May 15. The infantry followed, sturdily breasting the long ascent; a second intrenched position, barring the La hoya pass, was abandoned on their approach; the strong castle of Perote, with an armament of 60 guns and mortars, opened its gates without firing a shot, and on May 15 the great city of Puebla, surrounded by glens of astonishing fertility, and only eighty miles from Mexico, was occupied without resistance.
"Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War"
G. F. R. Henderson
Just now, in some situations, the old gold orchid rivals the mango in showiness and fragrance; the pencil orchid dangles white aigrettes from the trunks and branches of hundreds of trees, saturating the air with a subtle essence as of almonds and honey; and the hoya hangs festoons from rocks and trees in such lavish disregard of space and the breathings of less virile vegetation, that the sensual scent borders on the excessive.
"My Tropic Isle"
E J Banfield
The Brunswickers, the dwellers on the Church lands of Bremen and Verden, were in the most favourable condition, those of Hildesheim and the Grafschaft of hoya in the worst.
"Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I."
Gustav Freytag