233 examples of lima in sentences

For example, a shirt was called lime; a chambermaid, limogère; sheets, limanswords all derived from the gipsy word lima, a shirt: they called an écu, a rusquin or rougesme, from rujia, the common word for money; a rich man, rupin; a house, turne; a knife, chourin, from rup, turna, and chori, which, in the gipsy tongue, mean respectively silver, castle, and knife.

To the Senate of the United States: I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a convention between the United States and the Republic of Peru relative to the rights of neutrals at sea, signed at Lima by the plenipotentiaries of the parties on the 22d of July last.

The church-bells at Lima are very musical, the brass of which they are composed having a considerable quantity of silver mixed with it; but they are rung in the most discordant manner.

BULL-FIGHTS AT LIMA.

The death of the bull, when properly managed, creates as much interest in the ladies of Lima, as the death of the hare to the English huntress, or the winning horse to the titled dames at Newmarket or Doncaster.

Nor can the pugilistic fancy of England take a deeper interest in the event of a prize-fight, than the gentlemen of Lima in the scientific worrying of a bull.

To catch and drive them to Lima, a distance of sixty leagues, is a matter of no inconsiderable expense.

GREY, LIMA ELISE.

BARLOW, ANNETTE C. Noche oscura en Lima.

SEE Barlow, Joseph W. BARLOW, JOSEPH W. Noche oscura en Lima, by Joseph W. Barlow & Kurt Steel.

Lad of Lima; the story of Blessed Martin de Porres.

Uncle Brewster said he was accustomed to playing with Lima Beans, Three for a Cent and One call Two and no fair to Bluff.

Lima minuta (n.s.)

Cerithium lima ?

"Sir," then said Dick Sand, "after your reply I must conclude that we are at a rather great distance from Lima.

Lima is far awayover therein the north!" Mrs. Weldon, made suspicious first of all by Negoro's disappearance, observed the newly-arrived with extreme attention; but she could discover nothing, either in his attitude or in his manner of expressing himself which could lead her to suspect his good faith.

What do you say to those, with some baked potatoes, new lima beans, sliced tomatoes and an ice for dessert?" "I don't think it can be improved upon," I said, gayly, and then I clutched Lillian's arm.

He was always treated as an honored guest in Lima, in which city he died on October 24, 1842.

On the day (July 28, 1821) when independence was declared at Lima, the protector took in his hand the standard of Pizarro and said, "This is my portion of the trophies."

At one time, when he had stopped at Lima, he had heard that there was talk of the government's sending out a police or military expedition against these outlaws, but he had never known of anything of the sort being done.

He had sent them as much money as he could spare from the sale, in Lima, of the gold he had carried with him when he first left the caves, but his expenses in hiring ships and buying guano were heavy.

In his last letter from Lima he had urged them all to live well on what he sent them, considering it as their share of the first division of the treasure in the mound.

Captain Horn had written before he sailed from Lima in the Chilian schooner for the guano islands and the Rackbirds' cove, and he had, to some extent, described his plans for carrying away treasure from the mound; but since that she had not heard from him until about ten days before, when he wrote from Acapulco, where he had arrived in safety with his bags of guano and their auriferous enrichments.

He fished out a package of dried lima beans and cooked some of them, changing the water three times and always adding cold water.

A little corn and Lima beans may be added; they should be cooked with the soup for several hours.

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