"Andalusia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... disputed: it appears to me to be a point of great interest, which is little understood. Humboldt has remarked in one part of the Personal Narrative, [1] that it would be difficult for any person who had long resided in New Andalusia, or in Lower Peru, to deny that there exists some connection between these phenomena: in another part, however he seems to think the connection fanciful. At Guayaquil it is said that a heavy shower in the dry season is invariably followed by an earthquake. ...
— The Voyage of the Beagle • Charles Darwin
... according to medieval usage, Egypt. (2) I.e. Garbo, the coast of Africa opposite Andalusia and Granada. ...
— The Decameron, Volume I • Giovanni Boccaccio
... Antonio. "That man there is Jose Navarro, the most famous bandit of Andalusia. There are two hundred ducats for whoever gives him up. I know a post of lancers a league and a half from here, and before it is day I will bring some of ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI. • Various
... league from Palos, a sea-port of Andalusia in Spain, on a solitary height, overlooking the sea-coast, and surrounded by a forest of pines, there stood, and now stands at the present day, an ancient convent ...
— Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia • Samuel Griswold Goodrich
... name brought over the Padre a new rush of home thoughts. "Is not Andalusia beautiful?" he said. "Did you see it in ...
— Padre Ignacio - Or The Song of Temptation • Owen Wister |
