Old Castile

[ka-steel]

noun

1. a region in N Spain: formerly a province.

Old Castile

noun

1. Spanish name: Castilla la Vieja. a region of N Spain, on the Bay of Biscay: formerly a province

Example Sentences

Born at Calaruega, in Old Castile, in 1170, of a stock which his brethren love to connect with the royal house, his saintliness was so penetrating that it reflected back upon his mother, who is reverenced as St. Juana de Aga, and at one time there was danger that even his father might be drawn into the saintly circle.

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New England is a very different sort of place from Old Castile.

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I saw, in imagination, the uplands of Old Castile, as I had often heard them described, hot in summer and bleak in winter.

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Beyond Miranda, the first town of old Castile, the desolate scene appeared in its full awfulness.

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In this significant novel, a civil engineer, a man of thirty, whose scientific education in the large cities of Seville and Madrid has been supplemented by study in Germany and England, comes to one of those medi�val towns, or corpses of towns, that rise so spectre-like from the ash-colored plains of Old Castile.

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