"Buenos Aires" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... arrange for an expedition through the consular office at Buenos Aires to get what I want. It seems we didn't receive all of that strange meteorite even with the ...
— Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope • Victor Appleton
... per cent. and Slav capital 31.80 per cent. One of these Dalmatian Slavs, Mihanovi['c], going out in poverty to the Argentine, has followed with such success the shipbuilding of his ancestors that he is now among the chief millionaires of Buenos Aires. With regard to fishing, there are along the Istrian and Dalmatian coast more than 5000 small vessels which give employment to 19,000 fishermen, of whom only 1000 are citizens of Italy. But Mr. Belloc says that these Slav people have only tentatively approached the sea, that its traffic was ...
— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 • Henry Baerlein
... The families had arranged the union without even consulting them, when she was twelve years old and he already a man corrupted by frequent changes of residence and traveling adventures. Luna had been waiting already ten years for the return of her fiance from Buenos Aires, without the slightest impatience, like the other maidens of her race, certain that everything would take its regular course at ...
— Luna Benamor • Vicente Blasco Ibanez |
