lolas

Updated: May 3, 2025

Then the Señora Sevadra, who thinks herself elect of heaven for that office, gathers up the original sinners, the little Elijias, Lolas, Manuelitas, José, and Felipés, by dint of adjurations and sweets smuggled into small perspiring palms, to fit them for the Sacrament.

Mary Hunter Austin - The Land of Little Rain

Then the Senora Sevadra, who thinks herself elect of heaven for that office, gathers up the original sinners, the little Elijias, Lolas, Manuelitas, Joses, and Felipes, by dint of adjurations and sweets smuggled into small perspiring palms, to fit them for the Sacrament.

Mary Hunter Austin - The Land of Little Rain

Ladies like Lola Brandt always have husbands unfit for publication; and as the latter seem to make it a point of honour never to die, widowed Lolas are as rare as blackberries in spring. "Forgive my rudeness," I said, "but you wear no wedding ring." "I threw it into the sea." "Ah!" said I. "Do you want to hear about him?" she asked suddenly. "If we are to be friends, perhaps you had better know.

William John Locke - Simon the Jester