I was painfully pondering in my mind what it was to be--shaping hideous conjectures--when I sawRayas wave his arm in the direction of the motionless figure.
During the strife Rayas found full occupation in the management of Moro, without thinking of the Jarocha.
We were formed into a guerilla, with Rayasas our captain.
I could seeRayas in front, at the head of his band.
Capitan Rayas has done a little business on the road?
Rayas had for the moment left me, and had gone inside the hut, where the Jarocha was kept.
I could now understand how I had fallen into the hands of Rayas and his robbers.
There might be other ninas following the Mexican army who had brothers, but the communication of Rayas pointed to one who had lately disappeared from the camp--a circumstance identifying her with the sister of Calros.
It was not Ramon, but the young officer, who fired it; and the bullet was aimed at Rayas himself, and not at you.
One of the moving figures was Rayas himself, the other two were a brace of his subordinates, who had conducted, or rather carried, the girl inside.
I saw that Rayas employed both his arms in this effort--having disengaged the wounded one from its sling, before the surprise had taken place.
I forgot," said the accuser; "it was of the Capitan Rayas we were speaking.
The evidence of the Christian rayas was not admitted in the courts of law.
Both Spahis and rayas appealed to the Porte for protection against these ruffians.
This most important provision gave to Russia a preferential right of protection of the Christian rayas not conceded to any other Christian Power.
He endeavoured to win the support of the Christian rayas throughout the Empire.
He directed the Pasha of Nisch to invade Serbia and reduce the contumacious rayas to their former condition.
Under his leadership the rayas succeeded in driving the Dahis and Janissaries out of the country districts.
It was, however, almost wholly due to the efforts of the Serbian rayas that the Dahis were completely defeated.
Nowhere throughout the Empire were the Janissaries more turbulent and dangerous or more oppressive to the rayas than in Serbia.
Proposals for reform in favour of the rayas were impossible with ministers who carried their hatred of Christianity to the length of excluding from the public service every Turk who could speak a Christian language.
By the Christian rayas of the Ottoman Empire he was known as the Padishah of the Padishahs.
At his instance emissaries were sent into the European provinces of the Ottoman Empire to incite the Christian rayas to rise in arms against their masters and oppressors--the first instance of the kind.
There was something in the way of fixity of tenure accorded to the rayas which was absent from the feudal serfs.
This tolerant and enlightened system induced numbers of the Christians who dwelt on the borders of the Ottoman Empire to exchange their hard position, as Hungarian serfs, for that of Rayas under the Turks.
As long as the flower of the Christian youth were converted not merely into Mahometans, but into devoted supporters of the Ottoman power, any revolt of the Rayaswas impossible.
Yesterday a fight took place between the miners of Rayas and those of Mellado, and I was not there.
Besides the grand shaft (tiro general), the mine of Rayas has two others of less importance, one of which reaches a depth of nearly eight hundred feet.
Before the sudden change in its fortune, which resulted from the rich yield of silver in the Valenciana and Rayas mines, the mining industry of Mexico had concentrated its activity in the works of Tasco, Pachuca, and Zacatecas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rayas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
