''West Side Story'' girl

Usage examples of maria.

Unconsciously, Maria slowed her pace, sick of the sight of the lumbering freight wagons.

Before the Espinosa fortune had fallen with a crash that was heard from the silver mines of Mexico to the Spanish Main, Maria never would have given Carmen and her family the merest nod.

And now Maria had nothing but the dress she stood in, while Carmen had the power to order her to help push a wagon out of a rut.

Only a little jewelry remained, but surely it would sweeten her reunion with the sister she had not seen in fourteen years, since Maria herself had been only a year in age and the sister a bride setting out on a new life.

After taking care of private matters, Maria sat down under one of the cottonwoods and leaned against the trunk, lifting her heavy woolen skirt, removing her shoes, and stretching her legs out in front of her.

He stopped suddenly before the end of his supplication and Maria pushed her fist into her mouth to keep from crying out.

Father Efrain was silenced, Carmen de Sosa began to scream, a thin, whining cry that made Maria hunker down lower in the bushes, take her hand out of her mouth and cover her ears.

Finally, they fell away to a moaning sob that Maria could barely hear above the laughter of the Indians.

As the Indians hacked and scalped their way through the growing pile of bodies, Maria knew that the heavens were closed, that God slept on this February night.

The heads stared with sightless eyes and open mouths at the same blue sky Maria had awakened to.

Cursing her vanity of yesterday, Maria grabbed another fistful of dirt.

For Maria Espinosa de la Garza, lying by the clump of trees, there was nothing but those Indians.

He threw another rock that hit Maria squarely in the middle of her forehead.

Above the smell of smoke and death, Maria sniffed the sharp fragrance of cinnamon and cloves.

Another fish jumped and fell back with cascading sparkles that reminded Maria of jewels.