What is "gallina"

Usage examples of "gallina".

The manager, Gallina, is a playwright of much reputation, and gave us some dozen of his own pieces, mostly good and clever.

Goldoni and Gallina and Signor Fogazzaro have written in the patois of the Veneto, use no dialect at all.

Neither Goldoni nor Gallina has charged the Venetian language with so much literature as to take from the people the shelter of their almost unwritten tongue.

Kerrigan had lain on the edge of Mesa Gallina, fifteen miles away, smoking cigarettes and watching the crevices of the uprearing Cimarrons.

The women of that country are famous for their good looks-they are Gallinas with a dash of European blood that dates from the days of Vasco da Gama and the English slavetraders, and the Porroh man, too, was possibly inspired by a faint Caucasian taint in his composition.

Vegas was a growing town, one of the largest in the Territory, pushing outward from the old Spanish settlement by the Gallinas River.

As Longarm stood there enjoying the night air, the tracks began to climb to the pass between the Gallinas Mountains to the west and Gran Quivera to the east.

But it is vexing, for Whewell tells me that as soon as the preventive squadron was withdrawn the trade started again, even in the Gallinas river, and on Sherbro Island, right next to Freetown, and with a little discretion we might have seized on half a dozen, loading slaves in the estuary.

On the Atlantic side alone, this frontier included the entire coast from the Yucatan Peninsula to Punta de Gallinas, Colombia.

His removal was settled upon well before our arrival, primarily for the sake of Mrs van Buren, who is a Malay lady from those parts, but also for the sake of the orang-utang and some of the smaller gibbons, which are to be met with there and not here, to say nothing of the gallinae or nectarineas.

The scene: A crowd of Alianza followers, Forest Service personnel, and State Police near Gallina.