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Ponce de León as in: Juan Ponce de León
Ponce de León was Governor of Puerto Rico from 1509 to 1512.
Spanish explorer who accompanied Columbus on his second trip in 1493; in 1513 he discovered Florida while searching for the legendary Fountain of Youth (1460-1521)
Ponce de León was Governor of Puerto Rico from 1509 to 1512.
He came over to Puerto Rico with Ponce de Leon.
Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
"Ponce de Leon!" he screamed.
Flannery O’Connor -- A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES
Alone Down South Luma Mufleh knew nothing of Clarkston or the refugees there when she moved to the nearby town of Decatur, only a few miles west of Clarkston down Ponce de Leon Avenue.
Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
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Ponce de Leon died from a manchineel-sap-coated arrow, and I figured I was a dead man, too.
Jack Gantos -- Hole in My Life
Four hundred years earlier the more literal-minded Juan Ponce de Leon discovered Florida in a search for the land of "Bimini," where he had expected to find the fountain of youth.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Over on Ponce de Leon, a dysfunctional parade of crack dealers, emaciated prostitutes and transvestite party boys remind you that you live in a big city, but there are crickets at night in the summertime.
Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin’
I must tell them at Ponce de Leon High School the better way to study languages.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
LBJ’s brown eyes scan the mostly white audience in the Ponce de Leon Hotel’s ballroom.
Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
Ponce de Leon Institute.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
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All the streets in Coral Gables have Spanish names—Segovia, Ponce de Leon, Alhambra—as if they’d been expecting all the Cubans who would eventually live here.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
"But did Ponce De Leon ever find it?" said the Widow Wycherly.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
Do you know who Ponce de Leon was?
Flannery O’Connor -- A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES
"Ponce de Leon was looking for the fountain of youth," Mr. Jerger said, closing his eyes.
Flannery O’Connor -- A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES
Ponce de Leon!
Flannery O’Connor -- A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES
Bill Kennedy, Ponce de Leon class.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
It was a Ponce de Leon senior-class ring, borrowed from Bill Kennedy.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
And though the town was cut through by two busy thoroughfares, Ponce de Leon Avenue and Indian Creek Drive, as well as a set of active railroad tracks, it had enough navigable sidewalks to qualify as pedestrian-friendly—important for a large group of people who couldn’t afford automobiles.
Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
" asked Dr. Heidegger, "which Ponce De Leon, the Spanish adventurer, went in search of two or three centuries ago?"