Ixtaccihuatl
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Off between the stately peaks of Ixtaccihuatl and Popocatepetl it is a speck against the fires of dawn.
From Time Magazine Archive
He saw Benito and Juana, Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl; he was on the pyramid and in it, and he saw the silver cone of Orizaba.
From The Texan Star The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
He wished to die too, so he caused to be constructed a great pyramid upon which he himself laid the beautiful Ixtaccihuatl.
From Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border by Carr, Annie Roe
“That’s the famous one with the two volcanoes, Ixtaccihuatl, ‘the white woman’, and Popocatepetl, ‘the mountain that smokes’.
From Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border by Carr, Annie Roe
Ixtaccihuatl was the beautiful daughter of a proud and powerful Aztec Emperor and his only child.
From Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border by Carr, Annie Roe
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