Spanish peak

Usage examples of pico.

The first number on speed dial is the office of Wyatt Porter, chief of the Pico Mundo Police Department.

Stambaugh, my friend and employer, owner of the Pico Mundo Grille, tells me that this displaced architecture is better than the dreary acres of stucco and graveled roofs in many California desert towns.

I have seldom crossed the city line of Pico Mundo and have never been beyond the boundaries of Maravilla County.

I said, referring to Poke Barnett, the other short-order cook at the Pico Mundo Grille.

Terri Stambaugh, my friend and the owner of the Grille, to suggest that a statue of Gandhi should be modeled after Brad Pitt in the hope that he would then attend the ceremony, which would be a big deal by Pico Mundo standards.

They had instead gone through this gate, through those doors, and down into a world below Pico Mundo, a world that I knew existed but that I had never visited.

I went into the kitchen to call Terri Stambaugh at the Pico Mundo Grille, Elvis was sitting at the table, weeping.

Without aggressive diversion of storm runoff, a significant portion of Pico Mundo would be at risk.

If not for the fact that Fort Kraken, a major air-force base, backed up to Pico Mundo, we would be served by an equally low-tech and imperfect system.

The flood-control system that benefited Pico Mundo had been constructed largely to ensure that the runways and the vast facilities of the base were protected from Mother Nature in her most thunderous moods.

I found myself beyond the limits of Pico Mundo, but not in a land ruled by magic.

If that poor kid went on a date, it would be all over Pico Mundo the next morning.

STAMBAUGH SITS in her apartment kitchen above the Pico Mundo Grille, drinking strong coffee and paging slowly through an album of photographs.

Fate drove the Lord of Pesaro to act upon it, and to seek out Antonio Maria Pico, Count of Mirandola, in his palace by the river, where Pico, as Ascanio had foreseen, gave him a cordial welcome.

In talk with Pico he set forth his intent, elaborating what already he had told the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor.