How To Use Cortes In A Sentence
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In 1518, Hernando Cortes asked the Spanish governor of Cuba to sponsor an expedition to Mexico.
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In 1518, Hernando Cortes asked the Spanish governor of Cuba to sponsor an expedition to Mexico.
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Cortes speaks to both of us at once - to him in rapid Spanish, to me in tentative English punctuated by long gaps in which he turns his limpid brown eyes my way, imploring me to help him find the missing words.
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From the smoldering remains of the destruction, Cortés built two of what were to metamorphose in the future as Cuernavaca's main tourist attractions: the Palacio de Cortés (now a history museum) and the Catedral de la Asunción.
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A tutte le pie cortesi persone che con assistenza, con scritti, con l'intervento ai funebri della cara sventurata estinta, con adornarne di fiori l'ultima manifestazione terrena desiderarono renderne meno acre it dolore, ringraziamenti vivissimi porge la famiglia PAMPALONE.
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While much of the California coast saw breakers in the six to eight-foot range, the faces of the bigger waves at Cortes were well over 35 feet from trough to crest.
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Nevertheless, the intellectual climate of the Cortes of Cadiz was anti-aristocratic.
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Cortés built a leprosarium, the Hospital de San Lázaro, named for the patron saint of lepers, in Tlaxpana, outside Mexico City.
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Le cortesie, l'audaci imprese io canto "-- the northern Ariosto sang bravely the _arme_ and the _audaci imprese_; less confidently the _amori_ and the _cortesie_.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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In 1518, Hernando Cortes asked the Spanish governor of Cuba to sponsor an expedition to Mexico.
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They inadvertently stow away on a ship captained by the explorer Cortes, managing to escape with the assistance of a horse.
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Meanwhile Velázquez, named adelantado, sent an expedition under Pánfilo de Narváez to reduce Cortés to obedience.
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The Mexico City we know today began as a rough sketch of an urban plan - attributed to Alonso de García Bravo, one of Hernán Cortés 'henchmen - incorporating two main axes at 90 degrees to the central plaza, with streets following a grid formation.
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Both still exist, the palace is a museum, and Cortes 'home is now a fine restaurant, It is expensive, and definitely a splurge experience to eat there.
Spanish toponyms (place names)
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Nevertheless, the intellectual climate of the Cortes of Cadiz was anti-aristocratic.
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Cortesi in reply to him, artfully insinuated, that one great ob - jeat of the Spaniards in visiting a country so remote f jrom their 0¥m, was to redress grievances, and to re - lieve tiie oppressed; and having encouraged him to hope lor this interposition in due time, be continued his march to Quiabislam.
The history of America
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There seems to have been even less reason for departing from ancient usage in the present instance, since Joanna had a son, to whom the cortes might lawfully have tendered its oath of recognition; for a female, although excluded from the throne in her own person, was regarded as competent to transmit the title unimpaired to her male heirs.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3
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De Solina has many friends in the Cortes, so some kind of political link is not impossible, and he travels widely.
DOUBLE DECEIT
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In 1812 the Cortes of Cadiz drew up a constitution which consecrated the dogma of the sovereignty of the nation.
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De Solina has many friends in the Cortes, so some kind of political link is not impossible, and he travels widely.
DOUBLE DECEIT
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Cortés then, after having christened the emperor with the name Fernando, ordered that he be hanged from a great ceiba, the sacred tree of the Mayans, in a place near Tabasco.
MALINCHE
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Cortes discouraged the tendency in education to think in dualisms, suggesting that media educators learn to re-frame questions so students understand they are not simply being charged with finding examples of forgone conclusions.
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The premise of the film sounds like that of a particularly macabre Choose Your Own Adventure story -- an American Average Joe is trapped in a coffin somewhere in the Iraqi desert with nothing but a cell phone, a Zippo, and his cajones -- but with killer timing, buckets of low-fi ingenuity, and a stunning one-man show from Reynolds, Cortés is able to craft a riveting bonafide action movie.
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Like the blues, born out of slavery, flamenco is more than music, it's an expression of Cortes's cultural heritage.
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Cortes considers himself Spanish by birth and gypsy by heritage.
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From this deplorable apathy Cortes was roused by fresh advices urging his presence in Mexico.
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We bought our floor tiles at Cortes, beautiful barro which is like the saltillo tile we used in LA for a patio.
Colorful Mexico Tile
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In 1812 the Cortes of Cadiz drew up a constitution which consecrated the dogma of the sovereignty of the nation.
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Hernan Cortes led Spanish troops to conquer the Aztecs.
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Diaz saw when he went up the Mexican teocalli with Cortes, and which he describes as a hellish instrument, made with skins of great serpents; and which, when it was struck, gave a loud and melancholy sound, that could be heard at two leagues 'distance.
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The noble forehead, glittering blue eyes, high cheekbones and well-formed beard suggested the conquistador Cortes.
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Mr. Robert Cortes Holliday, that quaint philosopher frequently doggishly nicknamed Owd Bob, went to
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Francisco de Orellana was born around 1511 to a prominent family in the hardscrabble region of Spain known as Extremadura, home to a flotilla of other explorers, including Hernán Cortés, Vasco Núñez de Balboa and Francisco Pizarro, the conqueror of the Incas.
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When the Vatican decided to canonize him, their investigation reportedly revealed that the humble Indian lad had actually been a prince, the son of a king of Texcoco, who helped Cortes defeat the Aztecs.
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Acclaimed warriors were especially magnificent in regalia and demeanor, while Cortès judged that the glory enveloping Emperor Moctezoma surpassed that of the court of Spain.
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Washington Park ramp, Anacortes -- May 1: 30 boats with 80 anglers caught 30 kelp greenling, 44 lingcod and 13 cabezon.
The Seattle Times
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Washington Park ramp, Anacortes -- May 1: 30 boats with 80 anglers caught 30 kelp greenling, 44 lingcod and 13 cabezon.
The Seattle Times
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He introduces two female dancers, Silvina Cortés and Olga Cobos, who dip and skim in diaphanous shifts, and although crafted with typical Maliphant precision, this new material is inconsequential and ultimately soporific.
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Cortès creates an incredible sense of depth in his painting by controlling the gaze of the viewer in this way.
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This splendidly frisky Italian white wine from Piedmont is made from the Cortese grape.
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The fact that a single walnut meal positively affects postprandial vasoactivity further supports the beneficial effects of walnuts on cardiovascular risk, wrote lead author Berenice Cortés in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology
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The supreme junta, which regulated the counsels of the hermandad, constituted moreover a sort of inferior cortes, relieving the exigencies of government, as we shall see hereafter, on more than one occasion, by important supplies of men and money.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1
