In addition to the above must be reckoned the militia of the Canary Islands, the "guardias civiles," a kind of constabulary like that of Ireland or the gendarmerie of France.
The men you sent up the canyon after the Guardias Civiles have returned, I see," he said.
Below in the gorge at the foot of the corkscrew goat path, straining their necks backward and looking up, were the two Guardias Civiles, Pascual Montara and Sergeant Esteban Alvarado.
It was the selfsame hour Ferou himself had bargained with the Guardias Civiles for the killing of Quesada!
The Guardias Civiles might chance to be lingering on in the gorge.
I should not wonder if some two Guardias Civiles will ride over this corry in an attempt to capture me in my own village.
He did not resemble any of his immediate progenitors who had been men of Aragon and Guardias Civiles every one.
Came a yell from the hidalgo, sounding shrill and bodiless in the thin air, and carrying back and far away in ringing echoes: "Hola, misGuardias Civiles!
I fear these Guardias Civiles no more than I fear the plague, and you know, senor, I do not fear the plague.
Two Guardias Civiles--and they went right on up the barranca!
And all my male ancestors have been Guardias Civiles back to the long-ago, when they were bandoleros and outlaws who grew tired of being hunted and became Miquelets.
A pair ofguardias civiles, the military police of Spain, is stationed close below the col.
The Guardias Rurales, a mounted troop of patrols, is now one of the finest military organizations in the world.
Moreover, the Guardias Civiles are in no way to blame for my arrest.
To this day the Guardias Civiles have plenary power to shoot whomsoever they think fit--flight and resistance being equally fatal.
Those should be Guardias Civiles,' said Concepcion, who had studied the ways of those gentry all his life.
In the patio of the great house, once a monastery, now converted into a barrack for the Guardias Civiles, a small man of fifty years or more stood smoking a cigarette.
Well on in the morning I entered a forest, at a side road of which I was joined by two guardias civiles, who marched for an hour with me exchanging information and marveling that I had wandered so far afield.
In the place of guardiasciviles were carabineros in a provincial uniform, whose advances, if less warm and companionable, were none the less kindly.
A dozen guardias stalked the unsuspecting bandolero among the hills, and coming upon him toward sunrise, brought his unsanctioned career abruptly to a close.
In the knowledge that the king was sojourning in the city upon which I was marching, I was fully prepared to endure long catechizing and examination by guardias civiles.
A mile up, two guardias civiles emerged suddenly from a fissure, the sun glinting on their muskets and polished black three-cornered hats.
Wandering on through a merry but invisible multitude I ran all but into the arms of two guardiasciviles leaning on their muskets.
I cried, recalling suddenly that in the Basque provinces the national guardias are reenforced by local officers thus named.
He faced the brute first directly in front of the block of guardias civiles, and the nearest he came to laying the animal low at the first thrust was to impale on a horn and sadly mutilate a sleeve of his own gay and rented jacket.
It was claimed that the guardias civiles, the fine rural police, were no longer active but were diverted from their legitimate duties by political party leaders in power.
After the money had been paid over the guardias civiles intercepted the robbers and shot them down.
On the other hand the guardias civiles were greatly discouraged and far too weak in numbers for the onerous duties they were expected to perform.
A story is told of one daring ruffian, Rullo de Zancayro, who, in 1859, murdered the alcalde of his village and was followed by two guardias civiles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guardias" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
