conquistador

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• The noble forehead, glittering blue eyes, high cheekbones and well-formed beard suggested the conquistador Cortes.
• Fitzcarraldo, which concerns a so-called "conquistador of the useless" who wants to build an opera house in the Peruvian jungle and who orchestrates a boat being pulled across a mountain, he says: "You are talking so far in retrospect-that's three decades back. Slate Magazine
• The man looked like a "conquistador" and the woman had "flowing red hair. American Thinker
• When the Spanish conquistadors brought their Catholic faith to the shores of Mexico, the intensity of their religious zeal made the conversion of hundreds of thousands of Indians an important goal.
• With the conquistadors came Roman Catholic priests and brothers to bless, or challenge, Spanish attacks upon indigenous peoples.
• From the old worlds of Christopher Columbus and the Conquistadors to the new world of cocoa lattes and double mochaccinos, hot chocolate has come full circle.
• As may be easily supposed, we possess very few authentic details about a people whose written annals were burnt by the ignorant "conquistadores" and by fanatical monks, who jealously suppressed everything which might remind the conquered race of their ancient religious and political traditions. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World
• Soon enough, the Spanish Crown would need an enormous amount of ingenuity and resources to keep such competitors out of the profitable pilfering operation mounted by a handful of conquistadors in the Indies.
• Armchair conquistadors rejoice, because the expansion adds a new area called Amaranthine -- a word that means "undying" or "unfading" -- and invites you to probe the origins of the original game's diabolic darkspawn. Netflash
• In his book, Milicia y descripción de Las Indias, which might be described as a conquistador's handbook, Vargas Machuca devotes a special chapter to the treatment of wounds and illness. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico