"Caballero" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you regarding route, conveyance, and payment for services," Don Jos['e] said. "S['i], s['i]! you have the money to pay? Poderoso Caballero es Don Dinero—a powerful gentleman is Mr. ...
— The Mission of Janice Day • Helen Beecher Long
... Senor Caballero to listen to what I have to record," he said, with intense gravity. "I cannot bear this much longer—no, I cannot bear my ...
— Romance • Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
... enumerating various cavaliers of his acquaintance, who had journeyed to distant climes in quest of adventures and honorable feats of arms, continues, "E oi decir de otros Castellanos que con animo de Caballeros fueron por los Reynos estrafios a facer armas con qualquier Caballero que quisiere facerlas con ellos, e por ellas ganaron honra para si, e fama de valientes y esforzados Caballeros para los Fijosdalgos de Castilla." Claros ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V3 • William H. Prescott
... caballero on the field was wheeling about De la Vega. Some felt with Cabanares, others rejoiced in his defeat, but all resented the victory of the ...
— The Splendid Idle Forties - Stories of Old California • Gertrude Atherton
... out with the dawn. After breakfast he mounts his horse and in his striking and characteristic costume of broad sombrero, blue flannel shirt, fringed chaperejos and jingling spurs he rides forth to his work a perfect type of the gallant caballero. ...
— Arizona Sketches • Joseph A. Munk
... his friends after him, to see what El Patron would do. Something generous and magnificent, they knew very well, for El Patron was gentleman, muy caballero. He led the way to the bank, still enquiring most solicitously about Juan's relations, his children, his burros and so on; and Juan, sweating like a packed jack under the stress of the excitement, answered courteously, as one should to El Patron, ...
— Rimrock Jones • Dane Coolidge
... caballero out of hand, captain?" asked Hornigold, savage from a slight wound, as he ...
— Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer - A Romance of the Spanish Main • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... Spanish novelists were what are called the walter-scottistas, although they were inspired as much by George Sand as by the author of Waverley. These writers were of a romantic order, and Fernan Caballero, whose earliest novel dates from 1849, was at their head. The Revolution of September, 1868, marked an advance in Spanish fiction, and Valera came forward as the leader of a more national and more healthily vitalised species of imaginative work. The pure and exquisite style of Valera is, ...
— The Grandee • Armando Palacio Valds
... sometimes useless, sometimes fatal. It is a torch or a fire-brand according to the use one makes of it.—Fernan Caballero. ...
— Pearls of Thought • Maturin M. Ballou |
