Just to the west, from horizon to horizon, stretched the gaunt and rugged Sangre de Cristo range, dark and threatening always in their aspect.
The country itself changed from flat to hilly as the Sangre de Cristo range once more drew nearer.
On the right, almost behind, are still to be seen the famous Spanish Peaks towering like twins in solitude above the rest of the Sangre de Cristo range, some forty miles away.
Far to the southwest, far as the eye could reach, faintly outlined against the sky, rose the snowy peaks of the Sangrede Christo and Sierra Blanco Mountains on the other side of the grand San Luis Valley.
To the northeast, white with snow, towered the serrated range of the Sangre de Cristo mountains, rising abruptly from the valley which stretched away to the southeast and standing out in bold relief against the deep blue sky.
I had only closed my eyes an instant before, I was sure, yet then I had been lying quietly in the station at Alamosa, away over on the other side of the Sangre de Cristo.
Just below them confused elevations show where Marshall pass carries its lofty avenue, and to the southward of that stretches the splendid, snow-trimmed array of the Sangrede Cristo.
Fairly out into the valley, where Ute creek, Sangre de Cristo, and one or two other streamlets unite to form the Trinchera, stands an old military post, Fort Garland.
Looking southeast from the station you can see where the track runs up into the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo to one of the great iron mines of the Colorado Coal and Iron company, whence large shipments are being made daily.
Well may Calderon say, in the person of the former-- Si sangre sin fuego hiere Qua fara sangre con fuego.
The article goes on to say that upon the arrival of the Spaniards the natives only made friends with them after that Legazpi had performed the ceremonies of the pacto-de-Sangre [81] with one of the indio petty sovereigns.
The two travelers talked of various subjects, but, once more aboard the train at Sangre Grande, the question of Trinidad's wealth recurred to Stuart, and he sought further information.
At Sangre Grande, the railroad ended and a two-wheeled buggy was waiting.
She's an old woman, now, but she lives in Sangre Grande, still.
Near d'Abadie, this crop gave place to cocoa, the staple of the center of the island, and this extended through Arima to Sangre Grande, the terminus of the railroad.
Five feet high, a framework of bones covered with a skin of Andalusian tint, the Trueba stood erect and stiff in all the consciousness of his sangre regular.
Don Juan Onate was therefore quickly dispatched to take possession; and in his train followed twelve Castilian families of sangre azul, to colonize the newly-acquired territory.
In Sangre y Arena his affair is with the cherished atrocity which keeps the Spaniards in the era of the gladiator shows of Rome.
Sangre y Arena is a book of unexampled force and in that sort must be reckoned the greatest novel of the author, who has neglected no phase of his varied scene.
Mauro was a Lucha-sangre of the twelfth century, reincarnate.
The very next morning the elder Lucha-sangre sent Mauro to the castle with some papers for the Duke's approval and signature.
It was a case of breeding back--away back over and past generations of fawning commoners to the times when Lucha-sangre swords were splitting Moorish casques and winning guerdons.
Four feet of snow still clung to the east side of Grass Mountain, almost a straight precipice; and across the forested valley lay another ten or twelve feet of snow on the upper peaks of the Sangre de Christo Range.
A pretty legend clings to that Sangre de Christo Range; and because people repeat the foolish statement that America's mountains lack legend and lore, I shall repeat it, though it is so very old.
Why scour the crowded Alps when the snowy domes of the Santa Fe and Jemez and Sangre de Christo lie unexplored only an easy motor ride from your hotel?
Last year, twenty-six bear were shot in the Sangre de Christo Canyon in three months.
As for bear, as many as eight have been trapped in three weeks on theSangre de Christo Range.
Sangre De Cristo Range in the vicinity of the Colorado-New Mexico boundary.
Southern Rocky Mountain Province; southwestern part of the Colorado Piedmont, and Raton Section of the Great Plains, to the east of the Sangre De Cristo Range (see fig.
Canyon City described on page 376, inhabit the Sangre De Cristo and Wet mountains in the Southern Rocky Mountain Province and adjacent parts of the Colorado Piedmont and Raton Section of the Great Plains Province (see fig.
As the command emerged through the "Sangre de Christo Pass," on their return route, they came suddenly into view of a village of Apaches.
Up to now they have been Spanish novels written for Spaniards; it is only with Sangre y Arena that the virus of a European reputation shows results.
Talent, learning, excellence of every kind was largely represented there; so also was the sangre azul, the boast of the proud Spanish grandees.
Please your lordships," he said, "I think it is the sangre azul that makes him so bold.
Among the finest of the chains are the Rampart, Sangre de Cristo, San Juan, Sawatch (Saguache) and Elk ranges.
Cruel i abominable religion aplacar a Dios con vida i sangre innocente!
Far in the distance, many miles to the south, can be seen, mingling with the sky and clouds, the gleaming peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the grandest range of the Sierras.
Particularly since he noted a touch of similarity between the high head and the glorious lines of El Sangre and the young pride and strength of Terry himself.
I wish to heaven, Terry," she murmured, "that you could find a master as El Sangre has done.
He turned to the horse, and El Sangre stepped out of the stall and into a shaft of sunlight that burned on him like blood-red fire.
And when the full dark came, he broke from the last sweep of foothills and El Sangre roused to a gallop over the level toward Craterville.
You can give El Sangre a stretching down the road?
Well, Terence saw Le Sangreon a hilltop against the sky.
Terry imitated; one call to El Sangre brought him back to a gentle amble.
Actually, he struck out on foot with his rifle and lived in the country and never stopped walking until he wore down Le Sangre somehow and brought him back hobbled--just skin and bones, and Terence not much more.
El Sangrewas giving him true trust, true love, and asking him for no return.
Now, you ain't a flyweight yourself, and El Sangre takes you along like you was a feather.
When El Sangre pulled out of his racing gallop and struck out up a slope at his natural gait, the ground-devouring pace, Terry Hollis was panting and twisting in the saddle as though the labor of the gallop had been his.
He lightened his weight as only a fine horseman can do, shifting a few vital inches forward, and with the burden falling more over his withers, El Sangre fled like a racer down the valley.
At the end of a week Terry won a bet when a team of draught horses hitched onto his line could not pull El Sangre over his mark, and broke the rope instead.
The morning was as fresh as a rose, and the four men came out of the house with Pollard to see El Sangre dancing under the saddle.
He gave El Sangre his head to pick his own way, and he confined his efforts to urging the great stallion along.
He got off at Nogel, a little mining town sitting at the base of some foothills in the Sangre de Christo Range, some miles from Dawes.
I was further informed, that Don Eusebio was of Spanish descent, though a Mexican by birth; that in the veins of his daughters flowed only the Andalusian blood--the pure sangre azul.
At a glance I could see that he was a Spanish-American of the pure Iberian blood--the boasted sangre azul of Andalusia--without any trace of the Aztecan.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sangre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
