Toro lowers his head, shuts his eyes, and charges, but the toreador gracefully slips aside and saves his life by a turn of the heel.
A little nod of Consuelo's round black-and-red toreador hat or a kiss tossed from her riding-whip was reward enough!
But when I looked again she had a hairpin between her white teeth, and was carefully adjusting her toreador hat.
The boytoreador has succeeded in catching the monster's horns and turning a clean somersault over his back, while one of the girls holds out her hands to catch his as he comes to the ground.
There can be no doubt that these figures formed part of a scene like that of the toreador fresco, for the violent motion suggested is consistent with nothing but some desperate feat of agility like bull-grappling.
But when I looked again, she had a hairpin between her white teeth and was carefully adjusting her toreador hat.
The toreadorhad slain his bull at last, but had done no justice to his reputation.
It was not easy of belief that Lempriere should be set to fight this toreador of a fighting Court.
Even if The Toreador turned out to be a new opera house or a tourin' balloon, I was goin' to keep it busy for the next seven days.
Yes, indeed, I was a gay boy as I goes aboard The Toreadorand waits for the crowd to come along.
I was going to get Mr. Ogden to let me have The Toreador this week.
When the toreador has gone and the arena gates are closed, Mercedes and Frasquita anxiously inform Carmen that Don Jose has been seen in the crowd, and they urge her to leave; but she declares she is not afraid of Jose or any one.
The toreador good-naturedly informs him that he has fallen in love with a gypsy girl, Carmen, and comes to find her.
Come to Quito and I will show you the brave sport of men, the toreador and the bull.
There would be some sport," said John Harned, "if a toreador were killed once in a while.
Then I sees a masked Toreador coming along, and I decides to arsk him all about it.
They held me tight, notwithstandin' me struggles, till the Toreador disappeared from view over the bridge.
And then all at once I saw my old pal the Toreador sneaking out of the door with a bundle an' the leg of a pair of khaki trousers hanging out of it.
Every now an' then a shadow passed o'er the ballroom, an' I knew it was the Toreador scowling.
They would be," said Chris Jones, fumbling with his wallet, "only I happened to be the Toreador myself.
When the toreador seemed to think the bull in a good position, he waved his banderillas and stamped his feet as though about to fence.
The toreador chivied the bull round the ring, trying to get it face foremost.
When the toreador fights the bull and the crowds in the Spanish arena enter into enthusiastic frenzy, who would compare it with those painted people in the arena when the opera "Carmen" is sung.
We follow Don Jose and Carmen and the toreador in ever new phases of the dramatic action and are constantly carried back to Don Jose's home village where his mother waits for him.
At last came the time for our departure; upon the following morning we were to set out toward the south and the Toreador and dear old California.
It was quite the most wonderful meal I had eaten since I quit the Toreador and Bowen J.
Neither Bowen nor the party from the Toreador had seen any sign of Bradley and his party.
Tyler's party had been able to navigate this channel because their craft had been a submarine; but the Toreadorcould as easily have flown over the cliffs as sailed under them.
Two men with electric drills driven from the dynamos aboard the Toreador drilled two holes four feet apart in the face of the cliff and in the same horizontal planes.
There seemed nothing now but to search out a more northerly landing-place and then return to the Toreador and transport my companions, two by two, over the cliffs and deposit them at the rendezvous.
We rested in Jor's village for a fortnight while we prepared for the southward journey to the point where the Toreador was to lie off shore in wait for us.
During the nights the searchlights from the Toreador were kept playing upon the cliff at the point where the drills were working, and at the rate of ten feet an hour the summit was reached upon the fifth day.
But you're infinitely more infatuated with this Toreador of a Corliss than you were with me; you're lost in him; you're slaving for him as I would for you.
It just struck me that you ought to sing the Toreador song.
Laird would indignantly ask--as if he were a toreador himself; and this was the aggravating side of her irrepressible Trilbyness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toreador" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
