"Hacienda" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Apaches made an attack on the Santa Rita Mining Hacienda, and the eastern side of the Santa Cruz River had ...
— Building a State in Apache Land • Charles D. Poston
... surrender; the response of the confident chieftain by a similar demand; the immortal rejoinder, "General Taylor never surrenders!" the escape of the cavalry to a less exposed position; its baffled charge upon the Saltillo train; its attack upon the hacienda, and its repulse by the horse of Kentucky and Arkansas; the fall of Yell and Vaughan, the insolent mission, under a white flag, to inquire what General Taylor was waiting for; the curt reply "for General Santa Anna to surrender;" the ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. • Various
... pues, que el tal Juan[77-1] Gomez, hombre a la sazon de mas de media centuria, rustico muy avisado aunque no entendia 05 de letra,[77-2] y codicioso y trabajador con fruto, como lo acreditaba, no solamente su apodo, sino tambien su mucha hacienda, por el adquirida a fuerza de buenas o malas artes, y representada en las mejores suertes de tierra de aquella jurisdiccion, tomo a censo enfiteutico[77-3] del caudal de Propios, 10 [77-4] y casi de balde, mediante algunas gallinas no ...
— Novelas Cortas • Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
... Mrs Landell, my new aunt, had thrown her arms round my neck. Formality of greeting was at an end, and, with tears in her eyes, she thanked me and welcomed me to the hacienda. ...
— The Golden Magnet • George Manville Fenn |
