alcayde
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The alcayde proclaimed: "Don Vincente Salazar, I have the honour to announce an English senor."
From Romance by Conrad, Joseph
The king of Tripoli, and the alcayde of the Grand Turk, who, as you know, is heir to all those who die without natural heirs, immediately took possession of all Fatallah's effects.
From The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
The alcayde thrust his immense hat, blood-red face, and long, ragged, silver locks out of the little door.
From Romance by Conrad, Joseph
The donzeles, of which Diego de Cordova was alcayde, or captain, were a body of young cavaliers, originally brought up as pages in the royal household, and organized as a separate corps of the militia.
From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by Prescott, William Hickling
They waited only for a day when the alcayde of the castle would not be likely to visit it.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling
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