20 examples of cunha in sentences
Carneiro de Cunha, Surgeon 38th Battalion.
One of them was Commander da Cunha (of the Brazilian Navy), a capital sportsman and delightful companion.
Co. (PWH); 6Apr72; R526622. CUNHA, EUCLIDES DA.
Translated from Os sertoes by Euclides da Cunha.
DA CUNHA, EUCLIDES. SEE CUNHA, EUCLIDES DA.
DA CUNHA, EUCLIDES. SEE CUNHA, EUCLIDES DA.
SEE CUNHA, EUCLIDES DA.
Co. (PWH); 6Apr72; R526622. CUNHA, EUCLIDES DA.
Translated from Os sertoes by Euclides da Cunha.
DA CUNHA, EUCLIDES. SEE CUNHA, EUCLIDES DA.
DA CUNHA, EUCLIDES. SEE CUNHA, EUCLIDES DA.
SEE CUNHA, EUCLIDES DA.
The second in command was a Portuguese, da Cunha, who spoke French, but it was a different sort of French from the French Holroyd had learnt in Southport, and their intercourse was confined to politenesses and simple propositions about the weather.
The gunboat came about, steamed parallel to the erratic course of the canoe, and dropped the boat with Lieutenant da Cunha and three sailors to board her.
The head of Lieutenant da Cunha appeared over the side of the cuberta, and a brief colloquy ensued.
Holroyd saw the ants retreating before da Cunha's boots.
A black swarm of ants rushed out of the clothes, and da Cunha stepped back very quickly and trod two or three times on the deck.
A number were taking cover under the dead man's clothes, and a perfect swarm was gathering along the side over which da Cunha must presently go.
TRISTAN DA CUNHA, the largest of three small islands lying out in the South Atlantic, about 1300 m. SW. of St. Helena; 20 m. in circumference; taken possession of by the British in 1817, and utilised as a military and naval station during Napoleon's captivity on St. Helena; now occupied by a handful of people, who lead a simple, communistic life.
Among many interesting birds* procured in the above-mentioned manner, I may allude to Puffinus cinereus, a European species of shearwater, which was found to be generally distributed across the South Atlantic between the meridians of 28 degrees West and 1 1/2 degrees East; on two successive days, while in the neighbourhood of Tristan da Cunha, myriads of these birds passed the ship to the westward, apparently coming from that island.
