"Hoya" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... proved to have been complete, the retreating army, except a small body of cavalry, being dispersed and utterly disorganized. The immediate consequences have been our possession of this important city, the abandonment of the works and artillery at La Hoya, the next formidable pass between Vera Cruz and the capital, and the prompt occupation by Worth's division of the fortress of Perote (second only to San Juan de Ulloa), with its extensive armament of sixty-six guns and mortars and its large supply of material. To General Worth's ...
— General Scott • General Marcus J. Wright
... Hothouse flowers grow in rank profusion round every house, and tea-roses, fuchsias, geraniums fifteen feet high, Nile lilies, Chinese lantern plants, begonias, lantanas, hibiscus, passion- flowers, Cape jasmine, the hoya, the tuberose, the beautiful but overpoweringly sweet ginger plant, and a hundred others: while the whole district is overrun with the Datura brugmansia (?) here an arborescent shrub fourteen feet high, bearing seventy great trumpet- shaped white blossoms at a time, which ...
— The Hawaiian Archipelago • Isabella L. Bird
... in all the perils of the war, Walker devoted himself to the pursuit of the Guerilleros, who infested the road from Vera Cruz to the capital, and uniformly maintained his high reputation. In the affair of La Hoya, Sept. 20, 1847, he acted ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 • Various
... sitting place," Fig. 95. Tuepat'caiata tue'kwa The walls of the hatchway. Kipat'ctjua'ta The kiva doorway; the opening into the hatchway, Fig. 28. Apa'pho'ya Small niches in the wall. "Apap," from "apabi," inside, and "hoya," small. Si'papueh An archaic term. The etymology of this word is not known. Kw[)o]p'kota The fireplace. "Kwuhi," coals or embers; "kueaiti," head. K[)o]i'tci Pegs for drying fuel, fixed under the hatchway. "Ko-hu," wood; Fig. ...
— Eighth Annual Report • Various |
