They formed together a common fund which was known as that of the penas y penitencias--the fines and penances--of which the former were drawn from the secular and the latter from the spiritual jurisdiction.
The coastal plain is broad between the Rio Coahuayana and San Juan de Lima, and between Las Penas and the Rio Balsas, where the hills rise some 12 kilometers inland from the sea.
Between San Juan de Lima and Las Penas the mountains extend to the sea; in this region rocky promontories form precipitous cliffs dropping into the sea.
There were other sources of revenue--rehabilitations or dispensations from the sanbenito and disabilities, commutations of punishment and the pecuniary penances known as penas y penitencias.
During the survey of the Gulf of Penas they had experienced very severe weather, both stormy and wet, during which the Beagle's crew were incessantly employed, and had consequently suffered greatly.
On the northern declivity of the Imposible, near the Penas Negras, an abundant spring issues from sandstone, which alternates with a schistose clay.
Tierra del Fuego; but in the course of his wanderings he had visited most of the islets and coasts extending from the mouth of the river Plate on the eastern coast to the Gulf of Penas in the westward.
I examined more particularly the Penas Negras near the Cerro de la Vela, east-south-east of the ruined castle of Araya.
The limestone of the Penas is compact, bluish grey and almost destitute of petrifactions.
Santa Cruz is a station on the Andalusian line between Val de Penas and Almuradiel.
If the Val de Penas is rasping to his palate, he ignores that the taste for wine, as for olives and Dublin stout and Glenlivat, is acquired.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
