flandes

In this affair twelve or fifteen days were spent in the going, the work, and the return, and for this he claims more remuneration than if he had pacified the states of Flandes; and he is not even contented with the governor having given him an excellent encomienda in the vicinity of this city, besides another good one which he possesses in Pangasinan.

- The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 13 of 55 : 1604-1605 : Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

This perilous achievement seems to have satisfied the good bishop's belligerent propensities. * Pulgar. "Don Luis Osorio fue obispo de Jaen desde el ano de 1483, y presidio in esta. Iglesia hasta el de 1496 in que murio en Flandes, a donde fue acompanando a la princesa Dona Juana, esposa del archiduque Don Felipe." "Espana Sagrada," por Fr. M. Risco, tom. 41, trat. 77, cap. 4.

Washington Irving - Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada

Cõ todo esto tuuierõ ciertas passiones, y robarõ vn lugarejo: y en vna casa pobre hallaron vn niño Iesus, destos que traen de Flandes, con su velo, y pomo enla mano, tan fresco como si se acabara de hazer entonces.

- The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55 : 1521-1569 : Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

VECINA. Sí, señora, y de bueno ... a eso venía, a enseñar a la vecinita un corte de vestido de punto de Flandes ... como es recién casada ... y como nada cuesta el ver ... pero, con permiso de su señoría, cerraré la puerta ... no sea que la encajera lo olfatee y vaya con el chisme ... porque la tal encajera es capaz de todo ... y si yo fuera a contar....

Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza - Contigo Pan y Cebolla