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Example sentences for "rurales"

Lexicographically close words:
ruptured; ruptures; rupturing; rura; rural; rurall; rursum; rursus; rusa; ruse
  1. Richardson saw the Rurales serenely swing their carbines forward, and, peculiar-minded person that he was, felt his heart leap into his throat at the prospective volley.

  2. Richardson's little animal, with his ears bent forward, was staring at the horses of the Rurales as if in an intense study.

  3. I'll give him the new sword-stick that my cousin the Rurales gave me.

  4. His cousin Gerado the Rurales taught him.

  5. They'll stir up the rurales to get after us, I reckon.

  6. That was what the rurales and the rangers were for.

  7. They were nearly all mere boys, as usual, and like the policemen and rurales of the country struck one as unwisely entrusted with dangerous weapons.

  8. But the squads of rurales and uniformed police and the civil employees of Government were very solemn with their responsibilities.

  9. With a cheer, the full force of rurales leaped from the trenches.

  10. The rurales must do the work or we shall be in serious trouble.

  11. The rurales poured a perfect storm of bullets at him, but the chief of the cattle rustlers seemed to bear a charmed life.

  12. Cerro's horse and the mounts of his rurales clattered out of the court.

  13. Raul had heard good reports of Cerro's having organized his rurales into an efficient corps.

  14. When they returned to Petaca, through driving mist, Raul was astonished to see rurales in front of Father Gabriel's room.

  15. But Raul could not be sure the report about the rurales was more than a rumor.

  16. If a man fled, the rurales had a way of picking him up with uncanny rapidity.

  17. If the rurales can't see me I can leave my request in writing.

  18. It's up to Captain Cerro and his rurales now.

  19. Yet I will be dictating when I summon the rurales .

  20. In Colima they say the rurales will finish off the peons quickly," said Vicente.

  21. At the earliest opportunity, he would spend a day in Colima, butter some palms and put the rurales wise: the gray-uniformed men would tip their caps and Pedro would be a marked man.

  22. The rurales should kill him," said Jesus, and he sucked through his stained teeth for the bleeding annoyed him.

  23. He observed that nearly a whole company of Rurales formed the escort, and this led him to conclude that the government party was very uneasy as to the situation and had taken precautions against a possible attempt at rescue.

  24. Dave Henderson, arrested for the murder of the Rurales policeman, was still serving time in a Mexican prison for another man's crime.

  25. He used to be a bandit in the old days; and once, when the rurales were hot on his trail, he hid in an old stable of ours.

  26. For I tell you right now that if Porfirio Diaz was still boss, his rurales would have taken right holt where the rangers left off.

  27. Then, instead of these two, we should have a dozen gringos, with Porfirio and his rurales to back up their charter.

  28. These rurales guide tourists through the interior and also attend all public places to keep order; they receive one dollar a day, which is enormous compared with the other soldiers' pay of six and one-quarter cents.

  29. These rurales are a band of outlaws who came forward with their chief and aided Diaz during the war.

  30. This affair caused much ill-feeling between the rurales and regulars, and Figueroa sent word to Madero that he could not afford to sacrifice his men by trying to cooperate with such a poor general as Huerta.

  31. General Huerta's column did not get away from Cuernavaca until the second day of the fight, and did not reach the battlefield in the extinct crater of Mount Herradura until Figueroa's rurales had been all but routed.

  32. However, if the rurales could not get in, neither could the smugglers get out, except by the river entrance.

  33. They were quickly ushered into his presence and their joy and surprise may well be imagined when they recognized, in one of his aides, the captain of the rurales who had captured the smugglers at the cave.

  34. If we can find this Don Rafael, we shall at once notify the proper authorities, and I think the rurales will not lose him again.

  35. While this conversation had been going on, the rurales to the number of half a hundred, guided by Pedro, had arrived, and arrangements were at once perfected for an attack upon the smugglers' stronghold.

  36. 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.

  37. I should think the rurales would lock him up," said Pedro.

  38. Realizing the humor of the situation, Billie speedily joined in, and the combined laughter of the two was so infectious that, without at all understanding what it was about, the rurales and smugglers also began to laugh.

  39. Of course I have heard something of the capture from across the river, the captain of the rurales having given out the information.

  40. As soon as the boys could gain their feet and free themselves from the pile of dirt which had been thrown up, they turned their attention to the rurales to see what might have been the damage done.

  41. I'll bet the place the rurales have gone is at the same place we lost old Bray.

  42. Coffee was served soon after, and still the rurales had not arrived.

  43. Mustering his band, the captain of the rurales quickly formed his plan of attack.

  44. Even under certain heavy handicaps ten gallons of gasoline in the desert can achieve more than ten horses with rurales on their backs.

  45. When consciousness came halting back he found himself standing half-supported by two of the rurales in a dark street and before a high gate in unbroken masonry.

  46. Then the door of a courtyard swung inward, the mounted rurales closed in and the eight chained men went clinking out to the dark street.

  47. Quelele, the quick of eye, fired his first shot by the light of storm fire; one of the rurales went down like a wet sack.

  48. The rurales now carried their rifles swung free across the saddles.

  49. Quelele has just reported Urgo and his rurales out on the desert and coming our way.

  50. One of the rurales unslung a guitar from a mule's pack and strummed minor chords to the accompaniment of a song in which the rest joined.

  51. The little car rounded the end of the mountain range and shot back on a tangent for the road where Urgo and his rurales were travelling.

  52. Rather, with Doc Stooder's counsel, Bim circulated warily among the gambling halls and in the cantinas where the rurales were wont to go for their salt and mescal.

  53. About them were the rurales with their rifles; four were mounted on horseback and a pack mule, lightly laden, slept on three legs behind the horsemen.

  54. Quelele he sent back to the aerie with orders not to shoot until he heard shots from the whites; the Indian's fire from the rear, once Urgo and his men had passed the rocky portals, would throw the rurales into confusion.

  55. Even above the tumult of the deluge sounded the shrill alarm of the rurales as they broke position and turned to flee through the Gate.

  56. But here's the funny thing: the rurales let Hawkins go even though he laid out two of 'em with a chair.

  57. Eventually the rurales would find the saddle and Ramon's horse.

  58. All official significance set aside, Waring and the captain of rurales faced each other with the blunt challenge between them: "You didn't get your man!

  59. The rurales mounted and rode down the street.

  60. The Captain of rurales and one of his men dismounted and followed the Americans into the cantina.

  61. A subdued buzz came from the corner where the rurales sat, and he caught the name "Waring.

  62. Within the hour five rurales disembarked from a box-car and crossed to the water-hole, where one of them dismounted and searched for tracks.

  63. The rurales won't ride into this pocket before daylight.

  64. I came over to say that them rurales got their hoss.

  65. Outside in the fading sunlight, the horses of the rurales stamped and fretted.

  66. He knew that if he were to fire, the rurales would rush him.

  67. You've got a hunch that the rurales are on our trail," said Waring, as they rode on.

  68. It tells me that the rurales are not far behind.

  69. Down the street--and coming," said Waring, as the rurales boiled from the cantina.

  70. He didn't need to be told that they were the picked horses of the rurales, and that for some strange reason his superior had sent him to find out just why these same rurales were in town.

  71. Them rurales are kind of careless--ridin' over the line and not stoppin' by to make a little explanation.

  72. The leader of the rurales immediately exhibited a warrant for the arrest of Waring, signed by a high official and sealed with the great seal of Mexico.

  73. Whether the Rurales see it or not, I've saved their hides.

  74. The Rurales won't be along fer an hour yet, if they hain't turned back after our other party.

  75. Although the period he spent waiting for the attack was less than an hour by his watch, it seemed to last so long that he had hopes that the Rurales would appear in time to rescue him.

  76. An' Buck now thinks the Rurales may have come up in time to save him.

  77. The Rurales will have to get the other ponies but some day I'll come back after Lane's cache.


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