Pedro also stated that until very recently the ZuA+-i were in the habit of celebrating a fire dance at Noche Buena (Christmas).
We passed the famous Noche Triste tree, which those who live here view with composure and indifference, but which still excites the new-comer.
It, with theNoche Triste tree, witnessed the fall of the Aztec Empire.
In a hitherto unpublished manuscript which has come to light this year, in an annual called the "Mosaico Mexicano," there are some curious particulars concerning the "noche triste.
It is said that this image was brought to Mexico by a soldier of Cortes's army called Villafuerte, and that the day succeeding the terrible Noche Triste, it was concealed by him in the place where it was afterwards discovered.
It was a night of blood--or what is known in the Mexican history as the Noche triste, or "doleful night.
Since that time the tree has been known to the inhabitants as the Noche Triste (the sad night).
The battle of Noche Triste and the advent of the Spanish, are carefully portrayed.
Since then Noche Triste has been inclosed by a high, iron fence; despite the fire it is yet a grand old tree.
I don't know why, for I could never think of Cortez except as a thieving murderer, but the Noche Triste receives a great deal of attention from the natives and all the tourists.
Before the expulsion of Cortes from the city, goldseekers had been sent to Oaxaca and Tehuantepec and were well received, but the "Noche Triste" was followed by a reaction.
Through his reverses, and on the terrible Noche triste, it is said, that Malintzi never lost her courage.
It was carried thence on the fatal Noche triste, by its possessor, when he sought shelter in this very temple with the rest of the shattered Spanish army.
This fearful escape is called universally theNoche triste.
Negro Noche stood motionless--her pock-marked face covered with a heavy layer of snow white powder that is typical of all Mexican women.
You didn't tell me what they did to Negro Noche about that shooting last night, and what did they do with Irene's body?
Plenty--and in more ways than one--Negro Noche is the one woman in the town to be afraid of.
And of all these records of desperate daring and wonderful success, the most extraordinary is the tale of the Noche Triste, the terrible night-retreat of the Spaniards from the Aztec capital.
Of the remarkable career of Cortez we have given the most striking incident, the story of the thrilling Noche triste and the victory of Otumba.
Nothing in modern times approximates so nearly to the orgies of antiquity as this celebrating “the good night” (la noche buena) in Spain.
Be that as it may, the Noche Triste is undoubtedly a tree of great age.
A white man had come toNoche Buena, a Texan (he was ready to swear), and he wore his big serviceable six-guns low.
Presently he was once more in the saddle, pushing across the tawny, empty desert toward the hills that hid Noche Buena, the village where Pasquale had his headquarters.
Stopping there for two or three hours' rest, we could ride in to Noche Buena by breakfast time.
If I can prove to you that I stand a good chance to pull it off down at Noche Buena, will you feel different about it?
Is it true--what Mr. Manderson says--that you are going back to Noche Buena?
Ever since Yeager's second arrival at Noche Buena he had been gone.
In bringing Ruth to Noche Buena he had made a great mistake.
Now he had come to Noche Buena to teach the artillery of the Legion how to shoot straight, after which they would all march south and take the great city with the golden gates.
The most direct route to Noche Buena was by Lone Tree.
When Noche Buena lay at their feet the sun was low in the sky.
He and Frank started for Noche Buena almost an hour ago.
They came to Noche Buena to find one Señor Yeager.
Reader, a battlefield, after the battle, is a sad and sorrowful sight to look at.
I remember how sorry I felt for the poor fellows, because they had enlisted for the war, and we for only twelve months.
They were bringing off a dead boy just as we went on duty.
Her name was Aunt Daphne, and if she had been a politician, she would have been a success.
The night was called on this accountNoche triste, "Melancholy night.
Next to the noche triste, this affair was more disastrous to the whites than any in which they had been engaged since entering that land of battle and death.
Thus ended the dreadful night, called for all time the Noche Triste, or night of sadness.
The leading files were forced to the leap by those pressing from behind, and in a moment the most hideous feature of the noche triste was being re-enacted.
The disaster in Tenochtitlan, thenoche triste, and the retreat, were all forgotten for the time being, and only the glorious victory of Otampan was remembered.
This time he advanced as far as Tlacopan, where, in his mind and in those of his veterans, sad memories of the terrible night, the noche triste, were revived.
Many of the soldiers fell by the wayside from sheer exhaustion, while others, who had brought their treasure of gold through the perils of the noche triste and thus far in safety, now flung it away, as too great a burden to be longer borne.
Still, doggedly fighting, the besiegers made their slow way to the square, on one side of which stood the quarters they had evacuated on the noche triste, and on the other the great temple of Huitzil.
In the bloody retreat of the Spaniards from Mexico, in their fight with the Aztecs, during the Noche Triste, Don Pedro Alvarado, from whom we were descended, lost his mare through a deadly arrow.
But my friend Reyes whom I knew to be a man of both strength and courage, weakened, being cowed with the superstition of the unlucky Noche Triste.
Christmas-night (Noche buena) is a great festival in Lima.
After the disasters and fatigues of the noche triste, the melancholy and broken band of CortA(C)z rested for a day at Tacuba, whilst the Mexicans returned to their capital, probably to bury the dead and purify their city.
He spread out his main body as widely as possible, and guarded the flanks by the twenty horsemen who survived the noche triste, and the disastrous march from Tacuba.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "noche" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
