Then the matadors would throw fireworks, crackers adorned with streaming ribbons, which stuck on his horns, as he tossed his head, enveloped him in a blaze of fire.
Meanwhile the matadors and the banderilleros shook their coloured scarfs at him--the picadors poked at him with their lances.
Shortly after the matadors and picadors, the former on foot, the latter on horseback, made their entry, saluting all around the arena, and were received with loud cheering.
The names of the two best Matadors that ever graced the arenas of Spain live immortal in the memories of Spaniards.
When successful, skilful matadors will sometimes withdraw the sword from the wound, and raise it in triumph above their prostrate victim.
The remark of Seneca, that the world had seen as many examples of courage in gladiators of the Roman amphitheatre as in the Catos and Scipios, may be truly applied to the gallant Matadors of Spain.
Three young and rising matadors despatched the animals--two each.
The matadors themselves on special occasions think it no derogation from their dignity to act as banderilleros.
They advance in a glittering line: first the marshals of the day, then the picadors on horseback, then the matadors on foot surrounded each by his quadrille of chulos.
When they tracked an ox in the woods, they made the hounds drive him out into the prairie, where the matadors could spur after him, and, wheeling round the monster, hamstring him or thrust him through with a lance.
Constant sport with the wild cattle, abundant food, and a spirit of adventure would prove an irresistible bait to the bravos of Carthagena, or the matadors of Campeachy.
He said bullfighting was a noble sport and that the matadors were the bravest men in the world.
It is only when he is all tired and dazed that your preciousmatadors dare to try and kill him.
Now supposing I were to go into the ring to-morrow with Pepito de Malaga and any other matadors you choose; and if I can do more tricks with a bull than they can, would you promise to do something for me?
That's what the big matadors do: leave the jewelry on the ground and their assistants collect it for them.
They had been used to seeing matadorsescaping from one bull at a time.
What I'm afraid of is that some of these matadors who are just mad with jealousy may start some dirty work.
Four of these were let fly and plunged into his flesh, and the trumpets again sounded for the matadors to stick him with a sword.
The names of thesematadors were Montes, Espesa, and Ximenes.
The matadors were differently dressed, and I remarked that all the picadors' horses were blindfolded.
Juan at the top of his lungs just as he had heard the matadors do at a real bull-fight, and at the same moment Ignacio shook out his red serape.
Ignacio waved the serape and shouted, and when the goat got very near, he jumped to one side as he had seen the matadors do, and the goat butted with all his might right into the serape.
As there are always two matadors with their respective cuadrillas engaged, this makes in all fourteen bull-fighters.
At frequent intervals around the ring are placed heavy planks, behind which the matadors run for protection when they were pursued.
Both horses having been disposed of, and the bull being completely exhausted, the bugle gives the signal, the matadors enter the arena, and tease him with their scarlet cloaks.
Public opinion appears to demand that something besides a bull be sacrificed, and the matadors not being amiable enough to afford this gratification, a pair of animated clothes-racks are turned in to be gored.
The matadors bow to the Governor, bow to the crowd, and rest, while a clown dances in the ring to amuse the people in the interim.
Upon these racks the matadors hung their plumed hats, and stood a while to give the ladies and gentlemen of the audience an opportunity to see and admire.
The crowd yelled, and matadors posed at different parts of the ring--ten of them--and the two horsemen pretended to get ready for the fray.
Cabinet ministers and whole Governments become puppets in their hands, compelled to act according as matadors of the Exchange pull the wires behind the scenes.
The matadors of capital attain decided influence upon society, and, favored by the powerful means at their disposal and their connections, they amass enormous fortunes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "matadors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
