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Example sentences for "insurrectos"

Lexicographically close words:
insurrectionary; insurrectionist; insurrectionists; insurrections; insurrecto; insusceptibility; insusceptible; inta; intact; intacta
  1. The insurrectos had withdrawn from the near-by hills, so it was reported, but were guarding all the roads and keeping fresh supplies from reaching the inhabitants.

  2. Aw, now, whatever do you suppose those measly old insurrectos want to chase us for in this style?

  3. He might be in league with the revolutionists and in this way hoped to prevent the government from eventually securing possession of the machine which would put the insurrectos out of the running.

  4. And when you get to the gunboat," Ned continued, "tell the officer in charge that Nestor is a prisoner on this island, and that the insurrectos are about to land guns and ammunition here.

  5. From what they had been able to ascertain, the insurrectos were unusually active in the neighborhood.

  6. Evidently Bob Harding was a soldier of fortune fighting with the insurrectos against the troops of Diaz, while they themselves were supposed to be more of the same brand.

  7. Had they not known that the insurrectos were out there somewhere, they would have deemed the hillside barren of life.

  8. You know, doubtless, that the funds of the insurrectos are not as plentiful as they might be.

  9. From camp gossip, they knew that the regulars were devoting most of their attention to guarding the railroad line, inasmuch as the insurrectos had hitherto concentrated most of their attacks on the bridges, tracks and telegraph lines.

  10. If the insurrectos passed the cave-mouth without glancing upward and noticing it, the boys were out of the most imminent part of their peril.

  11. They were going into a country in which, from what they had been able to gather, the insurrectos were numerically and strategically strong.

  12. Thereupon several insurrectos had leaped from the bushes and made the mine owner captive.

  13. As Buck Bradley had surmised, no attempt had been made to wreck the track beyond, the insurrectos having counted, seemingly, on stopping the dash for the Esmeralda by their ambush in the wood.

  14. At the same moment that the occupants of the car sighted them, the pursuing insurrectos made out the automobile.

  15. Before the rush of white-vapor the insurrectos melted away in a screaming, scalded flurry.

  16. I tell you, Geisler, the folks who are sympathizing with these insurrectos don't know the people or the country.

  17. With a howl, the insurrectos charged on the hut.

  18. Jack thanked the genial showman on behalf of his companions, and then reminded him that Ramon was still at large, although the insurrectos were almost subjugated.

  19. The insurrectos must have left their horses somewhere near at hand.

  20. For fifty years they had conquered their enemy who were armed only with spear and ax; but the insurrectos were armed with guns.

  21. The insurrectos appeared before Cervantes two or three months after Saldero's bloody work in Sagada.

  22. The insurrectos were evidently worse than the Spaniards.

  23. A short time proved that those "officials" were untrustworthy men; many were insurrectos who had dropped behind Aguinaldo.

  24. When these men told their people in Bontoc what part they and the insurrectos played in the fight against the Americans, the tension between the Igorot and insurrectos was at its greatest.

  25. The Bontoc Igorot assisted the insurrectos in many ways when they first came.

  26. It was especially acceptable coming as it did immediately after return from arduous field service against Filipino insurrectos and, being prepared and tendered us by one of our own brave and kind American women, it was doubly so.

  27. While crossing the stream in the bottom of the ravine, the men were startled by the whiz of bullets and, glancing up, found the steep banks lined with insurrectos who had opened fire without a moment's warning.

  28. The insurrectos were butchers to their own people.

  29. And he believes, too, that in such an emergency the Mexican federals and insurrectos would join hands in fighting the common enemy.

  30. As a matter of fact, the engagement was characterized by an abandon, by a lack of caution, truly sensational, the reason being that the Insurrectos were half starved and stormed the town much as hungry hoboes attack a lunch-counter.

  31. Poorly armed, ragged, gaunt, these Insurrectos were kept moving by hunger, always moving like cattle on a barren range.

  32. Out on the cool, clean hills and the windy savannas where the Insurrectos dwelt there was health.

  33. Ride out half a mile and you will find a band of Insurrectos in the woods at the right.

  34. I'm going right to the Insurrectos with you.

  35. The potreros were lush with grass, but no herds grazed upon them; villages were deserted and guano huts were falling into decay, charred fields growing up to weeds and the ruins of vast centrales showing where the Insurrectos had been at work.

  36. But since the Insurrectos were now well sheltered by the houses and only a portion of certain streets could be raked from the forts, the Spanish bullets did no harm.

  37. That afternoon, when it came time for the merchant and his little family to set out for home, a crowd of regretful Insurrectos assembled to bid them farewell and to look for the last time upon the baby.

  38. I don't know what you had to do with this skirmish out San Rafael Street, but a short time ago a message came from the fortina that Insurrectos were in the woods close by.

  39. Not only had the military value of this practice been amply demonstrated, but it had been proved a necessity, owing to the fact that the Insurrectos were compelled to live off the country.

  40. I had been little more than a month in Capiz when the rumor went abroad that a parao with forty insurrectos from Samar had landed at Panay, just east of us, and the occupants had scattered themselves out between Panay and Pontevedra.

  41. Then at the last they came to a clear slope, and when they were about half-way up this, the insurrectos opened fire, not only with rifles but with great boulders.

  42. The insurrectos at last took to flight, and the Supervisor started after one whom he had noticed, on account of the beautiful kris, or fluted bolo, which he carried.

  43. Again the American fire slackened, and again the stubborn insurrectos rushed forward.

  44. These insurrectos would throw a wealthy planter into a state of alarm by pretending to hold meetings on his premises.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insurrectos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.