The operators may wear ragged ponchos and appear to be incapable of deep designs, but they know all the tricks of the trade!
Skirts swung and ponchos waved, whilst maté circulated amongst the older men as they stood grouped about the door.
Long silver-handled knives were in their hands, their ponchoswrapped round their left arms served them as bucklers, and as they crouched, like cats about to spring, they poured out blasphemies.
Sleeping sites were soon picked out and the ponchos and blankets spread out on the ground.
Ponchos had to be rolled for this trip, as they intended camping in the woods somewhere for one or, perhaps, two nights.
Blankets were being stripped from beds and spread out on ponchos while their owners raced around hunting for the rest of their belongings which should go in.
Ponchos woven out of it are deemed the finest made, and command the fabulous price of 20 pounds or 30 pounds sterling.
But ponchos have now been brought out and donned to hide what lies beneath--ponchos of fine texture, these, that stand quite apart from the meaner drapings of the peon, but nevertheless essentially national and of the land.
But here at length comes a body of riders, half a dozen Gauchos, enveloped in ponchos of various patterns, who are pricking onwards at the easy canter that renders the conquest of any space whatever a question of mere time.
Put your ponchosover your own heads as well as your horses'.
The horses were now getting very restive, and there was a momentary pause from work to wrap ponchos round their heads, so as to prevent their seeing the glare.
These ponchos are not made of nearly such good material as those used in the Argentine Republic, but they are considerably gayer and more picturesque in appearance.
The best kind of ponchos are very expensive, being made from a particular part of the finest hair of the vicuña, hand-woven by women, in the province of Catamarca.
The majority of the ponchos worn here are, however, made at Manchester, of a cheap and inferior material.
The women also spin, dye, and weave the wool from the fleece of their own sheep into the bright-coloured ponchos universally worn, winter and summer, by the men in this country.
In the present day, the "ricos," or rich proprietors of Peru, pride themselves in possessing ponchos of vicuna wool.
In a moment both had stripped the ponchosfrom their shoulders, and, placing themselves a la matador, awaited the onset of the bull.
Ponchos are woven out of alpaco-wool by the Indians of the Andes.
The Indians apparently finding themselves in tolerably comfortable quarters, wrapped their ponchos round them, and lay down on the ground round the fire, to follow my example.
They seem to have no purpose in life but to keep warm under their ponchos and to eat when they are hungry.
In shelter-tent camp: Bedding neatly folded and placed at rear of tent, ponchos underneath.
The three prisoners were allotted a corner in the arbour; and, after having supped, they spread their ponchos on a pile of ferns, and found themselves very snug indeed.
They seldom wear a jacket, theponchos of Alpaca wool being always the outer garment.
The principal articles of traffic produced by the natives are woollen ponchos and blankets, unspun colored wool, saddle-cloths, stirrups and horseshoes.
When a Chiloe boat is on its passage on the coast, and a sail happens to be wanted, the men give up their ponchos and the women their mantillas.
The slits in theponchos are stitched up, and both ponchos and mantillas being sewn together are fixed to a pole or bar of wood, which is hoisted to a proper position on the mast.
The Indians strew twigs of palm over the animal, and contend one with another for the honor of throwing their ponchos down on the ground, in order that the ass may walk over them.
The Indians make blankets and ponchos of the alpaco wool.
We'd better get the ponchos unrolled and the beds made up before we start supper," said Sahwah briskly, getting down to business immediately, as usual.
There was more room here, and the ponchos were laid down without having to sacrifice any flowers.
The other Winnebagos stood around with their ponchos in their arms, uncertain what to do, loath to be the death of these cheery little wild things, yet unable to see how they could help it.
Underneath these solid umbrellas the pillows of the girls were as dry as though indoors, and the ponchos protected the blankets.
When they came to lay the ponchos down, however, there was something in the way.
Three of us muffled in ponchos rode round the horses, whilst the others crouched at the fire, and midnight come, the riders rode to the fire, and stretched on the wet mud slept fitfully, whilst the others took their place.
To that wagon came Jacinto Quesada and his three dorados, a short time later, and upon the open sward before it, threw themselves, their ponchos wrapped around them to protect them from the night cold and dew.
They wrapped their ponchosabout them and shivered in the damp.
No shelter was near, andponchos had to serve both for tents and coverlets as each man lay down and fell asleep beneath the threatening sky.
The ponchos were streaming like the overflowing gutter-spouts on the roof of a house, and the unfortunate horsemen had to submit to a double bath, for their horses dashed up the water to their waists at every step.
There were not only a good many people, but peoples, on board; all nations in ragged ponchos with round fur caps or those pointed sombreros that one associates with pictures of elves in a wood.
The tent contained two beds made up of skins and ponchos laid on the green canvas floor, a soldered tin of plug tobacco served by way of a candlestick and upheld a candle-end.
It had altered, too, the outward character of the crowds on feast days on the plaza before the open portal of the cathedral, by the number of white ponchos with a green stripe affected as holiday wear by the San Tome miners.
The long building was surrounded by troops, which were already piling arms by companies and preparing to pass the night lying on the ground in their ponchos with their sacks under their heads.
His spurs having become entangled in a perfect welter of ponchos he nearly pitched on his head, and did not recover his balance till the middle of the room.
Elmer, assisted by George and Toby, meanwhile started to see how some sort of shelter could be arranged with the four rubber ponchos which they carried.
The rubber ponchos were used, not as a curtain to shield them from the air, but under their blankets to separate them from the ground, and serve to keep the dampness away.
Toby remarked, after they had scraped the snow away, and made places where they could stretch their rubber ponchos out and with blankets on top form comfortable seats upon which to rest their tired bodies.
At regular intervals our food was replenished and we kept the platter empty, storing what we could not eat in our ponchos against a possible need.
The ground was damp and cold, and we had neither ponchos nor jackets to protect us.
We lay side by side, using our ponchos for pillows; our clothing at least was dry.
He wanted to take the first watch himself, but I insisted, and he arranged our ponchos on the ground, and soon he too was sleeping easily and profoundly.
Ponchos and mantles like those worn to-day, but many centuries old, have been found in the tombs, so ancient is the fashion.
In temporary camps and in bivouac they raise their beds if suitable material, such as straw, leaves, or boughs can be obtained, or use their ponchos or slickers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ponchos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
