What is "capitan"

Usage examples of "capitan".

Judge Wells was roused by the arrival of the Capitan and head men of the Cahuilla village.

Capitan Valdemar, notoriously grasping and tightfisted, had, under the circumstances, been content to allow Alacrity to deadhead on the voyage, since there was plenty of space available.

Capitan Don Jorge de las Torres was pleased and flattered with his guestsone a new-made caballero of about his own age and the other a somewhat mysterious foreign nobleman.

Give them both written and oral messages to the Duque-Grande, telling his grace what has occurred with our column, what Capitan Juan told of and what I intend.

Don Esteban and I discussed a matter this afternoon with several of the lancers from the command of Capitan Alvarez and we now think we know what these bastardos are up to, where they likely intend to hit us.

Steve shown roped to the rock wall of El Capitan and confidently waving.

Dear Capitan, do you fear that your clumsy, peon's paw will lose its grip?

Señores, Don Esteban and I discussed a matter this afternoon with several of the lancers from the command of Capitan Alvarez and we now think we know what these bastardos are up to, where they likely intend to hit us.

Guided by men from Capitan Juan Alvarez's lancer squad and by amateur copies of Don Jorge's map, forty picked men, commanded by Don Esteban and Gregorio, had quit the camp in the dead of night and now were resting in hiding places just outside the ancient ruins of the abandoned village.

Conyngham wandered, or else he sat somnolently on a seat in the Paseo del Gran Capitan in the shade of the orange trees, awaiting the arrival of Concepçion Vara.

I don' know dis 'legendary' stuff, ma'am, but der capitan, der Marines likes him lots 'n' dey spends der moneys here alvays when on liberty!

Riding with Texas Joe in a light buckboard drawn by a span of lively broncos with El Capitan leading behind, she was as merry as a school-girl out for a long-talked-of holiday.

Things would have continued to go well, thanks to the surveillance of the rural police and the church, if it had not been for a lean, long-legged, mean-visaged troublemaker whom the miners followed, but who the engineers named contemptuously Capitan Frijoles, Captain Baked Beans, the Windy One.

When Capitan Lauffer had provided each of them a brandy snifter, Ramirez raised his own glass high.

To-morrow morning I will moor the _Speranza_ in the Golden Horn at that hill where the palace of the Capitan Pacha is.