To avoid "requisitions" payable in revolutionary currency wet from the nearest newspaper press, the gringos hacendados had driven their animals into the mountain pastures three-quarters of a day's ride east of the tracks.
Some day you gringos will swallow us up even as you swallowed Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Alta California.
The damned gringos shoot straight,' I heard one of 'em say.
While the gringos on other haciendas are simply streaking for the border, you men insist on working here for nothing.
Gringos they were, always pushing where they were not wanted, and, however hard their fate, they would deserve it.
You are zealous, Colonel Almonte, I will give you that much credit, but you do not hate the Gringos enough.
The peons were stolid, but they seemed kind and Ned was quite sure they did not care whether the two were Gringos or not.
Well do I remember, children, when the good Padres, or priests, at the Mission forbade us to waltz, that new dance the Gringos had taught us to like.
He was called the last of the Spanish grandees, those dons who, before the Gringos came, had estates that stretched miles away on every hand, and thousands of cattle with many Indian servants.
Los Gringos used to laugh at the Mexican and his cloak, and not long after they came the 'Greasers,' as the Americans called the young men born here in California, began to wear the ugly clothes the Gringos brought out from Boston.
Those were gay times, my children," and Señora Sanchez sighed and sewed quietly for a while till Harry asked her if they kept Christmas before the Gringos came.
In the fall the Indians and vaqueros, or cowboys as you children call them, drove great herds of cattle to the Missions near the ocean where the Gringos came with their ship-loads of fine things and waited for trading-days.
And now the gringos were circling round the wounded one--they would beat out his brains with their guns!
Here's Captain Delmonty coming to-night, and them chicken-thieves of Gringos have carried off every living thing there was to eat in the house.
The Gringos have learned the way to our mountain camp; they will not forget it.
He echoed her saying, that every Mambi in the country knew where to come when he wanted anything; and he went on to draw lurid pictures of what he would do to the Gringos if he but had the power.
The Gringospass by, and see me working at my trade.
He was rescuing her single-handed from a regiment of Spaniards; they were galloping together at the head of a troop, driving the Gringos like sheep before them.
Since his last raid the Gringos have offered a big reward for him, alive or dead.
Manuel came out from the room which Don Andres used for an office, saluted the señorita with the air of a permanent leave-taking, as well as a greeting, and passed the gringos with face averted.
Manuel hates gringos like centipedes, but I happened to get on the good side of him--partly because my Spanish is as good as his own.
But there were the Picardo vaqueros stanchly swearing by all the saints they knew that these two gringos were not as other gringos; that these two were worthy a place amongst true Californians.
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Not all Spaniards are good, José; not all gringos are bad.
Rosa screamed and was immediately reassured, when Teresita reminded her that those fierce gringosacross the corral had many guns.
I like theGringos well enough, but I hate their flag!
Four of the Gringos are under her little slipper this year, and she turn over the face and roll in the dirt.
The Gringos will rule us lightly and bring us peace.
I shall locate myself so far in the interior that the accursed Gringos cannot reach me with their ships or their boats.
He asks the padre if the Gringos can ever reach the Pacific.
Books held no appeal for him, and he had no definite ambitions, but he had a good head and a great desire to show the gringos what he could do.
In his heart he felt that the gringos had beaten one more Delcasar.
For the gringos he felt a cold hostility—a sense of antagonism and difference—but it was his senile and fatuous uncle, the type of his own defeated race, whom he despised.
It pointed out that the gringos controlled the political machinery of the State, and that if murder was there tolerated the dominant race was to blame.
He would come back to his immediate troubles and curse the gringos again for a pack of miserable dollar-mongers, who knew not the meaning of friendship.
Mexican politicians and perhaps one or two gringos had done it, and the fact was a matter of common gossip.
In fact, the gringos were now cordially hated and envied by a certain class, the element of greatest influence among the people.
He was afraid, because, neither dead nor alive, like the Gringos on Azuera, he belonged body and soul to the unlawfulness of his audacity.
The things will look well enough on the next lover she gets, and the man need not be afraid I shall linger on earth after I am dead, like those Gringos that haunt the Azuera.
If the gringos can teach them any lessons--" "Apes!
But, even so, it makes for the same point--there are gringos and gringos just as we have Mexicans and Mexicans.
Going downgrade an afterglow of smiles lent force to her murmur: "Gringos or no, they are very nice.
Soft as he has been with these gringos of late, supposing that he were to hear of both this and that other night in the hut, how long, think you, would the man last?
A knife in the dark, a shot from a bush, that is their method, and if you should happen to kill one, even in self defense, gringos are not so well beloved in Guerrero but that some one would be found to swear it a murder.
From the first question to his final comment on Billy's work, "You gringos are certainly a wonderful people," all was directed to one end.
Did I not suggest that these Gringos would not be easily controlled?
Don Luis glanced covertly at his secretary, with a look that conveyed: "If these young Gringos have all the money they want, and more, then we may find it difficult to appeal to their avarice.
Montez, in his mind's eye, already saw the two Gringos stretched on the ground in death in a remoter part of the mountains.
Has it escaped you, Don Luis, that some of these obstinate, mule-headed Gringos are guilty of an especial form of ingratitude which they term honor?
But even suppose that these Gringoshave absurdly fanciful ideas of honor?
I shall watch these two Gringos like a cat," reflected Dr.
These Gringos will balk at every hour of the day and night," predicted Dr.
Will el gobernador ask any awkward questions if two Gringos should stroll through these mountains and never be heard from again?
Before I despatch these infernalGringos I shall want the fun of tormenting them.
You insisted that the Gringos would hold out and would not serve me.
If they are difficult to manage--these two young Gringos--then they will quickly disappear, and other Gringos shall come until I find those that will serve me and be grateful for their rewards.
Villista with gringos run Mexico--gringos and the church.
If the gringos wanted to lynch another gringo, well and good--that was the gringos' business.
The othergringos wished to hang him, for it is said he has bribed Esteban to do this thing.
The gringos have chased you from their country as they chased me.
In such times of danger it is odd that the gringos should leave El Orobo thus unguarded.
He leaned backward on the ropes and looked his hatred at them, swept it on and about him till the whole ten thousand Gringos were included.
Nevertheless, the iron missiles had been sent with deadly effect among the luckless detachment of infantry, and every man of it who was left unhurt fired off his musket at the space in front of him and the possible Gringos it might contain.
They came on as confidently as if the fort were already their own, for their officers were freely declaring the expectation that at the last moment the Gringos would give up so hopeless a defence and surrender.
President Paredes is going north, to drive the gringos out of Mexico, and father may have to go with him.
It would have made them fight gringos or any other foreigners to-day, and to-morrow to fight as readily in any causeless revolution which their local leaders might see fit to set going.
Very possibly, he may be hindered by the gringos before he reaches the border.
They made no mention whatever of General Santa Anna, but they spoke confidently of the certainty with which Generals Ampudia and Arista were about to crush the invading gringos at the north, under Taylor.
We pity the gringos if they should attempt to beleaguer this impregnable fortress.
Anyhow, we don't want too many gringos to come in.
He had been fairly polite, but he had not pretended to be pleased to see gringos in Mexico.
I think the gringos are just terrible," said Felicia, as she came over and sat down by Ned.
He had to climb seven thousand and five hundred feet up out of the tierra caliente, and, if any gringos ever try that path, they will find all the passes full of fighting Mexicans and good artillery well posted.
The very guards at the citadel were pacing listlessly up and down, as if they were lazily aware that all evil-minded gringos and other foes of their comfort were several hundreds of miles away.
They say the Gringos are killing all the old people--every one, in fact, except the girls, whom they take with them.
That is not the worst, however; the Gringos are hoping to profit by Mexico's distress; they are making ready to invade our Fatherland, and every Mexican must fight or become a slave.
Plainly, these gringos were a barbarous race of people, what with their rushing here and there, and with their loud, senseless laughter.
We hear the gringos are coming to kill us and take our farms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gringos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
