As sargento-mayor of the galleon he appointed Juan Ventura Sarra (the Catalan so famous for his successful surgical operations), on account of his being a man of much valor, and experienced in military service in Flandes and Cataluna.
Governor Don Manuel de Leon was sick from excessive corpulency; and Don Juan de Sarra treated him by making cruel cuts in the flesh of his body.
It is certain that Juan Ventura Sarra was a great surgeon, and showed that he was such not only with this governor, but also in the year 1682 with his successor, Master-of-camp Don Juan Vargas Hurtado.
The above-mentioned Juan Ventura Sarra treated him, applying all means which the art of surgery imparts to those who are so skilful as was Juan Ventura, who within four months brought him to what seemed a state of convalescence.
Nothin', as Father Hoolaghan says, but the sup of whiskey does this sarra of a configuration good.
Why the sarra do you be spakin' about the sickness, the Lord protect us, whin you know I'm so timersome of it?
Sarra was fagen in kindes wune, Sarah was naturally glad.
Sarra ðo ſtarf, an hundred ger old And ſeuene and .
And fro that cytee of Hur Abraham departed, be the commandement of God, fro thens, aftre the dethe of his fadre; and ladde with him Sarra his wife and Lothe his brotheres sone, because that he hadde no child.
And Sarra Abrahames wife, and Melcha Nachors wif, weren sustren to the seyd Lothe.
And the same Sarra was of elde 90 zeer, when Ysaac hire sone was goten on hire.
Abra- ham told all men that Sarra was his sister, [and] thus preserved his life by his words: he knew very well that 2625 he had few relatives and friends among that people.
Then the Almighty King and Everlasting Lord an- swered him fairly: "Though much worn in years, Sarra shall bring a son into the world to thee; the future shall truly proceed in 2355 accordance with these words here pronounced.
Therefore I have told warriors in plain words that Sarra was my sister, wher- 2705 ever on this earth we have had to contend against foreigners in our exile.
But it was not vouchsafed to Abraham as yet that his bright-faced bride should bring into the world a guardian for his heritage, that Sarra [should bear] sons and daughters to Abraham.
But God was still angry at Abimeleh for the sin which he had committed against Sarra and Abraham, when he sepa- rated these two loving ones, the wife and the husband.
But why the sarra did you go to say that I was in the custom o' tellin' lies?
The sarra much; barrin' that they'll miss her at first from about the place.
The sarra doubt of it; but takin' the other farm was the brightest thought I seen wid you yit.
Why thin, the sarra lie undher you, is that the way wid you?
Why, you said that you had been out to sarra t' pigs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sarra" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
