What is "isidro"

Usage examples of "isidro".

The night was cool and pleasant, and in the main room on the first floor Don Isidro sat with his cigar, a glass of wine on the table close by.

If you or one of your men takes a single step, I shall shoot you through the ear, senor, and tomorrow morning it shall be told all over the pueblo that the noble Don Isidro was shot through the ear by a woman!

I did not hate Don Isidro, I did wish there were a justice that would see him pay for what he had done to my parents.

Don Isidro had fierce pride in a name whose reputation had been won by others and to which he had contributed nothing.

She had seemed a frail shadow hovering somewhere near Don Isidro, someone you passed by, someone you acknowledged, something dim and ghostlike.

When Don Isidro was leaving him in the desert, Don Federico wanted to kill Johannes and then leave him.

But with the known negligence of some of the older Califomios insofar as business was concerned, it was possible Don Isidro had made no will.

Nor had I wanted anything from Don Isidro, although the irony of it appealed to me, to inherit after all his efforts to see me die.

In his pocket was a letter from Don Isidro, recalling him from the hunt, but disowning him also.

His riflemen were to join Sharpe in the San Isidro Fort, an abandoned stronghold on the Portuguese border, where they would help train the Real Companïa Irlandesa in musketry and skirmishing.

The lookout post dominated a wide, barren valley where a stream glittered before the land rose to the rocky ridge on which the long-abandoned fort of San Isidro stood.

The fort was of little military value for the road it guarded had long fallen into disuse and a century of neglect had eroded its ramparts and ditches into mockeries of their former strength so that now the San Isidro was home to ravens, foxes, bats, wandering shepherds, lawless men, and the occasional patrol of Loup's grey dragoons who might spend a night in one of the cavernous barracks rooms to stay out of the rain.

The only serviceable parts of San Isidro were the old barracks buildings that had been kept in a state of crude repair thanks to the infrequent visits of Portuguese regiments which had been stationed there in times of political crisis.

He gestured towards the deep, bare glen that separated the San Isidro from the nearest hills.

Good flat hard sense dictated that Loup would not waste valuable effort by raiding the San Isidro Fort, but Sharpe rejected that good sense because his every instinct told him there was trouble coming.