Carlos pointed to the azotea of the Presidio, where the head and shoulders of a man were seen above the line of the parapet.
When the sun is down, or behind a cloud, the azotea is a most agreeable promenade; and to render it still more so, that over the house of Don Ambrosio had been arranged so as to resemble a flower-garden.
The huge pine-beams of the azotea catch the blaze, burn, crackle, and fall inwards, and in a short while the Presidio becomes a mass of smoking ruins!
Vizcarra stood by the outer edge of the azotea that commanded a view of the road leading up to the gate of the Presidio.
She was standing upon the azotea of a noble mansion, apparently regarding the rich sunset, while, in reality, her thoughts were busy with another theme, and one that was less pleasant to contemplate.
Roblado had just breakfasted, and come out on the azotea to enjoy his Havannah.
They were together on the azotea of the Presidio, talking the matter between them, and casting over the probabilities of their late suspicion.
The man en promenade was an officer, and the part of the azotea upon which he moved was the roof of the officers' quarter, separated from the rest by a wall of equal height with the parapet.
This it was that was casting the dark shadows over her countenance--this it was that was causing her to traverse the azotea and the garden in such anxious search.
Louise Poindexter upon theazotea again--again to be subjected to a fresh chagrin!
She was upon the azotea at the moment of making this reflection-- lorgnette in hand, as she had often been before.
Absorbed in these hopes, I continued to pace the azotea alone.
I muttered some directions to the messenger; and to conceal my emotion from him, I turned away and proceeded to the farthest corner of the azotea before reading the note.
I turned, and stepped hastily across the azotea in the direction of the sounds.
Convinced of the fruitlessness and impolicy of further procrastination, Cortés made his final dispositions for the attack, and took his own station on an azotea which commanded the theatre of operations.
One of his great pleasures was to hoist the Union Jack on the small standard on the top of the azotea on feast-days and holidays, when he would again lower it at sunset, the same as he would have done on board ship.
One afternoon in the middle of the week following, Bent and I were up on the azotea taking a look round.
On this day, however, Luisa Valverde mounted up to the azotea with feelings, and under an impulse, very different from that hitherto actuating her.
She who now appeared upon the azotea was dark; her skin showing a tinge of golden brown, with a profusion of black hair plaited and coiled as a coronet around her head.
The speakers were on the azotea of Don Ignacio's house, up to which they had hastened soon as home--having dismissed their escort below, and left orders for no visitors to be admitted.
And as little suspected she when one of the house domestics came upon the azotea and handed her a large ornamental envelope, bearing the State arms, that it was part of the malignant scheme.
And yet on the azotea of a certain house, or rather in the mirador above it, stood a young lady, who looked over it without delight in her eye or gladness in her heart.
But now from every azotea round a deadly fire was directed upon the open space, and the troops, unable to make any effective reply, were withdrawn into the church.
At each loop-hole in the barricaded windows of his house and almacen he placed three men, two of whom were to load while the other fired; his own company of Patricios he stationed on the azotea and took command of them himself.
Every house will send out a soldier, and every azotea will be a battery when the fire commences," replied Don Felipe.
As he looked round him he saw a stout figure wrapped up in a thick woollen poncho, standing on the azotea of Don Gregorio's house, he crossed two other houses and went up to him, it was Don Gregorio himself.
On the azotea on each side a sentry paced up and down with his firelock on his shoulder.
The adjacent azotea was crowded with armed citizens, who saw with consternation the second repulse of the negroes.
On the parapet of his azotea he arranged tercios of yerba and boxes filled with earth, leaving a few inches between each to serve as loopholes.
Some hours later Don Baltazar de Cisneros walked on the azotea of his house in earnest conversation with Don Roderigo Ponce de Leon.
The advance of the negroes was stopped, but the roar of the cannon had given the signal, men sprang to their feet on every azotea round about, on every side militia marched into the open streets.
Soon the two lovers, fleeing from the dust raised by Aunt Isabel's broom, found themselves on the azotea where they could commune in liberty among the little arbors.
She saw the azotea with its little arbors bathed in the ghostly light of the moon.
Through the window and a door that opened on the azotea the moonlight entered.
At last, in order to avoid the crowd, we got up on the low azotea of a house, beside which the pulpit was placed; but here the sun was overwhelming.
We went over the whole building as before, from the azotea downwards, and from the porter's lodge upwards.
The two finest views of Puebla may be seen from the towers of the cathedral, and from an azotea in the street of San Agustin.
We went upon theazotea this afternoon, to have a good view of the city.
Then we would go to the azotea or to a window to enjoy the moonlight; and my nurse would tell us stories.
I can recall clearly my first gloomy nights, passed on the azotea of our house.
The cavalry soldiers came first, and those on the azotea of the Casa Maraquando saw Sir Philip riding by the side of Captain Velez, at the head of the Regimiento de los Caballeros.
With a wave of his hand he was gone, and Jack escorted the ladies to the azotea to watch the regiments departing.
Dolores turned her eyes towards the couple leaning over the azotea railing, and began to laugh also.
Dolores managed to flash a tender glance at Jack as they descended into the patio, and Philip, leaning over the balustrade of the azotea caught a significant wave of Eulalia's fan, which meant a good deal.
Only Jack was idle; Jack, who, decked out in the gaudy uniform of the Regimient de los Caballeros, set on the azotea flirting with Dolores and smoking innumerable cigarettes.
Fortunately, they had been hidden by an angle of the azotea wall, so the good lady, who had just awakened, and was still bemused with sleep, saw nothing.
It was now nine o'clock, and Jack had left her on the roof of the azotea at four.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "azotea" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
