Even in Ubeda and Baèza, only one legua apart, this diversity of men and women is found.
The enclosure is one legua long and surrounds the hill.
They welcomed the father with great joy, going more than a quarter of a legua out of the village to meet him; and when he departed from the village they accompanied him to a like distance.
We went to hear the confession of a man who lived a legua and a half away from the village; he was so sick that they could not bring him to the church, for his body was in such a state of corruption that no one would touch him.
Immediately we set out for his house, where he lived in his grain-field, a little more than a quarter of a legua from the village.
He was not imprisoned, and visited his spiritual father, Fray Juan Joseph de San Jacintho, in a little village a quarter of a legua from Firaca.
At first it was more than one legua up the river but was afterward removed to the seashore for certain reasons of convenience.
The sorcerers began their deceits, and one night they seized the soldier on guard and bore him through the air to the top of a hill more than a legua away.
Consequently, despising his life, and exposing it to manifest danger, he determined to enter the country one legua further, and to build a dwelling-place on the shores of a river.
Climbing to the top he saw that he was on a rocky islet of one-half legua in circuit, and remained there until his cries and shouts brought some passing Indians, who, surprised at so novel an occurrence, took him off in their boat.
It extends for about a legua along the shore, and is very clean and level.
Sailing thence with a good breeze they reached Ternate, and made harbor at Talangame, one legua from the fortress, on the sixteenth of the same month.
They began to construct the fort or quarters immediately at a distance of slightly more than one-half legua from the village of Tondo, among some estuaries and swamps, and in a hidden location.
This island is about two leguas long and one-half legua wide.
The tributes of the village of Silan are about four hundred, and those of the village of Malabag, a visita, lying one-half legua away, about seventy tributes.
From the top of the little elevation, an islet was discovered, of not more than one legua in circumference.
Zebu The college of Zebu has in charge an Indian village situated one legua from the city, which has eighty tributes.
One leguathence by water is the convent of our father San Francisco of Luonbang.
In less than half an hour they destroyed the grain in a [square] legua where they settled down; and when they flew they formed so thick a mass that it seemed as if they would hide the sun.
Three quarters of a leguaup the river from Manila is the convent of Nuestra Senora de Loreto of San Paloc [i.
It has a visita located one-half leguadistant from it.
One legua farther on is the convent of San Francisco of Micauayan, which has a visita in the mountains.
One legua up stream from that convent is the convent of Santa Ana of Sapa, with a stone church and house, which was built by Admiral Juan Pardo de Losada at his own cost.
One legua [thence] is the convent of San Miguel of Oasque, with one visita.
The other is half a legua from the village of Tanchuy (i.
It was less than a legua from the presidio of San Salvador, and strict orders had been issued that no one should go there without permission, and that those who went should always go in company and armed.
They built a fort upon an islet [38] a little more than a legua in circumference.
It lay three leguas from the sea, and one ascended thither by a fine and full-flowing river, which has a bed one legua wide during the rainy season.
That same afternoon we went up to the village of Calavit, which is situated more than one legua from the sea; all the way the road lies straight up hill and is rough.
At dawn the little vessel ran ashore on the beach of a small island one-half legua from Luban.
The rest assembled at a place about a legua from Manila, close to the monastery of San Francisco del Monte, whereupon followed what is contained in the relation which will go with this, to which I refer you.
The city of the natives in the port of Sebu was at that time so large and populous that it extended a space of more than a legua along the beach, on the spot where now stands the city and fortress of the Spaniards.
They keep spreading out the line until it is about a quarter of a legua long, more or less.
At the first streak of light both vessels of the fleet found themselves off the point; and one legua to leeward, and seaward, they sighted the corsair's two vessels riding at anchor.
To the south and a little more than one legua from it lies another island with a circumference of about eight leguas, which received the name of Sancta Cristina.
One legua from this capital, and along the beach, lies the Moro village of Lanang, which has passed through the same sudden changes as has the village of Daron.
In January 1883, I had occasion to observe another superstition in Lucbutun, a Moro rancheria one legua distant from this place by sea.
At nine in the morning the fleet anchored in the port of Bolinào, which is about one-quarter legua from the village.
He retraced his steps, leaving his entire retinue about a legua from here.
The fifth and last elevation, hill, or mine is that called Conog, which is about one-half legua from the preceding and located in the same chain.
The third elevation and mine is that called Baranaban, which is about one legua from the said fort and mine of Arisey, on a barren hill that faces south, which is flooded by the sun all day long.
But, if there are but few, they come a legua apart; and one must summon them, and they take an hour to come.
Therefore, when they meet a ship which they think cannot make any resistance they go to it in certainty of making it a prize, and that they will catch it a half-legua from shore.
That strait is one hundred and ten leguas or 440 millas long, and it is one-half legua broad, more or less.
At a quarter of a legua is Toloco, a strong site, in which there are, for garrison, one alférez with twenty soldiers.
There are three forts in Maquin or Muchian, onelegua from Motir [Morir--MS.
Consequently when the ship sank I was left in the water, and saved myself at the end of four hours by swimming with great exertion to the island of Fortun, which was a legua and a half away, against many waves and a high wind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legua" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
