| 单词 | llano |
| 例句 | The llano was so quiet I could hear the drone of the grasshoppers and crickets in the grass. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On the llano the cattlemen struggled to feed their herds. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But now the lovely expanse of the llano filled our hearts and we forgot for awhile the strange, foreboding job ahead of us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother had lived in the llano many years when she married my father, but the valley and the river were too ingrained in her for her to change. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is good to die on a hill of the llano, beneath the juniper—” were his last words. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before my eyes, and the gurgling waters of the river sang to the hum of the turning earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The land of the llano was not good for farming, the good land was along the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked together in the llano and along the river banks to gather herbs and roots for her medicines. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh beautiful bridge, I cross you and leave the town, I cross towards the llano! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There where the lonely wind of the llano sang to the lovers’ feat of your birth, there in those hills is your innocence. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z These were the people of my father, the vaqueros of the llano. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His fathers before him were vaqueros, and so he expects us to be men of the llano. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Ultima and I worked in the garden every morning, struggling against the llano to rescue good earth in which to plant. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We will burn it and let the winds of the llano scatter the ashes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I placed the owl in the grave and I put a large stone over it so the coyotes would not dig it out, then I covered the hole with the earth of the llano. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He cursed the weak-willed men of the town who did not understand the freedom a man of the llano must have, and he cursed the war for taking his sons away. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is the way of the llano,” he said, “and the wind is the voice of the llano. It speaks to us, it tells us something is not right.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I left the river and ran across the llano; I felt light, like the wind, as my even strides carried me homeward. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They stood by the house that we rented in town, and they looked across the river at the hills of the llano. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now we have come to live near the river, and yet near the llano. I love them both, and yet I am of neither. I wonder which life I will choose?” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The men of the llano were men of the sun. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They signaled the dividing line between the turbulence of the town and its sins and the quiet peace of the hills of the llano. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the llano was like me, as I grew the innocence was gone, and so too the land changed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The four directions of the llano met in me, and the white sun shone on my soul. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There were some plants that Ultima could not obtain on the llano or the river, but many people came to seek cures from her and they brought in exchange other herbs and roots. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother did not like the people of the llano. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew it was her owl because the other owls of the llano did not come that near the house. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The bouncing lights of the truck cut a jerky path through the night as we traveled out of the dark llano back to Guadalupe. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The llano had come alive with spring, and it was comforting to walk in the hills and see the new birth take root and come-alive-green. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The llano was beautiful in the early morning, beautiful before the summer sun of August burned it dry. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The owl was the protective spirit of Ultima, the spirit of the night and the moon, the spirit of the llano! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The full moon of the harvest rose in the east and bathed the llano in its light. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The summer came and burned me brown with its energy, and the llano and the river filled me with their beauty. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew that it was hard for a man of the llano to beg. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Around me the moonlight glittered on the pebbles of the llano, and in the night sky a million stars sparkled. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Just before Christmas the snows and winds of the llano locked the land in an icy grip. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The move lowered my father in the esteem of his compadres, the other vaqueros of the llano who clung tenaciously to their way of life and freedom. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the summer the dust devils of the llano are numerous. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother was not a woman of the llano, she was the daughter of a farmer. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She took my hand, and the silent, magic powers she possessed made beauty from the raw, sun baked llano, the green river valley, and the blue bowl which was the white sun’s home. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Always the talk turned to life on the llano. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I did not want to wrestle with Horse; he was tougher and bigger than I. But my father had often said that a man of the llano does not run from a fight. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the mornings, before it was too hot, Ultima and I walked in the hills of the llano, gathering the wild herbs and roots for her medicines. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She could not see beauty in the llano and she could not understand the coarse men who lived half their lifetimes on horseback. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The spring dust storms of the llano continued, and I heard many grown-ups blame the harsh winter and the sandstorms of spring on the new bomb that had been made to end the war. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not that I was afraid of the storm, I had seen the winter storms of the llano and I knew that if I was careful I would arrive home safely. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In my dream I flew over the rolling hills of the llano. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The old people, Ultima said, always helped each other; through good or bad they stuck together, and the friendships that were formed in that desolate llano were bonds for life. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z After I was born in Las Pasturas she persuaded my father to leave the llano and bring her family to the town of Guadalupe where she said there would be opportunity and school for us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I dreaded to think of a time when I could not walk upon the llano and feel like the eagle that floats on its skies: free, immortal, limitless. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We traveled halfway to Las Pasturas and then left the paved road and turned southward on a dirt road of the llano. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Snows alternated with the wind of the llano, the coldest wind of the world. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I was a very important part of the teeming life of the llano and the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard her sigh, and she must have shuddered too when she thought of Ultima living alone in the loneliness of the wide llano. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood tall, with a nobleness to her stature that I had seen often when we walked on the llano. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, there is no freedom like the freedom of the llano!” my father said and breathed in the fresh, clean air. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As the cold settled over the llano and there was less to do on the farms and ranches, more and more of those kids came into school. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the afternoons I was free to roam along the river or in the blazing hills of the llano. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we rode an hour over the llanos to a small lake, where hundreds of ducks dabbled amid a large herd of capybara and dozens of shorebirds. On a Colombian Savanna, Hawks, Caimans and So Many Stars 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z The first stars appeared low in the eastern sky, and night fell over the Colombian llanos. On a Colombian Savanna, Hawks, Caimans and So Many Stars 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, the llanos environment is threatened by oil drilling, intensive agriculture and overgrazing. On a Colombian Savanna, Hawks, Caimans and So Many Stars 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z The days started early in the llanos, with a crazy dawn chorus. On a Colombian Savanna, Hawks, Caimans and So Many Stars 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z “The ranch serves as a refuge for species at risk, and teaches visitors about the culture of the llanos,” Mr. Barragán told me. On a Colombian Savanna, Hawks, Caimans and So Many Stars 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z “The plains surrounding us seemed to reach the sky, and looked to us like an ocean covered with seaweed,” wrote the Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, who crossed the llanos in 1800. On a Colombian Savanna, Hawks, Caimans and So Many Stars 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Mixing Spanish and English in its descriptions of the New Mexico llano, or flatlands, where Mr. Anaya was raised, the book sold hundreds of thousands of copies and was adapted into a 2013 film. Rudolfo Anaya, novelist who helped launch Chicano literary movement, dies at 82 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z It depicts a battle of wills between the mercurial, eponymous heroine and a rancher, with lush, prolix descriptions of the great plains – the llanos – cowboys and spirits. The best books to understand what is happening in Venezuela 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z A singer in a cowboy hat serenaded mourners with folk music from Chavez's birthplace in Venezuela's "llanos" plains. Global leaders, celebrities honor Chavez at funeral 2013-03-09T00:04:31Z Born in rural Sabaneta, Venezuela, in central Barinas state, on July 28, 1954, Chávez grew up poor on the llanos, or plains, raised largely by a grandmother instead of his teacher parents. Death Arrives for El Comandante: Venezuela's Hugo Chávez Dies at 58 2013-03-05T22:35:26Z But in recent weeks, officials said, he had been pining to come home and listening to music from the his boyhood home in the "llanos" or plains in central Venezuela. Venezuela's Chavez still suffers breathing trouble 2013-02-22T03:29:31Z Most of these people were like Chávez; they migrated to Caracas from provinces like the central plains, known as los llanos. Behind the Story: TIME's Tim Padgett on Venezuela's Coming Election 2012-09-28T08:35:23Z It extends across the northern llanos to the Orinoco and Apure rivers and is devoted almost wholly to pastoral pursuits, exporting cattle, horses and mules, hides and skins, cheese and some other products. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z But while this ranch seems idyllic from a wildlife perspective, it is increasingly an island: the llanos are well suited for large-scale industrial agriculture and oil and gas development. Dot Earth Blog: A Ranch With Room for Cattle and Capybara 2011-10-24T14:00:23Z The llanos are composed of a region about as large as the New England States, so level that the motion of the rivers can hardly be discerned. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z Where smoke is seen there should be fire; and a fire on these llanos is likely to be one with Indians around it. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z Their haunt is on the green “everglades” and wide savannas of Florida, on the llanos of the Orinoco, and the plains of the Apure. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z The question from Manuel was called forth by the sudden appearance of one of the riders of the llanos, or plains of Venezuela, who drew rein almost in front of the old convent. Where Duty Called or, In Honor Bound 2011-01-01T03:00:22.753Z The Colombian government tends to overlook conversion of the llanos, probably because of its agricultural potential. Dot Earth Blog: A Ranch With Room for Cattle and Capybara 2011-10-24T14:00:23Z They have somewhat different features and different names in different portions; in N. America are prairies and savannahs, in S. America llanos, selvas, and pampas. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide Notwithstanding their being masters of all that desert country, lords of the llanos, they themselves do not always traverse it without difficulties to encounter and dangers to dread. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z It has a sluggish course across the llanos for about 300 m., and is navigable throughout its length. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" I know not whether the first aspect of the llanos excites less astonishment than that of the chain of the Andes. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 Nearly one half its area lies south-east of the Andes and consists of extensive llanos and forested plains, traversed by several of the western tributaries of the Amazon and Orinoco. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" As regards vegetation America may be called a region of forests and verdure, vast tracts being covered by the grassy prairies, llanos, and pampas where the forests fail. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide But the Indian horses quickly get over their scare, and are laid on the pursuit till a stream of them stretches out on the llano. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z The Venezuelan llanos have a dry season in the northern winter, when the trade blows. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" On the llano fugitives and pursuers mingled as one in the human wave of confusion. The Missourian The mean annual temperature on the eastern plains, so far as known, ranges from 87� F. on the forested slopes to 90� and 91� on the llanos of the Meta and Arauca. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Upward to the blue vault of heaven, like the streaming mists that rise through the tropic moonlight from the hot llanos, goes the ceaseless cry of humanity. Carmen Ariza Instantly night’s darkness is turned into light as of day; every object on the llano, even the smallest, made visible for miles upon miles, up to the horizon’s verge. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z In the central part of Venezuela are the llanos which are said to be about the best pasture lands in the world. Birdseye Views of Far Lands Even to-day, on the llano, during the thickest of the battle, there he was at my stirrup, and there he must have fallen, in humble, unquestioning loyalty.” The Missourian These plains include the extensive llanos of the Orinoco tributaries where coarse, hardy grasses and occasional clumps of palms are almost the only vegetation to be seen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" There are several varieties of amble peculiar to the Peruvian horse; the most approved is that called the paso llano. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Instead, a live one out upon the llano, making off in strides long and vigorous. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z More than two million head of cattle feed, upon these llanos, but they are capable of feeding many times that number. Birdseye Views of Far Lands The llano was alive with scurrying human beings. The Missourian The alternating wet and dry seasons are likewise to be found on the Pacific coastal plain, though this region is not entirely dry and vegetation never dries up as on the llanos. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Many horses have no paso llano, but in its stead a short trot. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Alike the pursuers thrown round, pass out of sight one after another, and again that part of the llano resumes its wonted aspect of stern, savage tranquillity. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z Teams of scientists outfitted to the eyebrows and trained to cope with any environment or emergency, would explore unknown jungles, llanos, steppes; tramp up and down fertile vales and hills under blue-hot alien suns. Next Door, Next World From there he beheld an overpowering force, advancing diagonally across the llano below. The Missourian The most arduous part of the trip began at Porto Caballo, at the entrance to the llanos, or perfectly flat plains stretching between the hills of the coast and the Orinoco valley. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century The country was no longer monotonously flat, as it had been whilst the river swept along through the llanos. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea This causes a turning of all eyes in its direction, and on the llano beyond. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z Venezuela.—The greater part of Venezuela is a region of llanos, or grassy plains, shut off from the harbors of the Caribbean Sea, by mountain-ranges. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges Clouds of men from every point were sweeping across the llano toward the town. The Missourian "I am not sure," says Humboldt, "that the first sight of the llanos is not as surprising as that of the Andes." Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century It raced across the llanos, the savannas and the pampas and covered the high plateaus in a slow relentless growth. Greener Than You Think His words are made good by their seeing soon after another dark line developing itself on the llano, at a like distance off, but coming from the opposite direction. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z The cattle of the llanos, the native long-horns, furnish a poor quality of hide, and poorer beef. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges They've cut the 'phone down to the 'llano' as a start. Adventures in Many Lands Like this, too, ubiquitous—seen today scouring the sandy plains of the Platte, to-morrow bounding over the broad llanos of Texas, a thousand miles to the southward! The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse In the llano planets of the Equis cluster, Amerinds—Aletha’s kin—zestfully rode over plains dotted with the descendants of buffalo and antelope and cattle brought from ancient Earth. Sand Doom One moves along the mountain’s foot, dropping a file here and there; the other strikes out over the llano, in a circular line, as it proceeds doing the same. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z We thus reached our destination,—a farmhouse situated on a slope at the foot of the mountains, with the wide llanos stretching out before it. In New Granada Heroes and Patriots The result of this position is a triple river system—the Orinoco, Amazon, and La Plata, draining three immense plains—the llanos of Venezuela, the sylvas of Brazil, and the pampas of the Argentine Republic. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America Some went to the caballeriza, and led out the white horse—the steed that was brought from the llanos. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse And they live in a sort of home on caterwheels out on the plains—the llanos. Sand Doom He should now be near enough for it to be heard, and it will tell him if the animal be still there or has wandered away to some other part of the llano. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z The men Juan had brought with him were accustomed to the life of the llanos, and no time was lost in commencing the work for which they had come. In New Granada Heroes and Patriots It rises in the Sierra Tunuhy, an isolated mountain group in the llanos of Colombia, and enters the Amazon at Manáos, a thousand miles from the sea. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America I could see the horse till he was far, far away upon the llano, and then I could see him no more. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse We passed a few ranches on the road, and at last reached the little llano on which Santa Teresa is situated. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan At length, however, he is out of it, and again on firm ground, with the level llano far stretching before him. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z Near sunset, we reached the summit, and looked down upon the little town of Ixtapa, upon a high llano below, and seeming to be a half-hour's ride distant. In Indian Mexico (1908) We bivouacked in a valley on the verge of the llanos, and the next few days were spent in raiding cattle and preparing tasajo. Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance The plain, the campo llano, is far enough to the east. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 The alcalde, who had become quite friendly, accompanied me over the llano on which his pueblo lies, extending, interspersed with pine forests, for about three miles west. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan There is he still unlassoed, free of limb as the antelopes seen flitting over the llano around him. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z Mounting to a high llano, we shot a pair of curious birds, which looked like water-birds, but were living in a dry place and were able to run with great speed. In Indian Mexico (1908) I like both, but in a charge on the llanos I prefer a spear decidedly. Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance Yes, such is indeed the pampa of the Rio Colorado, such are the "llanos" of the Orinoco and of Venezuela. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen On the second day, by a stupendous effort, we started, but could go only eight miles to a beautiful llano surrounded by oaks and pines. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan But there are rocks strewn over the llano below, for hundreds of yards out, and so thick we couldn’t take the wagons through them. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z We crossed the llano, passed through patches of pines, and then came out upon a terrible country of limestone hills. In Indian Mexico (1908) The trail to the left leads to the llanos. Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance In the province of San Martin, in South America, M. Roulier saw wild bulls feeding in the llanos among domestic cattle. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829 The pueblo is finely situated on a llano one mile and a half in diameter, and surrounded by pretty hills. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan North, east, and west the llano is under their eyes to the horizon’s verge, twenty miles at least being within the scope of their vision. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z He then opened a communication with patriot chieftains, who had maintained themselves in isolated parties dispersed over the llanos of Cumaná, Barcelona, and the Apure. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 363, March 28, 1829 But their shouts gradually became fainter; when we reached the llanos they were no more to be heard, and when the moon rose an hour later none of our pursuers were to be seen. Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance Theory would predict this result, since the horse is found always to come to his greatest perfection in level countries,—as, for instance, the deserts of Arabia, and the llanos of South America. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator A strong wind was blowing day and night on the llanos along the river-course, which annoyed us not a little. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan The place is in the middle of a vast plain, one of the llanos of Sonora, near the northern frontier of this sparsely inhabited state. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z In the Orinoco plains, the llanos, Boves with his lieutenant, Morales, exceeded whatever imagination can fancy in the way of bloodthirsty cruelty. Simon Bolivar, the Liberator I don’t think you will easily find a customer for a ruby ring on the llanos. Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance "It is not improbable that there are more cattle in the pampas and llanos of South America than in all the rest of the world." Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America The Bluebird sings and whirs in the trees, and The Male Woodpecker is calling on the llano, Where the fog is rising. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan “If your worship had been roaming about these llanos as long as I have, you could and would,” rejoins the guide, in quiet confidence. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z These two conquistadores, alike celebrated in the history of America, reached by different roads the llanos of San Juan, then called Valle de Nuestra Senora. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 This, however, seemed to be our only danger; our horses were fleet and fresh, and the llanos near, and, once fairly away, we might bid defiance to pursuit. Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance Beyond the point where the Orinoco turns to the east, forests are constantly seen on the right bank, and the llanos or steppes of Venezuela on the left. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Crossing the llano of Ace faraya, we reached a tremendous natural portal in the mountains, from whence, as from a door, we looked down on all the country lying between us and the sea. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain In the rarefied atmosphere of the high-lying llanos the eye has the advantage of the ear, sounds being heard only at short distance. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z Take the llano!—and take this with it. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers I see nothing for it but to go on the llanos and form a guerilla band of our own.” Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance The cacao that grows on the banks of the Uritucu, at the entrance of the llanos, in the jurisdiction of San Sebastian de las Reyes, is considered to be of the finest quality. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Some families of Guaraons, associated with the Chaymas, live far from their native land, in the Missions of the plains or llanos of Cumana; for instance, at Santa Rosa de Ocopi. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 In St. Vincent, in the West Indies, there was a great eruption on April 27th, 1812, which continued for three days, and was heard six hundred and thirty miles away on the llanos of Caracas. The Naturalist in Nicaragua Even I, myself, as soon as this little business is settled, shall open a fundacion on some land I have on the llanos and try to make a little money in peace and quietness. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard You, José, go forward, and you, Sanchez, reconnoitre the llanos trail.” Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance Possibly, also, the mountainous lands, near the llanos of Monai, may have a baneful influence on the surrounding plains. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 There are indeed posts established, but they make such great circuits that private persons seldom entrust them with letters for the llanos or savannahs of the interior. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Our horses are fresh, and we can either return to the sierra or spend the night on the llanos, as may be most expedient.” Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance The Apure, the Meta, and the Orinoco, running from west to east, receive all the streams of the llanos, or the region of pasturage. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Southward it was more open, and a score of miles away merged into the llanos. Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance That cannibal horde went up the banks of the Guarico, crossing the plains or llanos. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 The crocodiles of one lake in the llanos are cowardly, and flee even when in the water; whilst those of another lake will attack with extreme intrepidity. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 But how can we imagine that these waters could ascend as high as the Silla, when the mountains opposite this peak, those of Ocumare, were too low to prevent their overflow into the llanos? Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The whole of the country beyond the llanos is unknown to the inhabitants of Cumana and Caracas. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Or ride out on the llanos in the direction of Tres Cruces. Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance |
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