The duel with knives is the only one that exists in Mexico, and is solely left to the leperos and people of the lowest classes.
The announcement of this duel caused a thrill of pleasure to run through the ranks of the leperos and bandits who pressed round the two men.
The streets were now thronged with people coming and going: at each step children and leperos were letting off fireworks with shouts of delight and bursts of laughter.
In all the streets, and in all the squares, boys and leperos were letting off crackers, and uttering deafening cries, which more resembled bursts of fury than demonstrations of joy.
When the three leperos had drawn all they could out of the sister porter, they hastened to leave the convent.
The tree, which was overladen, and incessantly sapped at its base by the bull, swayed, and at last fell sideways, carrying down in its fall the leperos clinging to the branches.
In a twinkling the thick foliage was hidden by the crowd of leperos who invaded it.
We were received with open arms by the Leperos and Indians, but the Creoles and Gachupins had shut themselves up in the Alhondega.
The leperos and boys took advantage of the occasion for rejoicing by discharging crackers and squibs between the legs of the loungers.
The strange duel you propose to me is better suited for leperos and bandits than caballeros; but I accept.
The leperos and lower classes alone fight with the knife.
With the class of leperos he had already made acquaintance on the threshold of the country.
Indeed, both had reason to be content, for in a city full of leperos and escaped felons property and life depended upon our protection.
They would pretend to be intoxicated, fall to the ground, and make ready for the would-be assassin; and finally the leperos feared a drunken soldier even more than a sober one.
Immediately after the Americans took possession of the grand plaza at Mexico on the morning of September 14, a multitude of blanketed leperos crowded closely upon them.
The leperos belong to a strange race, which only bears a likeness to the Neapolitan lazzaroni.
The peon withdrew; but he returned in a few seconds, preceding an old acquaintance, Cuchares, still enwrapped in his ragged zarape, and directing the fourleperos who carried the table.
The speech improvised by the hacendero was drowned by the frenzied applause of the leperos and other assembled beggars, whose eyes sparkled with greed.
On my soul, you are amusing yourself by throwing millions out of the window, to the still greater amusement of the leperos and other rogues of the same genus!
The pause that ensued, however, was sufficiently long for the Leperos entirely to forget all they had heard.
Accused of causing disturbances, and exciting the Leperos to rebellion," said the escribano.
The countenances of the Leperos began to express increased interest in the narration.
The majority of the Leperos were completely naked, unless the fragments of tattered blankets that hung in shreds over their shoulders could be reckoned as clothing.
A number of Leperos had ascended the hillock, and collected round the speaker.
The very leperos shall laugh at you--the great Capataz.
The leperos with the women, had all disappeared, and I could perceive that the Americanos had carried the day.
But the splendor is oppressive, and the stench of the leperos intolerable; let us return to the light of day.
Leperos are thieves and liars by profession, and their coarse serapas serves to conceal all their peccadillos.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leperos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
