Piedra Blanca, in the upper part, absorbs the whole of the water for a week, but it must then suspend its irrigation during the following week and permit the stream to flow down the valley.
At Catamarca the water of a certain stream is shared byPiedra Blanca and Valle Viejo.
They then demanded the money and were told that they must bring him a certain stone (piedra de espiritu).
Behind it the Paseo militar, with two rows of trees, extending as far as Piedra lisa, on the road to the pleasant village of Lurigancho.
Returning to the point where the two roads across the Cordillera separate at Cashapalca, we will now trace the route by way of Piedra Parada.
The eastern declivity of the Pass of Piedra Parada is steeper than that of Huascacocha.
Palabra y piedra suelta no tiene vuelta=--A word and a stone once launched cannot be recalled.
Palabra de boca, piedra de honda=--A word from the mouth is as a stone from a sling.
After this paper Virgin the next most prominent object of worship I saw inPiedra Blanca was a saint with a dress of vegetable fibre, long hair that had once adorned a horse's tail, and eyes of pieces of clamshell.
After a week's stay in Piedra Blanca, during which I had ample time for such comparisons as these I have penned, quarantine lifted, and the expedition staff separated.
A little farther up the bay, a white stone shone out in the sunlight, marking the Bolivian boundary, and giving the name ofPiedra Blanca to the village.
There is no church or priest in the village of Piedra Blanca.
In due time we again reached Piedra Blanca, and, notwithstanding our ragged, thorn-torn garments, felt we were once more joined on to the world.
It was only three leagues to the Bolivian town of Piedra Blanca, but the "Bahia do Marengo" took three hours to steam the short distance, for five times we had to stop on the way, owing to the bearings becoming heated.
On navigating more to the east, between the mouth of the Carony and Angostura, the pilot should avoid the rocks of Guarampo, the sandbank of Mamo, and the Piedra del Rosario.
Cabritu (Cabruta), and the Raudal near the mouth of the Meta (probably the Raudal of Cariven and the Piedra de la Paciencia).
The district attorney and Nancy Derwent drove out from the town three miles along a smooth, grassy road, and then struck across a rolling prairie toward a heavy line of timber on Piedra Creek.
When within a hundred yards of Piedra Creek a man rode out of the timber directly toward them.
We passed at day-break the Piedraand the Raudalitos* (* The rock and little cascades.
We passed on the west the Cano Orupe, and then the great rock known by the name of Piedra del Tigre.
About noon we passed the mouth of the little river Ipurichapano on the east, and afterwards the granitic rock, known by the name of Piedra del Tigre.
A curious geognostic discovery remains to be made in the eastern part of America, that of finding in a primitive soil a rock of euphotide containing the piedra de Macagua.
We passed in the night near a rock, called the Piedra de Astor by the missionaries.
We regretted that we had not stopped to rest near the Piedra del Tigre; for on going up the Atabapo we had great difficulty to find a spot of dry ground, open and spacious enough to light a fire, and place our instrument and our hammocks.
Piedra de Marimara, a compact mass of granite eighty feet high, and three hundred feet in circumference, without fissures, or any trace of stratification.
The serenity of the sky promising us a fine night, we resolved, at five in the evening, to rest near the Piedra de Culimacari, a solitary granite rock, like all those which I have described between the Atabapo and the Cassiquiare.
Stretched upon the rock (la Piedra de la Madre) a cruel punishment was inflicted on her with those straps of manatee leather, which serve for whips in that country, and with which the alcaldes are always furnished.
The Spaniards call this rockPiedra Mapaya (the map-stone).
The red sandstone, called by the Llaneros, the stone of the reefs (piedra de arrecifes), is everywhere covered with a stratum of clay.
He was a fast workman, and on every stone he split from the mother ledge, he sang out, "Otro piedra por Don Tomas!
When I was up at Piedra Pinta, I looked in a shallow part of the creek--where I could see my reflection and the bottom at the same time.
At high noon, after a climb up the hill and an hour of poetry, Fancy was crowned queen of Piedra Pinta, with pomp and circumstance.
From her chic shepherd's plaid frock, so cunningly trimmed with red, so perfectly moulding her svelte form, it should have been Fancy Gray, Queen of Piedra Pinta.
To Piedra Pinta that next Saturday they came, bringing Fancy Gray, a smiling captive, with them.
We've been wanting to find you and have you go up to Piedra Pinta with us.
There is more or less of original importance on the Aztec myths in Alfredo Chavero’s “La Piedra del Sol,” likewise in the Anales (vol.
The only one definitely described is the “piedra pintal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piedra" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
