In the centre of the toldo each sat down on a large stone, in front of a fire whose dense smoke almost concealed objects.
Before each toldo crackled a bright fire, round which two or three Indian squaws were crouching to warm themselves, without taking their eye off the hobbled horses which were devouring their stock of alfalfa.
They soon reached a toldo of brilliant colours, large and clean, the handsomest on the island, in a word.
You are mad," Mercedes retorted, "your toldo is full, and there is no room for another fire.
When he reached the riverbank, a fishing canoe conveyed him across to the island, where a toldo had been prepared for him.
Mercedes and Dona Concha, on seeing the toldo of the great chief unoccupied, could not repress a sigh of satisfaction.
The interior of thetoldo was completely altered, for Nocobotha had placed in it furniture, carried off from the estancias by the Indians.
Let a toldo be prepared for me, I give up to the two paleface women," the chief said in the Aucas tongue.
Nocobotha walked to the curtain of the toldo and clapped his hands twice.
The four bomberos collected in the toldo were the most renowned in Patagonia.
Lead us to the toldo of the great chief of the Patagonian nations.
Our camping grounds of a night were now generally in some grass-covered glade, and it was indeed a pleasure to fall asleep in our toldo with the sound of the wind whispering through the trees like the murmur of waves on a sandy beach.
But while dinner was cooking, and in order to pass the time, Ritchie, Jill, and I went down by the side of the lagoon to look for game, while Peter lay down in the toldo to rub himself.
Pedro had the toldo erected at some distance from the house, and proceeded forthwith to cook dinner.
Nor did we leave the toldo till every warrior had succumbed.
A special toldo was erected for the purpose by the Indians by making three kaus into one, and to the music of horrid drums and still more horrid pipes, very pretty dances were gone through indeed.
In less than an hour, we were all curled up in our toldo or kau, wrapped in our good guanaco robes, and fast asleep.
The toldo was intended to cover four persons, lying on the deck or lattice-work of brush-wood; but our legs reached far beyond it, and when it rained half our bodies were wet.
The toldois useful only where it forms a tent so well closed around the bed that there is not the smallest opening by which a gnat can pass.
The small cages containing our birds and our monkeys, the number of which augmented as we advanced, were hung some to the toldo and others to the bow of the boat.
It was impossible to pass the night in the canoe; the mosquitos, which tormented us during the day, accumulated toward evening beneath the toldo covered with palm-leaves, which served to shelter us from the rain.
Maria's toldo was nearly in the middle, and next to it was her brother's.
During the gale they kept close; and it was only now and then that a solitary individual was observed to go from one toldo to another.
Still it was not certain that it was high enough for the roof of the toldo to clear it.
Already the head of the snake was within three feet of the toldo door.
The curtain of the toldo was lifted by a firm hand, and an Indian appeared: it was Antinahuel.
Antinahuel had retired under his toldo with the Linda and Dona Rosario.
The toldo of Antinahuel is solitary--he wants a squaw to inhabit it.
A toldo is prepared for my sister; she shall repose a few hours.
At that moment a great tumult was heard in the camp; hurried steps approached the toldo in which the two women were.
Without condescending to give any further explanation, the Toqui shut himself up in his toldo with some of his chiefs.
Cheoeque's toldo was quite sixteen feet high, and able to accommodate forty men; while three fires of huge billets of wood burned in the front part.
Paliki entered our toldo to borrow my cincta, or girth, and chaffed me, asking if I would venture to 'domar' him.
Araucanian Indian, who was escorted to our toldo in due form amidst a curious crowd, all eager to look at him, while he preserved a grave and stolid demeanour.
Hinchel rode a part of the way with me, as he was bound in search of a former acquaintance, whosetoldo was pitched about four leagues distant, and who was, he said, the best worker in silver amongst the Indians.
Great etiquette is observed between them; one chief being prohibited by custom from entering the toldo of another unless presents have previously been interchanged.
After bidding, not adieu, but au revoir, to my new friends, whilst strolling back I was called into a toldo where four women were sitting sewing mantles.
Casimiro's toldo rejoiced in one of the latter, and it rather resembled a shoe-horn.
On issuing from the toldo Casimiro met me, and asked for a revolver, as he had no firearms, and I lent him one accordingly.
The women were superintending the cooking of some of these, when one of them rushed into the toldo and cried out that the Indians were returning and a fight had taken place.
One of the Chilians, after more than once removing from one Tehuelche toldo to another, listened to the delusive promises of an Araucanian and deserted his old protectors rather than masters.
In our toldo all the inmates were sick, and the duty of looking after the horses devolved on myself and Casimiro, who was recovering from his attack.
The others were large rafts or punts of rude fabrication, each big enough to support a toldo hut, with a whole family, and a number of friends to boot.
The toldo was intended to cover four persons, lying on the deck or lattice-work of brushwood; but our legs reached far beyond it, and when it rained half our bodies were wet.
The small cages containing our birds and our monkeys--the number of which augmented as we advanced--were hung some to the toldo and others to the bow of the boat.
Whichever be the toldo the Muruches may choose, I shall consider them as my guests.
The Linda was left in the toldo a prey to indescribable rage; she was cheated of her vengeance!
Valentine, with the modesty peculiar to men of real talent, stole away from the honours they wished to pay him, and hastened to conceal himself with his friend in the toldo of Trangoil-Lanec.
Of those," the Indian replied haughtily, "which my sister pronounced in the toldo of Antinahuel, when she came among his tribe to implore his assistance.
My toldo is large," the chief continued; "my brothers will do me honour by consenting to inhabit it during their sojourn with the tribe.
My brothers are perfectly free; my toldo is open for those who leave it, as well as for those who enter it.
If my brothers will follow me they shall see the toldo of a chief in which they shall be received like pennis.
He led them to thetoldo of the chief, in front of which were drawn up twenty horsemen, armed, and apparently waiting.
The woman's toldo is built in the country, near the tolderia which you call, I think, Concepcion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toldo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
