What is "douro"

Usage examples of "douro".

It seemed an odd name for a building high on the steep hillside where the city of Oporto overlooked the River Douro in northern Portugal, especially as the big square house was not beautiful at all, but quite stark and ugly and angular, even if its harsh lines were softened by dark cedars which would offer welcome shade in summer.

Savage safely away and Captain Hogan had been the closest officer and Sharpe, with his riflemen, had been protecting Hogan while the engineer mapped northern Portugal, and so Sharpe had come north across the Douro with twenty-four of his men to escort Mrs.

The Douro, sliding toward the nearby sea, was as wide as the Thames at London, but, unlike London, the river here ran between great hills.

The lucky ones used their ships' tenders to row across the Douro, the unlucky joined the chaotic struggle to get onto the bridge.

The great span of the bridge reared up black, turned over and was swept seawards, and now there was no bridge across the Douro, but the people on the northern bank still did not know the roadway was cut and so they kept pushing and bullying their way onto the sagging bridge and those in front could not hold them back and instead were inexorably pushed into the broken gap where the white water seethed on the bridge's shattered ends.

Tributary, thank you, of the Douro, but once across the Tamega there is a bridge over the Douro at Peso da Regua.

He was angry because he had hoped to use the ferry to get all his men safe across the Douro, but now it seemed he was stranded.

It was all open land and if more French came and he had to retreat from the village then he dared not use that road and he hoped to God he had time to ferry his men over the Douro and that thought made him go back up the street to look for oars.

He watched approvingly as his escort set picquets, then smiled his thanks as a very sullen-looking Luis brought him and Christopher glasses of vinho verde, the golden white wine of the Douro valley.

Goddamn it, Sharpe thought, but there would be no escape across the Douro today, no slow shuttling back and forth with the small boat, and no marching back to Captain Hogan and the army.

And if they did, he thought, then he could go north from Amarante until he found a crossing place, then follow the Tamega's far bank south until he reached a stretch of the Douro unguarded by the French.

Sharpe said, "talks to the French, and right now he's south of the Douro where he's taken a Frenchman to speak with the British General.

If the French find British troops wandering around north of the Douro they'll think we are breaking our word.

If there is a truce then it won't hurt our bargaining position to say we have troops established well north of the Douro, so you dig your heels in here and you stay very quiet.

Christopher said, "the French have burned every boat on the Douro, so keep your lads out of trouble and I'll see you in a week or two"-Christopher threw away the rest of his coffee and held his hand out to Sharpe-"and if not me, I shall send a message.