Giuseppe La Masa bound to a stick a white pocket-handkerchief, a red one, and a green ribbon, and waved the three Italian colours.
An attack made by La Masa on the Royalist forces was repelled, and several of the revolutionary committees fled from Palermo.
The masa was taken from the large to the small shed, where the priest and several male members of the family sat around it.
When the paste or masa is ready it is flattened by hand into small round cakes (tortillas), which are baked on an iron or earthen plaque (xamach) over a glowing wood fire.
The various bundles of masa and sikil in their leaf coverings were next removed to the pib, where the fire had burned itself out, leaving the hole half full of ashes and red-hot stones.
The furniture is of the simplest, consisting of a small round cedar table, with a little bowl-shaped projection which contains a lump of masa when tortillas are being made and chili peppers or salt at mealtimes.
The priest next made a deep depression in a ball of masa about the size of a tennis ball, which he filled with sikil, covering it with the masa, so as to leave a ball of masa with a core of sikil.
Then the next man flattened out a piece of masa, which he placed over the sikil, and the process was continued until a cake was formed containing 5 to 13 alternating layers of masa and sikil.
Two more tutiua were next made, and lastly all the masa and sikil left were mixed together with a few ounces of salt.
The cakes made from the remainder of the masa and sikil were now crumbled into a large calabash and mixed with another large calabash of kool (a reddish liquid made from water, ground corn, black pepper, and achiote).
After flattening out a small ball of the masa the priest placed it on a square of plantain leaves and poured over it a little sikil (a thin paste made of ground pumpkin seed and water).
Beneath the suspended calabashes was placed a small table containing piles of tortillas and calabashes of masa and water.
Thus Diego Duran devotes the twelfth chapter of his third book to an obscure account of a festival among the Tepanecs, in which appeared animal gods made of "masa de semilla de bledos," which were afterwards broken and eaten.
The lady Masa and her brother remained as powerful as ever and as careless of the Court's dignity.
His last advice was given to the lady Masa when he counselled an immediate advance against Kyoto.
The lady Masa at once summoned the leading generals of the Bakufu to her presence and addressed them thus: "To-day the time of parting has come.
Even the lady Masa did not rise to Hiromoto's height of discernment; she advocated a delay until the arrival of the Musashi contingent.
The lady Masa discovered it, and hastened to secure Sanetomo's safety by carrying him to the house of her brother, Yoshitoki.
For though Tokimasa simulated ignorance of the liaison and publicly proceeded with his previous engagement to wed Masa to Taira Kanetaka, lieutenant-governor of Izu, he privately connived at her flight and subsequent concealment.
It is related that Yoritomo's wrath would have involved serious consequences for Shizuka had not the lady Masa intervened.
He sacrificed the former unhesitatingly, and it is very probable that such a choice helped materially to hide from the lady Masa the true purport of his doings.
It is apparent that throughout these intrigues the lady Masa made no resolute attempt to support her first-born.
Therefore a step was taken, worthy of the sagacity of the lady Masa and her brother, the regent.
Among these obstacles were the lady Masa and the new shogun, Sanetomo.
He attacked the residence of the lieutenant-governor of Izu, Taira Kanetaka, burned the mansion, and killed Kanetaka, whose abortive nuptials with the lady Masa had been celebrated a few months previously.
Prepare cornmeal or masa by pouring on boiling hot water, salt to taste, add one cup of lard to four cups meal or masa, add few olives and raisins if desired.
Chop up cooked chicken, add corn meal or masa to boiling hot chicken broth until a thick dough; add salt to taste, one tablespoon chile powder, or chile sauce No.
Before the door of her chamber sits Djumeila, the faithful servant, and with upraised hand she motions to the sheik to step softly and make no noise, that Masa may not be disturbed.
Let my child rest, let my Masa sleep; tread lightly, and be careful that you do not disturb her.
At sunrise this morning I felt that I loved you, and now do you suppose that Masa is so forgetful a child that she cannot preserve what she feels in her heart for a single day until the sun sets in the evening?
Throughout the remainder of your life your recollections shall torment you, and you shall gaze upon the place where Masa died, and where you made of the innocent boy a hard- hearted man.
And was Masato remain unavenged in her cold grave?
If they have not restored Masa alive to their master in a week, their heads fall; he has sworn this, and they know he will keep his word.
Masa is not on the beach, and is not with the neighbors!
She has many friends; every woman and girl that Masa knows loves her on account of her happy disposition, her innocence, and her loveliness.
Spare your words and listen: Masa has vanished; Masa is not in her room.
No, Masa sold herself to our gracious master, Cousrouf Pacha, for one hundred gold sequins.
After long years have elapsed, Mohammed will still think of this hour when Masa stood firm and immovable in her vows, nobly and disdainfully rejecting life.
Now I am at the place to whichMasa sent me, and here, too, is he to whom she sent me.
He creeps through the fissure in the cliff, to the inner grotto to the place where the passage becomes narrow, and where Masa was to have rolled the stone before the opening.
AND now for the strange report that landed at Juan Fernandez while General Rolleston was searching Masa Fuero.
And now Rolleston found the value of Wardlaw's loan; it enabled him to prosecute his search through the whole group of islands; and he did hear at last of three persons who had been wrecked on Masa Fuero; one of them a female.
If the Masa and Dardenui of the Poem of Pentaur are rightly identified with the Mysians and Dardanoi we shall probably have to date the earliest settlements at least a century before this time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "masa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
