Dictionary of Spoken Spanish

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Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486119661
Total Pages : 527 pages
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Book Synopsis Dictionary of Spoken Spanish by : U. S. War Dept

Download or read book Dictionary of Spoken Spanish written by U. S. War Dept and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete, unabridged republication of a Dictionary of Spoken Spanish, which was specially prepared by nationally known linguists for the U.S. War Department (TM#30-900). It is compiled from spoken Spanish and emphasizes idiom and colloquial usage in both Castilian and Latin American areas. More than 16,000 entries provide exact translations of both English and Spanish sentences and phrases; as many as 60 idioms are listed under each entry. This is easily the largest list of idiomatic constructions ever published. Travelers, business people, and students who are interested in Latin American studies have found this dictionary their best source for those expressions of daily life and social activity not usually found in books. More than 18,000 idioms are given, not as isolated words that you have to conjugate or alter, but as complete sentences that you can use without change. A 25-page introduction provides a rapid survey of Spanish sounds, grammar, and syntax, with full consideration of irregular verbs. It is especially apt in its modern treatment of phrase and clause structure. A 17-page appendix gives translations of geographical names, numbers, national holidays for Spanish countries, important street signs, useful expressions of high frequency, and a unique 7-page glossary of Spanish and Spanish-American foods and dishes.

Opening the Iron Trail: Terry as a U. Pay. Man A Semi-Centennial Story

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Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465532471
Total Pages : 89 pages
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Download or read book Opening the Iron Trail: Terry as a U. Pay. Man A Semi-Centennial Story written by Edwin Legrand Sabin and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rousing chant rang gaily upon the thin air of Western spring. Sitting Jenny, the old yellow mule, for a moment’s breather while the load of rails was being swept from his flat-car truck, Terry Richards had to smile. Nobody knew who invented that song. Some said Paddy Miles, the track-laying boss—and it did sound like Pat. At any rate, the lines had made a hit, until already their words were echoing from the Omaha yards, the beginning of track, past end o’ track and on through the grading-camps clear to the mountains where the surveying parties were spying out the trail, for this new Union Pacific Railroad across continent. Time, early in May, 1867. Place, end o’ track, on the Great Plains just north of the Platte River, between North Platte Station of west central Nebraska and Julesburg, the old Overland Stage Station, of northeastern Colorado. Scene, track-laying—a bevy of sweaty, flannel-shirted, cowhide-booted men working like beavers, but with spades, picks, sledges, wrenches and hands, while far before were the graders, keeping ahead, and behind were the boarding-train and the construction-train, puffing back and forth. Aye, this was a bustling scene, here where a few weeks ago there had been open country traveled by only the emigrant wagons, the stages and the Indians. And yonder, farther than the graders and out of sight in the northwest, there were still more workers on the big job: the location surveyors, the path-finding surveyors, the—but Terry’s breather was cut short. “All right!” yelped the command, from the front. Terry’s empty truck was tipped sideways from the single track. A second little flat-car, hauled by a galloping white horse ridden by small red-headed Jimmie Muldoon, passed full speed, bound to the fray with more rails. Terry’s own car was tipped back upon the track again, one-legged Dennis, its “conductor,” hopped aboard, to the brakes, and uttering a whoop Terry started, to get another load, himself. Old Jenny headed down track, by the path that she had worn; the fifty feet of rope tautened; with the truck rumbling after and Shep, Terry’s shaggy black dog, romping alongside, they tore for the fresh supplies. Sitting bareback, Terry rode like an Indian. At the waiting pile of rails dumped from the construction-train he swerved Jenny out, and halted. The light flat-car rolled on until Dennis (who had been crippled in the war) stopped it with the brake. Instantly the rail-slingers there began to load it. And presently Terry was launched once more for end o’ track, with his cargo of forty rails to be placed, lightning quick, upon the ties. Jimmie’s emptied truck was tipped aside, to give clearance. Then Jimmie pelted rearward, for iron ammunition, and Terry had another breather. That was a great system by which at the rate of a mile and a half to two miles and a half and sometimes three miles a day the rails for the Iron Horse were being laid to the land of the setting sun. Beyond end o’ track the graded roadbed stretched straight into the west as far as eye could see, with a graders’ camp of sodded dug-outs and dingy tents breaking the distance. At the tapering-off place the ploughs and scrapers were busy, building the roadbed. Next there came the shovel and pick squads, leveling the roadbed. Next, between end o’ track and shovel squads, there were the tie-layers—seizing the ties from the piles, throwing them upon the roadbed, tamping them and straightening them and constantly asking for more, while six-horse and six-mule wagons toiled up and down, hauling all kinds of material to the “front.”

A Traves de La Ventana de Sus Ojos

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Publisher : Palibrio
ISBN 13 : 1463304323
Total Pages : 495 pages
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A Dictionary of Spanish Idioms with Their English Equivalents

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Total Pages : 148 pages
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La dama gris

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Publisher : Erasmus Ediciones
ISBN 13 : 8492806508
Total Pages : 187 pages
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L grimas negras

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ISBN 13 : 1463348282
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La Oracion

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597523607
Total Pages : 335 pages
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Philippine Short Stories in Spanish

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Total Pages : 466 pages
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La Muerte De Angelique Vitry

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493103563
Total Pages : 103 pages
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Download or read book La Muerte De Angelique Vitry written by John Stark and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Muerte de Angelique Vitry ( Sinopsis ) William Johnson fue una de las figuras centrales en la guerra entre los canadienses franceses y los britnicos (1756 - 1761) por la posesin de Canad. l era un irlands de gran tenacidad y encanto , que consigui galvanizar a los indios nativos americanos en una poderosa fuerza de combate , alinendolos con los britnicos, y finalmente derrotar a los canadienses franceses en la batalla de las Llanuras de Abraham en Quebec. Aunque Johnson es una poderosa figura poltica y rico terrateniente ( que ofrece una recompensa de cinco libras por cualquier cuero cabelludo francesa del Iroquois en vez ) , tiene algunos defectos de carcter grave, una de ellas es una duda sobre su capacidad sexual . Con el fin de compensar este rasgo neurtico , trata de seducir a todas las mujeres a la vista, sin importar la edad o el origen tnico, y, finalmente, los contactos sfilis. Una mujer no logra seducir, sin embargo, es una joven pelirroja francocanadiense llamado Angelique Vitry , que le recuerda a Kathleen , la muchacha irlandesa pelirroja que dej atrs en el condado de Cork , Irlanda. Angelique es slo once aos de edad, pero se ve diecisis aos. Era un hurfano cuya madre muri en un barco trayendo inmigrantes irlandeses a Canad. Criado por monjas en un orfanato catlico en ? Montreal , es un joven reprimido, totalmente ignorante de las relaciones sexuales . Cuando ella se hizo amigo de Johnson , ella se obsesiona con l , y se desarrolla un embarazo psicolgico . Johnson se debate entre la devocin paternal para el joven y una atraccin que est profundamente arraigada en la semejanza de la nia a Kathleen . Ama de llaves de Johnson , Mary , cuyo padre es jefe Hendricks de la tribu Iroquois, ha vivido con l durante muchos aos y le dio un hijo llamado ligero como una pluma . Ella tiene celos de Angelique , y convence a su padre de que la nia est poseda , y debe ser destruida antes de que ella se extiende una epidemia en toda la Nacin Iroquois . Esto pone a Johnson en un dilema : si se aferra a Angelique , se arriesga a perder el apoyo de los iroqueses en una prxima batalla decisiva contra los franceses , y si l la deja ir , gana su apoyo. l la deja ir , pero los iroqueses no logran mantener su parte del trato , y deciden grabar Angelique en juego, convencido de que ella es una bruja. Johnson salva la vida de Angelique por contar con uno de sus soldados escoltan de vuelta a su casa en Quebec , a sabiendas de que , al hacerlo, tendr que luchar contra los franceses por su cuenta. Ms tarde , Johnson es herido en la batalla. Durante un retiro , se refugia en una cabaa que sus soldados se han encontrado en el bosque. Irnicamente, resulta ser la casa de su padrastro y madrastra de Angelique , que ahora le han prometido a un sargento francs que odia . Mientras que Johnson se recupera de sus heridas de batalla , con Angelique le enfermera , descubre una cruz de oro en poder de Angelique , el mismo que le haba dado a Kathleen , de vuelta en Irlanda. Johnson es devastada por la constatacin de que se senta atrado sexualmente a su propia hija, y le roba lejos de ella una vez que est lo suficientemente bien para viajar. Una amnista en la guerra es declarada , y la celebracin se lleva a cabo en los terrenos de la finca de Johnson. Ahora se ha convertido en gravemente enfermo con la enfermedad venrea. Mientras que l est dando un discurso ante sus tropas , ligero como una pluma suministra el cuero cabelludo de su hija Angelique le reclama la recompensa de cinco minas. Johnson seala airadamente su espada , y est a punto de matar a su hijo cuando se distrae por una visin que l tiene de Kathleen le acercaba por el bosque. Ligero como una pluma ve su oportunidad y conduce un cuchillo en la espalda de su padre. Eric Till quien dirigi nuestra actual funcin premiado ahora emite en PBS TV y Rusia dirigir Muerte de Angelique Vitry . Leelee Sobieski jugar Angelique . Lions Gat

Between the Lines

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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816515523
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Spanish Dictionary

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Publisher : Research & Education Assoc.
ISBN 13 : 9780878914555
Total Pages : 552 pages
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Download or read book Spanish Dictionary written by Research and Education Association and published by Research & Education Assoc.. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This complete dictionary was developed by nationally known linguists for the U.S. government. It features an easy-to-use format for quick access to thousands of words and expressions with translations of both English and Spanish sentences. Includes 18,000 idioms, a thorough review of Spanish sounds, grammar, and irregular verbs. Appendix includes translations of words for countries, cities, street signs, holidays, foods, and useful traveling expressions.

LA CASA DE LOS CELOS Y SELVAS DE ARDENIA

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Total Pages : 114 pages
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Cojear con Dios

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Publisher : New Reformation Publications
ISBN 13 : 1956658769
Total Pages : 177 pages
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Lecciones Cristianas libro del maestro trimestre de verano 2017

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ISBN 13 : 1501824708
Total Pages : 78 pages
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Download or read book Lecciones Cristianas libro del maestro trimestre de verano 2017 written by Yolanda Pupo-Ortiz and published by Cokesbury. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lecciones Cristianas tiene como propósito ayudar a las personas adultas hispanas a crecer en su comprensión de la Biblia y relación de ésta con la vida. Lecciones Cristianas sigue la serie de las Lecciones Bíblicas Internacionales. Está escrito especialmente para las iglesias de habla hispana. También hay un Libro del Maestro que provee sugerencias importantes para la enseñanza de cada lección, preguntas para discutir y actividades para la clase. Lecciones Cristianas helps Hispanic adults grow in their knowledge of the Bible and how it relates to their lives. Lecciones Cristianas follows the International Lesson Series. The content of this excellent study is biblical and it is written especially for Spanish-speaking churches. The teacher book provides valuable suggestions for teaching the class, discussion questions, and class activities.

La casa ardiendo

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ISBN 13 : 9788494954658
Total Pages : 72 pages
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The Elements of Spanish and English Conversation

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Cumandá

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ISBN 13 : 8490076510
Total Pages : 163 pages
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