And he recognised the huge livid Banca d'Italia, the green gardens climbing to the Quirinal, and the heaven-soaring pines of the Villa Aldobrandini.
It was a coincidence that the said banca was manned by members of the most influential families of both shores of this gulf from San Agustin and Culaman.
More likely, he boarded the ship to steal, thought he was discovered, and headed for the rail where his banca was tied.
Here and there the sail of a banca dotted the brown water.
We've been traveling at only a few knots, and the banca could have approached from the stern, thrown a line over the rail, and tied up.
No one saw the banca approach," the ship's captain said, "but of course it could have.
An adventurous soldier embarked in a banca on one in Samar, and passed completely under a large mountain.
These curious facts would indicate that Banca may have existed as a distinct island even longer than Sumatra and Borneo, and there are some geological and geographical facts which render this not so improbable as it would at first seem to be.
The nutmegs of Banda and the tin of Banca are to some extent parallel cases to this supposititious one, and I believe the Dutch Government will act most unwisely if they give up their monopoly.
The weather now became more rainy than ever, and as the wet season seemed to have set in in earnest, I returned to Batavia, packed up and sent off my collections, and left by steamer on November 1st forBanca and Sumatra.
The sail and mast of his little boat were blown away, and the banca itself sank.
The Negro waved his hand, and in a moment there came a sphinx paddling a small banca towards them.
Then the wood-cutter, remembering the rich man's promise, hastily prepared his banca and sailed across to Pasig.
The next day he borrowed a banca and sailed to Pasig; but when Mayaman had heard his story, he said, "My good man, I have nothing more to give you.
He got a banca [89] and dug a very deep grave beneath the water.
The statue can now be seen in the vestibule of the Banca Nazionale.
The stone-cutter's shop on the site of the Banca Nazionale.
Illustration: The Antinous of the Banca Nazionale.
The site of the Palazzo della Banca Nazionale, in the street of the same name, was occupied in old times by the house of Tiberius Julius Frugi, a member of the college of the Arvales.
He said to his slaves: "Prepare a banca for me, that I may sail from place to place to amuse myself.
So one pleasant morning a banca sailed from Sinaragan, going southward.
When Banca was occupied in common with the other Dutch colonies by the British, it proved fatal to nearly the whole of the garrison.
The straits of Banca were at one time the resort of numerous Malay pirates: the activity of the Dutch cruisers has, however, rendered their once dangerous neighbourhood perfectly safe, so far as the attacks of these marauders are concerned.
The Banca fever is, perhaps, one of the most dangerous diseases with which man is afflicted: those who are fortunate enough to recover from it, are subject for life to severe nervous attacks at the full and change of the moon.
The Dutch troops still continue to suffer severely from this cause; and to be sent to Banca from Java, is looked upon as the hardest lot that can befall a soldier.
As far as I know, Banca yields nothing else; and the rice eaten by the Chinese miners, is sent regularly from Java.
Banca The captain took a bath without his belly getting wet.
Campana sa misa I rang the banca and the fishes came.
Bell Banca is the canoe or boat; to strike it as with the pole is to ring it.
Within six months after the ratification of Until redemption, the notes of the Banca Generate shall be recognized as legal tender.
She seized the oar, and while Stern fought the monster she set the banca in motion again.
Whoever cut that cord and either let the banca float away or else stole it, evidently doesn't want to come to close quarters for the present, so long as these wolves are making themselves friendly.
They made the banca fast, noting that the tide was high and that the leather cord was securely tied to a gnarled willow that grew at the water's edge.
There stood the aged willow to which the banca had been tied.
Behind the banca a rippling wake flashed metallic; the cold, clear water caressed the primitive hull, murmuring with soft cadences, in the old, familiar music of the time when there were men on earth.
The banca moved slowly forward, trailing its wake like widening lines of silver in the moonlight.
As they put their supplies of fish, squirrel-meat and breadfruit aboard the banca and shoved the rude craft off the sand, both she and he felt like children on an outing.
I shall choke with pride, so august am I become in the Banca e Casa Commerciale Visconti.
I mentioned my connection with Visconti's Banca e Casa Commerciale.
When, now and then, a banca crept past them, its shape was outlined in the same lurid radiance, and the noiseless paddles dripped smears of unearthly flame.
A great fishing banca manned by at least twelve oarsmen swept boldly past them.
One warm night, when the Maclaughlins, Kingsnorth, and the oyster-agent had given themselves up to the delights of bridge, the other three strolled along the beach till they came to an old banca lying bottom up on the sand.
I am indebted to Mr. Henry Hubbel for the following explicit account of these castaways: "One native banca of castaways arrived at Lucatan, N.
The writer takes the bookcases in order, beginning as follows: De prima banca inferius versus refectorium (13 vols.
Next day we passed through Banca Strait by the Lucepara Channel, keeping to the Sumatra coast to avoid the dangerous reefs and rocks on the east side, until we sighted the Parmesang Hills.
And now, hauled up as close as we could be, the ship headed towards the strangers; steering back in the direction of Banca again as near to windward as she could forereach.
New York correspondents of the Banca Commerciale Italiana fifty thousand dollars, and have instructions cabled to the Messina branch of that bank to pay the sum to the written order of John Merrick.
Bad money is so common in Naples that Uncle John never accepted any change from anyone, but obtained all his silver coins and notes directly from the Banca Commerciale Italiana, a government institution.
Jurien de la Gravière [62] compares the banca to a cigar-box, in which the traveller is so tightly packed that he would have little chance of saving his life if it happened to upset.
They would have done so if he had not escaped into the mountains and afterwards passed by a banca to the island of Cebu.
Anda left the capital on the night of October 4, passing in a little banca through the nipa swamps and esteros on the north shore of Manila Bay to the provincial capital of Bulacan.
The hombre in the banca pulled his wide-brimmed straw hat over his eyes, curled in the bow, and went to sleep.
She disappeared beneath the water; he sent the banca ahead with two long strokes, and then she rose to the surface alongside.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "banca" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
