With her own hands the jolly madre soon prepared me an olla podrida of tomatoes, peppers, and the remains in my game bag.
No violets come up to the perfume which a coming olla casts before it; the mouth-watering bystanders sigh, as they see and smell the rich freight steaming away from them.
This is the olla en grande, such as Don Quixote says was eaten only by canons and presidents of colleges; like turtle-soup, it is so rich and satisfactory that it is a dinner of itself.
Such an ollaas this is not to be got on the road, but may be made to restore exhausted nature when halting in the cities.
Formerly all travellers of rank carried a silver olla with a key, the guardacena, the save supper.
When we were as round as hoops, and as full as eggs, with stuffing the gut, an olla podrida ('Some call it an Olio.
Oh, we shall have a better olla podrida than you ever tasted when the good old aunt goes to work.
Olla podridas are all very well, no doubt, but what I should prefer would be some one who could touch the guitar, and sing a lively song.
At midday Rita returned, bringing his dinner, a savory olla podrida.
He saw roast capons, obtained from Heaven knows where; rich odoriferousolla podrida, and various kinds of game.
Whatever the fare might be--and his expectations were not extravagantly high--it could scarce fail to be an improvement on the olla of which he had intended to make his Sunday repast.
I may not mention now our temperate banquets: the crisp red mullet, the succulent pasties, the delicious ham of Estremadura, the savouryolla podrida.
The Gipsy, a tragedy called The Cavalier of Seville, and the miscellaneous papers afterwards collected under the title, Olla Podrida.
As Sundown stalked up the path assuming an air of gallantry that was not wasted on the desert air, the girl stepped to the olla hanging in the shade and offered him the gourd.
Beside the figure stood the painted ollauntarnished by age.
A characteristic of these older forms of the water-jar is that they are invariably flat or round-bottomed, while more recent and all modern types of the olla (see Fig.
This has no use, but there is of course a reason for its occurrence which, if investigated, may throw light on the origin of the modern type of the olla itself.
I hope the living in Spain, for his sake, did not then consist of olla podrida, with a variation of garlic and acid wine.
This word satura has been afterward applied to many other sorts of mixtures; as Festus calls it, a kind of olla or hotch-potch made of several sorts of meats.
It may be illustrated accordingly with variety of examples in the subdivisions of it, and with as many precepts as there are members of it, which all together may complete that olla or hotch-potch which is properly a satire.
There was no arguing down our Mentor on this point, so the subject was changed, and he tried to disintegrate the ingredients in the very mixed dish of Spanish parties--a complete olla podrida.
A large fragment of a similar olla was picked up in the valley of Epsom Creek, southeast Utah.
The leading variety is a round-bodied, wide-mouthed olla or pot, with flaring rim.
Water jar or olla decorated with ancient design of the rattlesnake gens.
Olla or water jar decorated with emblems of the gentile rattlesnake.
Olla or decorated water jar with figures of sacred birds and rosette.
Small water jar or olla decorated with figures of antelope and black birds.
Jar or olla decorated in ancient emblematic style, and used as a receptacle for sacred plumes.
In the Olla Podrida, a collection of Essays published at Oxford, there is an admirable paper upon the character of Johnson, written by the Reverend Dr.
He is an indefatigable "snapper-up of unconsidered trifles," and his store is the most comical olla podrida of heterogeneous merchandise that I ever saw.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "olla" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
