Old breed of tiny short-coated dog with protruding eyes from Mexico held to antedate Aztec civilization

Usage examples of chihuahua.

You can compare me to a Lhasa Apso any old day, but a Chihuahua looks so sort of naked, you know?

Then on and on through The Mexicos, all through the Southwest, then back again in a great circle by Chihuahua and Aldama to Laredo, to Torreon, and Albuquerque.

All the while, Yun Yun would gesture and point at Lindsey as if she were a flea-bitten chihuahua in the corner.

This time with an escort of Abrams and Bradleys, spread out like Chihuahuas herding an elephant.

Them Chihuahuas know more at fourteen than you gonna learn your whole life.

The last contingent of replacements for the fortress on the Rio Grande marched into Ciudad Chihuahua two full weeks after their supposed date of departure from that city and yet another fortnight elapsed before the column finally formed up just beyond the north gate of the city and, with brilliantly clad and equipped hidalgo officers on glossy, prancing horses in the lead, followed by a troop of lancers and one of dragoons, three hundred pikemen and crossbowmen marching to the beat of their massed drums, a long, rumbling train of heavy wagons and a final troop of lancers, they were on the road.

The winding road across the desertblisteringly hot by day, bitterly cold by nightmeasured almost five hundred kilometers from the north gate of Ciudad Chihuahua to the south gate of Ciudad Juarez, usually a two-week journey.

Ciudad Chihuahua and march back with a relief column, but it is probable that our men and our supplies are now desperately needed by the folk to the north.

He opened the door and a very old, fat Chihuahua slid through, dancing nervously on stiff legs as if her feet hurt her.

I hardly know one breed from the next, with the exception of Chihuahuas, cocker spaniels, and other obvious types.

I'm not dog oriented by nature and I hardly know one breed from the next, with the exception of Chihuahuas, cocker spaniels, and other obvious types.

In Chihuahua and Coahuila he’d been the fastest gun in northern Mexico, killing the likes of Luis Ortega, Manuel Soto, and the worst of them all in a pistol duel, Emiliano Zambrano.

He told how they'd taken the city of Chihuahua, an army of irregulars that fought in rags and underwear and how the cannonballs were solid copper and came loping through the grass like runaway suns and even the horses learned to sidestep or straddle them and how the dames of the city rode up into the hills in buggies and picnicked and watched the battle and how at night as they sat by the fires they could hear the moans of the dying out on the plain and see by its lantern the deadcart moving among them like a hearse from limbo.

A Chihuahua dog eyed the newcomers dyspeptically from its cushion in front of the fire.

Helena was an old stop on the Chihuahua trail and, like Beeville and Oakville, it was a rough, wild town, and those men from Helena were as tough as they come.