"Senorita" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to the mantelpiece and picked up a cheap, cracked letter case, which Sophia opened. In it were a visiting card—'Senorita Clemenzia Borja'—and a bill-head of the Hotel of the Holy Spirit, Concepcion del Uruguay, on the back of which a lot of ...
— The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett
... over them. "My apologies," spoke a deep voice, "but the senorita, she is going to the ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... drawings of all kinds, and almost of every celebrated place in the vicinity of the Mediterranean shores; Saracenic palaces, Egyptian temples, mosques of Damascus, and fountains of Stamboul. Here was a Bedouin encampment, shaded by a grove of palms; and there a Spanish Senorita, shrouded in her mantilla, glided along the Alameda. There was one circumstance, however, about these drawings, which struck Miss Ponsonby as at least remarkable. It was obvious that some pencil-mark in the corner ...
— Sketches • Benjamin Disraeli
... Padre. 'God forbid that any man should think so slightingly of my favourite penitent. No, no; the Senorita (but for her beauty, which I wish most honestly she had less of) has not a hair's resemblance to what her mother was at the same age. I could not bear to have you think so; though, Heaven knows, it were, perhaps, better ...
— The Merry Men - and Other Tales and Fables • Robert Louis Stevenson
... below, the engineer said nonchalantly, "Hello, Charlie, how are tricks? Anything new up your sleeve?"—in a way that set the other's blood boiling; and when he carelessly added, "What about that story the stage-driver's telling of you and a senorita going into a ditch with your car at Rosita the other night?" he was quite ready to murder both ...
— The Iron Furrow • George C. Shedd
... answer to his telegram on the morning of the day on which they were to part; his friend, the eminent Profesor, Hidalgo Morales, accompanied by his daughter, Senorita Refugio, would without fail be waiting for Miss Carmody when her train reached Cordoba and would see her safely into the hands of her friends. Honor said good-by reluctantly to the family of Menendez y Garcia; the beautiful little father kissed her hand and the grave mother gave her a blessing ...
— Play the Game! • Ruth Comfort Mitchell
... away, the Donna Anna tells me all. 'He came, the Senor Juan,' says the Donna Anna, 'and I gave him all my love. But in a day he was to have gone to his home far away with the Americanos. Then I would never more see him nor hear him, and my soul would starve and die. There, too, was a Senorita, an Americana; she would have my place. Father, what could I do? I gave him the loco to drink; not much, but it was enough. Then his memory sank and sank; and he forgot the Senorita Americana; and he remembered ...
— Wolfville Days • Alfred Henry Lewis
... not be so well content, So sure of thee, Senorita, But well I know you must relent And come ...
— Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp • Various
... "Senorita," he said, "I am happy to be your servant. I can conceive of no greater pleasure than giving ...
— Desert Gold • Zane Grey
... already have some knowledge of the cause of my delay." His voice was even, but a wound smarted. "It is quite true, senorita, that the first embassy to Japan, from which we hoped so much, was a humiliating failure, and that I was played with for six months by a people whom we had regarded as a nation of monkeys. When my health began to suffer from the long confinement on shipboard—we ...
— Rezanov • Gertrude Atherton
... of eighteen, shy and retiring from the convent schooling that had ended but lately, soon came downstairs at her father's summons. Dr. Tisco bowed low before the charming girl. Tom and Harry were presented, and tried to make themselves agreeable to the young Mexican girl. Senorita Francesca's shyness, however, made this somewhat difficult, so the young engineers felt inwardly grateful when Dr. Tisco strolled down the porch ...
— The Young Engineers in Mexico • H. Irving Hancock
... we welcome the little Senorita an' her frien's," bowed Pedro, doffing his sombrero which was the only part of his usual costume ...
— The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch • Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
... her heart. She began to impute ugly motives to his absence. The tradition of the alluring Mexican senorita obsessed her. She imagined him engaged in wild romances with sullen beauties. She was worried about ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes
... strangers!' Or even the little Liseta would say, he! he! 'Why does the stranger press my foot in his great hand when he helps me into the saddle? Tell him that is not the way, Pereo.' Ha! ha!" He laughed childishly, and stopped. "And why does Senorita Amita now—look—complain that Pereo, old Pereo, comes between her and this Senor Raymond—-this maquinista? Eh, and why does SHE, the lady mother, the Castellana, shut Pereo from her councils?" he went on, with rising excitement. "What ...
— Maruja • Bret Harte
... bell ringing for morning mass; and if you look yonder you may see the Franciscan friars going to prayers, with their loose grey gowns, their girdle of rope, their sandaled feet, and their jingling rosaries; and perhaps a Spanish senorita, with her trailing dress, and black shawl loosely thrown over her head, from out the folds of which her two dark eyes burn like gleaming fires. A solitary Mexican gallops by, with gayly decorated saddle and heavily laden saddle-bags hanging ...
— A Summer in a Canyon: A California Story • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... Senorita Elenora:" it began,—and I wondered whether it could be from one of mother's old friends, for she had had several among the great Spanish families of the north. "I am asking if you will honor me with your presence for a short hour this morning," the letter ran. "It is impossible that I come ...
— The Other Side of the Door • Lucia Chamberlain
... you go back to capture Senorita Rafaela?" asked Bob, slyly. "When we flew away from her ranch that day, you said you were going to come back ...
— The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards • Gerald Breckenridge
... that the senorita of the southwest can lay claim to any more of beauty than glows in midnight hair and eyes. But Amada Garcia was one of the favored few. Her short, plump figure was rounded into dainty curves and her oval face, with ...
— With Hoops of Steel • Florence Finch Kelly |
