It was one commanded by General Lorenzo, then operating against Santos Ladron and the Navarrese Carlists.
Ladron was taken and shot, and Lorenzo marched to form the advanced guard of a strong division which, under the command of Sarsfield, was rapidly nearing the scene of the insurrection.
Very different is the character of the noble robber-chief, or ladron en grande.
He began business as a smuggler and soon took to worse, following the Spanish proverb:-- "De contrabandista e ladron No haymas que un escalon.
Ladron de Guevara, governor of Alava, figures among the grandees of the kingdom; the descendants were afterwards called lords of Onate, and the castle is at present the property of the Count de Onate, a grandee of the first class.
Both were strongholds of robbers, whose descendants derived their family name, Ladron (robber) from their ancestors' profession.
Ladron de Guevara, proprietor, a propos of castles, of that of Guevara, in the neighbourhood of Vitoria, constructed in an extremely singular form.
The ladron en grande looks down on this sneaking competitor as a regular M.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ladron" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
