He had dined on Rincon Hill, and purposed spending the night at the Oriental Hotel; he rarely returned to the Presidio after an evening's entertainment.
Although he saw nobody yet, the shouts that came from the neighborhood of the presidio were ominous.
Giving the rurales some money, he crossed the square to the presidioand going to his room lighted a cigarette.
I imagined I could help him, until I saw thepresidio was burnt," Kit replied.
There was not a sound in the presidio and a drowsy quietness brooded over the dazzling town.
The square was occupied by an excited crowd, but the presidio had gone.
The presidio was a relic of Spanish dominion and its founders had built it well, copying, with such materials as they could get, stately models the Moors had left in the distant Peninsula.
Alvarez had used the vaults under the presidio for a munition store, and when he was dead the mayor-domo had blown up the building as the rebels forced their way in.
When he reached the presidio he sat down on the balcony that overlooked the patio outside his room.
In spite of the ruinous patio, the presidio was the finest building in the town.
It has, however, helped in material ways, by granting the use of portions of the Presidio and Fort Mason reservations, by sending naval colliers to bring exhibits from European countries, and by becoming one of the heaviest exhibitors.
The tournament was won by Harry Davis, of thePresidio Golf Club, after a struggle in which he eliminated such stars as Chick Evans, H.
The Australian Pavilion, at the Presidioentrance to the Exposition, was designed by George J.
The presidio of St. Augustine was the base of operations, and here the strongest forts were built.
In addition to Indian labor, there were a few Spanish peons who were paid 4 reales per day, a few of the Crown's Negro slaves, and a number of convicts, either from the local presidio or sent from Caribbean ports.
The presidio was damaged by storms and high tides that undermined houses, polluted wells, and flooded fields and gardens.
Imagine the joy in the presidio shortly thereafter when two subsidy payments arrived at one time!
After 5 years of work the castillo was a defense in fact as well as name, and the people of the presidio could breathe more freely.
Expecting the worst, the residents of the presidio crowded into the fortification, but the corsairs, nursing their wounds and without even scouting the undefended town, decided to sail northward on a hunt for easier prey.
If he tried to escape, the term was doubled and he faced the grim prospect of being sent to a fever-infested African presidio to work it out.
The invaders waited until midnight, when the presidio was asleep.
The sandy, unstable coastal soil provided the engineers with a problem, but the real obstacles to accomplishment were the poverty of the presidio and the feeling of the Madrid officials that Florida did not require strong military defenses.
He agreed and, like Collins, was exceedingly helpful, for none other in the presidio had such abilities.
During the day many rumors were afloat as to happenings across the river, but it was not until that night that the revolution developed in Presidio del Norte.
They must have been pretty bold to attempt such a thing so near Presidio del Norte.
We are Americans and wish to go to Presidio del Norte.
Let us hasten back and send a messenger to Presidio del Norte, and then we can return and watch for Don Rafael.
Presidio del Norte is not a large town, but as it is on the line of the Orient railroad--which at this particular time was in process of construction--it was quite a lively place for a Mexican pueblo.
Of course there were no Americans in the force that captured Presidio del Norte?
Our messenger is already on his way to Presidio del Norte to summon the rurales.
Just go over to Presidio del Norte and ask the first peon you see," was the captain's reply.
I'm a messenger from Americans who are in danger in Presidiodel Norte," replied Billie; "but there are Mexicans in the boat.
The revolutionists had taken possession of Presidio del Norte and the skirmish referred to in the last chapter was in full swing.
Here is the address as plain as can be: 'Rafael Solis, Presidio del Norte, care Senor Pancho Villa.
I should say the best place to join the expedition is in Presidio del Norte.
It was a couple of hours later and the Broncho Rider Boys had just seen the rurales ride away toward Presidio del Norte with their prisoners.
You bet I will," replied the corporal, emphatically, and in almost no time Billie was galloping toward Presidio in charge of a couple of troopers.
Up on the Presidio proudly floats high above the shore the American flag standing out in the breeze.
The Presidio or military station was called San Antonio de Bexar, while during the early eighteenth century there were founded various religious Missions, the chief being by Franciscan monks, the Mission of San Antonio de Valero.
Adjoining the park are the great cemeteries of the city, Laurel Hill and the Lone Mountain, with others, the Presidio being to the northward.
Since the said presidio was of no use for this, it became necessary to devise another remedy.
With such activity do they make a jest of the efforts that were assured by the presidio of Zamboangan, with their resort to more easy piratical raids.
There they freed the presidio from its danger and those who were in it.
They accompanied Captain Vermudez to the lake to make the fortification that had been determined, and the permanent presidio wherever it should prove most suitable.
Without it, surely, Captain Don Francisco would not have had the good fortune that he had and obtained, although he opposed leaving a presidio here.
One responsible officer, called procurador, was kept in the city of Mexico to buy supplies for the missions from stipends due, and from the drafts given to the friars by the presidio commanders for goods furnished to the presidios.
The vessels in port fired a salute of one hundred and one guns, answered by the same from the guns of the presidio at Monterey,--an honor given to no one below the rank of general.
The convent of Calamianes, or, as it is called, Taitai, where there is a presidio of Spaniards, and where one thousand six hundred souls are directed.
The convent of Tandag, head of those in the province of Caragha, where there is a presidio of Spaniards, is one hundred and fifty leguas distant from Manila.
More than one thousand five hundred Christian captives were liberated, and a presidio and fort [48] was erected as a warning for the future.
There was a presidio of Spaniards there, which from the indications seems to be that of Linao.
Their superior assigned eight religious for this task, who, being supplied with the necessary things, arrived without accident at the presidio of Tandag.
Those houses are so capacious that one of our religious lay brothers, who had been a soldier in the presidio of Caragha, said that he had seen one that would hold sixty persons.
Moses Kelly, shot to death at Presidio del Norte, about 1870; Abraham Lyon, shot to death at Tucson; A.
That incorporation was difficult; hence they increased the troops and arms of the presidio of Paynaven, the center of that province.
The presidio at Paynavén which has been increased, is injudiciously allowed to make raids among the natives upon any occasion.
The battalion of each presidio is made up of eighty or more horse soldiers, called cuera; besides these, it has a number of auxiliary troops and a detachment of artillery.
Engineer Corps, I rode to thePresidio of San Francisco, and the old fortification at the mouth of the bay.
The presidio is about three miles from the town, and consists of several blocks of adobe buildings, covered with files.
They were built at different epochs: that of San Diego, being the first, was built in 1769; its distance from the presidio of the same name is two leagues.
The commandant of each presidio is the captain of its respective company, and besides the intervention, military and political, he has charge of all things relating to the marine department.
Presidio del Norte is in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, at the mouth of Los Conchos River; hence the town is sometimes called Presidio de las Juntas (junction).
The frontier custom-houses of Taos, in the department of New Mexico, Paso del Norte and Presidio del Norte in that of Chihuahua, are entirely closed to all commerce.
When they reached Presidiodel Norte again, they learned that Gov.
The Maxwells lived at Presidio Heights, in one of the newer residences of the aristocratic Western Addition, a handsome brick house decorated with Romanesque fantasies in terra cotta, behind a bronze rail guarded by heraldic griffins.
But the whim of fashion had fancied in succession Stockton Street, Rincon Hill, Van Ness Avenue, Nob Hill, and had now settled upon the Western Addition and the Presidio Heights.
In the year 23, the Moros bordering on the province of Carágha besieged the presidio of Catél.
The cura of the town is a secular; but the Spaniards of the presidio are in charge of religious of the Society of Jesus; they have a college in the said city, and also have charge of the district called Hilo Hilo.
It has many Christians, who remained there when the Spanish presidio was withdrawn.
That island has at the port located about its middle, called Sanbuangan, an excellent Spanish presidio with a stone fort which is well equipped with artillery.
It has a Spanish presidioand its fort, whose castellan is the alcalde-mayor of that jurisdiction.
The village of Iligan, which is the capital of the jurisdiction, where the alcalde-mayor and the infantry captain of the presidio live, has about 100 tributes along the coast.
The latter is the chief presidio of the Spaniards, where a college is in the first years of foundation, which has a rector and five priests who work in it.
As the days grew shorter they often rode on the Presidio hills, watching the sun set beyond the Golden Gate.
At one of the Presidio hops she spent the evening--it was moonlight--in a boat on the bay with an officer who was as accomplished a flirt as herself.
There could be no greater contrast possible than that between the Presidio of Spanish days and the Presidio of the present time, both as to the place and the personnel of the officers and men of the garrison.
The full complement of soldiers in each Presidio was two hundred and fifty--but the number rarely reached as high as this.
After your visit to the Presidio you will naturally desire to go to the Cliff House, that world renowned resort on Point Lobos south of the Golden Gate, and about seven miles distant from the City Hall.
The Presidio looks like a settlement in itself, and is very picturesque.
He rode on at a good pace till day, then quitted the common road, to repose him: a precaution he observed all along, till he came near to the Presidio of St. John Baptist.
On the 19th of March, the year following, setting out on his journey, he soon arrived at the Presidio of St. John Baptist.
The hills above the Presidio were then bare of habitations, but on that day they were black with eager spectators.
A company of soldiers sent from the Presidio for general duty saw the flag several blocks away, and made for the house to save the colors.
There was no human habitation in sight, nor was there to be for forty years, but friendly welcome came on the trails that led to the Presidio and the Mission.
Five days before the Declaration of Independence was signed Moraga and his men, the first colonists, arrived in San Francisco and began getting out the timber to build the fort at the Presidio and the church at Mission Dolores.
The missions had been disbanded and thePresidio was manned by one gray-haired soldier.
Then I tried to find the Mission or the Presidio that the relief party started from, and may be see some of that party.
An expedition from the upper Presidio has found traces of a party of Americans in the Sierra," said the secretary monotonously.
Came to us then at the Presidio of San Geronimo, a young girl--an American, a stranger and helpless.
Here is the report of the Commander of the Presidio who sent out the expedition.
But, as it so happened, the cook had borrowed it that morning to rake tortillas from the Presidio oven, and Don Juan Salvatierra contented himself with sternly demanding the reason for this unwonted intrusion.
He referred me to the Mission and Presidio of San Ysabel that had sent out the relief party for further information.
I saw you--the Secretary of the former Comandante--the only one left who remembered the expedition, and the custodian of the Presidio records.
Besides, about two leagues distant was the gaunt and rock-built castle of Carazo, a presidio or stronghold of the Moors, whence he might be attacked in the rear, should he linger before the fortress.
We have seen that Count Fernan Gonzalez had regained possession of the ancient town and fortress of Lara, the domain of his ancestors; but it will be recollected that within two leagues’ distance stood the Moorish presidio of Carazo.
As the long dry summer passed, the low hills that surrounded the white walls of the presidio grew more and more to resemble in hue the leathern jacket of the commander, and Nature herself seemed to have borrowed his dry, hard glare.
There was a slight tinge of sarcasm in his tone as he glanced toward the desolate parade ground of the presidio and the open unguarded gate.
The children of the presidio school smirched their copy-books under the awful supervision, and poor Paquita, the prize pupil, failed utterly in that marvelous up-stroke when her patron stood beside her.
A pile of copy-books, the work of the presidio school, lay on the table.
Abundant harvests and patient industry amply supplied the wants of presidio and mission.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presidio" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
