Lexicographical Neighbors of Alguacils
Literary usage of Alguacils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Court of Philip IV.: Spain in Decadence by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume (1907)
"Following the condemned men came crowds of alguacils, notaries, and officers of
justice; and as the procession swept along dismally, heralded by tolling ..."
2. Letters of Cortes: The Five Letters of Relation from Fernando Cortes to the by Hernán Cortés, Francis Augustus MacNutt (1908)
"I immediately sent those two Spaniards, together with the natives who had come
to complain, and also one of my alguacils, to Gabriel de Rojas, intimating to ..."
3. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803: Explorations by Early Navigators by Edward Gaylord Bourne, James Alexander Robertson, Emma Helen Blair (1906)
"They were appointing alguacils, building prisons, and setting up stocks, arresting
and lashing Indians, and were very domineering and meddlesome in all ..."
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