Mexican state or its capital

Usage examples of puebla.

We set out immediately toward Puebla because Don Julio said there was a festival soon to begin in Puebla that might attract the attention of the naualli.

I weaved a tale that someone from Monte Alban had told me of seeing my mother in the Puebla area.

Even though Mateo did not consider Puebla a grande city, it was enormous to me.

As I had been told about the City of Mexico, Puebla was also high above the coastline, in a broad plain shouldered by distant mountains.

He was supposed to send a case of religious printing to a convent in Puebla and a case of banned books to his partner in crime.

My plan was to stage the play the following week when both the viceroy, archbishop, and bishop inquisitor were all in Puebla for the investiture of a bishop there.

Even if frays saw the play and found it profane, it would take several days to get a messenger to Puebla and back with permission to close it.

Porfirio Diaz, whom Steve had once called his friend, has escaped from prison in Puebla and returned to his province of Oaxaca, where he now headed an enormous army.

They left Puebla heavily cloaked and muffled against the morning chill--fortified by a magnificent breakfast provided by the French commandant.

The diplomats had all moved to Vera Cruz, for even Orizaba, as close as it was to Puebla, was now menaced by the steadily-growing, slowly advancing army of Porfirio Diaz.

They skirted Puebla, its church spires etched against the background of twin volcanoes, still capped with snow.

He began to pull them off her himself, growling angrily that he had to be back near Puebla within the next twelve hours.

General de Lorencez, after an unsuccessful attack upon the walls of Puebla, had been compelled to retreat toward Orizaba, and to intrench there while waiting for reenforcements.

He was a lieutenant at the taking of Puebla, where he was first to mount in the assault of the Convent of Guadalupita.

To the north of their position was the River Zadorra, and to the south the Heights of Puebla, and the constriction of river and highland would force the British to a frontal attack in the valley that would bring them into the face of the great guns that, in this morning of drifting mist, looked like fearsome monsters in wait for jtheir victims.