"Agua" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... eight inches, bright woven garters twisted around their red buckskin leggins below the knee, and red moccasins with turned up soles and silver buttons), that they were Navajos.[22] They indicated that they were father and son, the father announcing himself in a lordly way as "Agua Grande." He was over six feet tall and apparently sixty or seventy years old. The son was a fine young lad of about fifteen. Their bearing was cordial, yet proud and dignified. They had not long been with us when Prof. came in, and during ...
— A Canyon Voyage • Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
... society must be conventional; but they are true to life, and are still as interesting as when they first appeared. In this kind No siempre lo peor es cierto, La Dama duende, Una casa con dos puertas mala es de guardar and Guardate del agua mansa are almost unsurpassed. But it is as a writer of autos sacramentales that Calderon defies rivalry: his intense devotion, his subtle intelligence, his sublime lyrism all combine to produce such marvels ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various |
