Behind the seat of the saddle are more straps, where cloaks and serapes are fastened; and in case of need even a carpet-bag will travel there.
Serapes are the most valuable things there are in a peon's hut, and were never intended to be used by goats in this way.
There were water-carriers filling their long earthen jars at the fountain; there were young girls in bright dresses who laughed a great deal; and there were young men in big hats and gay serapes who stood about and watched them.
Did she think he was an embassador of good will, that he was down there to kiss babies and wear serapes to show that he was just one of the people.
That the dormitories are being redecorated and that corridor four where we have rooms is going to have all the walls done over and that serapes will look especially nice hanging on them?
Large hard-wood slats for pounding down the warp in the manufacture of serapes or blankets.
Braces for the warp of small serapes and blankets.
Pliant rawhide lassos coiled on saddle horns, gay serapes tied behind each rider, and vicious machetes girded on thigh, these sons of the West were the pride of the Pacific.
The Mexicans idly wrap their serapes around them, and they avoid all contact with the hated foreigner.
It required only to gather them and spread their serapes to form the softest of couches.
Then, while hastily rigging a saddle out of serapes and cord, he filled the air with crackling Spanish, larding his questions with frightful oaths.
The women were in straw hats, with their black hair plaited, and little children strung to their backs; the men wore serapes and sandals, and smoked cigarettes.
Fifty or sixty ragged soldiers, only their eyes showing between serapes and big sombreros, would begin an amateur bull-fight, to the roaring delight of the rest of the companeros.
For half an hour I lay there, watching them, as they squatted between their knees, serapes draped loosely from their shoulders, the firelight red on their simple, dark faces.
Occasionally little companies of soldiers on foot came along, or a troop of horsemen in high sombreros and serapes jingled silently out of the blackness and faded away again, bound probably for the relief of guard.
The Tropa were wrapped in serapes up to their eyes, so that they looked like colored toadstools under their great sombreros.
The level rays of the sun, burning as they fell upon my face, caught them unaware, glorifying the serapes to more brilliant colors than they possessed.
They scattered rollicking over the desert, the late sun flashing from cartridge-belts and spurs, the ends of their bright serapes flying out behind.
This was over a shop devoted to the sale of serapes and other dry goods.
The serapes that had shrouded them were removed, and they stood exposed in their usual costumes before the eyes of the Indians.
As we entered, most of the men had thrown aside their serapes for the dance, and appeared in all the finery of embroidered velvet, stamped leather, and shining "castletops.
For this reason, many modern serapes are too violent in coloring; and aesthetic collectors must seek for old fabrics, among which some examples are lovely in tone.
Crowds of these people in serapes and rebozos, with dark eyes full of questions, stood along the route of the imperial cortege as it left Vera Cruz.
The open space was brilliant with the blankets of Indians, the bare limbs of brown children, and the bright serapes of the Mexicans, who were too lazy to move out of the sun.
Then came detachments of Santa Fé traders, dark men in striped serapes with silver trimmings round their high-peaked hats.
There were French Canadians, bearded like pirates, full of good humor, filling the air with their patois, and a few Mexicans, who passed the days sprawled on serapes and smoking sleepily.
Even after they had stripped her of the soaked riding-dress and wrapped her in serapes for the night, she maintained a thoughtful silence, and all Ana's hints of romances went for nought, so far as gaining replies or special notice.
The brigand captain did not abate one whit from his resolution to have theirserapes and their coats too, but he would show them first that he was a gentleman.
Two peons wrapped to the eyes in serapes passed them but Obed boldly gave them the salutations of the night and they walked on, not dreaming that the dreaded Texans were by.
Fortunately their serapes were very thick and large, and they found additional shelter among some ragged and mournful yucca trees.
Besides, we want the two serapes hanging there on the wall.
While the rain poured upon them, they kept their serapes wrapped around their powder, and let their bodies take the worst.
You get this fine, unloaded musket, and we get the food and the serapes for which we have so courteously asked.
As their muscles relaxed they began to feel cold, and had it not been for the serapes they would have been chilled.
As for the Mexican residents of San Mercedes, they merely drew their serapes closer about them and from beneath their broad brimmed, cone–crowned sombreros gazed with a haughty indifference at the group of galloping, shouting horsemen.
Most of them wore the sugar loaf or cone–peaked hat of the Mestizo, and their serapes streamed out in the breeze behind them.
Crimson serapesin the distance resemble drops of blood on the great cloth of plain.
Even the stalking three drew their serapes closer, and shivered a little.
The habit the Mexicans had of wrapping their serapes so high that they were covered to the nose was fortunate at this time.
Two silent figures covered withserapes were stretched on the floor in the cabin, and several others had wounds, although they had borne their part in the fighting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "serapes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
