Pinto Sentence Examples

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  • While Mendes Pinto and his book are typically Portuguese of that age, the Historia tragicomaritima, sometimes designated the prose epic of saudade, is equally characteristic of the race of seamen which produced it.

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  • Julio Cesar Machado and Fialho de Almeida made their mark by many humorous publications, and, in the domain of pure literary criticism, mention must be made of Antonio Pedro Lopes de Mendonga, Rebello da Silva, Dr Joaquim de Vasconcellos, Mme Michaelis de Vasconcellos, Silva Pinto, the favourite disciple of Castello Branco, and of Luciano Cordeiro, founder of the Lisbon Geographical Society, whose able monograph, Soror Marianna, vindicated the authenticity of the Letters of a Portuguese Nun and showed Marianna Alcoforado to be their authoress.

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  • How I crossed Africa, by Major Serpa Pinto (English trans., London, 1881), contains a graphic account of the visit paid to the falls by the Portuguese explorer.

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  • During his term of office as president (1876 to 1881) Pinto had to deal first with a severe financial crisis, and then to conduct the struggle with Peru and Bolivia, in which he displayed great coolness of judgment and devotion to duty.

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  • While pinto beans are traditional, you can use red or black kidney beans instead, or a combination.

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  • We quickly went inside for breakfast, gallo pinto, our first rice and beans.

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  • Pinto and some of the Jesuit biographers, who have pilloried Ataide as actuated solely by malice and self-interest.

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  • Use mashed pinto beans to moisten and extend ground meats for burgers and meatloaf.

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  • The most popular type of sprouting seeds and beans are alfalfa, buckwheat, mung beans, green peas, soybeans, pinto beans, sunflowers and radishes.

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  • Pinto Flour - Use for making refried beans.

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  • Pinta is also known as "azula" (blue), and "mal de pinto" (pinto sickness).

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  • These include most fruits, low -fat dairy products, whole grain breads, cereals, pasta, and rice, red wine, barley, pinto beans, and black-eyed peas.

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  • Dried legumes and lentils, such as kidney beans, split peas, lentils, garbanzo beans, pinto beans and fava beans (just to name a few) are all terrific sources of soluble fiber.

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  • I can go to Sam's Club and buy a twenty-pound bag of rice for $10 and a twenty-pound bag of pinto beans for $13.

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  • Pinto (q.v.), which minutely describes certain incidents of his life in the Far East (especially in Japan and Malacca).

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  • It is perhaps noteworthy that Xavier himself never mentions Pinto; but the omission may be explained by the numerous gaps in his correspondence.

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  • On the strength of certain statements in the narrative of Fernao Mendes Pinto, some authorities hold that he may have visited Lhasa in the course of his journeys in the middle of the 16th century.

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  • Montt's successors, Jose Joaquin Perez (1861-1871), Federico Errazuriz (1871-1876) and Anibal Pinto (1876-1881), abandoned the repressive policy of their predecessors, invited the co-operation of the Liberals, and allowed discontent to vent itself freely in popular agitation.

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  • President Anibal Pinto of Chile now set about to find means to conclude a treaty of peace with Peru, but his efforts in this direction were frustrated by the armed resistance offered in the country districts to the Chilean authorities by the remainder of the Peruvian forces under command of General Caceres.

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  • In September 1881 the term of office of president Pinto expired, and he was succeeded in the post of chief executive of Chile by President Domingo Santa Maria.

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  • Ex-President Pinto died three years later in Valparaiso, leaving a memory respected and admired by all political parties in his country.

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  • The name of Pinto will always occupy a prominent place in the annals of Chilean history, not only because the war with Peru took place during his term of office, but also on account of the fact that it was largely due to the intelligent direction of all details by the president during the struggle that the Chilean arms proved so absolutely successful by land and sea.

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  • Luiza and her confidential adviser, Joao Pinto Ribeiro, recruited a powerful band of conspirators among the disaffected nobles.

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  • A Portuguese force under Major Serpa Pinto had invaded the II., - Shire highlands in order to forestall their annexation by the British, and the British government demanded satisfaction.

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  • But the work that holds the palm in its class is the Peregrinagao which Fernao Mendes Pinto, the famous adventurer, composed in his old age for his children's reading.

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  • Among the moralists of the time three at least deserve the title of masters of prose style, Heitor Pinto for his Imagens da vida Christa, Bishop Arraez for his Dialogos, and Frei Thome de Jesus for his noble devotional treatise Trabalhos de Jesus, while the maxims of Joanna da Gama, entitled Ditos da Freira, though lacking depth, form a curious psychological document.

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