Such, with the barrier of the stream, was the fortification nature had interposed for the safe guard of Mexico at the Arroyo Colorado.
Padre Arroyo folded his arms and regarded them with lowered brows, a sneer on his mouth.
Padre Arroyo descended the stair and awaited them at its foot.
Padre Arroyo was sunning himself on the corridor of the mission, shivering in his heavy brown robes, for the day was cold.
A week later, in the early morning, Padre Arroyo sat on the corridor.
II Padre Arroyo tramped up and down the corridor, smiting his hands together.
One day he went to Padre Arroyo and told him that Pilar was the prettiest girl behind the wall--the prettiest girl in all the Californias--and that she should be his wife.
Another sun rises over the Llano Estacado, his beams gilding with ruddy glow the brown basaltic cliffs that enclose the valley of the Arroyode Alamo.
Leaving the body of Barbato to be devoured by wolves and vultures, they spur on along the Pecos, only drawing bridle to breathe their horses as the trail turns up at the bottom of a confluent creek--the Arroyo de Alamo.
Tell him to meet me on the Arroyo de Alamo--same place as before--and that he is to bring with him twenty or thirty of his painted devils.
Barbato will bring the chief with his cut-throats to the Arroyode Alamo, sure as there is a sun in the sky.
They fall like streams of blood between the bluffs enclosing the valley of the Arroyo de Alamo, their tint in unison with a tragedy there about to be enacted--in itself strangely out of correspondence with the soft, tranquil scene.
I meant what I said, and my heart is always young when I recall that morning ride toward the San Christobal Arroyo and my abounding vigor and confidence in my courage and my powers.
As our wagons halted at the sandy borders of an arroyo the brown-clad form of a priest rose up from the shade of a group of scrubby piñon-trees beside the trail.
Out beyond the sandy arroyo again Father Josef waited for us.
Between Manzanita and Stanwood the track was out, and in the other direction Dry Bed Arroyo was threatening.
The Arroyo takes you out to the Little Bowleg and that empties into the Rio Solano, and there you are!
On the other side the flooded arroyocut off escape.
He was perched on a little elevation just where the arroyo took a sharp bend, his rifle leaning against some greasewood near at hand.
After riding a few moments over some bare clay hills they descended into an arroyoand followed its tortuous course unseen and unheard, for the horses' footfalls made no noise on the silent sands.
Mr. Keno, and soon struck the source of an arroyo in a rocky, desolate hollow, pines shooting up in and around it.
Arroyo de Pecos south-westward; and beyond this depression the rocks bulge up to an oblong mound, nearly 280 m.
On the right side of the Arroyo de Pecos, there is a wide amphitheatre bottom, which was filled with red clay, like that of which the adobe at the church is made, and which appears to have been partly dug out.
The rills which drain the eastern slope carry much of this broken stuff into a small arroyo that winds to the left of the mesilla.
I am informed by Mr. Miller that blocks or "chunks" of obsidian, as large as a fist or larger, are found in the Arroyo de Taos.
This gate was therefore not only a passage-way, but also the water-gap or channel through which the mesilla was finally drained into the bottoms of the Arroyo de Pecos.
Upon reaching the creek, the road divides,--one branch crossing over directly to the west, and the other proceeding along the arroyo about 200 m.
It will be seen that the analogy with the grave of mound V, building A, is very striking; also with the grave discovered by Mr. Walters, and the wall above the corrugated pottery west of the Arroyo de Pecos.
They was bound to hit a big arroyo that would lead 'em almost ag'in' Number Two's door.
Out of the little valley and across a rocky plateau, down into an arroyo and up its steep, further bank went the wagon at an angle that forced a scream from Mollie.
And after an interval, Shorty mounted and swung out of the other gate of the corral and rode along the bottom of an arroyo until he felt it was safe to follow Bill's trail.
He leaves that fire an' forces his cayuse to take him out in th' storm again, finds that th' arroyo is level full of snow, but has both banks swept bare.
Arriving at an arroyo several miles north of the ranch he turned into it and, leaving his horse picketed on good grass along the bottom, he climbed to a position where he could see the trail without being seen.
He plunges down the arroyo at a gallop, his horse tossing bloody froth from the cruel curb.
By late afternoon we had caught up with the coach, and galloped with it down through the dry arroyo and up through the other side, past the great ribota court that flanks the Hacienda of La Zarca.
Small boys played leap-frog with a large yellow sow, and on opposite sides of the arroyo the competing roosters, tethered by the leg, crew defiantly.
Straight down and away through the arroyo one saw a great valley, like an elephant's hide, where the heat-waves buck-jumped.
The Camino Real was a mere track on uneven ground; every time we took a little arroyo the dynamite came down with a sickening crash.
Like a frozen cataract the arroyo fell away, and the great valley beyond lay drowned in rich, soft mist.
It stood upon a little plateau, a deep arroyoon one side, at the bottom of which a sunken river came to the surface for perhaps a hundred yards, and vanished again.
At one, the sunny side of the dry arroyo that is called a street was lined with double rows of squatting peons--silent, dreamily sucking their corn-husk cigarettes as they waited.
Gino, Juan Santillanes, Silveyra, Luis, Juan Vallejo and I rode up the arroyo to bathe in a pool that was rumored to be there.
The hacienda of Arroyo Zarco is a vast and imposing building, built partly of brick and partly of large stones, situated almost at the entrance to the extensive and fertile plains of Bajio.
One circumstance only caused him a little alarm: he believed that he met in the streets, the night before, one of the servants who was in the train of his wife's father at the venta of Arroyo Zarco.
At Celaya, as at Arroyo Zarco, I missed Don Tomas by half an hour.
Our horses, jaded by a ride of twenty hours, were beginning to be fatigued; and it was with a lively satisfaction that I perceived, by the last gleams of departing day, the red walls of the hacienda of Arroyo Zarco.
I need not say that we covered the distance between Arroyo Zarco and Mexico still more rapidly than on our departure: the parts only were changed.
The reader may not, perhaps, have forgotten a certain lieutenant Don Blas, whom I had met at the venta of Arroyo Zarco, and had left seated at table with the bravo, Don Tomas Verduzco.
Sidenote: 24th] Marched to Arroyo del Puerco, the day being very hot indeed and the men exceedingly fatigued.
Neither is there a tree between San Blas and the Arroyo Grande that they have not used to scrape off a load.
Almost across its doorway a bright arroyo ran swiftly, to disappear in the dark shade of clump tamarinds.
In silence, except for the outrageous rattling of the wheels on the cobbles, they drove through mean streets that grew ever meaner, until they drew up at the blind front of a building abutting on an arroyo of the foothills.
In the arroyo of the slaughter-house, two American employees of the street-car company had been stoned and beaten.
A small room on the east side, near the brink of the arroyo that traverses the ruin from east to west, was completely cleared out, exposing its fireplace, the stone paving of its floor, and other details of construction.
I gathered up rocks and had them flying when I heard a clatter of hoofs coming down the arroyolike a squadron of cavalry.
Opposite the camp we wormed out of the arroyo like a skirmish line, hugging the ground for the one remaining little knoll between the robbers and ourselves.
He reminds me of a fellow that crouched behind his horse at the fight we had on the head of the Arroyo Colorado and plugged me in the shoulder.
On the head of the Arroyo Colorado there is a broken country interspersed with glades and large openings.
Towards morning I came to an arroyo which was running full of water.
As we backed into the arroyo he said to us, 'If there's a white man there, leave him to me.
We stayed by the arroyo all that day and the following night.
A crystal rivulet, the arroyo of the Spaniards, stole away southward to the Arkansas.
Suddenly the roof was lifted and whirled down the swollen arroyo into the broad river.
There was the Arroyo tugging at every extra mooring that could be impressed into service.
The laurel wreath borne on the colours is to commemorate its heroic conduct at the battle of Fontenoy, and is the only regiment to wear the honour "Arroyo dos Molinos.
Hopalong's shots went wide and the last view any one had of Slivers in that part of the country was when he dropped into an arroyo to follow it for safety.
The man in the arroyo turned again and watched the hills and it was not long before he saw two Indians burst into view over the crest and gallop towards his friend.
Hopalong and Red reached the edge of the arroyo first and plunged over the bank into the yellow storm-water swirling along the bottom like a miniature flood.
You three get the pickets nearest the old trail through thatarroyo to the southeast, an' then wait for us.
Then two shots rang out in quick succession and a cloud of pungent smoke arose lazily from the edge of the arroyo as the warriors fell from their mounts not sixty yards from the hidden marksman.
Hopalong ran forward for a short distance and slid down the steep bank of a narrow arroyo and waited, the repeater thrust out through the dense fringe of grass and shrubs which bordered the edge.
The sight of the arroyo had decided my wavering resolution, and upon its banks, almost mechanically, I had drawn bridle and dismounted.
Gorda (on the Parana), and of an entire skeleton at Matanzas, on the Arroyo del Animal.
I saw the remains of a Dasypoid quadruped from the Arroyo Seco, close to M.
We reached the Arroyo Seco by high noon, and found the ambulance in camp and the coffee pot boiling.
Quayle and I had discussed during the day the prospect of a hunt at the Vaux ranch, and on meeting our employer, artfully interested the old ranchero regarding the amount of cat sign seen that day along the Arroyo Sordo.
On the return trip, we got the ambulance off before sunrise, expecting to halt and breakfast again at the Arroyo Seco.
But we were in no particular hurry about starting, as we expected to out across the country and would overtake the ambulance at the mouth of the Arroyo Seco in time for the noonday lunch.
Across the arroyo she ran, and up to the hill-top, where she stood and called and looked eagerly about.
The young men who had gone out first had been through this arroyo the night before, when the moonlight did not show the faint trail.
They followed it and found it was the roaring of a high wave coming down an arroyo from a cloudburst farther up in the mountain.
They walked down the hill, and in the sand in the bottom of the arroyo Mead's quick eye caught a faint depression.
In the next arroyothey found a footprint deeply marked in a bed of sand.
Mead felt that she was praying, and impulsively he took off his hat and bent his head, but his eyes still swept the arroyo in front of them.
The trail crossed the arroyo and essayed the hill.
The trail left the arroyo and climbed the hill again and from its summit they could see the crowd of people far toward the north scattering out over the mesa and dotting the hills beyond the mountain road.
About the same time Mead saw a number of dog-like tracks, all going in the same direction, and a sickening fear rose in him so great that he scarcely dared sweep with his eyes the arroyo into which they were descending.
Mead and Marguerite followed the winding of the arroyo for a mile or more, and at last, where it headed and the ground was covered by a thicker growth of bushes, the little tracks climbed the hill.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arroyo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
