So out comes the picador on his halting steed, and plants himself well away from the barrier, so that he may not be thrown against it in the fall.
If the horse is overthrown, the picador falls with a crash, and wriggles aside as best he can that the poor beast may not roll on him.
The bull seldom appears anxious to attack the horse, but it is pushed forward under his nose, and the big picador on top poises his lance aggressively.
He flinches with the pain, and the picador skips out of danger.
The bull makes a rush, with murder in his eye, but a picador meets him with a spear-thrust in the shoulder.
The picador was under the horse and the bull's horns were seeking him, but the brute reckoned without the espada.
There was a confused mass of horse, bull and man, he was away again, another picador was down, and then attracted by the waving cloak of a chulo he turned and chased it across the ring.
The chulos meanwhile raised the picador over the barrier, for his legs and loins were so heavy with iron that once down he could not rise unassisted.
The lance of the picador is to keep the bull from goring the horse.
The bull charged, and of course the horse knew nothing till the picador failed and the horse found himself impaled on the bull's horns from beneath.
It lifted the horse clear into the air; and as the horse fell to its side on on the ground the picador landed on his feet and escaped, while the capadors lured the bull away.
The duty of this light division is to skirmish and draw off the bull when the picador is endangered, which they do with their particoloured silken cloaks.
When the bull is slow to charge, the picador rides out into the arena, and challenges him with his vara (spear.
The picador was also raised up; he was removed between the arms of the chulos.
The bull tenaciously attacked the horse, who was overwhelmed with his weight and with his convulsive movements, while the unfortunate picador was crushed beneath these two enormous masses.
The picador gives point to receive him on the fleshy part of the neck above the right shoulder; and, if his horse be steady, he generally succeeds in turning the bull off.
One of the cuadrilla attending the sick, the picador called Coruncho Lopez, paused in his labors to remark: "Robledo is ill through contagion.
I, Coruncho Lopez, the most superb picador in Spain, volunteer to be one of the posse!
He forced brandy down his throat, but the picadorlay still and chilly cold.
The picador himself is not in great danger, for his trousers are armour plated.
Bang would have ventured to have said, if the sylphide had then been known,) and presently returning, whispered something to her mother, who rose and drew Don Picador aside.
And the excellent man rushed for the door, when the poor heart--broken Picadorclung to his knees.
Would she not turn and hurry out before the first picadordrew the blood she had tried so hard to save?
Four more sacrificial beasts were brought, and he dealt with all, so nearly goring one picador that an espada, dashing to the rescue, was raced to the barrier, and had his stocking crimsoned as he vaulted over it.
Like a tornado he swept across the ring, killed a horse with a single thrust, sent the picador crashing against the barrera; and quick as a wild cat, strong as an African lion, wheeled to lift another animal and its rider on his horns.
When I descended to the street at three the city was already drifting ringward, a picador in full trim now and then cantering by on his Rozinante--a sight fully as exciting to the populace as the circus parade of our own land.
It is a difficult matter for the picador to approach the bull, for the horses shrink from the awful fate awaiting them, and only by plunging great spurs into their sides can their riders get them to advance.
Anything more unutterably cowardly and despicably mean than the picador can hardly be imagined.
The picadorholds firmly, planting his spear-point in the shoulder of the brute.
If not, the picador mounts again, and provokes the bull to another rush.
In this case the picador hastily dismounts, and the bridle and saddle are stripped in an instant from the dying brute.
I saw a picador once enter the ring as pale as death.
You will occasionally see a picador nervous and anxious about his personal safety.
The picador dives the pica into the beast and it vents its pain on the horse.
The picador guides the blinded horse to face the bull.
The horse on which the picador is mounted is bought only to be killed.
The picador endeavours to snatch this off, to lay the trophy at his true love's heart.
The picador manages (if he can) to fall off on the opposite side, in order that his horse may form a barrier and rampart between him and the bull.
The fourth picador broke his spear in meeting the rushing of this bull.
At a fourth charge he ripped open a horse's bowels, and coming on for the fifth and sixth time, threw the horse of another picador prostrate, and when he was on the ground, dug his horns into the bowels of the horse in a most frightful manner.
In the baiting of the eighth bull, the same picador showed his dexterity.
The first was not hurt, but the second and third picador had their horses ripped open.
The unfortunate picador was carried out, apparently dead.
You have been preparing the picador costume," observed Donna Maria, glancing down at the embroidered jacket and scarlet scarf which lay beside her, faintly visible in the starlight.
The picador is he who encounters the bull on horse-back.
The pale intellectual countenance, with its delicately-formed features, suggested the idea of a student or poet, rather than that of a bold picadoras dead to fear as to mercy.
They recognized him as a picador by his peculiar dress, turned eagerly to look at him, and in loud tones made their remarks on the horseman as he passed them.
The picador is unequal to keep him off with his spike; the horse is gored in the belly and overthrown, the rider falling under.
When the unfortunate picador was killed, in place of a general exclamation of horror and loud expressions of pity, the universal cry was 'Que es bravo ese toro!
This takes place only when the bull advances feebly, or the picador is gifted with gigantic strength of arms, surpassing the measure of men.
Another banderillero, at the same representation, seizing the lance of a picador at the moment of attack, supported himself with it, and sprang over the back and whole length of the bull.
When the bull withdraws, the picador advances, but only a few steps, so that the battle never takes place in the centre.
It happens rarely that a picador can stop a bull at the point of a lance.
Towering above this dark mass, here and there, is a horseman, a policeman, or a picador in colors as brilliant as a poppy full blown.
The capeadors harassed him, every picador wounded him, now the arrows are working into his wounds; thirst and heat complete his torments.
The picador cannot kill a bull with a weapon like that,—he can only pierce him or stop him for a moment; but in the last case he must have in his arm the strength of a giant.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "picador" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
