Cocom, who had acted as our guide to Nohpat, and had repaired the locks and keys of our boxes, was master of ceremonies; and the first dance over, two Mestiza girls commenced a song.
The Indians were sitting in the yards, shrouded by cocoanut and orange trees weaving hammocks and platting palm leaves for hats; the children were playing naked in the road, and the Mestiza women were sitting in the doorways sewing.
Very soon all the seats were occupied by whites and Mestiza women, and the whole enclosure, with the exception of a small space for dancing, was filled up with Indian servants and children sitting on the ground.
Her fame for piety and devout penances grew apace, and attracted to her many Indian girls and mestiza women, until they numbered thirty-three.
It began in 1684, with the decision of a mestiza woman of Binondoc to live the religious life; her name was Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, and she began under the direction of Father Paul Clain.
It is the Americano, Senor Cranch, and his adopted daughter, the mestiza Juanita, seeking your reverence, methinks.
The littlemestiza had not been brought up to respect the integrity of either locks or seals, both being unknown in the patriarchal life of the hacienda.
A vaquero stood up, and each Mestiza was called out in order.
This over, he ordered the music to commence, planted a vaquero on the floor, and led out a Mestiza to dance, again threw all the bystanders into confusion, and sat down quietly on the floor at my feet.
The senoritas had thrown aside their simple Mestiza dresses, and appeared in tunicas, or frocks, made to fit the figure or, rather, to cut the figure in two.
And there was such a charm about thatMestiza dress.
As each Mestizaarrived they quietly put aside the gentleman escorting her, and conducted the lady to her seat.
The festival of Ticul was at hand, and that night it was to open with el bayle de las Mestizas, or the Mestiza ball.
Here the Mestizacomes out in all her glory; and very pretty she looks in her spotlessly white petticoats and low cut camiseta, each garment very prettily embroidered along its edges.
The mestiza shifted in her seat, but did not at once reply.
It was the fact of his having been forced to disclose the existence of his mestiza wife that had kept him back, like so many others, in the arms of the tolerant East.
Señora Sansillo was a sweet-faced woman of the stout mestiza type; dressed when she went out in screaming brocades and plumes, and when she stayed in scarcely dressed at all.
Isn't he the one Isabel told me of--who married a mestiza in order to serve the East, and who believes we are in the process of remaking it?
White Father and Mestiza Mother Creole (only distinguished from the White, by a pale-brownish complexion).
Then after his position was gone, the mestiza and the Indian disappeared and with great effort he forced before himself the image of a widow, of course an agreeable widow!
The beautiful young lady of the house, in a mestiza gown [85] and a cascade of diamonds, was as ever the queen of the feast.
The mestiza girls are, as a rule, often of wonderful beauty.
Between the acts pretty mestiza flower-girls pass to and fro offering their fragrant wares to the onlookers.
Their hair is one of the most remarkable beauties in the native and Mestiza women, being very much longer, and of a finer gloss, than that of any Europeans.
Very seldom, indeed, does a native Indian or Mestiza beauty sport the same saya for two gala days consecutively.
Finally there was Ysabel, with a gentle smile upon her pleasant brunette face, and Estepania, brown-eyed and plump, most beautiful among all the mestiza belles.
He was married to Jacinta Rafaela, a Chinese mestiza of the Parian, as soon after his baptism as the banns could be published.
But the party reached Dapitan with its original number, for they were joined by a good-looking mestiza from the South who was unofficially connected with one of the canons of the Manila cathedral.
His bride, Bernarda Monicha, was a Chinese mestiza of the neighboring hacienda of San Pedro Tunasan, who had been early orphaned and from childhood had lived in Biñan.
The mestiza glances towards her mistress for instructions.
His present affair with the little mestizais different.
But, unacquainted with the risk he is going to run, the little mestiza has less to alarm her, and only contemplates her lover's absence, with that sense of uncertainty common to all who live in a land where every day has its dangers.
Long after the lovers had entered the arbour the mestiza had remained in her squatting attitude, listening to the conversation, of which not a word escaped her.
From the spot where she lay the mestiza witnessed their greeting.
This the mestiza saw, and it compelled her to pause and reflect how she was to get nearer.
The mestiza remembered the bridge, and knew that her mistress carried the key of the wicket, and often used it both by day and night.
Whatever truth there was in the last part of her harangue, the mestiza knew that its earlier declarations were true enough.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mestiza" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cross; hybrid; mestizo; mongrel; mulatto; mule; octoroon; quadroon; zambo
