He followed the trail; passed from street to street and from plaza to plaza, and finally entering a house in the suburbs, laid his hand upon the begrimed and worn-out saddle which had once been his own montura de fiesta!

Manuelito was very proud of his Anting-Anting, and many times, when a fiesta was being held in some town, he and his band would come down from the mountains and take part in the games.

En aquel momento se reunía á la comitiva el héroe de la fiesta, Fernando de Argensola, el primogénito de Almenar.

No cabe duda que todo eso del hablar las corzas es pura aprensión de Esteban, que es un completo mentecato, decía entre sí el joven montero, mientras que jinete en un poderoso alazán, seguía paso á paso el palafrén de Constanza, la cual también parecia mostrarse un tanto distraída y silenciosa, y retirada del tropel de los cazadores, apenas tomaba parte en la fiesta.

My mother is making a little fiesta here.

Tambayang was used for the uppers of sleeves for fiesta, and it formed the scarf worn by mothers to carry the baby.

When a Bagobo makes an expedition over the mountains to attend a fiesta, he wears his old clothes, and carries his elaborately ornamented garments in the bag on his back.

[Footnote 1: "Llamaban a esta fiesta Chic Kaban;" Landa, Relacion, p.

The patron saint of Tucson is San Augustine, and as it was now the last of August the fiesta in honor of her patron saint was being celebrated.

As we had a long march and a dry time, the animals were sent out to graze in charge of the Papago Indians living around the Missions; two weeks' furlough was given the men to attend the fiesta, confess their sins, and get acquainted with the Mexican señoritas, who flocked there in great numbers from the adjoining State of Sonora.

Picnics were planned to the woods near the Mission and frequently longer excursions were undertaken; for El Camino Real was not only, the king's highway to church and military outposts, but also the royal road to pleasure, and when a wedding or a fiesta was at the end of a journey, no distance was counted too great.

The high voice of the tenor, as though it were an echo of Ferragut's thought, was singing a romance of the fiesta of Piedigrotta, a lamentation of melancholy love, a canticle of death, the final mother of hopeless lovers.

The gentleman ought to see it on a day of fiesta in September.

And as though his cry were among the sweetest of melodies, he continued talking, by association of ideas: "At the fiesta of Piedigrotta, when I was a boy, were given out the best songs of the year.

Fiesta for Juanita; radio play.

Under the southern stars; a Latin American fiesta.

CHAPTER XVII A FIESTA WE SHALL HAVE Jack, unfolding the crumpled paper, read twice the note from Dade, and at each reading gave a little snort.

A fiesta we shall have, as soon as may be after the rodeo is over.

To give a clear picture of the preparations for that fiesta, one should be able to draw with strokes as swift as the horses that galloped up and down the valley at the behest of riders whose minds titillated with whatever phase of the fiesta appealed to them most; and paint with colors as vivid as were the dreams of the women, from the peonas in the huts to the señoritas and señoras murmuring behind the shelter of their vines.

The men of Santa Clara lowered lids and smiled whenever they spoke of it as a contest, for as a duel had the word first gone forth from the exultant lips of Manuel; as a duel would it still remain among themselves, spite of the fiesta and the prize that was offered, and the reiteration that it was but sport.

CHAPTER XXI FIESTA DAY Dade, rolling over in bed and at the same moment opening his eyes reluctantly upon the new day, that he hated, beheld Jack half-dressed and shaving his left jaw, and looking as if he were committing murder upon an enemy.

Within canopies formed of gay, patchwork quilts and gayer serapes, heavy-jowled, swarthy señoras lurched resignedly with the jolting of the carts, and between whiles counseled restive señoritas upon the subject of deportment or gossiped idly of those whom they expected to meet at the fiesta.

Diego grinned, checked himself on the verge of venturing another comment, and tilted his head sidewise instead, his ears perked toward the medley of fiesta sounds outside.

"I wrote and told Bill about the fiesta, when I sent up after some clothes.

"Got any greaser here that can talk white man's talk, and you can trust?" was Bill's mild way of indicating his need of an interpreter, when the fiesta crowd had grown to the proportions of a multitude that buzzed like giant bees in a tree of ripe figs.