Teneriffa and the great Canary called Gran Canaria, and the West part of Forteuentura stande in seuen and twenty degrees and a halfe.
Entering this square from the Piazza del Gran Duca, there is on the left hand a small church, its exterior not distinguished from the houses which adjoin it.
A storm washed it in on the bar last winter, and Great-Gran don't keep nothing in it but her best clothes.
Great-Gran is clopping up the stairs, an' I must pop into bed afore she comes.
The money will come just when we most want it--won't it, Great-Gran dear?
Great-Gran is calling up the stairs to ask if I'm in bed.
The most celebrated treatise of Mengs is the Riflessioni sopra i tre gran pittori, Raffaello, Tiziano, e Coreggio, e sopra gli antichi.
Meanwhile Coronado heard of a rich country northeastward called Gran Quivira, and in April, 1541, he set out to find it.
Abetted by Father Hidalgo, he had been interested in a new attempt to discover Gran Quivira, and the Texas crisis seemed to give him an opening.
Of Mahomedi we possess no record save the remark concerning him to the effect that "el qual fue gran marinero": in what way he displayed his gifts as a seaman we are not told.
More than four hundred maps were drawn, engraved, and printed by him in the Franciscan Convent located on one of the Venetian islands, and known as the Gran Casa del Frari, where he lived with other brothers of the Order.
San Pedro is situated in the midst of the finest country, and even now again abounds with animals; yet, during the latter part of the ‘gran seco’ live cattle were brought in vessels for the consumption of the inhabitants.
Its chief features are its great plaza, its church and the palace of the governor of Gran Chaco.
Of the few survivors some endeavored to escape through the forests of Gran Chaco to Bolivia and Peru.
This detachment is on its way to Villa Occidental to relieve the guard at that place, which has been on duty for eight days protecting the infant capital of Gran Chaco against the incursions of the Indians of the province.
Passing Esquina, a hamlet at the mouth of the Rio Corrientes, vast volumes of smoke rising behind the trees on the right bank proclaim that the Indians of Gran Chaco are "burning a forest in order to roast a quarter of venison.
He therefore assembled them at a spot near Villa Occidental, and placed them under the control of the governor of the province of Gran Chaco, in spite of the protests of the French consul.
He has come to Villa Occidental to propose to General Vedia the formation of a military corps, of which he shall be chief, composed of his old companions-in-arms, to serve against the Indians of Gran Chaco.
These localities and Villa Oliva, which is next passed, are all on the left bank, the opposite side of the river being peopled only by the wandering Indians of Gran Chaco.
In the almost inaccessible country of these Indians is situated the great cascade of the Panama River, known as the Gran Salto de la Guayra.
Perucchino has been dwelling in this solitude of Gran Chaco for three years with his wife, a Spanish woman.
The Gran Quivira of New Mexico, the fabled Iximaya, the El Dorado of Guyana, and El Gran Paytiti of Brazil, the baseless fabrics of many a golden vision, are found repeated with change of place and circumstances in this city of Los Cesares.
What three words can convey so much pathos, heroism and generosity as "il gran riffiuto?
It must occur to many that, perhaps, after all, il gran riffiuto of opposite kind might have better served art and the artist's fame.
The Gran Conquista de Ultramar of Alfonso el Sabio also informs us that it was tied at certain openings known as ventanas ("windows"), and that the collar of the tunic was called the gorguera.
Pelleschi, Eight Months on the Gran Chaco of the Argentine Republic (London, 1886), p.
M47 Seclusion of girls at puberty among the Indians of the Gran Chaco, and Brazil.
To cure the painful and dangerous wound inflicted by a ray-fish, the Indians of the Gran Chaco smoke the wounded limb and then cause a woman in her courses to sit astride of it.
M47) Among the Matacos or Mataguayos, an Indian tribe of the Gran Chaco, a girl at puberty has to remain in seclusion for some time.
Then how do you account for the agent Latrobe calling upon her a month later and obtaining from her a packet which she had received by post from the garrison of Gran Paradiso?
We were sitting together in the Cafe Terminus, when he turned the conversation to our defences on the Alpine frontier, expressing a desire to visit me at Gran Paradiso.
Mataguayos, Indian tribe of the Gran Chaco, their custom of secluding girls at puberty, x.
Lules or Tonocotes of theGran Chaco, their behaviour in an epidemic, ix.
Tobas, Indian tribe of the Gran Chaco, their custom of secluding girls at puberty, x.
Trovaso no less than in the Temptations of Eve and Christ; in the decorative pomp of the Sala del Senato, and in the Paradisal vision of the Sala del Gran Consiglio.
Francesco helped; and the Dukes were like statues of the 'Gran Commendatore,' waiting for Don Giovanni's invitation.
The Gran Capitan, Gonzalo de Cordoba, at one time granted an estate to the Carthusians and on it they erected the convent to which I turned my steps.
In another convent, San Gerónimo, was buried the Gran Capitan.
Considering that they had still a thousand miles to go before reaching Gran Pará, the prospect of a protracted voyage was very plainly outlined before them.
Brought up in his native place of Gran Pará, he had been accustomed to spend half his time either in or upon the water; and an oar or paddle was to him no novelty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gran" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
