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Example sentences for "banderillero"

Lexicographically close words:
bandboxes; bandeau; bandeaux; banded; bandera; banderilleros; bandes; bandicoot; bandicoots; bandied
  1. Ferrero, who was rated the best banderillero in Peru, first faced the bull.

  2. Only when Ferrero pulled him by the arm did he think to turn and bow with the banderillero to the cheering audience, especially to some blue-jackets who had now recognized him as an old shipmate and were calling him by name--hundreds of them.

  3. Behind the Frenchman's back, surreptitiously, the banderillero Alfonso Robledo proffered his opiate to Morales.

  4. There were spots dancing before his eyes, yet he made out that one of the cuadrilla, a short thick-set banderillero named Baptista Monterey, had stepped forward from the mob.

  5. The eyelids of the banderillero rolled down heavily, and he slumped into a deep stertorous sleep.

  6. And I, Alfonso Robledo, a banderillero as great as any!

  7. About eventide Alfonso Robledo, the banderillero who so bravely had seconded Quesada that morning, suffered all at once a severe relapse.

  8. When Morales recovered from the griping vice of the fit, the Frenchman was proffering a cup of some darkish mixture to the convalescing banderillero on the matador's left hand.

  9. Baptista Monterey, a short thick-set banderillero in the ordinary tight-fitting black clothes of the profession.

  10. And accepting the lesser of the two sacrifices, Morales lifted from between the banderillero and himself the cup containing the partly finished brandy, and quaffed it down in one great draught.

  11. Austin could not tell her, for it was a thing he could never understand; but while the attendants were still flinging the black sombreros into the air another banderillero approached the bull.

  12. The second banderillero was quite beaten, but the renowned Rafael Guerra, who led the second cuadrilla, succeeded, amid thunders of acclamation.

  13. Conecito came forward with his banderillas, the beribboned spears used for the second attack upon the bull, and the crowd cheered lustily, for the banderillero was a favourite.

  14. The banderillero would change his course after the bull got under way and by just grazing his horns would plant the darts in his shoulders.

  15. The banderillero rose just as the bull reached him, planted his darts in the animal's shoulders and leaped to one side.

  16. Bill explained how the banderillero did it: "Say, did y' see that feller?

  17. A banderillero sat on a chair and made the bull charge at him.

  18. Like a foreigner at cricket we naturally missed much of the subtlety, but it was obvious that there were certain conditions under which the banderillero would meet the bull and others under which he would not.

  19. This piece of work looked dangerous, and the pay of a banderillero amounts to between L3 and L4 an afternoon.


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