The uproar is increased by the yells and shouts of the Llaneros galloping in all directions over the ground, rattling their garrochas, waving their ponchos, and whirling their lassos.
The Llaneros have a poetry of their own which they never abandon.
It was the Llaneros who during the war with Spain contributed so much towards achieving the independence of both Venezuela and New Granada.
There are no better horsemen in the world than the Llaneros of Venezuela and Colombia.
While he was thus addressing us, a number of Llaneros passed by on their way from Bogotá to their homes in the warm plains near Villavicencio.
The term Jurungo has much the same signification among the Llaneros as has "tenderfoot" in Australia and the western part of the United States.
Reports of loyalist movements came from all sides; Bolivar's power was confined to the towns; the terrible Boves roused the llaneros and gathered the nucleus of a formidable army of horsemen.
But Piar had led his victorious army over to the Orinoco, and notwithstanding Bolivar's entreaties the llaneros persisted in their refusal to return to a country where cavalry could not manoeuvre to advantage.
His triumph was shortlived, and by September, 1814, his forces had been dispersed by the loyalist llaneros and he was back in New Granada.
Before he arrived in Venezuela, Bolivar had temporarily retired, and the llaneros retreated to the vast solitudes in which they were unconquerable.
While thus engaged in stamping out the revolutionary embers in New Granada word came to Morillo that the Venezuelan llaneros had risen against his lieutenants, and that Bolivar had landed near Valencia.
As the major, however, had defended himself bravely, Paez gave him quarter, a favour neither he nor his llaneros were in the habit of granting to their foes.
After spending a few days with my friends, I was compelled to conduct my llaneros back to rejoin the army.
Soon he reached the shore on which I stood, and urged his horse up the steep bank; and one by one the llaneros came rattling after him, and formed rapidly by his side.
If we could not obtain smaller game, the llaneroswith their lassos or bolas quickly captured as many head of cattle as they required.
Our party, too, was every instant increased by fresh bands of llaneros as they crossed the bridge; while the confusion among the enemy became rapidly greater.
The doctor's steed being caught, he remounted; and the llaneros carrying the hog in front of him, with several others which had been killed, we returned to the camp.
A desperate struggle ensued; but the llaneroswere victorious, and driving the unfortunate crews overboard, they carried the flecheras to the bank of the river, where the patriot forces were drawn up.
The llaneros having picketed their horses in a meadow close to the bank of the river, had begun to cook their provisions in the rough fashion they usually adopt.
I was quickly ready, and off I set, making my horse move over the ground as llaneros are wont to do when work is before them.
The doctor's office was a sinecure so long as no fighting was going forward, as the hardy llaneros were seldom sick, or preferred their own remedies to those he could administer.
Though not gaining the renown of Bolivar, and doubtless incapable of heading an army and conducting a campaign, as a cavalry leader he was indispensable, and to him and his gallant llaneros was largely due the winning of liberty.
His staff-officers were all llaneros and formed his regular society, they being alike destitute of education and ignorant of tactics, but bold and dashing and ready to follow their leader to the cannon’s mouth.
When the act became known to the llaneros they proclaimed Paez their general, and were ready to follow him to the death.
Its object is ostensibly to protect it from the intensity of the sun's rays; but the constant habit of wearing it has rendered the handkerchief as indispensable a head-dress to the Llaneros as is the cravat to the neck of the city gentleman.
As he rode at the head of his llaneros he regretted that there were so few of them.
Father Corbelan was unexpectedly offering them a refuge from Pedrito Montero with his llaneros allied to Senores Fuentes and Gamacho with their armed rabble.
Paez was extremely popular among his men, the hardy Llaneros of the northern plains, born horsemen and fighters, corresponding in many respects with the famous Gauchos of the south.
Before it had even time to look about, it was led off by some of the Llaneros to a post near the farm, where, in spite of its desperate struggles, it was saddled and bridled.
Its strength regained, it began to bite, plunge, and kick in all directions, the Llaneros nimbly getting out of the way.
As it darted ahead, two other Llaneros rode on either side to keep the wild animal straight.
Boves for some time made no further attempt on the lines of San Mateo, and the dispirited Llaneros began to desert, but the situation of Bolívar was desperate.
They called the Llaneros to arms, offering them bloodshed and booty in the cause of the King, with pain of death to all who disregarded the summons.
This march convinced him, for the second time, of his impotence to prosecute his enterprise; by his own confession, he could neither pass the rivers nor procure supplies without the help of the Llaneros who went with him.
After four days’ march the horses were foundered; an entire squadron of Llaneros deserted on finding themselves on foot.
The llaneros live in lonely huts, and pass their days in the saddle.
He was the bond of union between the Llaneros and the Patriots.
More than a thousand of the Llaneros deserted rather than embark.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "llaneros" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
