Castile

How To Use Castile In A Sentence

• The Iberian goldsmiths and iron-workers still certainly produced their famous grilles, jewels, morses, chalices, and crucifixes while in needle-work the finest workers of Castile were elaborating some of the most perfect examples of church vestments that have ever been produced. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
• Spain? bear habitatAction: Stop the creation of a ski resort that threatens critical bear habitat in Castile and León Biodiversity 100: actions for Europe
• Philipina_, and a galiot was built and despatched to the group (it is doubtful which), named by this expedition the _Philippine Islands_ in honour of Philip, Prince of Asturias, the son of King Charles I., heir apparent to the throne of Castile, to which he ascended in 1555 under the title of Philip II. on the abdication of his father. The Philippine Islands
• Stir 1/4 of a pound of Castile soap, and place it in a jar near the fire, pour over it 1/2 pint of alcohol; when the soap is dissolved and mixed with the spirit, add 1 ounce of glycerine, the same of oil of almonds, with a few drops of essence of violets, or ottar of roses, then pour it into moulds to cool for use. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
• A region and former kingdom of northeast Spain. It was united with Castile in 1479 to form the nucleus of modern Spain.
• In an hydropical body, ten years buried in the churchyard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat into the consistence of the hardest Castile soap, whereof part remaineth with us. [ Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
• He had been exiled from his native Castile and, after serving now this and now that Moorish kingling in his wars against his neighbours, Rodrigo had been able to take Valencia from the infidels and establish himself there as an independent ruler. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
• The arrobe of Castile contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the Balearic Isles, twenty-six; the boot of Tzar Peter, thirty. Les Miserables, Volume I, Fantine
• Olive oil soap or more popularly known as the Castile soap can heal wounds and is highly beneficial for those possessing sensitive skin or inflamed skin. Buying Beauty Soaps in the Market? Think Again!
• Description: The regional government of Castile and León is paving the way for the development of a new ski resort with 60 pistes in a natural park in the Cantabrian mountains, by instigating major changes in regional planning. Biodiversity 100: actions for Europe