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Here was one of those rare jornadas when both the big two were going to grounds where dropping points was plausible, maybe even probable.

From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2015

Five days, by easy jornadas, they traveled down the river, and arrived on the 14th at the first rancheria22 of the Channel Indians.

From The March of Portola and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco by Eldredge, Zoeth Skinner

In fact, Naharro did introduce the division into five jornadas, and Cervantes assumes only the credit of having been the first to reduce them to three.

From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 by Prescott, William Hickling

There is a book of his writing, called the Diarium, or the Journal; divided into twelve jornadas, in burlesque verse.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Cibber, Theophilus

He states that Naharro was the first to distribute the play into three jornadas or acts, and takes Cervantes roundly to task for assuming the original merit of this distribution to himself.

From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 by Prescott, William Hickling