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Example sentences for "padres"

Lexicographically close words:
padi; padlock; padlocked; padlocks; padme; padron; padrona; padrone; pads; paduasoy
  1. And the brown padres made it for the flocks of the fold; They made it for the sandals of the sinner-folk that trod From the fields in the open to the shelter-house of God.

  2. More padres traveled across the desert to the home of the Apaches, and they heard the story of Juan.

  3. But of the many who hunted for the lost mine of the padres there was never a Mexican or an Apache.

  4. The Lost Mine of the Padres In the cool, starry evenings the campers sat around a blazing fire and told and listened to stories thrillingly fitted to the dark crags and the wild solitude.

  5. Then all the padres went into the mountains.

  6. Tis hot as the breath of hell where the Padres tell us all heretics will go after death!

  7. Of a truth,' I answered, 'the black-robed Padres are right!

  8. I told the padres this, but they refused to take any notice of it.

  9. If the padres did not get more effective holy water, whose fault was it that poor souls had to seek help elsewhere?

  10. When the padres interfered he sat down and looked at the piles of stone and did nothing, and nothing could move him.

  11. There are strange old traditions of it in the accounts some of the early padres left.

  12. The good padres will see that my name is forgotten, but instead of a name, I will leave myself, and so long as stone stands on stone I will call louder and farther than your iron tongue when rung your loudest!

  13. She had a lover who wrote letters, an Americano perhaps; the Mexicans did not trouble themselves with such useless learning, now that the old padres were gone.

  14. It is," said Ana; "there are padres of the old days buried under some of the floors.

  15. Within night the Hollanders and we were sent for to the Court about our plito with the padres (or frires) which also were sent for.

  16. News came to Langasaque that they should make very dilligent search for padres (or pristes) and in whose howse they were fownd, not only to kill all that famely, but allso all the street in which they are fownd.

  17. They enquered of me about the padres I said were in the capt.

  18. At night Isabel watched the lights of the electric cars flashing about that old monument of an almost forgotten conquest--like the angry haunted eyes of the padres that had labored in the wilderness for naught.

  19. My mother she feel the great earthquake of 1812 in the south, when the padres plant a long straight branch in the middle of the square of San Gabriel, and it never stop shake for four months.

  20. This being the day of Santiago, the patron saint of Spain, C---n was invited by the padres to San Francisco to attend mass in the church there.

  21. One of the prettiest places in the village belongs to an order of monks called the Padres Camilos.

  22. She will still see her confessor, and she will have occasional visits from reverend padres and right reverend bishops.

  23. The padres accommodated him with a cell, and assisted him very efficaciously in his researches.

  24. They took their seats at last, the padres crowded in beside them, and the great hamper was put up on top, the Chilian interpreter sat down beside the driver, and away they rumbled and rattled.

  25. The coach that the padres had provided was apparently about a hundred years old, but the four horses attached to it seemed fit for anything.

  26. And now the lunch was spread on the green grass, and the padres waxed quite merry over it.

  27. There was some premonition of death in those congregations of khaki-clad men who gathered round the padres on each ship and sang "God be with you till we meet again.

  28. From the scanty data I have been able to collect from historical and legendary sources, it seems probable that Awatobi was always more affected by the padres than were the other Tusayan pueblos.

  29. Of the fate of his two companions and the success of their work little is known, but it is recorded that the succession of padres was not broken up to the great rebellion in 1680.

  30. This building was constructed by the padres on a mesa top, while the churches at Walpi and Shuñopovi were built in the foothills near those pueblos.

  31. The nuns were seen waving white handkerchiefs out of their iron-grated windows, and the Padres and other respectable inhabitants welcomed us with a thousand vivas, embracing us, and using every means of testifying their joy at our arrival.

  32. If I am not mistaken, it was here where our illustrious Chief played off a sort of innocent ruse upon some of the Padres of the place.

  33. To tell you the truth, I think this war is what we padres have been needing.

  34. Padres can always get leave too, and they always come and go by Paris.

  35. You damned padres think you can do any bally thing you choose!

  36. He wondered if padres in France were different from priests in England.

  37. They are going to say that there is no need for you to visit hospitals after dark, and that their padres mustn't be seen out with nurses who smoke in public.

  38. On September 8, Padres Somera and Cambon founded the Mission of San Gabriel Arcángel, originally about six miles from the present site.

  39. Rejoicing and grateful, the earnest president sent Padres Fermin Francisco de Lasuen and Gregorio Amurrio, with six soldiers, to begin work at San Juan Capistrano.

  40. The Missions were practically the backbone of the country; without them all would crumble to pieces, and the most fanatical opponent of the system could not fail to see that without the padres it would immediately fall.

  41. About the middle of July ill health compelled Parron to retire to Lower California and Gomez to Mexico, and Padres Luis Jayme and Francisco Dumetz took their places.

  42. The padres took the matter in accordance with their individual temperaments.

  43. They brought pine-nuts and acorns, and the padres gave them in exchange strings of glass beads of various colors.

  44. Padres Calzada, Gutierrez, and Ciprès assisted Presidente Tapis, and the two former remained as the missionaries in charge.

  45. He copied the designs out of books, she says, and none but Indians assisted him in the actual work, though the padres were fully consulted as it progressed.

  46. Here, then, is explanation enough for the assumption of a large Indian population on this ranch, which led the neighboring padres to establish a chapel for their Christianization and civilization.

  47. The bishop responded that the decree had not been enforced elsewhere, and as for him the California padres might remain at their posts.

  48. Andalusian names of saints and angels chime wherever the padres stepped or stopped.

  49. It was but twenty-three by fifty feet in size, and was served by the padres of San Gabriel.

  50. We had two padres to tea, Beardmore being one of them.

  51. He was telling us about three padres who left our boat just before we started, preferring to go by another as they did not like travelling with so many animals.

  52. Padres Creighton and Komlosy and Major Lindsay dined with us.

  53. Padres and the Wesleyan hand in hand: the latter has been in the Nile Expedition of '98 and all through South Africa.

  54. Three Padres are stranded at Pornichet--two were troopers in the S.

  55. This, however, is a digression; probably the Padres found no time for philosophising about anything, much less so useless a specimen as the wild cucumber.

  56. Now and then in very wet years a faint yellow tinge, high up under the bases of the hills, is all that is left of the seed which, by report, the Padres sowed along the coastwise trails, to mark where they trod the circuit of the Missions.

  57. Sooner or later, if he chose, he could escape into great, grey, formless India, beyond tents and padres and colonels.

  58. It pleased him that the two padres were so evidently excited.

  59. On the other hand, remembering sober-faced padres whom he had avoided in Lahore city, the priest might be an inquisitive nuisance who would bid him learn.

  60. This was rumoured through the town, and at last the padres and governor consulted together, and agreed it must be some heresy.

  61. I was told that a few years since a very large one found its way into a church at St. Fe: two padres entering one after the other were killed, and a third, who came to see what was the matter, escaped with difficulty.

  62. I was one of the two boys who waited on the padres at meal times, swept the mission rooms and walks, and were ready to do any errands the padres wished.

  63. My mother told the Indians how good the padres were to them at San Diego, and did all she could to bring them to work for the mission.

  64. He has letters also for the padres at the missions, and will see to everything.

  65. So much larger than this place, although Pala had many more Indians in those days, before the padres were driven away, that it seemed to me like a city.

  66. But it was not so hard for me, for I wished to learn, and the padres liked to teach me.

  67. The Governor wished the Indians to be taken away from the missions, and live in pueblos of their own; but the Indians did not like it, nor the padres either; and it made trouble for many years.

  68. Two miles before arriving, they met a horseman who had been sent out on the road to meet them, in case, as the padres hoped, Apolinaria should come that night.

  69. The padres gathered around him, and as he sprang ashore, he dropped on his knees and stooped and kissed the ground.

  70. Both the padres and Cavaliers in California as elsewhere in the Americas enslaved the Indians in a system of peonage which thinned out their ranks, and led to many hostile outbreaks before they were finally subdued.

  71. The padres and soldiers were constantly asked: "Do you come from Tlapalla?

  72. It was quite a long time before they could understand each other well, but the padres told the story of the Christ the first time they held a service, which was on a Sunday.

  73. Even the sailors forgot about the gold while he and the padres prayed and thanked God for giving mankind a new world.

  74. Finding them docile and kind the padres set about teaching them, and the simple natives were very willing listeners.

  75. The country had been settled by Spanish Cavaliers and padres and there were missions for the teaching of the Indians.


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