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Example sentences for "pueblo"

Lexicographically close words:
pudieron; pudo; pudor; pudore; puds; pueblos; pueda; puede; pueden; puedes
  1. Mission San José de Guadalupe and the pueblo of the same name are not, as so many people, even residents of California, think, one and the same.

  2. The pueblo of Sonoma was organized as a part of the secularization of San Francisco Solano, and also to afford homes for the colonists brought to the country by Hijar and Padrés.

  3. The pueblo of San José is now the modern city of that name, the home of the State Normal School, and the starting-point for Mount Hamilton.

  4. That is, the city gets its name from Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels, not from the church, as the pueblo was named long before the church was even suggested.

  5. The following day he preached, and Padre Arroyo de la Cuesta said mass before a large congregation, including other priests, several of the military, and people from the pueblo and Santa Clara, and various neophytes.

  6. Here, as elsewhere, the comisionados found serious fault with the pueblo grog-shops.

  7. The neophytes were organized into a pueblo named Figueroa after the governor; but it was a mere organization in name, and the condition of the ex-Mission was no different from that of any of the others.

  8. Concerning the name of the pueblo and river Rev.

  9. He also, single-handed and alone, pacified and converted the lofty pueblo of Acoma, then hostile to the Spanish.

  10. On the 22nd of May, Captains Sawkins and Sharp took with them about sixty men and attacked the town of Pueblo Nueva.

  11. With a good harbor, it is now reduced to an unimportant pueblo named Acla.

  12. Sunset Crater—The Effect of a Volcanic Eruption on an Ancient Pueblo People: Geogr.

  13. The remains of cliff-dwellings and surface houses built by the later Pueblo Indians are common everywhere throughout the region and show all stages of development.

  14. Probably the most interesting feature of these cones and flows is their age, at least one cone being so recent that ash from it buried numerous pithouses built by Pueblo Indians during the eleventh century, A.

  15. Many excellent examples illustrative of this tendency to modification are found in Pueblo art.

  16. The coil, so universally employed in construction, has had a decided influence upon the ceramic decoration of certain peoples, as I have shown in a paper on ancient Pueblo art.

  17. Pueblo peoples, and their earthen vessels often resemble it very closely, as shown in b.

  18. This familiarity with the use of fillets or ropes of clay would also lead to a great variety of applied ornament, examples of which, from Pueblo art, are given in Fig.

  19. With the ancient Pueblo peoples rectilinear forms of meander patterns were very much in favor and many earthen vessels are found in which bands of beautiful angular geometric figures occupy the peripheral zone, Fig.

  20. An artillery salute welcomed the party to Pueblo at 3:30 P.

  21. In the morning she had noticed, at the other end of the pueblo from her quarters, a large room which was frequented by men alone.

  22. The man had come up to the pueblo on purpose to have a plain talk with the girl and learn exactly what she meant to do with him.

  23. By the time he reached the upper landing of the wall of the pueblo it was sunset, and he paused to gaze at a magnificent landscape, the replica of the one which he had seen at sunrise.

  24. To the west rose a series of detached buttes, presenting forms of castles, towers, and minarets, which looked more like the handiwork of man than the pueblo itself.

  25. As we debouched from a deep ravine we caught sight of the pueblo of Laguna, illuminated by the sun, just rising, behind us.

  26. He strongly insisted there was no reason for haste, as the Dominicans had not planned to leave their pueblo before noon.

  27. Well, on the east and south sides there is a trail between the peaks, four in all, and one good bridle-path to the Pueblo of Jemez.

  28. The ravening maw of the horrible deities was thus appeased, not by the pueblo that paid the blackmail, but by the power that extorted it, and thus the latter obtained a larger share of divine favour.

  29. A Moqui pueblo stands near the lower end of the middle period of barbarism; ancient Troy stood next the upper end.

  30. So far as they have been studied, the pueblo Indians are found to be organized in clans, with descent in the female line, as in the case of the ruder Indians above described.

  31. It simply sent some of its chiefs about from one pueblo to another to collect tribute.

  32. The pueblo of Zuñi is a more extensive and complex structure than the ruined pueblos on the Chaco river.

  33. The house-communities of the southern Slavs are full of interest for the student of the early phases of social evolution, but the Mandan round-house and the Zuñi pueblo carry us much deeper into the past.

  34. This tax consisted in great part of maize and other food, and each tributary pueblo reserved a certain portion of its tribal territory to be cultivated for the benefit of the domineering confederacy.

  35. If ever they built any of the mounds in the Mississippi valley, I should be disposed to place their mound-building period before their pueblo period.

  36. I didn't reach the pueblo that night, however.

  37. I was riding through his pueblo on my way to Dent's, and I passed his school.

  38. Their principal pueblo is Acoma--"The sky dwellings of White.

  39. No pueblo girl could have kept that pace.

  40. She wore the dress of a pueblo girl, but she was not of their people.

  41. It is not well to meddle with their Pueblo laws.

  42. Most of the emigrants in and around the Pueblo of Sonoma were Americans from the western frontiers of the United States.

  43. The roof was destroyed by the Pueblo Indians in 1680 during an attack upon the settlement, at which time the inhabitants took refuge within the mission walls.

  44. From it issued the order to execute forty-eight Pueblo prisoners upon the plaza in front.

  45. If you can have a box with a little earth in it to set before your Pueblo village you can sow wheat seed, or mustard, and model Indians working in the fields with their crude plows.

  46. A Pueblo Settlement Suppose now that you have been reading about the life of the Pueblo Indians in our Southwest, and you have a picture of one of their singular settlements.

  47. Then the Briton dashed off after Don Guzman, shouting "police," and was at once accosted by an officer of the Pueblo force.

  48. As the man I had seen was coming on in the train in our wake, Mr. White promised to talk with the conductor, and find out, if he could, the truth about the Pueblo robbery.

  49. At night we reached Pueblo and took up our quarters in our own cars, and continued our journey, after some delay, towards Kansas City.

  50. He had arrived at Pueblo some time before our special, and as the morning was warm, he walked into a bar near the platform, while the engine of his train was watering, to get a glass of lemonade.

  51. The Pueblo Indian is historically known as a Catholic; that is to say, he told his beads, crossed his brow with holy water, and duly and devoutly knelt at the confessional.

  52. The Pueblo woman, though married, still had, with her children, her holding in her own clan.

  53. Some of the Pueblo tribes are said still to retain the use of that ancient supplicating convenience, 'the prayer-stick.

  54. The Acomas, like other Pueblo Indians, have from time immemorial been tillers of the soil.

  55. From that day there have been delight-makers in all the Pueblo tribes.

  56. While our own female suffragists were yet unborn, the Pueblo wife had been accorded the inalienable right to lord it over her mankind.

  57. As for our own upstart civilization, in this clime of ancient Pueblo refinements one must own that it takes on the color of an impertinence, and as incongruously exhibits itself as a brand-new patch on a long-worn garment.

  58. The monks of the early Catholic church, in their missionary endeavor to commend the Christian religion to the pagan mind, took care to graft upon each of the various festas of the Pueblo one of their own saint-day names.

  59. In the primitive Pueblo domicile, the wife appears, by tribal consent, to have been absolutely 'cock of the walk.

  60. Thus easily and informally were Pueblo marriages dissolved; and, this summary transaction once well concluded, each party had the right to contract a second marriage.

  61. After the fashion of most barbarous races, the Pueblo appears originally to have 'pitched his moving tent' in various parts of Mexico; and it may be inferred that he endured many casualities before settling himself in life.

  62. The Pueblo had, literally, a hearthstone in his primitive home.

  63. He states that "each pueblo is built around a rectangular court, in which, we suppose, are the springs that furnished the supply to the reservoirs.

  64. It lingered longer among the tribes of the South, and of the interior, and even to this day the Pueblo tribes of New Mexico and Arizona make an excellent article of pottery.

  65. The rapid decrease of the Pueblo tribes was owing to several causes.

  66. In fact, all evidence confirms the conclusion that the remnants of the Pueblo people that we have already described, are also the descendants of the people driven by hostile bands from north of the San Juan.

  67. The lower story is divided by cross-walls into a mass of cell-like rooms, as shown in the illustrations which represents the ground plan of a pueblo having four ranges of rooms.

  68. The reports of Coronado's expedition frequently mention Jemez, though it may be doubtful whether they refer to the pueblo of that name now, or to one of the numerous ruined ones in the immediate vicinity.

  69. As to the actual population of the Pueblo of Mexico, the accounts are very much at variance.

  70. Let us now see if we can not detect some connection between the Pueblo tribes of the south-west and the Mound Builders.

  71. But a storm was brewing from whose effects the Pueblo tribes never recovered.

  72. There is one feature common to all the Pueblo tribes which is necessary to refer to here, from its connection with the ruined structures further north.

  73. We think what resemblance can be traced, is more in the direction of the Pueblo tribes than of the Mound Builders.

  74. These are large communal houses of regular pueblo type, and, theoretically at least, they should be later in date than the majority of ruins throughout the area represented on the map.

  75. It is not our purpose to describe any more of the pueblos of this section of New Mexico than is required to enable us to understand the customs, manners, and habits of the Pueblo tribes.

  76. Cliff Palace was practically a pueblo built in a cave; its population grew from both without and within: new clans from time to time joined those existing, while new births continually augmented the number of inhabitants.

  77. The former existence of Pueblo peoples who buried their dead in the region between the Gila valley and Mesa Verde where the dead were cremated is a significant fact, but further observations are necessary before it can be interpreted.

  78. Certain Pueblo ruins are older than some cliff-dwellings, and there are cliff-houses more ancient than Pueblo ruins.

  79. So far as the culture of the inhabitants of the two is known (and knowledge of the pueblo is scant), the two settlements were synchronously inhabited, but nothing in them gives indication of the period of their occupancy.

  80. One of these is decorated with a series of parallel, longitudinal, and transverse lines, a design as widely spread as Pueblo pottery, extending across the boundary into Mexico.

  81. Closely connected with the relative age and the identity of the Mesa Verde cliff-house and pueblo culture are the age and relationship of different cliff-houses of the same region, for example, Cliff Palace and Spruce-tree House.

  82. The best explanation hereof seems to be the following: On the plateaux and in the valleys the Pueblo tribes attained their widest distribution and their highest development.

  83. In Hano, a pueblo on the East mesa of the Hopi, masks are kept in a special room back of a living room, a custom common to all the Hopi.

  84. Apparently the older the pueblo the greater the relative number of kivas.

  85. Footnote 73: A thorough comparative study of Pueblo pottery symbolism is much restricted on account of lack of material from all ceramic culture areas of the Southwest.

  86. Believing that modern Pueblo culture is the direct descendant of that of cliff-dwellers, the writer has not hesitated to make use of ethnology, when possible, in an interpretation of the archeological material.

  87. Shall I find Father Dámaso at his pueblo to-day?

  88. Well, I went to the pueblo of Los Baños to see about some cocoanut trees!

  89. When the pueblo was but a group of poor cabins, there arrived one day a strange old Spaniard with marvellous eyes, who scarcely spoke the Tagal.

  90. They scarcely breathed; the heat and atmosphere were insupportable; but the preacher was worth the endurance of all these miseries; besides, his sermon was to cost the pueblo two hundred and fifty pesos.

  91. At the moment the authorities of the pueblo and its vicinity were met there.

  92. The pueblo of San Diego is stirred by an incredible activity; in the houses, the streets, the church, the gallera, all is unwonted movement.

  93. Since the sack of the pueblo by Bâlat I've not known such a night!

  94. And they were the rulers of the pueblo of San Diego.

  95. The people of the pueblo had begun to think of him as a magician, when one day his body was found hanging high to the branch of a giant fig tree.

  96. Almost on the banks of the lake, in the midst of meadows and streams, is the pueblo of San Diego.

  97. In the ante-chamber some Spanish officers and all the functionaries of the pueblo were talking in groups.

  98. It was the Nochebuena, and yet the pueblo was sad.

  99. Lucia, who was going to the first pueblo with her basket, made him lean on her arm; the other children watched them both out of sight.

  100. The first city of Cibola was an Indian pueblo of about two hundred flat-roofed houses, built of stone and sun-dried clay.


  101. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pueblo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.