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La muerte de una hija suya, las quiebras mercantiles que acabaron con su modesta fortuna, la ingratitud de los gobiernos: todas esas nieblas frías que traen consigo sobre la frente del hombre los vientos de la adversidad al doblarle como frágil caña hacia la tierra que ha de recibir sus despojos, quebrantaron su ánimo, debilitaron su físico, y recibiendo en un ataque cerebral el golpe de gracia, rindió el alma al Criador el 23 de octubre de 1851, en Tacubaya.
It is curious the different terms used for these continuous winds: we call them "Trade winds"; the French, "Vents alizes"; the Germans, "Passatwinde"; the Spanish "Vientos generates." All quite different. As my nephew and I drove out of the dock enclosure at Kingston, we were appalled at the scene of desolation that met our eyes. Kingston was one heap of ruins; there was not a house intact.
The early Spanish navigators characterized them as "vientos bravos," an epithet too literally and flatteringly rendered into English by our seamen as "the brave west winds;" the Spanish "bravo" meaning rude. For a vessel using sail, however, "brave" may pass; for, if they hustled her somewhat unceremoniously, they at least did speed her on her way.
The sun had already disappeared over the mountain wall that lay between him and the sea, rimmed with a faint white line of outlying fog. A cool zephyr fanned his cheek; it was the dying breath of the vientos generales beyond the wall.
The sun had already disappeared over the mountain wall that lay between him and the sea, rimmed with a faint white line of outlying fog. A cool zephyr fanned his cheek; it was the dying breath of the vientos generales beyond the wall.
He spent his mornings on horseback in fields like these, until the vientos generales, as they called them, sprang up and drove him nearly frantic; and his only relief was to bury himself among the books in his guardian's library, and shut out the world, just as she did.
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