The place chosen for our morning's diversion was a sequestered spot upon the banks of the river Zedena, and along the solitary road that leads out towards the Cofre de Perote.
Chiconquiaco, and near San Salvador on the eastern slope of the Cofrede Perote.
This mountain owes its name of Cofre to a naked rock of pyramidal form which rises like a tower from its summit at a height of 500 feet.
Perote, but in size of skull and size of teeth is intermediate between the female of tropicalis from Jalapa and the females from Cofre de Perote.
On the eastern plain below the high mountain, Cofrede Perote, there ranges the similarly colored, smaller, tropical weasel, Mustela frenata tropicalis.
Punta Delgada to the Cofre de Perote, and on till they seem to sink in the ocean.
Orizava and the Cofre de Perote shone white in the distance, while a delicious smell of flowers, particularly of roses, gave token of the land through which we were passing.
This morning the sky is covered with watery clouds, yet we can see the Cofre de Perote and the peak of Orizava, which are thirty leagues inland!
Behind the Cofre rises Orizava, now like a white cloud, but this morning tinged with a rosy light by the rays of the rising sun.
For certes, every florin in his cofre is his mawmet.
High up on the wall of this chapel, and fixed to it with iron clamps, is the Cofre del Cid, a wooden coffer which the Campeador filled with sand, and telling the Jews it was full of gold, raised six hundred marks.
The castle, mediaeval, but grim and formidable, sat in its narrow mountain valley with the Cofre de Montevideo (Trunk of Montevideo) behind it on the north.
Bot now to mi matiere ayein, To telle as olde bokes sein, This dede corps of which ye knowe With wynd and water was forthrowe Now hier, now ther, til ate laste At Ephesim the See upcaste The cofre and al that was therinne.
Anon was mad a cofre sich, 1110 Al redy broght unto his hond; And whanne he sih and redy fond This cofre mad and wel enclowed, The dede bodi was besowed In cloth of gold and leid therinne.
Hire thoghte hire herte was afyre Til it was in hire cofre loke, So that no word therof was spoke.
Bot whan it mai no betre be, Doth thanne thus upon my word, Let make a cofre strong of bord, That it be ferm with led and pich.
This king thanne in the same stede Anon that other cofre undede, 2380 Where as thei sihen gret richesse, Wel more than thei couthen gesse.
Office in court and gold in cofre Is nou, men sein, the philosophre Which hath the worschipe in the halle; Bot flaterie passeth alle In chambre, whom the court avanceth; For upon thilke lot it chanceth To be beloved nou aday.
Al that schal falle, falle schal; Thei comen hom and tarie noght; This Cofre is into chambre broght, Which that thei finde faste stoke, Bot thei with craft it have unloke.
Bot for he wolde it were seie What good thei have, as thei suppose, He bad anon the cofre unclose, Which was fulfild with straw and stones: Thus be thei served al at ones.
This Maister to theCofre is come, He peiseth ther was somwhat in, And bad hem bere it to his In, 1170 And goth himselve forth withal.
Between the lofty peak of Orizaba and the Cofre de Perote, there exists many traces of a very numerous native population, who must have occupied the country long previous to the advent of the Spanish conquerors.
And if he gyveth ought to povere gomes, Telle what he deleth, {264} Povere of possession in purs And in cofre bothe.
He preide Pernele Hir purfil to lete, And kepe it in hire cofre For catel at hire nede.
Which is the cofre of Cristes tresor, And clerkes kepe the keyes To unloken it at hir likyng, And to the lewed peple Gyve mercy for hire mysdedes, If men it wolde aske Buxomliche and benigneliche, And bidden it of Grace.
The next summit is Nauhcampatepetl, or the Square Mountain, which the Spaniards call Cofre de Perote, from the small square rock on the top.
Another extinct volcano known as the Cofrede Perote is situated on the eastern coast of Mexico, east of Ixtaccihuatl, about thirty miles north of Orizaba.
Cofre de Perote is in a dormant or extinct condition.
It takes its name Cofre de Perote which means the Coffin of Perote, from its peculiar box-like shape.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cofre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
