What is "cruzado"

Usage examples of "cruzado".

The secretary perfectly understood the trick, and, upon the receipt of five hundred cruzados, he accepted the deposition of Olivarez, sworn to by him, as sufficient evidence, and you were consigned to the mines upon this deposition by a warrant from the judge.

The money received was 28,000 cruzados, and not knowing how to dispose of it, I applied to the superior, who gave me orders for it in duplicates upon the treasury at Lisbon, one of which I had very soon an opportunity of sending home to Mr.

I had reserved 1000 cruzados for my own expenses, which I considered as quite sufficient, but they were gradually wasting away, for I was everywhere received, and in the best company of Rio.

The door rattled down, returning Cruzados to its customary dimnessshe appeared to glow against the backdrop.

Just like in Cruzados, the wall of red fire behind the altar flickered and shut down.

He insisted loudly that the fare was a thousand cruzados, forty dollars.

North American girls and imitating everything, or at least as much as she could copy without thousands of cruzados to spend on clothes.

Roddy and I were to ride the range with a bunch of grass cattle all summer, then take them down to a winter camp on the Cruzados river and keep them on pasture until spring.

The old settlers said nobody had ever climbed it, because the sides were so steep and the Cruzados river wound round it at one end and under-cut it.

Blake and I knew that the Sitwell winter camp was down on the Cruzados river, directly under the mesa, and all summer long, while we drifted about with our cattle from one water-hole to another, we planned how we were going to climb the mesa and be the first men up there.

Chapter 2 The cabin stood in a little grove of pinons, about thirty yards back from the Cruzados river, facing south and sheltered on the north by a low hill.

He left hidden and buried, at a spot of which I alone have knowledge, a large quantity of pearls and precious stones of great value, together with a sum of money in gold cruzadoes and doubloons.

Albuquerque was now placed in a position of some political importance, and he wrote first to Vijayanagar saying that he would give the Raya the refusal of all his horses if he would pay him 30,000 cruzados per annum for the supply, and send his own servants to Goa to fetch away the animals, and also that he would aid the king in his war if he was paid the expense of the troops.

Antiguos dioses y extrañas momias se han cruzado en el camino de las caravanas anteriormente, pero ¿quién adora tanto al sacerdote de Ibis en Estigia, cuando allí todavía veneran al superdemonio de Set, que se oculta en la oscuridad de las tumbas?