Saddle bags

Usage examples of cantinas.

Halperin found one of the little curbside cantinas and asked for mescal.

Sivrak had said those words in a hundred other cantinas on a dozen other worlds, but this time he meant them.

A few scattered houses and two cantinas still showed light, and there was another light at the Spanish fort that once guarded the harbor.

Past the taco stands, past the cantinas, past a little brawl of drunken boys, past the church, on whose steps the dancer in the phallic bat mask was performing, juggling pale green fruits and now and then batting one out into the night with the phallus that jutted from his chin.

I think he and his boys steal a bunch of money and ride down to Old Mexico where they whoop it up for a couple of months in the cantinas with the pretty young senoritas.

The evening streets are full of pretty girls and slick-haired men in business suits, the opulent shops that flank the trolleys on Avenida Peirola are full of silver and alpaca and the soft rustle of money changing hands, and the all night cantinas still sound as if their frenzied pisco-swilling patrons had abandoned all hope of ever seeing another dawn.

All she needed were two peaceful weeks taking boring photos of town squares and cantinas, and she'd be ready to go back into the fray.