And the snowe may be kept all the yeare under the earth, couered with strawe, and profitable it is to mixe with the wine in hote sommer, and necessarie also to coole the ayre about sick persons.
But it may be demanded how came it to pass that so many wicked persons and profane people should so quickly come over into this land, & mixe them selves amongst them?
That I not mixe thee so, my braine excuses; I meane with great, but disproportion'd Muses.
Not less definitely inspired by the same ideas was the Mixe Indian, known as “Don Pascual,” who led the revolt of the Tehuantepec tribes in 1661.
The Mixe locality is the district around Tehuantepec.
Hervas writes, that the Zapoteca, Mazateca, Chinanteca, and Mixe were allied.
That, if the statement of Hervas be correct, the Zapoteca, the Mazateca, the Chinansteca, and the Mixe are in the same category.
After more than five hours of hard travel we reached the Mixe town of Ayutla, and rode at once to the curato.
Inquiring for books printed in the Mixe tongue, we were informed that the choir-master had one.
Among these was a cylindrical, box-like figure of a rain-god, which was found by a priest upon his arrival at the Mixe Indian village of Mixistlan.
More than one hundred and fifty years ago Padre Quintana, who was the mission priest at Juquila, translated the Doctrina into Mixe and wrote a Gramatica of the language, both of which were then printed.
As we neared the town, we were surprised to find a cloud effect almost as fine as that near Juquila in the Mixe country.
Literally and figuratively shaking the dust of the Mixe towns from our feet, we now descended into the Zapotec country.
Unlike most Mixe churches, the church at Ocotopec is entire, and in good condition.
It is really one of the most picturesque and interesting of the Mixe towns.
However, we became thoroughly familiar with it before we had traversed the whole Mixe country, as we heard it twice daily, at sunrise and after sunset.
Mixe roads avoid no mountains, and usually go straight up one slope and down the other.
We were now on the road to the last of the Mixe towns we should visit, Coatlan.
The Mixe villages are set upon the very crests, or upon little terraces a few hundred feet below the crest, or the summit of some spur that juts out from the great mountain mass, of a long and narrow ridge.
Like heat and Ayre comprest, their blind desiresMixe with their ends, as raging winds with fires.
Some Playes (you know) written by these Authors were heretofore Printed: I thought not convenient to mixe them with this Volume, which of it selfe is entirely New.
Inscribed on both is the legend: "Mixe not holy thinges with profane.
Take of gunpowder fowre ounces and a halfe, saltpeter one ounce, mixe them together.
First you must lay on a light blacke, mingled with white lead, and afterwards when it is dry, sad it with good blacke; for sad blacke, mixe Indie Baudias with Gumme water.
Take raw silke, and beat it with glasse, and mixe them together with the whites of Egges.
Those who mixe Maiz or Paniso in the Chocolate doe very ill; because those graines doe beget a very melancholly humour: as the same Author expresseth in these Verses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mixe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
