When the priest, a spaniard of ascetic and noble countenance, had arrived and was embarked upon the marriage ceremony, Judge Barton took himself to task for the flutter of nervousness which, to his great discomfiture, he found obtruding into his judicial reflections.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
The spaniard on his horse was pictured as one animal with two heads, four legs and two arms.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
Fired with fresh intelligence of the magnificence of the people who lived near the "Father of Waters," we find him pursuing his expedition in a sun-set direction in company with his jaded, reduced and dispirited force, with a fortitude and courage which none but a spaniard knows.
"Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847"
Albert James Pickett