These young ladies were related to the Vallejos and also lived in large houses facing the plaza, and were always kind to Georgia and me.

In the cities the ladies throng the balconies of curling iron-work or crowd the plaza where the joust or bull-fight is to be witnessed, or steal at nightfall to the edge of the vega to meet a lover, and sometimes to die in his arms at the hands of bandits.

Here I found a town of log houses in a circle, enclosing a plaza.

On an occasion when General Walker was attacking the Costa-Ricans in Rivas, the dog entered the plaza ahead of the rest, and, finding there one of his own species, he forthwith seized him, and shook him, and put him to flight howling,giving an omen so favorable, that the greasers were driven out of the town with ease by the others.

And from his colt dismounting he laid his lance aside, And greeted all the multitude that filled the plaza wide.

And there the conversation ended: they had reached the plaza, and a babel of voices surrounded them.

Payson appeared to be an old hamlet, retaining many frontier characteristics such as old board and stone houses with high fronts, hitching posts and pumps on sidewalks, and one street so wide that it resembled a Mexican plaza.

He galloped madly after any individual who crossed the plaza.

The spectators surrounded the plaza so thickly that he could not distinguish any one particular enemy on whom to vent his rage.