The Spanish Curate is in all probability taken from one of those comedies of intrigue, capa y espada, which the fame of Lope de Vega had made popular in Europe.
Lope de Vega’s comedies de Capa y Espada, or those which may properly be denominated his dramas of intrigue, though wanting in the delineation of character, are romantic pictures of manners, drawn from real life.
And the remedy is not that suggested in the quatrain that runs-- Cada vez que considero que me tengo de morir, tiendo la capa en el suelo y no me harto de dormir.
Ollantay is a historical play including royal personages; the main and moving principle is not gallantry of the capa y espada type, the story is simple and not intriguing, and it is not accompanied with an underplot.
His next point is that Ollantay is throughout, in general form and minute details, a Christian and cavalieresque play de capa y espada, such as those of Lope de Vega and Calderon.
So that the Quichua drama is not only unlike a Spanish comedia de capa y espada, but it would be difficult to find two classes of compositions, both being dramatic, which are more completely distinct from each other.
On the other hand, the Capa Blancas make a very convenient stopping place on our way across.
If I can do more with angry bulls than can Pepito de Malaga, you are to promise me that there shall never be another bullfight in the Capa Blancas so long as you are alive to stop it.
Besides, he won't be so inclined to start a fight when we put him ashore at the Capa Blancas if we thin him down a bit before we let him out.
I shall have to run for theCapa Blancas after all," he told me when the seaman's back was turned.
How long will it take us from here to the Capa Blancas?
We can't reach theCapa Blancas before the day after to-morrow at best.
Tetralopha scabridella in leaves of Inga vera, or of Pilocrocis secernalis in the leaves of 'capa blanco' (Petitia domingensis) in the mountains.
His handsome guanaco capa was new, and brilliantly painted on the outside, and being half opened, displayed a clean white chiripa, fastened at the waist by a silver belt of curious workmanship.
In his name he offered treasures of gold and silver to the Sun, and to the other oracles and huacas, and also made the sacrifice of capa cocha.
He also instituted the sacrifice called capa cocha[52], which is the immolation of two male and two female infants before the idol Huanacauri, at the time when the Incas were armed as knights.
After Tupac Inca had made his obeisance to his father, the Inca and the rest rose and went before the image of the Sun where they made their sacrifices and offered capa cocha to that deity.
The children, on whom most of the silver ornaments of the family are lavished, wear a capa like their elders, and on attaining the age of four or five are invested with the dignity of a chiripa.
In fact, it requires a peculiar knack, only to be attained by long experience, to enable one to wear a capa on horseback with ease and comfort.
The capa is a long robe of guanaco furs, about five and a half feet long, by four and a half broad.
However, the capa made up for all defects in dress, and Maximo was perfectly content with things as they were.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "capa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
