A Bunch of fellas-the current crop of aficionados-were inside the store, making lots of noise over the news.
"The Planet Strappers"
Raymond Zinke Gallun
Everything was very simple and friendly; Otero found good seats among the aficionados for the guests presented to him, and then began calling his pupils to the floor of the long, narrow room with quick commands of "Venga!"
"Familiar Spanish Travels"
W. D. Howells
The electric lights were shedding their blinding glare on the deafening clatter of the excavating machinery, and it was an unworthy relief to escape from the intense modernity of the scene to that medieval retreat nearer the city where the aficionados night-long watch the bulls coming up from their pastures for the fight or the feast, whichever you choose to call it, of the morrow.
"Familiar Spanish Travels"
W. D. Howells