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Example sentences for "yerba mate"

  • The "yerba mate," or mate shrub, is met with in the woods of Misiones, where it grows in irregular clumps of varying extent.

  • The language of the genuine gaucho is a mixture of Spanish and the Guarani Indian tongue, and his food is beef and yerba mate.

  • The South American would no more refuse a cup of yerba mate than a German would a glass of beer.

  • He acquired a large yerba mate concession from the Paraguayan government which has made him rich.

  • The main deck becomes a storage room for sacks of yerba mate, the vile tea that the Argentine natives are crazy about.

  • The arbiters absolved the Governor on the condition that he paid a fine of four thousand arrobas* of `yerba mate', which in money amounted to eight thousand crowns.

  • In an hour's time we are both well enough to get up and refresh ourselves with a cup of Pedro's yerba mate.

  • Pedro," he added, "put more logs on the fire, and brew us a cup of yerba mate.

  • We had no beer to drink; we had no wine; but we had yerba mate, which combines the invigorating qualities of both, with all the soothing, calming influence of a cup of good coffee or tea.

  • Yerba mate is raised more extensively in Paraguay and Brazil than in Argentina; but the value of the crop is well recognised, and recently the Government distributed fifty thousand plants among settlers.

  • The oldest and most celebrated of the forest products is yerba mate.

  • He gives an elaborate account of the history and uses of yerba mate.


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