"Tramontana" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Renaissance early and late, the newer modern, this wild summer finds its account in travertine and tufa, reticulated work, brick, stucco and stone. "A bird of the air carries the matter," or the last sea-wind, sombre and soft, or the latest tramontana, gold and blue, has lodged in a little fertile dust the wild grass, wild ...
— Essays • Alice Meynell
... nauigli e nauigano, ma non hanno la calamita ne intendeno col bossolo la tramontana. Per ilche questi pescatori furono in gran pregio, si che il re li spedi con dodici nauigli uerso ostro nel paese che essi chiamano Drogio." ...
— The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) - with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest • John Fiske
... day of iciest tramontana, cutting you in two in the square, under the colonnades, and in the narrow chink-opening of ...
— The Spirit of Rome • Vernon Lee |
