"Plaza" Quotes from Famous Books
... la capital y mayor ciudad de la republica; esta situada en el Distrito Federal que tiene 220 kilometros cuadrados. Es una ciudad magnifica. Sus cupulas y campanarios se elevan majestuosamente. El palacio nacional, fabricado en 1693, domina una plaza hermosa cubierta de arboles y flores. En este edificio se encuentran la residencia del Presidente y las oficinas del gobierno. La catedral, fundada en 1573, es una de las mas famosas iglesias del mundo. Hay tambien la Universidad, fundada en 1553, la Biblioteca Nacional, museos, teatros. Uno ... — A First Spanish Reader • Erwin W. Roessler and Alfred Remy
... his tribal dances around a fire built in the plaza. After the dance was over, the Marshal asked for an encore on the War Dance. Joe gave a very realistic performance that time. Once he came quite near the foreign warrior, brandishing his tomahawk and ... — I Married a Ranger • Dama Margaret Smith
... stopped to rest in the middle of the plaza. The black Mexican night was falling and a few stars blossomed in the sky, but there was no abatement in the heat which had held since sunrise; rather, indeed, the thickness of the atmosphere seemed intensified. ... — Life at High Tide - Harper's Novelettes • Various
... traveling bag to carry, so she followed the crowd through the gates, walking slowly and scanning the faces anxiously in order that she might not pass her uncle. She did not wish to go through the station out on the plaza, lest she make it more difficult for him to find her, and she was keenly disappointed that he had not been at the gate, for the train was half an hour late and she had confidently expected him to be waiting. She took ... — Betty Gordon in Washington • Alice B. Emerson
... detenidamente, fully disturbado, transtornado, disturbed, upset engranajes, gearings escala, scale hortelano, fruit gardener inquilino, tenant ir a, to lead to llantas, tyres *moler, to grind operaciones, operations, dealings perro, dog plaza, market place, square, place *poner al corriente, to inform refran, proverb repentino, sudden resortes, springs (mach.) sosa, soda tambores, ... — Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano
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