They draw a great quantity of wine from the palm-trees; one Indian can in one forenoon obtain two arrobas of sap from the palm-trees that he cultivates.
They draw a great quantity of wine from the palm-trees; one Indian can in one forenoon obtain two arrobas of sap from the palm trees that he cultivates.
It is commonly asserted that three arrobas of refined sugar yield one barrel of miel, and that the molasses are sufficient for the expenses of the plantation: this is especially the case where they produce brandy in abundance.
An ox or cow of the weight of 25 arrobas produces only 4 to 5 arrobas of tasajo or tasso.
Our several voyages in the canoes of the Orinoco, and a passage in an American vessel laden with several thousand arrobas of salt meat dried in the sun had rendered us not very fastidious.
That chief spent at that feast more than four hundred arrobasof wine, and more than one thousand birds.
In the first place, seven thousand arrobas of caoutchouc, each of about thirty pounds, composed the most precious part of the cargo, for every pound of it was worth from three to four francs.
A patache arrived at Manila on December 27 from Macan, laden with five thousand arrobas of iron for Captain Juan Lopez de Ariduin.
A champan arrived here on May 30, with fiftyarrobas of nails which had been taken from the wreckage of the ship which, as I said, had run aground on the coast of Paracali.
In the year 1770 there were exported to Vera Cruz more than five arrobas of wax.
Jose Ignacio Echegoyen, calculated that to produce ten thousand arrobas of sugar, an expenditure of twelve thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven pesos was needed, besides a capital of sixty thousand.
The exports amounted to less than twenty-one thousand arrobas of sugar (a weight of twenty-five pounds of sixteen ounces each).
At seventy céntimos per arroba, the millions of arrobas that it must amount to in a year.
The quintal is four Spanish arrobasof twenty-five pounds.
Moreover, there must also be given two arrobas of rice, and one hen.
The same comparison may be made with respect to private individuals, who are able to gather a few hides and a few arrobas of tallow, these being in small quantities.
The quantity of hides gathered yearly is about thirty or forty thousand; and thearrobas of tallow, with very little difference, will be about the same.
May two, one-half libra of quicksilver was incorporated with two arrobas of ore obtained from the vein and works of the streamlet at the new mine mentioned above as being near our fort of Santiago.
On arriving at Nueva España, they increase its weight by the fourth or third part, and the pico is held to be about six and one-half arrobas of silk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arrobas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
