Lexicographical Neighbors of Caraunas
Literary usage of Caraunas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Moreover, in the plaine of this Countrey are many Cities and Townes, with high
walls of Mud to defend them from the caraunas, that is Mestizos ..."
2. Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Moreover, in the plaine of this Countrey are many Cities and Townes, with high
walls of Mud to defend them from the caraunas, ..."
3. The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo, Giovanni Battista Baldelli Boni, Hugh Murray, Société de géographie (France) (1852)
"The people have castles and cities surrounded by walls of earth, in order to
defend themselves against the caraunas, a mixed race between the Indians and ..."
4. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah by Richard Francis Burton, Stanley Lane-Poole (1906)
"With which newes, they that kept the caraunas beyng greatly feared, with all
speede, lyke madde men, ..."
5. Travellers' tales, a book of marvels by Henry Cadwallader Adams (1883)
"He is accurate, no doubt, as regards the darkness, and the danger he experienced
from the caraunas ; but the former may be explained without the need of ..."
6. Eastern Persia: An Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary by WILLIAM THOMAS. BLANFORD, Beresford Lovett, India. Persian Boundary Commission (1876)
"It was no doubt such a mysterious fog as this that Marco Polo experienced, and
attributed to the enchantments of the caraunas, a tribe of freebooters, ..."
7. The Indian travels of Apollonius of Tyana, and the Indian embassies to Rome by Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx, Priaulx, Osmond de Beauvoir, 1805-1891, Apollonius (1873)
"82 A somewhat similar power is ascribed to the caraunas by Marco Polo, p., us,
and is employed to beguile ..."
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