placeres

Only the base of the Sierra de Sandia, of the Old Placeres, and the numerous ranges beyond, is visible, for a heavy shower falls in that direction. In the east a plain sweeps into view, dotted by black specks looming up from a reddish soil. This plain rises gently to the eastward, and abuts against a tall mountain-range whose summits also are shrouded in massive clouds.

Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier - The Delight Makers

On the tenth they passed and named the islands Placeres and San Pablo. Other islands were passed on the twelfth and fifteenth. On the twenty-second they sighted a mountainous island to the south, whose inhabitants saluted them as "chamurre, chamurre," or that is, "friends, friends!" This was the island of Guam. They found it to have a good bay and good rivers of fresh water.

- 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

DON EDUARDO. Y que mi Matilde, sólo por vivir con su padre y por disfrutar a su lado de las ruines comodidades de la vida, sacrifica magnánima todos los placeres de la indigencia, que por más que digan aquellos que los han conocido sin buscarlos ... ni merecerlos ... tienen con todo mucho mérito a los ojos de ... las jóvenes de diez y siete años que leen novelas.

Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza - Contigo Pan y Cebolla