Of Aristotle’s conception of a fifth element, the quinta essentia, or ether, superior to the others and permeating them, Isidore shows merely a trace.
Hacienda Quinta Carolina, Chihuahua: residence of more than fifty rooms, 1892.
Illustration: Hacienda Quinta Carolina, Chihuahua: residence of more than fifty rooms, 1892.
I have nothing more to do, then, but to wish your Excellency well through your undertaking; for you know you must arrive alone at theQuinta Verde, and I can escort you no farther.
Sergeant Diego, when left by General Bustamente a few paces from the Quinta Verde, was very uneasy regarding the fate of his leader, and entertained dismal presentiments.
And he boldly stepped into the Quinta Verde, the doors of which closed after him with a dull, heavy sound.
The double gates of the Quinta Verde flew open before him, and two masked men, each holding a dark lantern in his hand, the focus of which he directed on the stranger's face, appeared in the entrance.
But the enemy of whom they thought they had relieved themselves at the Quinta Verde, was not dead; the dagger of the King of Darkness had not proved more sure than the bullets of the General.
The Quinta de la Miseria derives its gloomy name from the tragic event that had given it its melancholy prominence in the minds of the people of Asuncion.
Forgues crosses the river and rides into the territory of Gran Chaco as far as the Quinta de la Miseria, situated about two miles and a half from the river-bank.
The only known specimens of Whitehead's button quail were purchased in the Quinta Market, Manila.
Worcester's quail is known from four specimens which were purchased in Quinta Market, Manila.
That when lady Quinta is somewhat better, our lady will let lady Quinta know and come along with her to see your ladyship.
Asensio built a makeshift shelter close under La Cumbre--from it the ruins of the Quintade Esteban were visible--and there they settled down to live.
The grants of title from the crown for this quinta and the sugar-plantations, they are there, too.
It was with a strange, nightmare feeling of unreality that the trio dragged themselves upward to the ruined quinta when darkness finally came.
He drank and gambled heavily; he brought his friends to the quinta with him, and strove to forget domestic unpleasantness in boisterous revelry.
It was in a thoughtful mood that he rode up La Cumbre, toward theQuinta de Esteban, late on the afternoon of Don Mario's visit.
The overseer was a patient man; he watched with interest the growing discord at the quinta and planned to profit by it, should occasion offer.
Before leaving for Don Pablo's quinta Evangelina came to bid her father an agonized farewell, and for a long time after she had gone the old man stood motionless, senseless, scarcely breathing.
The rock for the building of the quinta had been quarried here, and in the center of the resulting depression, grass-grown and flowering now, was the well itself.
Now that Rosa was here, in sight of the ruined quinta itself, her hopes and half-beliefs faded.
All that night people from the town below came and went and the quinta resounded to sobs and lamentations, but of all the relatives of the dead and wounded, Dona Isabel took her bereavement hardest.
To be sure, the overseer had acquired title, of a sort, to the plantation by paying the taxes over a period of years, but it was the quinta itself which he desired, the Quinta de Esteban with its hidden gold.
He afterwards proposed accompanying us about half-a-mile farther to the quinta of Marvilla, which belongs to his father.
This quinta essentia had been speculated upon by the Greeks, some regarding it as immaterial or aethereal, and others as material; and a school of philosophers termed alchemists arose who attempted the isolation of this essence.
This is the fifth or divine element, the aetherial, by the schoolmen translated Quinta Essentia, whence by a curious degradation we have our modern word Quintessence, of that which is the finest and subtlest extract.
They will take us down to Funchal in a quarter of an hour, and we can get to the Quinta by about seven.
Sitting down, he wrote a note asking the manager of the hotel to send his things up to the Quinta Carr, together with his account, as he was leaving Madeira for the present.
And he found them very pleasant at Madeira, or, rather, at the Quinta Carr, for he did everything except sleep there.
Perhaps on arriving at theQuinta Carr about eleven o'clock, he would find that the steam launch was waiting for them in a little bay where the cliff on which the house stood curved inwards.
He now left the city behind, and, passing through the suburbs of Belem, directed his course to the Quinta of the Marquis of Tavora.
In the background was the Quinta of Bichos, the entrance-door of which opened towards the river, and round it was now stationed a strong body of troops under arms.
At length, at seven o'clock, the gates of the Quinta were thrown open.
Thus so much time passed, that the first streaks of dawn were in the sky before the latter was seen to enter the gates of his father's Quinta at Belem.
I ordered him to drive the usual way, past the Quinta da Cima, and down by the Quinta do Meyo," answered Teixeira.
Antonio rose, for he calculated that it would be dark by the time he reached the Quinta of the Marquis of Tavora.
I propose to set out for theQuinta to-morrow," answered Don Luis.
Ah, happy is the quintain the warm and sunny morn.
He was startled thinking the owner of the quinta was coming and fell from the wall into the garden.
When we were devouring this fruit we were caught by the owner of this quinta which was a full mile from the one where the bull dog was.
A magician never suffers himself to be interrupted in his labors, whether engaged in contemplating the nature of spirits, in watching the heavens, or in the elaboration of the quinta essentia, the final essence, with his crucibles.
He hoped to find his quinta essentia by a shorter process than the combination of substances and distillation, which had exhausted already so many investigators and led so few to success.
They brought with them a small bundle of clothes, a dirty poodle with a very intelligent look, and a monkey tied to a chain; in a short while they had to sell the monkey to some gipsies that lived in the Quinta de Goya.
No; he lived in la Quinta de Goya," answered his daughter.
While it was hot in Cuba, Daniel maintained, the trade wind coming with evening made the nights cool; it was far more comfortable, summer and winter, at La Quinta than in Eastlake.
Somewhat similar, but unfinished, and enriched with niches and statues, is a Quinta near the station at Guimarães.
A much more pleasing example of the same school--a school doubtless influenced by the bad example of Churriguera in Spain--is the house called the Quinta do Freixo on the Douro a mile or so above the town.
There are also some della Robbia medallions at the Quinta de Bacalhôa at Azeitão near Setubal.
To see such tiles in their greatest quantity and variety one must cross the Tagus and visit the Quintade Bacalhôa not far from Setubal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quinta" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
