quintas
- plural of quinta.
Example Sentences
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As they rode on they found the country dotted over with quintas and country-houses, here called montes, from being generally seated on hills.
From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Bowen, Sue Petigru
As we advanced up the Camiño de Chasna, a road only by name, the quintas were succeeded by brown-thatched huts, single or in clumps.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
One extraordinary feature of the private quintas or orchards and plantations in the vicinity of the Saladeros was the walls or hedges.
From Far Away and Long Ago by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
The roofs of the suburban quintas showed themselves here and there above the orchards, and by the roadside the iris alata bloomed on every bank.
From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Bowen, Sue Petigru
The Paseo del Molino is the best part of the town, where all the rich merchants reside in quintas, surrounded by pretty gardens.
From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Brassey, Annie
