"Senorita" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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 Hoops of Steel • Florence Finch Kelly
... do not feel—like going in to-night. You push on—rest at Sears' to-night. Keep the prisoners in his corral under guard. He will look after Senorita Ledesma and the men. Tell him that I request that he come here and dynamite this pool—thoroughly. Push on to Davao next morning and send for Ledesma to get his daughter; and if I am not there by that time, you send a brief report of this ...
— Terry - A Tale of the Hill People • Charles Goff Thomson
... answered the white man; "for I have been sent up by the master to look out for some part of his family who ought long since to have arrived. He has already sent two messengers to inquire for them; and his heart, and those of the senora and senorita, are well-nigh worn out with anxiety on their account. At last I begged that he would let me go; and I promised not to return without ...
— On the Banks of the Amazon • W.H.G. Kingston
... fell over them. "My apologies," spoke a deep voice, "but the senorita, she is going to the City, to the ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... dragged slowly on; Concepcion returned; she had, with great difficulty, managed to see the senorita, but not alone; she had, however, slipped the note into her hand, not daring to wait ...
— Selected Stories • Bret Harte
... never called anything else here. They meant 'Many thanks, Ma'am.' You will be 'Senorita' ...
— Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party • C. E. Jacobs
... laying some of the clipped locks across his hand and surveying them sorrowfully, "so great is the pity! What senorita could resist the young senor if these were still growing upon ...
— The Texan Star - The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty • Joseph A. Altsheler
... "Good morning, Senorita. The Senora sent me to serve you and help you about your bath. It is ready, yes, and the other senoritas have breakfasted and gone out, si. By my Lady's orders you were not to be awakened ...
— Dorothy on a Ranch • Evelyn Raymond
... another fellow. It is-a most like Mexican, but not quite." Thea did not release him, but pointed to the paper. There were three verses of the song in all, and when Johnny had written them down, he sat looking at them meditatively, his head on one side. "I don' think for a high voice, SENORITA," he objected with polite persistence. ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather
... American opera singer; and how, being apprehended by members of the opposing political party in Coralio, he shot himself through the head rather than give up the funds, and, in consequence, the Senorita Guilbert. They will relate further that Dona Isabel, her adventurous bark of fortune shoaled by the simultaneous loss of her distinguished admirer and the souvenir hundred thousand, dropped anchor on this stagnant coast, ...
— Cabbages and Kings • O. Henry
... the terrace. "Poor old ——," he muttered, touching the corpse with his staff, and dwelling on the vile word with pondering affection. "Senorita," said he aloud, "much grief is not good on an empty stomach. If Juan here will lift ...
— The Laird's Luck • Arthur Quiller-Couch
... still lookin' up at the little captain's daughter. "Silence gives consent," I says. "And now," I says, "it's the young lady will say the word. Attend me, senorita. This young man here, but two moments agone, up on deck declared to me, while below the blue Caribbean the sun like a fine ripe orange was sinkin', and likewise the Southern Cross was shinin', lopsided, like a blessin' in the southwest over toward where the ...
— Sonnie-Boy's People • James B. Connolly
... little lady was accustomed, apparently, to direct every movement of her charioteer, and her orders were uttered in a voice high and sweet as a bird-call. "Dobla al derecho, Roque! Roque, dobla al derecho!" Why did not Roque go mad, and exclaim,—"Yes, Senorita, and to heaven itself, if you bid me so prettily!" But Roque only doubled as he was bid, and took us hither and thither, and back to the nest of his lady-bird, where we left her and the others with grateful regrets, and finally back to the Ensor House, which on this occasion ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various
... Burnham-Seaforth, speaking with his eyes on Senorita Rosario, who seemed nervous and ill-pleased by the news of the expected arrival. "He won't have to be entertained by us if he only comes to see the pater; and we can easily crowd him aside if he tries to thrust himself upon us. A fellow with a name like 'Rupert St. Aubyn' is bound to be a silly ...
— Cleek, the Master Detective • Thomas W. Hanshew |
