"Calle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I did," acknowledged Van with humility. "I must get busy. He is a good sort. His address—" He paused to search through his pocket-book for a small tablet dedicated to names and numbers, then added: "His address is Numero 18, Calle Isaac Peral, Cadiz." ...
— The Lighted Match • Charles Neville Buck
... not begin at once our insensate search for another hotel in Madrid: but the sky had cleared and we went out into the strange capital so uncharacteristically characteristic, to find tea at a certain cafe we had heard of. It was in the Calle de Alcala (a name which so richly stimulates the imagination), and it looked out across this handsome street, to a club that I never knew the name of, where at a series of open windows was a flare of young men in silk hats leaning out on their ...
— Familiar Spanish Travels • W. D. Howells
... lanzo a calle Con el futsaque y el cla, Todas las ninas se asoman Solo por ver me pasar: Unas a otras se dicen Que chico mas resa lao! De la sal que va tirando Voy a coher ...
— The Great White Tribe in Filipinia • Paul T. Gilbert
... number ten, namely, Dagami, Malaguicay, Tainbuco, Dulag, Bito, Abuyo, Palo, Basey, Guinan, and Balanguigan. They are in charge of six fathers, namely, Carlos de Lemos, Diego de las Cuevas, Francisco Luzon, Laudencio Horta, Juan de la Calle, ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXXVI, 1649-1666 • Various
... Madrid, fresh from the carnage at Valencia. At 10 A.M. Jacopo, at No.—Calle de la Cruz, hands me a telegram; on opening it I find it reads, 'Come to Paris on important business.' The telegram is from James Gordon Bennett, Jr., the young manager of the New ...
— Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life • Orison Swett Marden
... media-racion has never been filled by your Majesty, and the governors have made appointments to it. It has been held by many different persons, and at present is served ad interim by Bachelor Luis de La Calle, who is ordained as reader on the gospel side [del evangelio]. He was born in this city, of an honorable family, and graduated as a bachelor of arts. He is a virtuous and exemplary youth, and serves punctually in the cathedral. He ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXV, 1635-36 • Various
... but surely, and he must have known that he was dying. He was not without friends, among them the faithful Diego Mendez, his son Ferdinand, and a few others. His lodging was in a small house in an unimportant street of Valladolid, now called the "Calle de Colon"; the house, .No. 7, still standing, and to be seen by curious eyes. As the end approached, the Admiral, who was being attended by Franciscan monks, had himself clothed in a Franciscan habit; and so, on the 20th May 1506, he lay upon his ...
— Christopher Columbus, Complete • Filson Young
... archbishop's palace (Buenos Aires became an archiepiscopal see in 1866) adjoins the cathedral. There are about twenty-five Roman Catholic churches in the city, one of the richest and most popular of which is the Merced on Calle Reconquista, and four Protestant churches—English, Scottish Presbyterian, American Methodist and German Lutheran. Twenty asylums for orphans and indigent persons and one for lunatics are maintained at public ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various
... castelle yate The porter was redy there at, The porter to theyme they gan calle, And prayd hym go in to the halle, And say thy lady gent and fre, That comen ar men of ferre contre, And if it plese hyr, we wolle hyr pray, That we myght ete with ...
— Notes and Queries, No. 179. Saturday, April 2, 1853. • Various
... pass down the Calle de San Fernando, up the Calle del Algodon, and through the busy Calle del Correo, till we reach the Casa Frances, opposite the mansion of the late General Flores. This is our hotel—owned by a Frenchman, but kept by an Indian. We ride ...
— The Andes and the Amazon - Across the Continent of South America • James Orton
... run-off election to select a president from the two leading candidates was held on 19 June 1994; results - Ernesto SAMPER Pizano (Liberal Party) 50.4%, Andres PASTRANA Arango (Conservative Party) 48.6%, blank votes 1%; Humberto de la CALLE was elected vice president in a new proceedure that replaces the traditional designation of vice presidents by newly elected presidents. ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency
... the then capital city, Santiago de Cuba. He proceeded at once to the scene of destruction. On his arrival, he ordered the erection of a fortress. Some of the work then done still remains in the old structure near the Palace, at the foot of Calle O'Reilly, known as La Fuerza. A few years before this time, Hernan Cortes had conquered Mexico, then called New Spain, and a business between Old Spain and New Spain soon developed. The harbor of Havana made a convenient ...
— Cuba, Old and New • Albert Gardner Robinson
... Opinions differ as to whether Luis de Leon was imprisoned in the original Inquisitionary cells on the site of which 18 and 20 calle del Obispo now stand. Blanco Garcia thought that this was not the case (op. cit., p. 129 n). The recurrence of such phrases as mando subir de su carcel (Documentos ineditos, vol. XI, pp. 22, 36, 129, 196) perhaps indicates that Luis de ...
— Fray Luis de Leon - A Biographical Fragment • James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
... passed through the Tacuba street into that of San Agustin, thence through the Plateria and the Calle Aguila into the quarter of the city known as the Trespana, where it came to a halt before the hotel of the same name. During this progress, the crowd of Indians, Metises, and other coloured races, had been augmented ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 • Various
... of this same fascinating Rambla, to the left, up towards the impenetrable fortress of Juich—impenetrable excepting once, and then it was the pestilent Englishman, as usual—leading then to the left is the Calle de la Paz. In the Street of the Peace there is a house, on the left hand also, into the door of which one could not only drive a coach and four, but eke a load of straw. Moreover, the driver could go to sleep and leave it to the horses, for there is plenty of space. This is the Casa Lloseta, the ...
— The Grey Lady • Henry Seton Merriman
... Sol, that swarming central parallelogram of Madrid, and musing on the possibilities of progress in a nation which contents itself with ox-transport in the heart of its capital, when a carriage drove past me in which I can almost still swear I saw Joanna. It entered the Calle de San Hieronimo. I started in racing pursuit and fell into the arms of a green-gloved soldier. To avoid arrest as a madman or a murderer, for no sane man runs in Spain, I leaped into a fiacre and gave such chase as tomorrow's victim of the bull-ring would allow. We came up with the carriage ...
— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke
... fait sourplis, She maketh surplys, 12 Chemyses, brayes, Shertes, breches, Courechiefs, et tout ce Keuerchifs, and all that Que on peult ouurer That may be wrought De ligne drap. Of lynnen cloth. 16 Mahault le huuetier Maulde the huue or calle maker Se maintient sagement; Maynteneth her wisely; Elle vend chier ses huues; She selleth ...
— Dialogues in French and English • William Caxton
... upon within the first block—he notes that the English tongue has suddenly almost disappeared. On every hand, lightly sprinkled with many other dialects, sounds Spanish, the slovenly Spanish of Panama in which bueno is "hueno" and calle is "caye." As he swings languidly to the right into Avenida Central he grows gradually aware that there has settled down about him a cold indifference, an atmosphere quite different from that on his own side of the line. Those he addresses ...
— Zone Policeman 88 - A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and its Workers • Harry A. Franck
... visit, climbing the Calle Mayor at that blankest hour of the summer day when the sun is at his fiercest, raging vertically down upon a street empty of folk, but glittering like glass and radiant with quivering air, Manvers was shot at from a distance, ...
— The Spanish Jade • Maurice Hewlett
... Yankees, as soon as their pursuers gave chase, went by way of the Calle del Arsenal toward the city car station. In the presence of an ordinary number of citizens, among whom were some sailors, the North Americans took seats in the street car to escape from the stones which the Chileans threw at them. ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume IX. • Benjamin Harrison
... the Teatro Real. Next day we met again, and on several days that followed. I took them to see the sights of the capital, the sights which everyone visits, the Armeria, the Academy, the Naval Museum, the street life of the Plaza Mayor and the Calle de Toledo, the afternoon promenades in the Retiro Park and the ...
— The Golden Face - A Great 'Crook' Romance • William Le Queux
... Ippolito passed down the long narrow calle or footway leading from the Campo San Stefano to the Grand Canal in Venice, he peered anxiously about him: now turning for a backward look up the calle, where there was no living thing in sight but a cat on a garden gate; now running a quick eye along the palace walls that rose vast on either hand and notched the slender strip of blue sky visible overhead with the lines of their jutting balconies, chimneys, and ...
— A Foregone Conclusion • W. D. Howells
... ther were gret foisoun, That beren notes in her sesoun. Such as men Notemygges calle That ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
... on the morning of September 14th. Scores of neutral flags float from the windows on the Calle de Plateros, and in their shade beautiful women gaze curiously on the scene beneath. Gayly dressed groups throng the balconies, and at the street-corners dark-faced men scowl, mutter deep curses, and clutch their knives. ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17 • Charles Francis Horne
... is in the courtyard of the military command building on the Piazza dei Signori. The sides are in courts entered from the Calle Larga and Via del Teatro Vecchio. It has a nave and aisles about 21 ft. long and about 14 ft. broad, with four pillars, springing from which are three unmoulded arches. The arches are stilted, and at the height of the real springing an impost projects in profile. ...
— The Shores of the Adriatic - The Austrian Side, The Kuestenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia • F. Hamilton Jackson
... intruders, and the fact that the latter took no notice of them, and presently, when the mob which had followed the English from the wharf swung into the street and began to explain in response to the questions with which they were eagerly plied, many of the tenants and frequenters of the Calle de Santa Catalina joined the procession, which by this time numbered some three or four hundred and completely blocked up the narrow street in the rear of the English. It was becoming an ugly, dangerous-looking crowd, too, the kind of mob whose ...
— Two Gallant Sons of Devon - A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess • Harry Collingwood
... de Atocha, iliton! Que vive mi dama; Yo me llamo Bartolo, iliton! Litoque, vitoque, y[36] ella Catanla. —En la calle del Sordo, iliton! Que vive mi mozo, Pues a cuanto le pido, iliton! Litoque, vitoque, ...
— Modern Spanish Lyrics • Various
... la calle de Atocha, iliton! Que vive mi dama; Yo me llamo Bartolo, iliton! Litoque, vitoque, y[36] ella Catanla. —En la calle del Sordo, iliton! Que vive mi mozo, Pues a cuanto le pido, iliton! Litoque, vitoque, que ...
— Modern Spanish Lyrics • Various
... is as bold a wight As ever Old England bred; His armoure it is of the silver bright, And his coloure is ruby red; And whene'er on the bully ye calle, He is readye to give ye a falle; But if long in the battle with him ye be, Ye weaker are ye, and the stronger is he, For Syr ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 19, Issue 529, January 14, 1832 • Various
... result of his endeavours being more or less chaotic. Knight grew as weary of these places as of all others. Then he felt the shock of an earthquake in the Ionian Islands, and went to Venice. Here he shot in gondolas up and down the winding thoroughfare of the Grand Canal, and loitered on calle and piazza at night, when the lagunes were undisturbed by a ripple, and no sound was to be heard but the stroke of the midnight clock. Afterwards he remained for weeks in the museums, galleries, and libraries of Vienna, Berlin, and Paris; and thence ...
— A Pair of Blue Eyes • Thomas Hardy
... range them in faithful armies round the throne of Raphael; meditation and labor may raise them to the level of the great mountain pedestal of Buonarotti—"vestito gia de' raggi del pianeta, che mena dritto altrui per ogni calle;" but neither time nor teaching will bestow the sense, when it is not innate, of that wherein consists the power of Titian and the great Venetians. There is proof of this in the various degrees of cost and care devoted to the preservation of ...
— On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin
... of February when I reached Madrid. After staying a few days at a posada, I removed to a lodging which I engaged at No. 3, in the Calle de la Zarza, a dark dirty street, which, however, was close to the Puerta del Sol, the most central point of Madrid, into which four or five of the principal streets debouche, and which is, at all times of the year, ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow
... way out of the invitation; but when later, Mr. Skinner, the second partner, made a like proposal, he was caught without an excuse, being obliged, with some confusion, to eat his meal in a fashionable restaurant in the Calle Florida. Oddly enough, both his refusal on the one occasion and his acceptance on the other obtained him credit with his elders and superiors, as a modest young fellow, too shy to seize an honor, and embarrassed when ...
— The Wild Olive • Basil King
... a June afternoon of the year 184—that Don Andres de Salcedo—a cavalier of good family, competent fortune, handsome exterior, amiable character, and four-and-twenty years of age—emerged from a house in the Calle San Bernardo at Madrid, where he had passed a wearisome hour in practising a duet of Bellini's with Dona Feliciana Vasquez de los Rios. This young lady, still in her teens, moderately pretty and tolerably rich, Andres had from childhood been affianced ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various
... 52-4: calle de Amargura: the Via Dolorosa, or road passed over by Jesus bearing the cross to the place ...
— Novelas Cortas • Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
... hem wel. take brede & grate it. and take zolkes of ayrenn. & make hit sowple [2] and do erto a lytull of lard carnoun lyche a dee [3]. chese gratyd [4] & whyte grece. powdour douce & of gyngur & wynde it to balles [5] as grete as apples. take e calle of e swyne & cast euere [6] by hym self erin. Make a Crust in a trape [7]. and lay e ball erin & bake it. and whan ey buth ynowz: put erin a layour of ayrenn with powdour fort and Safroun. and serue ...
— The Forme of Cury • Samuel Pegge
... men this prince calle; And natwithstandyng his staat & dignyte, His corage neuer doth appalle To studie in bookis off antiquite; Therin he hath{e} so gret felicite Vertuousli hym silff to ocupie, Off vicious slouth to haue ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various
... five minutes at the window, when we suddenly heard the clattering of horses' feet hastening down the street called the Calle de Carretas. The house in which we had stationed ourselves was, as I have already observed, just opposite to the post-office, at the left of which this street debouches from the north into the Puerta del Sol: as the sounds became louder and louder, the cries of the crowd below diminished, ...
— The Pocket George Borrow • George Borrow
... how the traitor He toke [th]e qwene, Arthoure[gh] wyff, had seized the A[gh]enst goddes lawe & gode lyff, queen, his And putte heore to soiourne [th]o (Arthur's) wife, At Euerwyk: god [gh]yf hym wo. 556 and put her at Yhork ys Euerwyk: York. & so me calle[th] hyt. Arthur then comes Arthour aryved at Whytsond home, Wyth gret Myght & strong hond, 560 fights Mordred, And Mordred sainz fayl [Gh]af hym [th]o a strong batayl; Many a man, as y rede, [Th]at day was [th]ere dede; ...
— Arthur, Copied And Edited From The Marquis of Bath's MS • Frederick J. Furnivall
... did not use coaches or chairs, as they say they do now, and ladies rode behind their squires. This much at least I cannot help telling you, that you may observe the good breeding and punctiliousness of my worthy husband. As he was turning into the Calle de Santiago in Madrid, which is rather narrow, one of the alcaldes of the Court, with two alguacils before him, was coming out of it, and as soon as my good squire saw him he wheeled his mule about and made as if he would turn and accompany ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... of 1607, when six Florentine galleys, commanded by French gentlemen, had seized the fort, made mincemeat of the unfortunate garrison, and carried off eighteen hundred men, women, and children to Leghorn. At last, with much toil, they reached La Calle, the port of the Bastion de France, a fine castle built by the merchants of Marseilles in 1561 for the protection of the valuable coral fisheries, and containing two handsome courts of solid masonry, and a population of four hundred French people. Sanson Napolon had been governor ...
— The Story of the Barbary Corsairs • Stanley Lane-Poole
... have a game of chess together." But Benito, with a muttered apology, left them and went out. San Francisco had streets now, since the O'Farrell survey's adoption by the council. The old Calle de Fundacion had become Dupont street and below it was Kearny street, named after the General and former Governor. To the west were parallel roads, scarcely worthy of the name of thoroughfares, christened in honor ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... where the trees were already in full leaf, I took that straight broad way which led past the Royal Academy, and again crossing the Calle de Alfonso XII came to the Alcahofa fountain, the Fountain of the Artichoke, near which I waited for ...
— The Stretton Street Affair • William Le Queux
... boughes and braunches tide. And monkes in every place do roame, The nunnes abroad are sent, The priests and schoolmen loud do rore Some use the instrument. The straunger passing through the streete Uppon his knees doth fall, And earnestly uppon this bred As on his God, doth calle.... A number grete of armed men Here all this while do stand, To look that no disorder be Nor any filching hand. For all the church goodes out are brought Which certainly would be A bootie good, if every man ...
— Memorials of Old London - Volume I • Various
... end of calle B a well-worn rocky path leads up to a ruined chapel on the summit of a hill, the famous Obispado from which the city was shelled and taken by the Americans in 1847. Below, Monterey lies flat, with ...
— Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras - Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond • Harry A. Franck
... present (as in truth he is) sick, or else would have waited upon me himself in person; but that he will with all his heart quit his house to me—which I am told is a very fine one, as he hath made it, with chargeable additions of his own, in the midst of the Calle de Alcala, with a fair garden to it, and that it is no compliment at all. This I have thought reasonable to advertise in England, though not to ...
— Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe • Lady Fanshawe
... los perros de la calle que la casa de Alto-Rey es casa concluida. Hace ms 35 de veinte aos que viene cayendo, cayendo, y por fin... (Con afectada pena.) Las volteretas que de este mundo loco!... En la villa se dice que los seores Marqueses han llegado a carecer hasta de lo ms preciso ...
— Heath's Modern Language Series: Mariucha • Benito Perez Galdos
... better to risk being shaken to death than drowned in the dirty Pasig, so I hailed a cochero. The villain demanded a double rate, and, while we were haggling, a bus of the Oriente drew in sight and I caught it as it was spinning up Calle San Fernando. ...
— The Devil's Admiral • Frederick Ferdinand Moore
... florysshe his herte in this world, fyrst unto God & next unto the joye of them that he promysed his feythe unto: for there was never worshypful man or worshipfull woman but they loved one better than another ... & suche love, I calle vertuous love." But now-a-days, continues the old knight, little suspecting that his grievance is one of all ages, men cannot love seven-night but they must have all their desires. The old love was not so. Men and women could ...
— The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare • J. J. Jusserand
... from here is the suburbs," said the guide, in an offended tone. "When you enter the Calle Real and the Calle de Condestable, you will see handsome buildings, like ...
— Dona Perfecta • B. Perez Galdos
... pi non m'oppongo, alle tue brame: Resta; che intanto Io vado Per ricercare, un opportuno calle. Che celi a gl'occhi altrui ...
— Amadigi di Gaula - Amadis of Gaul • Nicola Francesco Haym
... rendered walking most disagreeable. The smell of tasajo often poisons the houses and the winding streets. But it appears that of late the police has interposed and that a manifest improvement has taken place in the cleanliness of the streets; that the houses are more airy and that the Calle de los Mercadores presents a fine appearance. Here, as in the oldest towns of Europe. an ill-traced plan of streets can only ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America V3 • Alexander von Humboldt
... appeared to be built at right angles, while a stream of water flowed through the centre. We passed, also, a number of handsome public fountains. The streets through which we rode were much crowded, making us suppose that something unusual was taking place. The handsomest street we saw was the Calle Real, or Royal Street. The ground-floors of the houses were occupied by shops; with a story above, and a large wooden balcony painted green. On either side of the street, which was well paved, was a foot-path; and as there were no vehicles of any description, ...
— In New Granada - Heroes and Patriots • W.H.G. Kingston
... the Espronceda family occupied an apartment in the Calle del Lobo. It was there and then that Patricio de Escosura firmed his intimacy with the future poet. He describes graphically his first meeting with the youth who was to be his lifelong friend. He first saw Jos sliding down from a third-story ...
— El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections • George Tyler Northup
... Manila) the quilez carried the young soldiers. These massive walls, centuries old, enclose perhaps a square mile of city. Once past the Walled City the little vehicle glided on through pretty Ermita. Here, passing along Calle Real (Royal Street), the driver turned into the straight stretch for the next ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines - or, Following the Flag against the Moros • H. Irving Hancock
... gitanas began their dance in the shade, in the Calle de Toledo, and were soon encircled by a crowd of spectators. Whilst they danced, the old woman gathered money among the bystanders, and they showered it down like stones on the highway; for beauty has such power that it can awaken slumbering charity. The dance over, Preciosa said, "If you will ...
— The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... puppets is at the corner of a narrow street opening from the Calle del Ridotto, and is of the tiniest dimensions and simplest appointments. There are no boxes—the whole theatre is scarcely larger than a stage-box—and you pay ten soldi to go into the pit, where you are much more comfortable ...
— Venetian Life • W. D. Howells
... to his mistress in a frame of mind more aggrieved than that which afflicted Don Rodrigo as, tight-wrapped in his black cloak, he gained the Calle de Ataud ...
— The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series • Rafael Sabatini
... was quiet I was obliged to get out of my carriage in the rain and darkness half a dozen times while driving the length of Calle Real, and "approach to be recognized" by raw "rookies," each of whom pointed a loaded rifle at me while I did it. I know that this did not tend to make me feel peaceable or happy. In my opinion it was wholly unnecessary, and yet I did not blame the ...
— The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2) • Dean C. Worcester
... exequar) totum hoc malum, seu nostrum proprium seu potius omnium gentium commune, IGNORATIO FINIS facit. Nesciunt inconsulti homines quid agant: ideo quicquid agunt, mox ut coeperint, vergit in nauseam. Hinc ille discursus sine termino; hinc, medio calle, discordiae; et, ante exitum, DAMNATA PRINCIPIA; ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth
... must have seemed an Edison lamp of ten thousand candle-power, from the way he drew his coat-collar higher about his face, and from the haste in which he avoided the pavement, and crept along by the wall where the shadows were deepest. In this way he arrived at the Calle de Santa Lucia, cast a rapid glance around him, and renewed his course on the darkest side of the way. Although one of the most central streets, the Calle de Santa Lucia is solitary to an extreme. It is closed ...
— The Grandee • Armando Palacio Valds
... casting up her eyes to heaven, She did for mercye calle; And drinking up the poison stronge, ...
— Book of Old Ballads • Selected by Beverly Nichols
... Calle del Arenal he heard his name called. It was a deputy, a comrade of "the Party" who had just come ...
— The Torrent - Entre Naranjos • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... Marie, and thy Sonne I sweare, Thatt ynn whatte place yonn doughtie knyghte shall fall Anethe[123] the stronge push of mie straught[124] out speere, There schalle aryse a hallie[125] chyrches walle, The whyche, ynn honnoure, I wylle Marye calle, 145 Wythe pillars large, and spyre full hyghe and rounde. And thys I faifullie[126] wylle stonde to all, Gyff yonderr straungerr falleth to the grounde. Straungerr, bee boune[127]; I champyonn[128] you to warre. Sounde, sounde the flughornes, to ...
— The Rowley Poems • Thomas Chatterton
... a street in Port-of-Spain which used to be known as the "Calle de los Presidentes," or Presidents' Street, for it was here that fugitive Presidents of Venezuela were wont to take refuge when the political atmosphere of that republic grew uncomfortable for them. Most of these gentlemen ...
— Here, There And Everywhere • Lord Frederic Hamilton
... said he, "and I shall have him watched." The colonel asked that one or two of the soldier police guard should be sent to the house to look after the stranger. A corporal came from the company barrack around on the Calle Real, and it was after nightfall when next the "old friend" rang the bell and was permitted by Ignacio ...
— Ray's Daughter - A Story of Manila • Charles King
... our small luggage into a fly and were driven to an hotel in Calle Lima, an out-of-the-way place kept by a German; but I knew the house to be a quiet, respectable one and very moderate in ...
— The Purple Land • W. H. Hudson
... uprising of 1680 there is a lack of printed documents concerning New Mexico that is poorly compensated by the known manuscripts which I have already mentioned as existing in New Mexico and Mexico. Still there appeared in 1654 a little book by Juan Diez de la Calle, entitled Memorial y Resumen breve de Noticias de las Indias Occidentales, in which the disturbances that culminated in the assassination of Governor Luis de Rosas in 1642 are alluded to. The national archives at the ...
— Documentary History of the Rio Grande Pueblos of New Mexico; I. Bibliographic Introduction • Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
... in the Memoria of Diaz de la Calle, printed at Madrid, 1646, extracts from which I ...
— The Battle and the Ruins of Cintla • Daniel G. Brinton
... the Calle Ancha toward the residencia of Don Rafael at the other side of the town. As we passed the superb white buildings of the University of Esperando, I saw at an open window the gleaming spectacles and bald head of Herr Bergowitz, professor of the natural sciences and friend of Don Rafael and of me ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry
... directly, or by other means than the post, my address is: A D. Luis de Usoz y Rio, Calle de Santa ...
— Letters of George Borrow - to the British and Foreign Bible Society • George Borrow
... was said to be jolly. The Prince warmly supported this proposal; but on Susy's curt refusal they started their rambling again, circuitously threading the vague dark lanes and making for the Piazza and Florian's ices. Suddenly, at a calle-corner, unfamiliar and yet somehow known to her, Susy paused to stare about her ...
— The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton
... dias despues de la escena que acabamos de referir, y a eso de las nueve de la manana, muchisima gente ociosa presenciaba, en la calle de San Juan de Dios y parte de la de 10 San Felipe de aquella misma capital, la reunion de dos companias de migueletes que debian salir a las nueve y media en busca de Parron, cuyo paradero, asi como sus senas personales y las de todos sus companeros ...
— Novelas Cortas • Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
... selle. This worthi man ful wel his wit bisette; Ther wist no wight that he was in dette, So estatly was he of governaunce, With his bargayns, and with his chevysaunce For sothe he was a worthy man withalle, But soth to sayn, I not how men him calle. A CLERK ther was of Oxenford{50} also, That unto logik hadd longe i-go. As len was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right{51} fat, I undertake; But lokde holwe, and therto soberly. Ful thredbar was his overest courtepy. For he hadde geten ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin
... Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, in his 'Commentarios Reales' (en Madrid 1723, en la oficina Real y a/ costa de Nicholas Rodriguez Franco, Impressor de libros, se hallaran en su casa en la calle de el Poc,o y en Palacio), derives the word from the Quichua 'Chacu/' a surrounding. If he is right, it would then be equivalent to the Gaelic 'tinchel'. Taylor, the Water-poet, has left a curious description of ...
— A Vanished Arcadia, • R. B. Cunninghame Graham
... man. First impressions sometimes give rise to doubt and distrust. It was so with me in this instance. Don Julian insisted on my going home with them. I walked with Felicita on one side and Don Julian on the other, Don Rodrigo walking just ahead of me. Their home was on Calle Mercaderes, one of the prettiest squares of the city. Like most Peruvian homes, the house was of adobe with flat roof and partitions of plastered cane. It contained six rooms. In the windows were heavy iron bars, like all houses of the better ...
— Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew • Robert McReynolds
... Next comes a "Vendita Frittole e Liquori,"[154] where the Virgin, enthroned in a very humble manner beside a tallow candle on a back shelf, presides over certain ambrosial morsels of a nature too ambiguous to be defined or enumerated. But a few steps farther on, at the regular wine-shop of the calle, where we are offered "Vino Nostrani a Soldi 28-32," the Madonna is in great glory, enthroned above ten or a dozen large red casks of three-year-old vintage, and flanked by goodly ranks of bottles of Maraschino, and two crimson lamps; ...
— Selections From the Works of John Ruskin • John Ruskin
... lounging about the Calle Mayor gazing at the escutcheons over every hall-door—your bellows-mender and cobbler in this democratic town were invariably of the seed of Noah in right line—when the alarm was raised that fifty horses had ...
— Romantic Spain - A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) • John Augustus O'Shea
... good many of the people whom they met seemed to regard them with anything but friendly glances, and the two men hurried away down the Calle San Antonio, where they soon got out of range of the angry ...
— Under the Chilian Flag - A Tale of War between Chili and Peru • Harry Collingwood
... existed in prehistoric times. It has, like all Mexican cities, its alameda, its bull ring, and its plaza, the latter particularly well-cared for, beautiful in flowers and charming shade trees, together with well-trimmed shrubbery. The Calle Real is the principal thoroughfare, over which the traveler will find his way to the famous battlefield of Buena Vista (pronounced Wana Veesta), about eight miles from the city proper. This was one of the fiercest battles ever ...
— Aztec Land • Maturin M. Ballou
... off from the Calle Principal by the little old church of La Cruz, and passed onward across the market-place, where buying and selling went on languidly, and where a drowsy hum of talk made a rhythmic setting to a scene that seemed to my unaccustomed eyes less a bit of real life ...
— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier
... as the "Santa Maria," the flagship of Columbus, ploughed its way through the darkness. The moon had long since disappeared and one by one the stars had left the sky until only the morning star remained to guide Alonzo de la Calle, crouching above his pilot wheel. The man's eyes ached for sleep, his fingers were numb from dampness and fatigue, his heart heavy with despair. "Dawn," he muttered at last, "almost the last of the night watches; Gonzalo will take my place ...
— The New Land - Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country • Elma Ehrlich Levinger
... said Tio Pancho. "This to Senora Conant; that to el Doctor S-S-Schlegel—Dios! what a name to say!—that to Senor Davis —one for Don Alberto. These two for the Casa de Huespedes, Numero 6, en la calle de las Buenas Gracias. And say to them all, muchacho, that the Pajaro sails for Panama at three this afternoon. If any have letters to send by the post, let them come quickly, that they may first ...
— Whirligigs • O. Henry
... are where the whole city flocked, weeping, at midnight to look their last upon the face of their Michael Angelo. Pace up the steps of the palace of the Signoria and you tread the stone that felt the feet of him to whom so bitterly was known "com' e duro calle, lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale." Buy a knot of March anemoni or April arum lilies, and you may bear them with you through the same city ward in which the child Ghirlandajo once played ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida
... have tried to mention the place of practically every rio and every calle so that the identification of the buildings may be the more simple. The names of the palaces usually given are those by which the Venetians know them; but many, if not more, have changed ownership more than once ...
— A Wanderer in Venice • E.V. Lucas
... all California, three of whom were Americans. In 1835 William A. Richardson was the first foreign resident of Yerba Buena. He was allowed to lay out a street and build a structure of boards and ship's sails in the Calle de Fundacion, which generally followed the lines of the present Grant Avenue. The spot approximates number 811 of the avenue today. When Dana came in 1835 it was the only house visible. The following year Jacob P. Leese built ...
— A Backward Glance at Eighty • Charles A. Murdock
... sertan, As sone as he herd John calle; Litul Johne was redy with a swerd, And bare ...
— A Collection of Ballads • Andrew Lang
... was at the end of the Calle Bogran, and we raced down it, each with his revolver cocked, and held ...
— Captain Macklin • Richard Harding Davis
... between the Calle San Geremia and the Calle San Girolamo along a narrow evil-smelling canal, the entrance of which was barred with chains every night, by order of the Senate. While hesitating to know which Usurer he should first ...
— The Well of Saint Clare • Anatole France |
