Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 29, 2025
The established prices of 50 and 100 vara lots are $12 and $25. San Francisco, last August, contained 459 souls, of whom 375 were whites, four-fifths of these being under 40 years of age.
The sand hills, some of them almost inaccessible to foot-passengers, were surveyed off and mapped into fifty vara lots a vara being a Spanish yard. These were sold at first at very low prices, but were sold and resold for higher prices until they went up to many thousands of dollars.
"Vara," said he, in Irish also, "is my darlin' son asleep?" She looked up, with streaming eyes, as he spoke, and replied to him in a manner so exquisitely affecting, when the circumstances of the boy, and the tender allusion made by the sorrowing mother, are considered that in point of fact no heart certainly no Irish heart could withstand it.
Na, he couldna do't this time." "That's what ye aye say, but he aye sends. Yes, an' vara weel ye ken 'at he will send." "Na, na, Leeby; dinna let me ever think o' sic a thing this month." "As if ye wasna thinkin' o't day an' nicht!" "He's terrible mindfu', Leeby, but he doesna hae't. Na, no this month; mebbe next month."
He rode through the streets, still littered with the debris of fallen chimneys, slates, and shutters, with his head up and his mind so full of the great schemes which gave him no rest, that he never saw Concepcion Vara going to market with a basket on his arm and a cigarette, unlighted, between his lips.
'Ay, but there's no meteorological department in Larut. Each man is a law to himself. Some drink whisky, and some drink brandipanee, and some drink cocktails vara bad for the coats o' the stomach is a cocktail and some drink sangaree, so I have been credibly informed; but one and all they sweat like the packing of piston-head on a fourrteen-days' voyage with the screw racing half her time.
The regulars were armed with the Mauser magazine-rifle, while the guerrillas used a .45-caliber Remington, carrying a large and very destructive brass-jacketed ball. They had neither artillery nor machine-guns, and relied wholly upon their small arms, their rifle-pits, and the great natural strength of their position. The officer in command was Brigadier-General Joaquin Vara del Rey.
"One by one the sea raxed away our three boats, an' the davits were crumpled like ram's horns. "'Yon's bad, said Bell, at the last. 'Ye canna pass a hawser wi'oot a boat. Bell was a vara judeecious man for an Aberdonian. "I'm not one that fashes himself for eventualities outside the engine-room, so I e'en slipped down betwixt waves to see how the Kite fared.
English, and the arroba 25 1/2 lbs. English. The cavan is a measure of the capacity of 5,998 cubic inches, and is subdivided into 25 quintas. The Spanish yard, or vara, is eight per cent. shorter than the British yard, by which latter all the cotton and other manufactures are sold by the merchants importing them, although the shopkeepers who purchase them retail everything by the Spanish yard.
She moved uneasily in her seat, fidgeting as the young ever do when troubled. It is only with years that we learn to bear a burden quietly. 'Who is that? she asked shortly, pointing to the other window, which was closed. 'Concepcion Vara Conyngham's servant, replied the General, who for some reason was inclined to curtness in his speech.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking