Balcony affording a view

Usage examples of mirador.

He had been sent to Spain to discover the identity of El Mirador, and he had succeeded this afternoon, and now all that remained was to take El Mirador back to some torture chamber and squeeze from the British spy the names of all the correspondents in Spain, Italy, and France who sent their messages to El Mirador in Salamanca.

His job was to kill Leroux, to protect the unknown figure of El Mirador, yet his mind stayed with La Marquesa.

Tonight Sharpe was fighting for that brave man, for El Mirador, and he looked up at the fading light and knew that the attack must come soon.

He could not believe this was happening, that he, Richard Sharpe, was on this mirador, this night, with this woman, and he moved his hand to the last hook, pressed it back through the loop and he could feel the metal scraping as it moved, and she seemed to stiffen in his arms.

For four nights Sharpe watched the bombardment, each night from the mirador, and the red-hot shot seared in the darkness and crashed into the crumbling forts.

She was no longer La Marquesa, now she was El Mirador, and though she was still a flawless woman she was also a person to whom he listened avidly.

She had news too from across the Atlantic, news that spoke of an imminent American invasion of Canada, and Sharpe, sitting in the mirador, had the sense of watching a whole world drawn into a maelstrom of flame and shot like that which hammered, unceasing, below.

To guard El Mirador meant telling the chosen guard who their ward was and why he was important, yet with Leroux at liberty it was the only course left.

At first he had been reluctant, but when told that El Mirador was not to be close-guarded at home, only out in public places, he relented.

Perhaps he has already, we do not know, but in the meantime we have put a guard on El Mirador and you are not to concern yourself with anything except a full recovery.

Hogan had written that El Mirador was guarded, but he had not named names.

He thought of the telescope on the mirador, the telescope that pointed to the San Cayetano fortress where there had been the second telescope.

He would die for McDonald, for Windham, for the unnamed Spaniards, for Spears, for El Mirador, for Sharpe himself, and Leroux knew it, for he became desperate.

The map securely tucked in her purse showed that El Mirador was about seventy-five miles north of Merida.

El Mirador was well off the beaten path, and the roads leading in and out of it were either dirt or gravel.