All 40 Uses
Lima
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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- This bridge was on the highroad between Lima and Cuzco and hundreds of persons passed over it every day.†
Chpt 1
- Horses and coaches and chairs had to go down hundreds of feet below and pass over the narrow torrent on rafts, but no one, not even the Viceroy, not even the Archbishop of Lima, had descended with the baggage rather than cross by the famous bridge of San Luis Rey.†
Chpt 1
- The bodies of the victims were approximately collected and approximately separated from one another, and there was great searching of hearts in the beautiful city of Lima.†
Chpt 1
- It prompted him to busy himself for six years, knocking at all the doors in Lima, asking thousands of questions, filling scores of notebooks, in his effort at establishing the fact that each of the five lost lives was a perfect whole, livery-one knew that he was working on some sort of memorial of the accident and everyone was very helpful and misleading.†
Chpt 1
- At last at twenty-six she found herself penned into marriage with a supercilious and ruined nobleman and the Cathedral of Lima fairly buzzed with the sneers of her guests.†
Chpt 2
- Left alone in Lima the Marquesa's life grew more and more inward.†
Chpt 2
- Lima was a city of eccentrics, but even there she became its jest as she drove through the streets or shuffled up the steps of its churches.†
Chpt 2
- Among her protégés was the cartographer De Blasiis (whose Maps of the New World was dedicated to the Marquesa de Montemayor amid the roars of the courtiers at Lima who read that she was the "admiration of her city and a rising sun in the West"); another was the scientist Azuarius whose treatise on the laws of hydraulics was suppressed by the Inquisition as being too exciting.†
Chpt 2
- Pepita was an orphan and had been brought up by that strange genius of Lima, the Abbess Madre Maria del Pilar.†
Chpt 2
- She had never known any country but the environs of Lima and she assumed that all its corruption was the normal state of mankind.†
Chpt 2
- The Archbishop of Lima, whom we shall know later in a more graceful connection, hated her with what he called a Vatinian hate and counted the cessation of her visits among the compensations for dying.†
Chpt 2
- In the courtyard she came upon a company of girls at work over the linen and her eyes fell at once upon a girl of twelve who was directing the others at the trough and at the same time recounting to them with great dramatic fire the less probable miracles in the life of Saint Rose of Lima.†
Chpt 2
- She had travelled slowly from Lima and even now as she sat in the square a boy from her farm ran up and put into her hand a large packet wrapped in parchment and dangling some nuggets of sealing-wax.†
Chpt 2
- In Lima Pepita generally sat down at the table with her mistress.†
Chpt 2
- With one hand on the back of the chair she said haltingly: "My dear child, I am sending off a letter to Lima in the morning.†
Chpt 2
- Two days later they started back to Lima, and while crossing the bridge of San Luis Rey the accident which we know befell them.†
Chpt 2
- All Lima knew them well.†
Chpt 3
- The Archbishop of Lima was something of a philologist; he dabbled in dialects; he had even evolved quite a brilliant table for the vowel and consonant changes from Latin into Spanish and from Spanish into Indian-Spanish.†
Chpt 3
- And by the heart of Saint Rose of Lima?†
Chpt 3
- Here Manuel cast himself upon the Spanish language and exclaimed with unnecessary vigor: "I swear by the Virgin Mary and the heart of Saint Rose of Lima that all that has to do with the letter will be secret."†
Chpt 3
- You are only a cholo, and there are better matadors than you, even in Lima.†
Chpt 3
- All Lima was interested in this separation of the brothers.†
Chpt 3
- But he always returned to Lima.†
Chpt 3
- They had supper together and it was arranged that they were to start for Lima the next morning.†
Chpt 3
- You know Lima and Cuzco and the road.†
Chpt 3
- They started for Lima.†
Chpt 3
- Lima celebrated its feast days by hearing a Mass of Tomas Luis da Victoria in the morning and the glittering poetry of Calderon in the evening.†
Chpt 4
- When the Archbishop returned from a short trip to Spain, all Lima kept asking: "What has he brought?"†
Chpt 4 *
- There were many admirable actresses in Lima during these years, but none better.†
Chpt 4
- Within four months he knew practically everyone in Lima.†
Chpt 4
- Not the audiences of Lima.†
Chpt 4
- There was something in Lima that was wrapped up in yards of violet satin from which protruded a great dropsical head and two fat pearly hands; and that was its archbishop.†
Chpt 4
- He had come up from Lima on a strange sentimental impulse.†
Chpt 4
- All the world is alike, Madrid or Lima.†
Chpt 4
- Suddenly the news was all over Lima.†
Chpt 4
- At last he went back to Lima; he rilled in the time as best he could, but he longed to be by her as a boy of eighteen would long.†
Chpt 4
- Camila, let me take Don Jaime for a year to live with me in Lima.†
Chpt 4
- This master was one day walking through the Cathedral of Lima and stopped to read the epitaph of a lady.†
Chpt 5
- The bookseller of the town reported that she was one of the three most cultivated persons in Lima.†
Chpt 5
- Camila decided to go to Lima and look at the Abbess from a distance.†
Chpt 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(Lima) capital and largest city and economic center of Peru; historic capital of the Spanish empire in the New World until the 19th century
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, Lima can refer to anyone or any other place with that name or to a type of bean that was first cultivated in Lima.