The escribano took the hint, and handed the paper to the Alcalde, who signed it, as did also the chief alguazil.
The angel, who descried some charitable design in the request, bore him to a room in a great city where an escribano [92] lay at the last gasp.
St. Peter could not say nay, so he turned his back while the woodman took up the soul of the escribano on his shoulders and crept in under the shade of the eternal groves.
So the escribano gravely took the box, descended the carpeted stairway leading to the bottom of the excavation and with due solemnity placed it in the hole in the stone.
The Escribano de Racion, to whom it was addressed, was Luis de Santangel, who had deeply interested himself in the project of Columbus and had advanced money to enable Queen Isabella to meet the expenses of the voyage.
On this day the Admiral dated the letter to Santangel, the escribano de racion, which is given below on pp.
He consulted his legal adviser and factotum, a shrewd, meddlesome Escribano or notary, who rejoiced in an opportunity of perplexing the old potentate of the Alhambra, and involving him in a maze of legal subtilities.
The Escribano was demanded in exchange, according to the cartel.
The Escribano bustled into his office, delighted with having another opportunity of displaying his ingenuity at the expense of the hard-headed veteran.
Cogolludo mentions Rodrigo Alvarez as "Escribano del juzgado," who came with Montejo (Historia de Yucatan, Lib.
In a hut of canes, the Alcalde, a little lame Indian, was sitting on a mat spread on the ground in the middle, with his escribano or secretary at his left hand.
The little man scarcely condescended to take any notice of us when we saluted him, but sat bolt upright, positively bursting with suppressed dignity, and the escribano inquired in a loud voice what our business was.
This theescribano heard of, and forthwith had me away to the prison to confront me with them.
I knew them well enough, but I had learnt in my travels when to close my eyes and when to open them; so I told the escribano that I could not say that I had ever seen them before.
Governor Manco was a straight-forward cut-and-thrust old soldier, who hated an escribano worse than the devil, and this one in particular worse than all other escribanos.
The escribano was demanded in exchange, according to the cartel.
The escribano bustled into his office, delighted with having another opportunity of displaying his ingenuity at the expense of the hard-headed veteran.
He was an escribano (notary), he said, and knew the city as thoroughly as his own pocket.
But now, take me to the corregidor; only, while I am gone, let some honest person stay and watch these gentry who are fingering my apparel, or they will save Senor Escribano the trouble of making a very long catalogue.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "escribano" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
