What is "patricio"

Usage examples of "patricio".

Winding northward, the road went through Agua Dulce, San Patricio, Refugio and straight into Goliad.

The citizens of San Patricio were not altogether thrilled to have them there.

His wild-horse expedition left Johnson holding San Patricio with only thirty-four men.

When his intelligence reported that a small party of Texians had ridden out of San Patricio two days earlier, Urrea sent other scouting parties to report on the defenses of the town.

Like the attack on San Patricio the night before, this was almost too easy.

These men here, of course, were primarily naturalists of one kind or another, and when the two craft put into San Patricio together for stores they asked the whalers all sorts of things about whales - the various kinds, depth of blubber, pregnancy in whales, where found, numbers in schools - accompanying young?

I must fetch some respectable clothes: but first I must tell you that San Patricio, like many another settlement on this uneasy shore, has already had other sites, destroyed by earthquake or fire or its opposite, a vast engulfing wave that seems connected with the earthquake and that not only destroys the ruins even more thoroughly but that will carry a ship, an eight hundred ton ship up and through the town, sometimes setting it down, as by a giant's hand, upright on the debris: though it is possible that I may confuse San Patricio with other towns - so many on this unstable shore have suffered from all these calamities, as well as from pest, plague and piratical rapine too.

My name is Father Patrick Curtis, though the Salamantines call me Don Patricio Cortes.

The Reverend Doctor Patrick Curtis, known as Don Patricio Cortes to the Spanish, was Rector of the Irish College and Professor of Natural History and Astronomy at the University of Salamanca.

The Reverend Doctor Patrick Curtis, known as Don Patricio Cortes, Rector of the Irish College and Professor of Astronomy and Natural History at the University of Salamanca, held the rifle as though it were a poisonous snake that might, at any second, turn and bite him.

Strictly speaking Don Patricio Cortes, as the Spanish called him, was still Professor, and still Rector of the Irish College, but he had been in temporary residence in Lisbon ever since the French had discovered that the seventy-two year old Irish priest was interested in things other than God, the stars, and the natural history of Spain.

The ornately uniformed guards standing by the door moved from parade rest to rifle salute as he passed (the formal guards at the Edificio Libertador wear the dress uniforms of the Patricios Regiment, circa 1809).