The mass of people which filled the little plaza in front of the house of Copa were like a swarm of human ants.
The market at Lima was formerly held upon the Plaza Mayor, and was renowned for the great abundance and variety of the fruits, vegetables, and flowers brought thither for sale.
A few years ago a Zambo of great daring was sentenced to death for robbery, and he demanded to be shot upon the Plaza de la Inquisicion.
George was twenty-five, he was on his way to Boston, and was entertained at the Philipse house, the Plaza not having then been built.
But the fire department there seemed to have the situation in hand, he noticed as he swept down onto the Plaza landing platform.
Looking up, one sees in curious contrast the tall palms with which the Plaza is planted, and the quiet, wondering stars set in the deep tropical heavens.
The streets around the Plaza proved quite impassable from the crowd, whose wild movements and wilder voices went nigh to scaring the well-trained horses.
As this Sunday is Carnival, you cannot do better than drive about the city, and then go to the Plaza to see the masks.
He took the grateful salute and passing out between two rigid lines of the stalwart little men he crossed the plazato the Club.
Preoccupied, he noted that for once all of the phonographs were silenced, the plaza deserted; and already the town's doors and windows were closed against the coming night.
Several brown heads appeared at windows to stare after the little cavalcade that trotted down the side of the plaza at daylight and took the west trail into the brush.
Night had wrapped the town when he crossed the plaza to his quarters.
The plaza was dark save for the lights which blazed in the cuartel to show that the Macabebes, too, had kept the long vigil.
Every loose string tightened, every loophole closed, Terry left the cuartel and crossed the plaza toward his quarters.
Stepping to the window he blew a blast upon his whistle, an unusual summons that brought Mercado running across the plaza in most unsoldierly fashion.
Crossing the acacia-shaded lawns of the beautiful plaza he stopped in front of the artistic concrete bandstand, jerking a big thumb at the dedication inscribed upon the ivy-covered façade.
A few minutes, and the Major distinguished two forms making their way along the north side of the dark plaza and as they passed under one of the oil park-lamps he recognized Terry, leading a weary pony which limped slightly.
Shaving in the dim light, he watched the plaza merge out of its darkness and fill with the natives passing listlessly to field or waterfront.
Chuckling, he left the club and crossed the plaza to Terry's quarters.
The Mexican ensign flutters in the plaza of Monterey, the capital of Alta California.
He threads the crowded plaza with adroitness, swaying easily from side to side as he greets sober friend or demure Donna.
The plaza with impartial liberality yields up its frontages to saloon, palace of play, and hotels for the fair ministers of His Satanic Majesty.
Valois sorrows not when William Walker's blood slakes the stones of the plaza at Truxillo.
Day points over the hills as Maxime dashes into the unguarded plaza of the ranch.
We were passing round the Monument, whose candelabra flooded the plaza with light, and Mrs. Owen inveighed for a moment against automobiles in general as we narrowly escaped being run down by a honking juggernaut at Christ Church corner.
He talked a great deal of Lincoln and of the Civil War, and the soldiers' monument, in its circular plaza in the heart of the city, symbolized for him all heroic things.
Fouchette were at the foot of the broad stone steps leading to the Hôtel Dieu, the famous hospital fronting on the plaza of Notre Dame.
The hoarse, low, booming sound went sullenly rumbling and roaring up and down the stone-ribbed plaza of the Panthéon, and rolled and reverberated from the great dome that sheltered the illustrious dead of France.
To be sure, there were always plenty of people crossing the broad plaza of Notre Dame from various directions and three going the same way would not have attracted attention.
It was doubly incongruous because of the dark and shadowy Cathedral in which they were, and the raucous noises of the market in the plaza without.
There the pair stood waiting in the center of the grass-green plaza of the town.
As Mr. Updegraffe went down, Mr. Peacock, who had not fired a shot, took refuge behind a little building that stood in the plaza and was both calaboose and Court House.
Contrary to the habit of rolling stones which gather no moss, this Arizona stone accumulated much, for when it had reached its assigned site on the plaza of Prescott it had become a very valuable, expensive rock.
This monument which commemorates our war with Spain had been erected on the public plaza of Prescott in honor of "Roosevelt's Rough Riders," the first regiment of United States Volunteer cavalry.
Need I recite that shocking affair of the Plaza de Toros of Seville?
But he is only two years old; and five years old must be the age of Don Eduardo's animals before he exhibits them in the Plaza de Toros.
And he had abused the sanctity of the chapel of the bullfighters in the Plaza de Toros of Seville.
Your friends," he replied with a fine contempt, "do not dance in the Plaza Grill.
If you're still to be a friend of mine we'll dance at thePlaza to-morrow night--and well into the Sabbath.
The palace of the Inquisition stands upon what was formerly called the Plaza de la Inquisicion, now the Square of Independence (Plazuela de la Independencia).
On the north side of the Plaza Mayor stands an unsightly edifice, now occupied by courts of justice and various government offices.
But as he advances toward the Plaza Mayor, the appearance of the city becomes greatly improved.
As they were crossing the Plaza one of them turned a little aside to avoid a pool of water.
The Cathedral is situated on the eastern side of the Plaza Mayor.
There is a public lottery drawn every week in the Plaza Mayor, directly opposite the Cathedral, where a temporary platform is erected for the purpose.
There is a Federal courthouse, also, but this is the one right there by the plazaand near the Texas School Book Depository?
After a while the narrow street falls away, and the wide sweep of the plaza extends to the front.
The chief and most imposing of the capital's clubs is the Club Uruguay that looks out upon the Plaza Matriz, the main square.
On learning the reason from some crassly honest person, the enraged Andresito caused these too particular folk to be mustered in the mainplaza of the town.
Its luxuriant and shady plaza where the date-palms flourish is an oasis of delight set in the midst of sordid surroundings and dusty heat.
The best known is the Lanata, situated in the Plaza Matriz.
Taking advantage of a loosely worded clause in the treaty, he limited the Portuguese ownership of the soil to the radius of a cannon-shot from the plaza of the town.
The man from Cadiz returned their gaze with the same imperturbable steadiness and the same concealed wariness which he had employed when, in the Plaza de Toros, he awaited the charge of the bull.
The people in the templeplaza and in the streets for a distance of a full mile were standing as close packed as it was possible for them to get.
Thus I made the journey to the vicinity of the plaza without detection.
To the outside world the best known building is probably the old Governor-General's palace, fronting on the Plaza de Armas and occupying the square of ground between Tacon and Mercaderes Streets and between Obispo and O'Reilly Streets.
Diagonally across from the old Presidential Palace, on the northwest corner of the Plaza de Armas, stands the Senate Chamber, a two-story building of the same attractive architecture found in the old Palace.
This building fronts on Oficios Street and extends from the Plaza of San Francisco south for more than a block, parallel with the Bay front.
As in all Spanish towns, in the New World at least, a plaza or open square formed the center from which the principal streets radiated.
The principal thoroughfare, leading from the southern side of the Plaza de Armas to the Prado, was called Obispo or Bishop Street, which name it still retains.
One of the oldest public buildings, and the largest used for purposes of Government, known as La Hacienda, is located on the water front between Obrapia Street and the Plaza de Armas.
The lofty salon fronting the Plaza de Armas served as the Senate Chamber.
Matanzas was first settled in 1693, but the modern city is laid out with wide streets, the oldest of which as usual radiate from the central plaza or city park, a quaint square ornamented with oriental palms and tropical flowers.
Many who were standing on the sidewalks imitated them, thinking thus to avenge themselves for their poverty, which had compelled them to remain outside the plaza the whole afternoon in a vain hope of seeing something.
Other plaza employees came running from all directions with great baskets of sand to throw in heaps over the pools of blood and the dead bodies of the horses.
She had come to the plaza by an effort of her will, and she regretted it.
The profound silence produced by great emotions fell suddenly upon the multitude as though the plaza had been emptied.
They came back to the plaza with their sides dyed with blood, and before entering the stables they received a baptism of several bucketfuls of water.
The old man distributed them skilfully during the week as the cleaning of the plaza progressed.
In the ring of blue ether overhanging above the plazawhite doves were winging as if frightened by the roar that escaped from this crater of brick.
The important thing was to keep these animals on their feet a few minutes longer, until the picadores could get into the plaza again; the bull would take charge of finishing the work.
A plazaemployee approached it shouting with ill-humor.
There was not room for all and thousands were left outside the plaza anxiously awaiting the news of the corrida.
The tumultuous populace which occupied the bleachers in the plaza had begun to show a certain animosity toward him, thinking themselves forgotten.
One day, after much hesitation, the Marquis sold him to the plaza of Pamplona and attended the bull-fight.
I saw the windows open, and the blinds up in his house across the plaza as I passed just now.
They crossed the plaza side by side, in the still garish sunlight that seemed to mock the scant shade of the youthful eucalyptus trees, and presently fell in with the stream of people going in their direction.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plaza" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
