the trees thoughtfully. "They seem rather static; and Dante's lovers, if I recollect, had considerable drive. They were 'al vento' on the wind weren't they?
It is the very morning for a row on the cool glassy water, as we step joyfully into our boat with its four stalwart Phrygian-capped sailors in attendance: “Con questo zeffiro Cosi soave, Oh, com’ e bello Star su la nave! Mare si placido, Vento si caro, Scordar fa i triboli Al marinaro.”
"In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua." Our purpose lies mainly with her political life, but ere entering upon it we will give a short but comprehensive view of her character in the words of one who, more than anybody else, had the means of judging her correctly La Rochefoucauld.
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