Si al cabo de seis años de causa, alguno va a presidio, a lo mejor se escapa, o le indultan y vuelve a la Estancia de los Caballeros.
I saw a pair on a gaucho at the estancia of my friend Dr.
At an estancia near Las Vacas large numbers of mares are weekly slaughtered for the sake of their hides, although worth only five paper dollars, or about half a crown apiece.
The chief trouble with an estancia is driving the cattle twice a week to a central spot, in order to make them tame, and to count them.
At night we asked permission to sleep at anestancia at which we happened to arrive.
At the twelfth posta, which is seven leagues south of the Rio Salado, we came to the first estancia with cattle and white women.
We passed the only house in this neighbourhood, the Estancia of Chaquaio: and at sunset we pulled up in the first snug corner, and there bivouacked.
Arrived at an estancia on the Berquelo belonging to a very hospitable Englishman, to whom I had a letter of introduction from my friend Mr. Lumb.
One Sunday the Governor came in great form to pay the estancia a visit, and General Rosas, in his hurry, walked out to receive him with his knife, as usual, stuck in his belt.
This is the same man whose attack on an estancia at the Rio Negro I have described.
Estancia houses, dazzlingly white, buried in peach and fig groves, dot the plains, looking like islands in the sea of grass.
Some 30 miles north of Santiago de Cuba, and 50 miles south of Antilla, the shipping point on Nipe Bay, are two small colonies only a few miles apart known as Paso Estancia and Bayate.
The descriptions in Chapter VIII of cattle-working and of horse-breaking on an Argentine estancia have already appeared in slightly different form in an earlier book of mine, now out of print.
Having reached the estancia and placed our pupil on it, we liked the place so well that we made arrangements to stay there for six weeks at least, thus getting a very good idea of its daily life.
For this reason, on every estancia there were some ten acres planted with peach trees.
He always had a large gallery of spectators, for every one on the estancia who could manage it trooped to the corral to criticise and to pass judgment.
The manager and the premium-pupils on our estancia all breakfasted before six, and then went out to the horse-corral to catch their horses for the day's work.
The little estanciahouse stood, red-roofed and homelike, with green paraiso trees about it.
He pointed out his own estancia house by the river-bank, and invited Peter and Sir Nigel to come and stay with him some day.
Peter explained that it was Señor Purvis, who owned the big estancia down at La Dorada, whom he was riding to overtake.
This port was nearer the estancia than the railway station at Taco, and the last stage of the journey, therefore, was made by steamer.
His estancia lay on the river-bank, and was independent of the old heart-breaking system of railway service in Argentine for the conveyance of his alfalfa and wheat.
There had been some heavy work on the estancia that morning, followed by a lazy afternoon.
He got away through one of the rough gates of the estancia out into the open camp again, where the earth was full of a vast stillness about him, and the stars pulsated overhead to the unspeakable music of the night.
We will land here on our way back, and get some horses, and ride over to the estancia in the morning.
It had been a pleasure to her during the brief year that she had spent in the estancia house, with its red roof and simple rooms, and the corridor that had been enclosed with wire-netting for her.
Dunbar and the commissario had put a long distance between themselves and the estancia house now.
They rode away the following morning, and there seemed nothing for it but to wait at the estancia until more news was forthcoming.
Fraser and Grenfell, is named the Estancia San Andre, and is also situated (i.
There was one kept at an estancia called Mangrullos, on the western frontier of Buenos Ayres, and the people of the house gave me a very curious account of it.
I resided for some time at anestancia close to the town of El Carmen, on the Rio Negro, which during my stay was infested by a very bold and cunning puma.
Before he had been long at theestancia it began to be noticed that he followed the broods of young chickens about very assiduously, apparently taking great interest in their welfare, and even trying to entice them to follow him.
A brother of mine once related to me a very pathetic incident which occurred at an estancia on the pampas where he was staying.
Your estancia is strong and well built, and you are all well armed, and good shots.
After this Mount Pleasant, which had always been considered as the most hospitable and pleasant estancia in the district, became more than ever popular, and many were the impromptu dances got up.
Mr. Thompson's estancia was a large and picturesque building.
Just before commencing the house, Mr. Hardy heard that a sale of stock was to take place at an estanciaabout twenty miles to the west of Rosario, in consequence of the death of its owner.
And now, if you please, we will be off as soon as we can, for my estancia is fifteen miles away.
To the west of Senor Jaqueras, the estate was owned by two Scotchmen, brothers of the name of Jamieson: their estancia was nine miles distant.
They were all to ride, with the exception of Sarah, who took her place in one of the bullock-carts; and they would therefore reach the estancia before the heat of the day fairly set in.
Another curious thing in the estancia was a large room set apart for the display of trophies sent from Buenos Ayres by the Minister's eldest son.
He then mentioned that in about an hour and a half or two hours I should arrive at an estancia named La Paja Brava, where many riding-horses were kept.
He was one of our very nearest neighbours, his estancia house being no more than two short miles from us on the south side.
But he never lost his place, since it appeared that no one could do anything wrong on the estancia and not be forgiven by its master.
The only breeding-place in our neighbourhood was in a grove or remains of an ancient ruined plantation at an estancia house, about nine miles from us, owned by an Englishman named Ramsdale.
Señora Cousino has another park and palace an hour’s drive from Santiago, the finest estancia in Chili, perhaps in all South America; nor do I know of one in North America or Europe that will equal it.
He looks after the estancia at “Macul,” and spends from six to eight hours a day in the saddle, riding about the place.
We went to a camp race-meeting, where every estancia has its own tent, there is racing all day and dancing at night.
One sheet of drizzling rain surrounded us all through the journey, and none were sorry when, after a side slip or two, the coaches drew up (not before it was quite dark) outside the estancia house.
This estancia lies half way between the towns of San Isabel and Venado Tuerto, from the latter of which it is distant about sixteen miles.
He knew someone had slumbered (some had not), and plaintively he begged that he might be allowed in future to sleep at one estancia further ahead of the rest of the party.
Holidays on the estanciacome but seldom, and were it not for the welcome break that gives the campman a day of rest every week, his life would be a round of work, and probably make him the proverbial "dull boy.
The Wild Man discovered this rara avis in a railway carriage, babbling for "Kwilmez Beer," so he was brought along, and he had not been long at the Estancia before he was running first favourite in the Popularity Stakes.
We then went to an estancia (farm) in the Province of Cordoba.
They accordingly bought the estancia La Barrancosa in 1906, and have been constantly increasing the area there under alfalfa, equipping it with a full complement of wells and fencing.
On the 25th of May, the great holiday in this country, I went to an estancia to see some friends.
The buccaneers sometimes began a cruise by sailing to an estancia in Hispaniola, or on the Main, where they might supply their harness casks with flesh.
They could not patrol the Indies with a number of guarda costas sufficient to exclude all foreign ships, nor could they set guards, in forts, at every estancia or anchorage in the vast coast-line of the islands.
Caballito is the name that the Naon estancia went by years ago before the city grew up.
An estancia house stood beyond the wall on the south side and there were some buildings beyond the wall on the north side where the priest and his servants lived.
The part of the city where the estancia once stood still retains the name.
One of my friends has an estancia where labor is badly needed.
The estancia limits and the country roads are all bordered by Lombardy poplar trees, planted closely together.
Greenberg than told Larramendi that if a change did not immediately forthcome, he would quit the managership of the estanciaand would leave there with his wife to resume his old calling of salesman which paid him well.
Illustration: Estancia near San Luis] The country in the immediate neighborhood of San Luis is extremely fertile, although sometimes it only rains once in a year.
Greenberg returned home to the bleak mountain estancia and confessed the whole thing to Felipa.
I think I know a way that should lead tolerably straight to the estancia without touching the river or going anywheres near it.
Had Halberger's estancia stood on the river's bank, the result might have been different.
A night of dread suspense has been passed at theestancia of Ludwig Halberger.
Why he is riding away from the estancia at such an hour--for it is afternoon--may be guessed from what has gone before.
They were all to ride, with the exception of Sarah, who took her place in one of the bullock carts; and they would therefore reach the estancia before the heat of the day fairly set in.
Your estancia is strong and well built, and you are all well armed and good shots.
Just before commencing the house Mr. Hardy heard that a sale of stock was to take place at an estancia about twenty miles to the west of Rosario, in consequence of the death of its owner.
After a time it was suggested that the pelvis and some of the largest bones should be sent as curiosities to the owner of the estancia on which they were found, Don Hilario Sosa, at whose house in Buenos Ayres I first saw them.
The annual increase on a well-regulated estanciahas been ascertained to be from 30 to 40 per cent.
Some officials of transportation and sugar manipulators sat aside, with double Coronas, exchanging in short sentences their hardness of knowledge, speaking of Cuba as an estancia of which they were absentee owners.
Near by is theestancia of Margarita Rivarola, where our traveler and his companion stop to breakfast.
But before reaching the estancia our traveler has had the good fortune to shoot three large birds of the pheasant variety called mutus, and thus the humble board of Don Matias is graced with meat, a rare commodity in those parts.
Indeed, had they been looked up early on the following morning they would have probably been found feeding more or less together in the same groups, and on the same particular part of the estancia where we had originally found them.
La Concordia, where Mr. Dampier lived with his family, was situate at the opposite end of the estancia to the Cerro.
I then mounted my horse, determined to lose no time in getting back to the estancia as soon as might be.
The river alongside theestancia had mostly run down, but when I reached the "Cufre," I found it more or less in flood.
The autumn of the Southern year was now well advanced, and there was still plenty of grass within reasonable reach of the estancia house--but meanwhile we only thought of this plan as being one suitable for the near future.
About half a mile in front of us was the estancia whither we were bound, quiet and peaceful as I first saw it in the rays of the now setting sun.
I had rather a fancy to go up country, for not only should I be able to see all that was to be seen, but also obtain a little more experience of estancia life, probably under somewhat different conditions and surroundings.
On the Monday following, Royd rode over to stay until the end of the week with some friends who had an estancia a few miles on our side of the town of San Jose.
I then mounted "Carnival" and led a bay horse I had been riding, and although travelling somewhat slowly, reached the estancia a little before ten o'clock.
A few days later, I started to ride over to an estancia belonging to a Mr. Trafford, which lay beyond the town of Colla, well on towards Colonia.
Francisco happened to be left alone at the estancia with Pedro the cook, and when he went out to see if the horses were all right, he noticed that his chestnut pony was missing.
Immediately following this little event, Colonel Pinto Mallada who held an important position in the Department, arrived with two hundred and fifty soldiers and encamped near the estancia for a couple of days.
A very curious thing occurred at the estancia house of a neighbour of mine in Buenos Ayres one spring.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "estancia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
