chulo
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"The debt is on my side, señor," said the chulo, looking steadily into the pallid face of the young cavalier.
From The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville by A. L. O. E.
Then a chulo is pursued, greatly to the delight of the audience, and hastily retreats behind a short fence or refuge, built close to the ring and too narrow to admit the bull.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various
Diego completed the group; the chulo had attached himself to Alcala, and was resolved to stand by the cavalier to the last.
From The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville by A. L. O. E.
He dashed fearlessly into the arena, charged and wheeled and tossed his horns in the splendor of his strength, sending every red-vested chulo scrambling over the wall.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
A chulo or two have flashed their bright-colored mantles in his face to madden him, or another picador has stood an attack.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various
The chulos lost no time in applying their art to extricate their companion, by harassing the animal on all sides, who was thus compelled to abandon his prey in order to meet his new tormentors.
From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
In the ring, distributed here and there, were some half a dozen professional fighters on foot, called banderilleros and chulos, besides which there were two on horseback, known as picadors.
From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Maturin Murray Ballou
Most of the gay company leaped the barrier, and even the chulos who remained in the ring placed themselves within convenient distance of the rail.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
The chulos went at him, flaring before him with the left hand red and yellow ponchas, and holding in the right darts containing fireworks, and ornamented with yellow paper cut into slips.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens
Then the beast grows altogether mad and furious, and often chases a whole band of chulos in wild flight over the barrier, which calls for noisy shouts of ridicule from the crowd.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Kuno Francke
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