What is "roble"

Usage examples of "roble".

Doc had several reasons for deciding to go immediately to San Roble to pursue his investigations in Central America.

The bronze man would have preferred to approach San Roble in the dark of night.

Central American countries who had, in turn, furnished San Roble with such civilized things as it needed.

Republic, even if the authorities could prove the San Roble government guilty.

That was what made the San Roble set-up such a cinch for a smart band of crooks.

The notes lacked away, his schedule set, insistent sleep craved, Robles stumbled toward awareness quickly, rising through the flickering levels of illumination, reaching toward the weight of sixty-seven million crushing years and found himself lying tangled on the earth, the ropes of the tent a geometry of madness spattering shadows.

Scratching his ass in the curling sunlight, trying to bring himself to some kind of accommodation, Robles peered at his strange and attractive partner, then turned to see the mesh fences in the distance, the fences walling off the compound, holding it through paradoxical electrification and wire from the gigantic animals that would otherwise in their ignorance blunder through.

The sound was bucolic at this moment, fed not his apprehension but what Robles wanted to take as heightened perception.

Turning, Robles peered past Muffy, past the transparent arc of the tent wall, and could see beyond them the low structures of the ranch, the five or six tents which with the Transporter comprised Camp Paradox.

Once, Robles had had clearly defined plans, before the ethos of it began to crawl into him.

No, Robles had had a sense of command, more command than that when Muffy had moved in and had attracted his attention, the third of the hostesses but the one that had fully caught his attention.

That was when Robles had still been fighting for some sense of possibility, some kind of function, before it had all collapsed and he realized that he was just another staring, stricken guide, nothing else.

Maybe it was Robles then who was the guy really out of time, more millennial detritus, that was all.

It was this reasonableness which had left all of them so unprepared, Robles came to think later.

Somewhere behind, in what they called Camp Paradox, Dix supposed that Robles and his Muffy were locked to their own task, thrashing away in the bush.