"Adios" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... an agricultural paper had—not a farmer in it, nor a solitary individual who could tell a water-melon tree from a peach-vine to save his life. You are the loser by this rupture, not me, Pie-plant. Adios." ...
— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie
... his head. "Well, I'll see you out at the field. We're going out now; Cooke, and Caldwell, and some of the others. So long, my valiant lad. Keep a stiff upper lip and never say die, and all that, you know. Adios!" ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour
... interrupted the lady, 'the Senorita Teresa Valdevia. The evening air grows chill. Adios, Senorito.' And before Harry could stammer out a word, she had ...
— The Dynamiter • Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson
... "Adios, chiquita." He was smiling, and she looked at his white teeth and golden mustache. She felt his hands begin to ...
— Red Men and White • Owen Wister
... Quintana, maybe. You tell-a heem he is the bigg-a fool! You tell-a heem Nick Salzar is no damn fool. No! Adios, my frien' Abrams. I beat it. I ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert W. Chambers
... the few Mexicans in front of the store: "When I send my boy in here for flour and the beans and the sugar, it will be well to keep the dogs away—and to remember that it is Jose de la Crux that has sent him. For the new provisions I do not pay. Adios, senors." ...
— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... and almost barren lives of these isolated folk became illumined with a reminiscent glow as the tinkling notes of the guitar hushed to faint echoes of fairy bells hung on the silver boughs of starlit trees. "Adios, linda Rosa," ran the song. Then silence, the summer night, ...
— Sundown Slim • Henry Hubert Knibbs
... the Angelus. Will you not enter? Or shall you walk in the garden with Pancha? Go, little rogue—st! attend to the stranger! Adios, Senor. ...
— Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte • Bret Harte
... y santo, Glorioso, espiritual, puro y divino, Inocente, espontaneo como el llanto Que vertiera al nacer: ya el cuello inclino! Ya de la religion me cubre el manto! Adios, ...
— The Book of American Negro Poetry • Edited by James Weldon Johnson
... had left Mrs. Bland with a meaning "Adios—manana," and was walking along beside the old outlaw, he found himself thinking of the girl instead of the woman, and of how he had seen her face blaze with ...
— The Lone Star Ranger • Zane Grey
... good-bye, Adobe ladies; My regards to Uncle Sam; Let old Pancho go to Hades; Adios to Col. Dublan! They can't bind me with a lasso, Once this little Doughboy's free; There's a girl right in El Paso, That I'm bound he's ...
— Rhymes of the Rookies • W. E. Christian
... murmured, as finally he set her down. "Adios, Ned, my lad," and he shook the little man heartily by the hand. "Good luck all! Now I must gallop to make up time." He turned quickly away and went "loping" down the trail, but his gauntlet was drawn across his eyes two or three times before he disappeared ...
— Sunset Pass - or Running the Gauntlet Through Apache Land • Charles King
... hesitates! He is changing his mind. (SANDY returns slowly to table, pours out glass of liquor, nods to DON JOSE, and drinks.) I looks towards ye, ole man. Adios! ...
— Two Men of Sandy Bar - A Drama • Bret Harte
... his way to the United States to recover from his wound. Benito was by his side. When the deck was reached, he took his master by the hand. Great tears were gathering in his eyes and tracing down his fine, dusky face as he said: "Adios, Capitan." ...
— Bamboo Tales • Ira L. Reeves
... contains water enough to reach the sea, the inhabitants enjoy the advantage of having fresh water within a mile and a half. On the beach there were large piles of merchandise, and the little place had an air of activity. In the evening I gave my adios, with a hearty good-will, to my companion Mariano Gonzales, with whom I had ridden so many leagues in Chile. The next morning ...
— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin
... had been the real hero of this day? Who but Roque, fresh from town, with his experience of Carnival, and his own accounts of the masked ball, the Paseo, and the Senorita's beaux? All that durst followed him to the gate, and kissed hands after him. "Adios, Roque! Roque, adios!" resounded on all sides; and Roque, the mysterious one, actually smiled in conscious superiority, as he nodded farewell, and galloped off, dragging ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various
... her the half of what was left. Do you know, senor, sometimes I think the money was stolen from the Church. That would account for all, is it not so? They say the churches had much money once. Quien sabe? Adios senor." ...
— The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions • J. Smeaton Chase |
