105 examples of fiestas in sentences

Then we must look for him in the pulperías, the bar-rooms of the Pampas, whither he repairs on Sundays and fiestas, to get drunk on aguardiente or on Paraguay rum.

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!

The deceased had attended balls and fiestas in a frock coat, and nothing else would be expected of him in the skiesand, wonderful to relate, the tailor accidentally happened to have one ready, which he would part with for thirty-two pesos, four cheaper than the Franciscan habit, because he didn't want to make any profit on Capitan Tiago, who had been his customer in life and would now be his patron in heaven.

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 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.

El tiempo que faltaba para emprender el camino de la frontera y concluir de ordenar las huestes reales, discurría en medio de fiestas públicas, lujosos convites y lucidos torneos, hasta que, llegada al fin la víspera

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.

With a chain of missions and ranchos extending from San Diego to San Francisco, there was much interchange of hospitality, and Concha was a favorite guest at all fiestas.

On Sundays and the fiestas of the Valencian saints who for Uncle Caragol were the first in heaven,San Vicente Mártir, San Vicente Ferrer, La Virgin de los Desamparados and the Cristo del Graowould appear the smoking paella, a vast, circular dish of rice upon whose surface of white, swollen grains were lying bits of various fowls.

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.

Although on land he was not acquainted with other liquors than those innocent and over-sweet ones kept by his mother for family fiestas, once he trod the deck of a vessel he felt the necessity for alcoholic liquids so as to make it evident that he was entirely a man.

He informed them of the most important events in Barcelona and in the entire world; they would comment together on the future of Esteban, and the former suitor used to listen rapturously to her sweet voice, conceding great importance to the details of domestic economy or descriptions of religious fiestas, solely because it was she who was recounting them.

Fiesta for Juanita; radio play.

Under the southern stars; a Latin American fiesta.

Their dignity of bearing, their courtesy, their friendly hospitality, their love of imposing functions, and of fiestas and display, their childishness and irresponsibility in many matters, their passion for gambling, for litigation and for political intrigue, even the loves and the hatreds of some of them, had been spread before us like an open book.

He tore a strip of linen off Valencia's best shirt which he was saving for fiestas, and prepared a bandage, interrupting himself now and then to dart over and inspect the tortillas baking on the hot rock.

Myself, I have wept with pride to see him throw it at the fiestas" "Mother mine, Margarita would have you come at once," the señorita interrupted her.

105 examples of  fiestas  in sentences