The descendants of warriors slept and loafed and begged in the sun, thankful for a tortilla a day and dreading nothing this side of Judgment but the visit of the tax-gatherer.
Early as it was, the woman and her brood were in the kitchen at the back of the house, and she agreed to supply bread and cream for breakfast and make a tortilla for the travellers’ lunch.
They spent a happy and irresponsible day roaming about the dilapidated sixteenth-century town, and divided their tortilla out in the country in the great shadow of the Sierra Nevada.
Variation: Instead of potato chips, use crushed salt-free tortilla chips and substitute chili powder for curry.
Place one frank in center of each tortillaand roll up.
Place tortilla chips on large shallow baking pan and top with frank slices.
They refuse to make them any other way and take the same pleasure in making a perfectly thin and round tortilla that puffs up nicely while cooking, as you and I do in trying to make a beautiful loaf of bread.
I call for a tortilla with chile Colorado you'll have it--won't you, dear pet?
The ruse had been discovered, and now the rule is for every tortilla brought into the gaol to be broken in two by the guards.
As illustration of this, the President took from his desk a broken tortilla into which had been kneaded two half-dollars and the tortilla then cooked.
A tortilla whizzed circling across the table under your very nose, and landed with exquisite softness, like a tired dove, at the side of your host's plate.
A tortilla is like an oat-cake, but is made of Indian corn.
I 'm boss of Tortilla range," came the even reply.
Come over here," commanded the Boss of Tortilla range.
The latter again returned to his mother moaning and lamenting; but the old woman cheered him up, and placing a tortilla on his head, sent him back to the king.
He was besmeared with a black preparation, and only broke his fast once in twenty-four hours with a tortilla and a small quantity of water.
On her return from the honeymoon in the little hunting cabin in the Tortilla Range, the young wife set to work, and already great changes had been made in the ranch-house on the Sweetwater.
Through the arbor a glimpse of the Tortilla Mountains, forty miles away, held the eye.
On his return to Sweetwater Ranch he put the place in charge of his new foreman, Sage-brush Charlie, and went out to a hunting-cabin he had built in the Tortilla Mountains.
Stephens, instead of giving a direct answer, made play with the tortilla and the stew.
Beat the eggs and pour them into the mixture, let the tortilla set, then turn it with a plate, and set the other side.
From this paste the tortilla is formed by patting it between the hands into a very thin cake, which is cooked on an earthern pan placed over the fire; the tortilla is eaten with boiled beans, and a mixture of chile and lard.
For adults the ordinary tortilla is used; to young people over six years old, medium-sized ones are given; and children get small ones, about an inch and a half in diameter.
Another tortilla is folded together, and answers for a spoon.
One of the Indians, however, who had been a soldier and was more friendly or less suspicious of "gringoes," divided with me his single tortilla and bowl of frijoles.
A tortilla or other food held carelessly is sure to be snatched by some cat, pig, or dog; a bundle left unwatched for a moment is certain to be rooted about the floor or deposited with filth.
These were dished up in brown glazed jars and eaten with strips of tortilla folded between the fingers, as the Arab eats with gkebis.
Mayas named the north star, or the North, by a pun on a tortilla dish) wherever this banded headdress is found, we must assume the text to be treating either of the North, or of tortillas.
Manuel thereupon swore more sincerely and spilled beans from his tortilla scoop.
Spanish, giving the tortilla a deft, whirling motion to even its edges.
While they were unsaddling under the oak tree, where the vaqueros kept their riding gear in front of the cabin, Manuel himself came to the door and stood squinting into the fog, while he flapped a tortilla dexterously between his brown palms.
Manuel over the list of equine shortcomings and took a large, relieved bite of tortilla and beans.
Manuel, bending a tortilla into a scoop wherewith to help himself to the brown beans, raised his black eyes anxiously.
The distrust left Manuel's eyes as he trotted across the hard-trodden dirt floor and laid the tortilla carefully upon a hot rock, where three others crisped and curled their edges in delectable promise of future toothsomeness.
Cushing showed me that the women, when baking the "loaves" of bread, were always careful to place in the adobe ovens a tortilla with each batch of the newer kind, and no doubt for the reason just given.
And, now munching a tortilla rolled in honey, he led the way to where Calixto and Caliban, with half a dozen others, were hard at work.
Big fish are ever slow at the hook, but when they once rise--" The tortilla he used for illustration vanished at one gulp.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tortilla" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
