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And turning to the young women and changing his tone, he said: "Excuse me; I have forgotten an appointment. I will return to accompany you home." "Stay!" said Sinang. "Yeyeng is going to dance in the 'La Calandria. She dances divinely." "I cannot, my little friend, but I will certainly return." The murmurs increased.
The term may be rendered "the myriad-voiced," and was the common name of the mocking-bird, called by ornithologists Turdus polyglottus, Calandria polyglotta, and Mimus polyglotta. hueltetozcatemique; composed of huel, good or well; tetozca, from tozquitl, the singing voice; and temo, to let fall, to drop; que is the plural verbal termination.
Near Maldonado these birds were tame and bold; they constantly attended the country houses in numbers, to pick the meat which was hung up on the posts or walls: if any other small bird joined the feast, the Calandria soon chased it away.
Near Maldonado these birds were tame and bold; they constantly attended the country houses in numbers, to pick the meat which was hung up on the posts or walls: if any other small bird joined the feast, the Calandria soon chased it away.
Somewhere in these huge chambers, the courtiers sat before a torch-lit stage, when Bibbiena's 'Calandria' and Caetiglione's 'Tirsi, with their miracles of masques and mummers, whiled the night away.
"Are we still in the Dark Ages? So " He approached the young women and said with a change of tone, "Excuse me, I've forgotten an engagement. I'll be back to see you home." "Stay!" Sinang said to him. "Yeyeng is going to dance La Calandria. She dances divinely." "I can't, little friend, but I'll be back." The uproar increased.
They had sat near Leo X. while he enjoyed the obscenities of the Calandria and the Mandragora, plays which, in the most corrupt of modern cities, would, in our day, be stopped by the police. No wonder that, in one of their dispatches, they speak of Rome as "the cloaca of the world."
When any of the other small birds join the feast, the calandria soon chases them away. The flamingo, in large flocks, visits the New World as well as the Old.
Somewhere in these huge chambers, the courtiers sat before a torch-lit stage, when Bibbiena's "Calandria" and Castiglione's "Tirsi," with their miracles of masques and mummers, whiled the night away.
The best songster on the Pampas is a species of mocking-bird, called by the inhabitants calandria. Its song is powerful similar to that of the hedge-warbler. It only sings, however, during the spring; at other times its cry is harsh and inharmonious. They frequent the neighbourhood of houses; and will boldly peck at the meat which is hung up on the posts or walls to dry.
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