Of a brawny, weather-beaten girl milking a cow by the light of a torch in what passed for the principal street, I asked: "Is there a posada in town?
We managed nevertheless by patience and repetition to establish communication between us, and I found out at last why my inquiry for a posada had evoked so surprising an answer.
From the posada at the city gate I climbed to Lugo's chief promenade and Alameda, the top of her surrounding wall.
The man glared at me for a time in silence, then growled that he sold nothing, but that I should find a posada not far beyond.
I met with it by great good luck at theposada at Buitrago; but when I called for another, it was so excellent that the landlord had drank all himself.
He now turned back from the door to bid the groom leave his own horse in Elvas, and take the fresh horse on to the little town of Albuquerque, and expect him at the posada there before the dawn of day.
They now returned to the posada and had their Spanish friends to dine with them--Lady Mabel seating Don Alonso beside her, and losing not a word of his grandiloquence.
The famed Alhambra[134] was the first object to which we bent our steps, after depositing our effects at the Fonda del Comercio, and sending our horses to the Posadade las Tablas.
We took up our abode at the Posada del Sol, than which a more wretched place of accommodation, either for man or beast, the sun never shone upon.
The accommodation of the Posada we found very hard; so, after exploring the place, and attempting to take a Siesta, we proceeded on to Castro El Rio.
After a moment's reflection, Moll agreed to this, and saying she would meet us at the posada for supper, left us, and walked briskly back the way we had come.
Neither the pay it afforded nor the leisure had attracted me to the Posada del Rio.
He was one of the troopers whose odd jobs I had done at the Posada del Rio in Huerta, an ill-conditioned Norman called Michu--Pierre Michu.
Huerta swarms with soldiers," said I, "we have sixteen in the posada and a cavalry picket just behind.
So that, what with one thing and another, it wanted but an hour of dawn when I regained the yard of the Posada del Rio and cautiously re-entered the little granary.
We had shared the room in the Sorata posada together before I started across the high plain, and he had become sick twenty-four hours after I left.
V The Posada de las Estrellas was situated on the western side of the town within a stone's throw of Padre Antonio's house.
And you, Doña Fernandez are still the charming, handsome mistress of the Posada de las Estrellas to whom all men are irresistibly drawn.
While the two young people were indulging in dreams of happiness and the future, Wilhelm was executing the captain's orders, and Crevel's posada was again filled by the members of the band.
And he led the master of the posada into a retired corner of the room.
It was about five in the evening when Leon Delbes left the posada in the company of Crevel.
Once outside, Diego ordered Wilhelm and Crevel to carry Maria to the posada kept by the latter, with instructions to deposit her in the green room.
Absorbed in his fanciful dreams, he did not at first notice that those dwellings appeared deserted, and that even the Posada opposite him, whose courtyard was usually filled with lounging muleteers, was empty and abandoned.
When he reached the posada at the top of the hilly street, he even carried his simulation of the local customs to the point of charging the veranda at full speed, and pulling up suddenly at the threshold, after the usual fashion of vaqueros.
Ascham, who was accompanied by a secretary named Fischer, an Italian interpreter, and an English servant, remonstrated against being thus exposed to the discomfort and danger of lodging in an open posada without locks or bolts upon the doors.
Whilst the Englishmen were house-hunting for the unfortunate ambassador in the forenoon of the 6/16 June, another party of their countrymen were drinking in a tavern within a few doors of the posada where Ascham was lodged.
We put up at a mean posada in the suburb for the purpose of refreshing our horses.
We put up at the Posada de las Diligencias, a very magnificent edifice.
The person who generally accompanied me in my walks about the town and the neighbourhood, was an elderly Genoese, who officiated as a kind of valet de place in the Posada del Turco, where I had taken up my residence.
Accursed gypsy, how dare you enter this posadaand speak before me in that speech?
Arriving at the posada one night, Ezekiel became aware that his host was engaged in some mysterious conference with a visitor who had entered through the ordinary public room.
As the stage rattled away again with more or less humorous and open disparagement of the town and the Posada from its "outsiders," he lounged with lazy but systematic deliberation towards Mateo Morez, the proprietor.
It was very long, and at its conclusion, Posadaknelt before the presiding bishop and kissed his hand.
At Rio Frio, which is about thirteen leagues from Mexico, and where there is a pretty good posada in a valley surrounded by woods, we stopped to dine.
A padre took the baby from the angel, and placed it in the cradle, and the posada was completed.
To have English visitors staying at her posada filled the good señora with pride.
Picture: The Village Posada at Matarosa] The posada is ruled by the señora.
Mando sacar de su Posada mas de ciento i ochenta cargas de Plata i veinte de Oro, i las repartio.
The posada where I had put up was a good specimen of the old Spanish inn, being much the same as those described in the time of Philip the Third or Fourth.
On entering the arch of the posada called La Reyna, where I intended to put up, I found myself encircled in a person's arms, and on turning round in amazement beheld my Greek servant, Antonio.
We did not enter the town, but halted at a large venta or posada at the entrance, before which stood an immense ash tree.
I shall go to the best posada in the place, and live like a duke till I have an opportunity of digging up the schatz, when I will pay all scores.
The two principal edifices are the See, or cathedral, and the convent of San Francisco, in the square before the latter of which was situated the posada where I had taken up my abode.
The house or posada in which I had taken up my abode was exceedingly spacious, containing an infinity of apartments, both large and small, the greater part of which were, however, unfurnished.
We went to a posada in the suburbs, the only one, indeed, which the place afforded.
My mind was soon made up on this point; but I reckoned without my host, for at the first posada which I attempted to enter, I was told that we could not be accommodated, and still less our horses, as the stable was full of water.
A rather singular place was this same posada of Muros.
We put up at a large posada without the wall of the town, built upon a steep bank, and commanding an extensive view of the country towards the east.
A blazing fire in the posada soon dried our wet garments, and in some degree recompensed us for the fatigues which we had undergone in scrambling up the bellotas.
We went to a large gloomy house, which my companion informed me was the principal posada of the town.
I do not think the other posada would really suit you.
A bluff man, with a walrus moustache, seated at the same table, said the posada at which he was staying was comfortable.
We found, on inquiring the distance we should have to go, that we could not reach Bogota that evening, and accordingly stopped at a posada three or four leagues from the city.
The scene at night reminded me of that at the posada on the opposite side of the mountains, the arrangements being very similar.
The posada was a wretched one, but there were few people in it.
The windows of the Posadadel Miradero at Toledo are so placed as by no means to diminish the interest of this operation.
The name of the place had already raised my expectations, but the blind landlord of the posada unconsciously won my attachment from the first moment.
Don't put up to night at your usual place, but go to the Posada del Sevillano, for there you will see the prettiest scullery-wench I know.
The corregidor, who had just done dinner, mounted his horse without delay, and rode to the Posada del Sevillano, taking with him the tally parchment.
Carriazo, who had been there before, led the way at once to the Posada del Sevillano; but they did not venture to ask for accommodation there, their dress and appearance not being such as would have gained them a ready welcome.
The posada was outside of the walls; it had a cheerless look.
But the posada you talk of,” said I, “are you sure it is a good one?
Pursuing our course through a spacious street, we put up at the posada of San Fernando.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "posada" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boardinghouse; dorm; dormitory; hostel; hotel; inn; ordinary; pension; public; roadhouse; tavern
