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    1. to find liquid gold in the wilderness as Cortez had been in his search for El Dorado


    2. He swaggered over to the group of girls, his head held high ala Mussolini’s el Duce pose


    3. Boo! Say what? Well, my good friend Morty el Mago always had a positive attitude about everything—incredible, huh?—and in relation to that, I’ve been thinking about a story he once told me that he referred to as the Tale of Bob the Buho


    4. A couple of minutes later when Morty el Mago and I opened our eyes, Priscilla the Pixie was not to be found and was never to be seen in those parts again


    5. The dream of Sir Waiter Raleigh, concerning the golden city and country of El Dorado, may satisfy us, that even wise men are not always exempt from such strange delusions


    6. Every Spaniard who sailed to America expected to find an El Dorado


    7. I was passing through El Paso and saw a grocery store with the lights on


    8. Adjectives which end in –or, -án, ón and –ín also have a feminine form: el hombre hablador


    9. Did you see El Jazeera out front?”


    10. Another interesting point of this battle is that our Apartheid historians speak of with awe of the 998 guns that fired at El Alamein

    11. When all was in readiness, even the day before the battle, the army could have moved forward the eight miles toward El Pozo, and made the attack, well fed, and with an abundance of supplies on hand to sustain it


    12. Aguadores could then have been captured, leaving only a short march across the foothills between El Morro and Santiago


    13. Castillo moved his Cubans forward to El Pozo, where, under De Coro and Gonzales, they did efficient outpost work a mile beyond the American lines, thus relieving the soldiers from much arduous guard duty


    14. Pressing forward to the outposts on June 26th, we camped just above El Pozo, in a snugly thatched hut considerately erected by the Cubans


    15. The sun was dropping behind the heights of El Cobre, and shed a golden radiance over the peaceful scene


    16. This citadel resembled a French chateau rather than the Moresque forts of Spain; but the guns made little impression upon it, and I rode back to El Pozo, where Battery A, Captain Grimes, was entrenched on a ridge opposing San Juan


    17. When the artillery duel had ceased, though there was no indication that the enemy's guns had been silenced, the regiments started to pour down the trail leading through the thickly wooded valley intervening between El Pozo and the enemy's position on San Juan


    18. Four bronze guns at El Sueno were poorly worked through lack of gunners, and the three guns at Fort Nuevo, which almost enfiladed Pearson's brigade on the left, fired few shots effectively


    19. I had this friend Tom Felkins and his wife Emma invited me and my wife Leone to go pheasant hunting down in Southern California around the town of El Centro


    20. Beyond the Rio Seco, near El Pozo, there was an admirable site for the field hospital, which was speedily utilised as a temporary station by Dr

    21. The artillery officers had awaited the formulation of a plan of campaign, and several told me that they received no definite orders until late on July 2nd, when the guns were moved laboriously through the woods, to a ridge on the left of El Pozo, too late to be of effective service


    22. Lawton also moved his division on the night of the 1st, but, through a mistake in the road, he was forced to march through by El Pozo, extending and strengthening the lines on the right early on July 2nd


    23. They were huddled in thousands in El Caney; every house was so crowded that none could lie down, but squatted on the floors of the rooms and on the piazzas, unable to move


    24. For instance we talk of great pride of the 998 field guns firing at El Alamein but that was nothing to the 35 000 at Berlin three years later


    25. He volunteered for the Israeli police in the forensic department and also participated in identifying victims of the downed El Al aircraft over Bulgaria in July 1955


    26. ” The memory of Vietnam prevented Reagan from a direct US invasion of Latin America, but not from intervening in El Salvador's civil war, a campaign of state terrorism in Nicaragua, and collaborating with outright genocide in Guatemala


    27. In El Salvador, the US military bombed the country for much of the 1980s, sent in advisers and a campaign of repression to break a protesters and a rebel movement


    28. The US government under Herbert Hoover had also just supported the crushing of a popular uprising in El Salvador, its dictator Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez killing perhaps 30,000


    29. I was in El Bierzo, then, and my berciano friends offered me their condolences for my adoptive country


    30. El Salvador's dictator General Humberto Romero cut off US aid rather than be pressured on human rights

    31. In El Salvador, it is clear Carter's policy failed


    32. The rendezvous point was an estuary just north of El Bluff, Nicaragua


    33. The fisherman and his boat were to be found hidden under leaves in the wee hours in an estuary north of El Bluff


    34. The purpose of my visit to El Bierzo, on this occasion, was to present the last book of my autobiographical trilogy to the greatest number possible of my countrymen from the region of my birth


    35. Very moved and emotional, I made some commentaries, among them one that thanked City Hall because the homage rendered to me, also served to give tribute to the mothers of El Bierzo, who in the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s had made heroic sacrifices for their children… and I am a product of that generation and of those sacrifices


    36. “A little more than two decades ago, my already deceased friend Fred Anderson from ABC, CHANEL 7-EYEWITNESS NEWS in Los Angeles traveled with me in one of my visits to El Bierzo


    37. Some readers of Bierzo 7 probably still remember Anthony Quinn’s flattering and endearing commentaries towards our privileged territory, but perhaps are unaware of several television reports that Fred made about El Bierzo for the American public


    38. George, a very welcoming city that reminded me of several sections of Ponferrada, we entered red clay territory, with geological formations similar to the “Médulas” from El Bierzo which had delighted my friend Fred… Even Lucille and her daughter Marguerite Lincoln who have visited El Bierzo several times commented to that effect


    39. Public pressure certainly would limit any long term occupation, and may cause his administration to concede the formality of some extremely limited appearance of a democracy, much as happened in El Salvador in the mid 80s and Guatemala in the late 80s


    40. But the military would continue to run the country, blocking or even killing any real opposition, again as in El Salvador or Guatemala in the 1980s

    41. And from Truman’s perspective, Gordon’s boat, El Tiburón Limon was of greater importance than the selection of his half-wit brother as stand-in for the next election


    42. The Russians were using it as a cover for heavy weapons moving inland from the port facility at El Bluff


    43. After moving their things aboard el Tiburón Limon and familiarizing Beth with its workings, he left her to tidy up while he went out to shop for supplies – or so he told her: perhaps he had been overly hasty


    44. He bought the needed supplies and returned to el Tiburón Limon with his resolve firmly in place: they would definitely do it!


    45. “Its name is El Tiburón Limon and it will be at the fishing pier


    46. Which one might be el Tiburón Limon? He removed the flashlight from the glove box and walked onto the pier, craning his neck and directing the beam of light to the name on each boat


    47. The boat el Tiburón Limon had untied and gotten underway not ten minutes earlier, he was informed


    48. Beth sat on the most forward point of el Tiburón Limon, her feet dangling from the bowsprit, high over the water


    49. Towering cumulus clouds, their bottoms flat and appearing close to the water, were scattered about an otherwise unblemished blue sky, but not one offered shade to El Tiburón Limon


    50. Limon Port Authority calling fishing boat El Tiburón Limon, come in














































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    Synonyms for "el"

    el elevated elevated railroad elevated railway overhead railway alt altitude elevation

    "el" definitions

    angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)


    a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level