What is "riva"

Usage examples of "riva".

Rivas had begun shivering among the tumbled bodies in the wagon bed, for he could tell by the very scent of the aira sort of garbagey sweetness with burned overtones mixed with the fish smell of the sea that he was in entirely unknown territory.

Rivas realized, certainly more with relief than with anything else, that old Lollypop would not be resurfacing.

Rivas heard the skid and clatter of one of the hooter bikes turning around, and he lifted the slingshot and faced that direction.

Donya Isabel, installed at the foot of the table with Esteban on one hand and an elderly gentleman, Senyor Rivas, on the other, was in high form.

In a most genteel way she even flirted a bit with Senyor Rivas, who gallantly responded in kind.

Afterward she danced a stately measure, with Senyor Rivas, followed in tam by Senyor Martinez, and still Ramon did not come near her again.

The monotonous singing stopped too, and the thing Rivas had thought was a beanbag chair straightened up, revealing itself to be the unsubmerged top half of a manbald, brown, and fatter than Rivas would have thought a person could get.

Rivas and Apus had shed their roles as advocates and had joined Warin in impartial consideration.

Rivas had never been able to keep straight the names of all the genius painters and poets and doctors and engineersand even politicians, for the Sixth Ace was supposed to have been the best Ellay had had since Sandoval himselfwho crowded into prominence when Rivas was about seventeen, and then all wound up leaving by the Dogtown gate at about the same time the Sixth Ace was assassinated.

Jerry Rivas and one of the engineers Kurt Fawzi had hired had gotten out of a jeep and were looking at another photoprint of the map.

Finally there were no more excuses for delay, so two fresh horses were hired and Rivas, McAn, Barbara and Urania set out for the Hollywood Hills and the Barrows estate.

His uncertain gaze slid away from Rivas to the big old house and the grounds, and Rivas belatedly realized that Barrows and his people were in the process of leaving to take refuge inside the city walls, and that soon this house and these vineyards might very well be sacked by the San Berdoo army.

The rumors of the midnight flash and deafening roar behind the white wallsand speculations that Jaybush himself had died in the blast, for he subsequently went into cloistered seclusion in the Holy City had shaken the whole structure of the faith, and Rivas, at the age of twenty-one, had taken advantage of the confusion and quietly left the Jaybirds and fled to Venice.

Rivas an hour later as he peered up into the smoky heights of the tent, this line of Jaybirds would look like the outline of a huge snail, all looped around and around in a spiral.

Rivas could hear a sort of unsynchronized marching outside, getting louder.