What is "moras"

Usage examples of "moras".

Even the Marquis of Moras, one of the most pleasant men in Spain, did not hold out any hopes.

Houses, conscripts from the barracks, malcontents out of the Moras district.

There had been no recent unrest, religious or otherwise, in the city, not even in the Moras district.

Like many parts of the Moras, this had obviously been an attractive, if not select, area.

He looked up at the untidy, hectic buildings of the Moras that lined their route.

From there, his eyes rose inevitably to the city, its rooftops and towers and spires rising above the wall and the ragged confusion of the Moras, and then disappearing up into the soft mist that clung to the sides of the valley.

Estaan in the crowded Moras street, and gone on to the equally chance encounter with the two riders on the bridge.

Despite the urgency of their flight, he noted that many of the buildings they passed were similar in style to those in the Moras district, although they were clean and well maintained.

Aphron Dennai and sloping down to the rambling disorder of the Moras district by the river.

I had promised the Marquis de las Moras and Colonel Royas that I would come and see them at Saragossa, the capital of Aragon, and I arrived there at the beginning of September.

The Marquis de las Moras and Colonel Royas gave me some excellent dinners.

I had a letter of introduction from the Marquis de las Moras to Don Miguel de Cevallos, and another from Colonel Royas to Don Diego de la Secada.

I am known to the Venetian ambassador, the Count of Aranda, the Prince de la Catolica, the Marquis of Moras, and the Duke of Lossada.

They had erected a great number of small arbours of boughs and bushes and, as Terence rode up to one of these, which was larger and better finished than the rest, Moras himself came to the entrance to meet them.

Terence introduced himself as the colonel of the two battalions that had arrived, at Miranda, to operate in conjunction with him, Moras held out his hand frankly.