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conquistador
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  • "One of the ghosts on the balcony was wearing conquistador armor," Nico recalled.†   (source)
  • David, what do conquistadors have to do with anything?†   (source)
  • Then try to imagine: If the Spanish Conquistadors did not intervene, what would have been the influence of that civilization on human history?†   (source)
  • After the toast, the Spanish ambassador presents this illustrious descendant of the great Conquistador with yet another medal.†   (source)
  • Then he puts her right side up and laughs a great big Conquistador laugh that comes all the way from the green, motherland hills of Spain.†   (source)
  • Behind her, the second-story balconies of her family house were crowded with glowing figures: a man with a forked beard and rusted conquistador armor; another bearded man in eighteenth-century pirate clothes, his shirt peppered with gunshot holes; a lady in a bloody nightgown; a U.S. Navy captain in his dress whites; and a dozen more Reyna knew from her childhood—all of them glaring at her accusingly, their voices whispering in her mind: Traitor.†   (source)
  • Anyway, Earl's bravura performance as a psychotic fakeGerman-speaking Spanish conquistador was overshadowed by a near-total lack of plot, character development, intelligible dialogue, etc. In hindsight, we probably should have used less footage of Cat Stevens flipping out and attacking one of us.†   (source)
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