When I reached Colla I found the place full of troops, so did not delay, but rode straight on and beyond, being asked as I passed the Police Station who I was, and where I was going.
The horse carried me well, and I reached Colla about three o'clock in the afternoon, the track being less soft and slippery than I expected.
He then told me that towards the end of the previous week Mamerto Gomez, a captain in the Red army, was coming out of the town of Colla with a troop of Colorado soldiers, on his way towards the province of San Jose.
The little town of Colla lay pleasantly situate on the bank of a small river.
The name, which really belongs to a branch of the Quichua tribe, was first misapplied to the Colla language by the Jesuits at Juli, and afterwards to the whole Colla race.
It should probably be Apunaca: Apu is a chief, and naca the plural suffix in the Colla dialect.
The distance from Pucara to Hatun-colla is fifteen leagues, and on the road there are some villages, such as Nicasio, Juliaca, and others.
Hatun-colla is now a wretched little village, not far from the towers of Sillustani, already alluded to.
Thus it may be affirmed that Hatun-colla was a grand place, as its name implies, for Hatun means “great” in their language.
Mista Matee Snow, his colla allee same like new, too--" Something happened so suddenly that none of us knew what was going on.
At the time that Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui was at Cuzco after having conquered the provinces already mentioned, the Sinchi of Collao was named Chuchi Ccapac or Colla Ccapac, which is all one.
Chuchi Colla and the other Colla prisoners were placed before the Inca's litter dressed in long robes covered with tassels in derision and that they might be known.
His putting to flight the assassins in Ferrara gave him such a reputation for courage, that there went about in his honour a popular couplet "Colla penna e colla spada Nessun val quanto Torquato.
This was the discovery that Giovanni Colla announced when he went to Milan in 1536.
Cardan had found Colla to be a conceited fool, and had dragged the conceit out of him--a process which he was now about to repeat for the benefit of Messer Niccolo Tartaglia.
And Colla his son was a very good runner too, and one time he ran a race backwards against the three battalions of the Fianna for a chessboard.
All that is in it is sorrow and vexation of spirit.
Mania, Jacchinus, Arculanus on Rhasis, Guianerius and Mercurialis, reckon up this overmuch waking as a principal cause.
Colla replied, "He would soon make a raid upon Gairloch, and before driving away the spoil he would sleep a night in the laird of Gairloch's bed.
Then almost all the proprietors in the Highlands paid blackmail to Colla Ban; consequently he made no raids upon their territories; and if others made raids upon them, Colla made good the loss.
Yes, Ollantay shall stand in my place, Raised up like the star of the morn, For Colla this month I shall start; All preparations are made.
To-morrow sees me on the route, I go to call the troops at once The rebels on the Colla road, I drive them flying down the rocks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colla" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
