I pulled the serapeover me, as a precaution against the freshening mountain breeze, and in a few moments was asleep.
Here was the evidence of my friend's taste and refinement, in the hearth swept scrupulously clean, in the picturesque arrangement of the fur-skins that covered the floor and furniture, and the striped serape lying on the wooden couch.
Presently it appeared fully, dragging the serape after it.
The cold became intense, and if it had not been for the serapehe might have perished.
Ned sat beside the fire on his serape with another thrown over his shoulders, as the night was growing very chill with a sharp wind whistling down from the mountains.
He was glad that his serape was of a modest brown, instead of the bright colors that most of the Mexicans loved.
Grass grew here also, and he rested a while, wrapped in his serape against the coldness of the night.
She knew that the Mexican part of him ended with the serape and sombrero.
My wrist was grazed by one of the bullets, fired from the piazza, but fortunately I had the presence of mind to wrap it in the serape that I wore.
He thrust his hands under the serapeand clasped its strong handle.
Hidden in his serape and sombrero, and, secure in his knowledge of Spanish and Mexican, he now advanced boldly through the more populous and better lighted parts of the city.
It and the wind were very cold, and Ned drew the serape very closely about his body.
He spoke to his men, and the fellow with the red serape led the way along a narrow path through a forest of myrtle oaks.
His serape had not yet been taken from him, and he rolled himself in it.
It turned colder and he wrapped his serape around his shoulders and chest.
Then, relying upon the isolation of his perch for safety, he wrapped himself in the invaluable serape and lay down.
Although he was lying on the serape with bushes and shrubs all around, there was the river visible to the eye of imagination, brighter, fresher and more sparkling than ever.
He wrapped his heavy serape about himself, lay down on the bottom of the boat, pillowed his head on his arm, and went to sleep.
Ned rose, smoothed out his hair, draped his serape as gracefully as he could about his shoulders, and, assuming all the dignity that was possible, went with the men.
The gentleman in the serape chances to be a Mexican Don, not accustomed to carting bandboxes.
I will go back," she said, with sudden decision, dropping the serape from around her shoulders and beginning to braid her hair.
Her lips were white, and she shuddered with cold, and drew theserape close.
She swallowed the wine, and smiled absently at his excitement, and drew the serape closer.
She regarded him with a little tolerant smile, and drew a serape of blue around her, and curled herself on the foot of the bed and waited.
The man on the serape shrugged his shoulders and lifted his head, resting it on his hands to listen better.
Do you suppose that villanous-looking black-and-tan in the serapewill carry my boxes into the hotel?
He wore a nondescript costume of buckskin, studded with silver buttons and surmounted by a serape that had once been red, but now was sadly faded by wind and weather.
At last the goat stood up on his hind legs and came down on the serape so hard that there was a dreadful tearing sound, and there was the serape torn clear in two and lying on the ground!
Calves were bleating in the corrals, and away off on the distant hillside the children could see cows moving about, and an occasional flash of red when a vaquero rode along, his bright serape flying in the sun.
Tonio couldn't lasso the goat because the serape covered his horns, so the boys all tried to snatch off the serape as the goat went galloping past, but every time they tried it the goat butted at them, and they had to run for their lives.
When he struck the serapehis horn went through one end of it.
Illustration] Meanwhile the goat went bounding about the pasture with the serapehanging from one horn.
He had on a big sombrero, and under a fold of his serape Tonio could see a cartridge-belt and the handle of a revolver.
Ignacio waved the serape and shouted, and when the goat got very near, he jumped to one side as he had seen the matadors do, and the goat butted with all his might right into the serape.
Then he galloped off, looking very grand and gay, with his red serape flying out behind him.
He wore heavy rope sandals, sheepskin zamarra, a long serapeand pointed mountaineer's hat.
She folded the serape and started for the door, only to stop midway as Scott came out.
The stranger then produced from under his capacious serape another serape and a Mexican hat, which John, acting under his instructions, also put on.
He turned quickly as the two dark figures emerged from the darker gloom, but the stranger, with extraordinary dexterity, threw his serape over his face, checking any cry, while his powerful hands choked him into insensibility.
He snatched the package from his head, tore it apart, threw the serape around his body and stood up, erect and defiant, pistol in hand.
The habiliments of the Pimas are a cotton serape of their own manufacture, a breech-cloth, with sandals of raw-hide or deer-skin.
Meanwhile he gracefully folded the great serape about his shoulders, letting it fall to the saddle.
The blow fell on serapeand sombrero and the flesh was not touched, but for a few moments Ned went mad.
He seized his rifle, pulled up the serape and sprang back.
Between the slit left by the brim of his sombrero and his serape he watched the great fires die slowly.
The Panther unrolled from his pack the most gorgeous serape that Ned had ever seen.
He did not think of him again until a full hour later, when he, too, going off duty, saw a figure hidden inserape and sombrero passing along the inner edge of the plaza.
Ned was truly thankful now that Mexican custom and the coldness of the night permitted him to cover his face with his serape and the brim of his sombrero.
He pulled up the serape again, and now it was for warmth and not for disguise.
Once more he wrapped around his body the grateful folds of the serape and he drew on a pair of buckskin gloves, a part of his winter equipment.
Ned wore his serapeand he carried a pair of small, light but very warm blankets, strapped in a pack on his back.
Ned lay down just within the shadow of a tent wall, drew his serape higher about his face, and rested his head upon his arm.
Ned felt his serape fly from him and his rifle dropped from his hand.
He wore a sombrero in the Mexican fashion, and flung over his shoulders was a great serape which he had found most useful in the winter.
He drew the brim of his sombrero down a little further, and pulled his serapeup to meet it.
He wrapped his useful serape closely about his body and the lower part of his face in order to protect himself from the cold and wet, and the broad brim of his sombrero was drawn down to meet it.
It was fairly dense, and when he was in the center of it he wrapped his rifle and himself in his serape and lay down.
A rush mat serves them for a bed, a serape as an overcoat by day and a blanket at night.
The blue serape enveloped Buddy and hung below his feet as Peter carried him, and both Peter and Buddy had strips of blanket tied over their heads to protect their ears.
Peter was standing at the edge of the willows, his arms full of driftwood, the gray blanket serape with its brilliant red stripes hanging to his ankles, and a home-made blanket cap pulled down over his ears.
He cut a hole in the center of what was left of the blanket, making a serape of it for Buddy.
He drew the boot from beneath his serape and laid it before Clarence.
He stood there, sombrero in hand, murky and confidential, steaming through his soaked serape and exhaling a blended odor of equine perspiration and cigarette smoke.
Raul rolled the man over and removed the serape from his face and chest.
Slowly, he staggered toward the altar, a serape over his left shoulder.
Gabriel tried to make the man comfortable by pushing his serapeunder him.
There is not much of value there, except my new serape from Mexico, and a few silver buttons on my best jacket.
Jean merely pulled the serape snugger about her shoulders and sat down sidewise upon the railing.
She shivered, and turned back to get the gay serape which she had bought from an old Mexican woman when they were coming out of that queer restaurant last evening.
His lazo hung in front of his high-peaked saddle, and his well-worn serape was rolled up behind him like a trooper's cloak.
Convenient as it is, the serape is as much tabooed among the "respectable" classes in the cities as the rest of the national costume.
I recollect going one evening after dark to the house of our friends in the Calle Seminario with my serape on, and nearly having to fight it out with the great dog Nelson, who was taking charge of his master's room.
But that a man in a serape should come into his master's room at dusk was a thing he could not tolerate, till the master himself came in, and satisfied his mind on the subject.
As my companion said, "If these fellows are thieves and murderers, so are our servants, and so is every man in a serape we meet in the streets, for all we can tell to the contrary.
I bought that serape from a Mexican in Sonora when I was down there lookin' around.
The bed, in one corner, was spread with a gay serape and beside it was a bookcase with shelves well filled.
About his graceful figure hung a dark red serape embroidered and fringed with gold, and his red velvet trousers were laced, and his yellow riding-boots gartered, with silver.
As he rode, he tore off his serape and flung it to the ground; even his silk riding-clothes sat heavily upon his fury.
He strode over to her, and flinging his serape from his shoulder opened the mouth of a sack and poured its contents into her lap.
De la Vega, a dark sombrero pulled over his eyes, a dark serape enveloping his tall figure, rode, unattended and watchful, out of the town.
De la Vega, booted and spurred, his serape folded about him, his sombrero on his head, opened the sacristy door and entered the church.
Her father had gambled away his last acre, his horse, his saddle, the serape off his back; then sent his motherless girl to his brother, and buried himself in Mexico.
Through the open window by which they were sitting, an arm wrapped in a serape had suddenly hovered over them.
He was wrapped in the clinging folds of a black serape braided with silver; the broad flap of a slouch hat beaten back by the wind exposed the dark, glistening curls on his white forehead.
Even Falkner had exchanged his slouch hat and picturesque serape for a beaver overcoat and fur cap of Hale's which had been pressed upon him by Kate, under the excuse of the exigencies of the season.
Along this I stretched myself, drew the serape over me; and after listening a while to the loud lullaby of the thunder, fell fast asleep.
The air had grown chilly, but I found I had not been neglected; my serape was wrapped closely around me, and with a buffalo-robe, had sufficiently protected me from the cold while I slept.
Remembering that my serape was of very brilliant colours, I bethought me of another plan which, when adroitly practised, rarely fails of success.
A photograph of him in his rags, with his serape and his ventilated sombrero, face as brown as a berry, would be sufficient proof to exonerate Culvera of the charge of having shot an American.
The silver-trimmed sombrero he put on his head and the serape he flung round his shoulders and across the lower part of his face in the same way the garment had been worn by its owner.
Age and lack of soap had so dyed his serape that the original color was quite gone.
Pasquale dropped the serape from his face and moved forward.
A Mexican serape had been flung carelessly across his well-built shoulders.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "serape" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
