"I am a couple of stone or so too heavy for the boleros," gasps he, coming to a stand, "but I doubt not, by the time we land at Alicante, there'll not be an ounce too much of me."
"A Set of Rogues"
Frank Barrett
Palm-trees, I thought, rose towards heaven, like passionate souls longing for release from earthly bondage; Spanish women, full-breasted and sinuous, danced boleros, fandangos, while the air rang with the joyous sound of castanets, and toreadors in picturesque habiliments twanged the light guitar.
"The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia"
William Somerset Maugham
The spruce, smiling young maidens-engine-women and stokers of the great aluminum rollers, but despite their profession, very neat in gold-braided blue knickers and boleros-these looked askance at the hard-faced relic of a harsher day, as they passed in and out of the shop.
"Friend Island"
Francis Stevens