This received scant attention, for the Instructions of 1498 order alguazils and gaolers not to permit the entrance of wives or kindred, and whatever is sent to prisoners must be examined to ensure that no letters or messages reach them.
Inquisitors were to do the same and were to commission as alguazils such persons as he might name.
At that name, Fonseca dropped the point of his weapon; the alguazils themselves drew aside; and the tall figure and pale countenance of Calderon were visible amongst the group.
Had Felipe remained under ground, the alguazils would not have ventured into the inner workings of the mine, for the miners would not have suffered any injury to be inflicted on a comrade in their fueros.
It was quite useless to struggle against those sturdy rough alguazils with the bare legs and long hair.
The providential recognition of the victim and his assassin was soon noised abroad, and a few hours afterward a band of alguazils appeared to arrest the miner who had stabbed Osorio.
The red-skin alguazils ranged themselves behind like a group of stage supernumeraries.
The alguazils perceived the young man in one of the courts of the mine buildings, and immediately set off in pursuit.
We cannot flee from the country, and the alguazils of the Inquisition can as easily find us at our house as in the city of Valladolid, should they suspect us of holding to the true faith," said Antonio, calmly.
In an instant he had torn asunder the bonds which held him; he had dashed on either side the cowled alguazils who crowded round, and at a bound dashed through the doorway, down the passage whence the sound proceeded.
The guests had only just seated themselves when a party of mountedalguazils arrived at the inn, and, having stabled their horses, walked in to partake of the dinner going forward.
It was an anxious time for Don Francisco, for he could not help fearing that the alguazils were in search of suspected persons.
This done he placed two of his alguazils on either side of me, telling them to run me through with their bayonets if I attempted to escape, and then, drawing his sword and bringing up the rear, gave the order to march.
As I rode with Ramon into the patio of the hotel, where I had been arrested by the alguazils of the Spanish governor, a man came forward to greet me, so strikingly like the ancient posadero that I felt sure he was the latter's son.
Then his worship ordered his alguazils to apprehend the two witnesses, who posted off to bread and water, with other reversionary advantages, whilst Kate rode in quest of the best dinner that Paz could furnish.
The Reverend Father Don Caracucarador whipped us both, and had our dear Englishman arrested by twenty-four Alguazils of St. Hermandad.
Amasis, in a fury, sent twelve alguazils for his daughter.
Fifteen hundred Alguazils guarded the gates of the inclosure in which the two hundred Gangarids and their unicorns were shut up, without being allowed anything to eat.
The alguazils seem like two noble heralds, giving homage to a monarch before the beginning of a tournament.
At the head of it ride the same two alguazils whom we saw before the royal box; after them advance a rank of capeadors; after the capeadors come “banderilleros,” and the procession is concluded by picadors.
After a while the key is let down from the box on a gold string; the alguazils incline once again and ride away.
In a few minutes after the alguazils have vanished, the widest gate is thrown open, and a whole company enters.
I have just seen him; he tells me that he heard the alguazils arrive, and that at first he thought he was betrayed, especially when the dog began to snuff under the door.
He accordingly withdrew the bolts and bars of the gate, and two chief officers--alguazils they are called--and four subordinates made their appearance.
The consequence was, that a numerous body of alguazils directed their steps to the Calle del principe; some thirty copies of the book in question were pounced upon, and about the same number of Saint Luke in Basque.
The alguazils conducted me across the Plaza Mayor to the Carcel de la Corte, or prison of the court, as it is called.
Within the corridor which served as a kind of office, were several people; one of them sat behind a desk, and to him the alguazils went up, and after discoursing with him some time in low tones, delivered the warrant into his hands.
When the Alguazils entered, it was Don Carlos Alvarez de Santillanos y Menaya who met them, with folded arms, with steadfast eye, and pale but dauntless forehead.
To have theAlguazils of the Holy Office twice in my house would be enough to cost me all my places, not to mention the disgrace of it.
I know not if he spoke at all, save to offer to show the Alguazils his personal effects.
Rodriguez--mistook the attitude for a sign that he would recant, and made intercession with the Alguazils to give him a last opportunity of speaking.
Soon afterwards theAlguazils arrived to conduct him back to the Triana.
He had the means of escape provided, and but for me would have been in safety ere the Alguazils came.
But as to your brother's effects, you may spare your pains; for the Alguazils set the seal of the Holy Office upon them on the night of his arrest, and they have since carried them away.
The torch-light within, perhaps the voices, guided the Alguazils to that room.
The alcaide, a worthy man, much overcome by the magnificence of these sea-borne guests, bowed his head in acquiescence, and called on his alguazils to keep off the crowd.
Already your flight has been discovered, and the alguazilsare searching for us.
The alguazils have turned back, afraid of trusting themselves to this part of the country in the dark.
But at a look from the Alcáide some of the alguazils and men-at-arms by that barrier, thrust and pushed them back, and made a line between them and the body of the court.
For one glance through a great crack, and we saw, by peering down below, that these Spanish alguazils had some method in their proceedings.
He now advertised the two editions of St Luke, with the result that on 16th April a party of Alguazils entered the shop and took possession of twenty-five copies of the Romany Gospel of St Luke.
Borrow states that the Alguazils "divided the copies of the gypsy volume among themselves, selling subsequently the greater number at a large price, the book being in the greatest demand.
The report of fire-arms, the loud crackling of underwood over which Lucius was forcing his way, his shouts which rang through the wood, alarmed the murderers into the belief that a body of alguazils was upon them.
Unless report do them injustice, some of the alguazils are as much robbers as are the brigands whom they affect to pursue; nay, the very magistrates themselves, it is said, can scarcely be trusted.
Foiled in their search for Bibles, it now only remained for the alguazils to bear off their prisoner.
To follow this plan would take time, and during that time the scent might be lost; the alguazils are not wont to be quick in their movements.
At this door one of the alguazils who escorted the prisoner knocked.
He subdued all those blood-thirsty ruffians with a few sentences uttered in his sonorous Spanish, better than a squad of their alguazils could have done with bludgeons and pikes.
The alguazils must at once be set on the scent of the thief.
Inez was constantly turning in terror to listen for sounds that might announce the coming of alguazils to seize on her brother, and search the house.
Alcala, with quiet dignity, resumed his seat, and motioned to his sister to take one beside him, while the alguazils commenced their search.
Within a darkened chamber the constable sits in the castle of Portello; no other guards or alguazilsman the walls but such as habitually attend on his person.
Hearing the movement in the town, I have been down among the alguazils who accompany the troops.
From this day I name you a soldier, and attach you among the Alguazils who guard my person.
Begone, in God's name, and beware of the alguazils and the Cordelada.
And if you think seriously, that I ought to sell out of the Alguazils before I go .
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alguazils" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
