The Queensland 'conquistadors' have already captured the silverware from the Byron Bay Cup, the Newmarket and the Rousillon. From Wordnik.com. [northernstar.com.au: The Northern Star] Reference
Self-anointed saviors arrived with the conquistadors. From Wordnik.com. [The Return Of The Old Caudillo] Reference
The names of the conquistadors had become dirty words. From Wordnik.com. [Multimedia: Conquistadors Out of Context] Reference
This time around, are the conquistadors swine or heroes?. From Wordnik.com. [Multimedia: Conquistadors Out of Context] Reference
For all I know, it may have been put up by the conquistadors. From Wordnik.com. ['The Highway That's The Best'] Reference
Is it a mountain of silver, as the Spanish conquistadors thought?. From Wordnik.com. ['The Ascent of Money'] Reference
After expelling the Moors, Spain's last conquistadors seized north. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
Europe, to serve as lowly workers rather than conquistadors/conquerors. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
Spain once boasted conquistadors; they've been replaced by marijuanadors. From Wordnik.com. [John Marshall: The Decline and Sale of American Civilization] Reference
Private jets carry its corporate conquistadors deep into Africa and beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Mort Rosenblum: India at 60, Monsoons, Weddings and Yet More Misery] Reference
Columbus, de Soto, and a host of other Spanish conquistadors were vilified. From Wordnik.com. [Multimedia: Conquistadors Out of Context] Reference
If they had, the totalitarian conquistadors would never have stood a chance. From Wordnik.com. [What does bottom up mind have to do with you personally?] Reference
Our people began fighting in this region, first of all, against the conquistadors. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO SPEECH AT MONCADA ANNIVERSARY CEREMONY] Reference
I have always felt that the conquistadors were lucky to have landed here by mistake. From Wordnik.com. [CONCLUSION OF THE LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN TRA] Reference
The misfortune of some of these people was their belief that the conquistadors were gods. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Addresses UJC Congress Closing Session] Reference
They arrived with Spanish conquistadors more than 450 years ago, and the swine have never left. From Wordnik.com. [Running Hog Wild In Florida] Reference
The conquistadors first brought hogs to Florida in the middle of the 16th century as a source of food. From Wordnik.com. [Warm Weather, Sunshine and Wild Boar] Reference
Dudo is an Incan game that comes to us by way of the conquistadors (dudo is Spanish for "I doubt it"). From Wordnik.com. [Board Games: The Games People Played] Reference
Plus some fuzzy, picture-book images of black-robed friars and armored conquistadors I couldn't identify. From Wordnik.com. ['A Voyage Long and Strange'] Reference
I also see a modern U. S.-made rifle, an AK-47, or a harquebus from the times of the Spanish conquistadors. From Wordnik.com. [Mexican Newspaper Interviews Fidel Castro Part IX Comments on Insurgencies] Reference
The cups of coco were served to the conquistadors with foaming honey and spices on top of the hot beverages. From Wordnik.com. [How chocolate is used for healing in the past and present] Reference
They died out during the Ice Age, were reintroduced by the conquistadors, and flourished on the American range. From Wordnik.com. [Deanne Stillman: Let's Mend the Broken Trail: July 4th Call for a Moratorium on Wild Horse Round-Ups Following Recent Deaths] Reference
BALDWIN: For decades, historians believe the pyramid was tainted by the Catholic views of Spanish conquistadors. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2009] Reference
There was not a single word about the tens of millions of men and women who were exterminated by the conquistadors. From Wordnik.com. [Fidel Castro Delivers Speech at Education 93] Reference
When the conquistadors arrived, even though the people here were completely unarmed and peaceful, they still resisted. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO SPEECH AT MONCADA ANNIVERSARY CEREMONY] Reference
"When you learn about the Spanish conquest of the New World, all you read about is the conquistadors," she says sharply. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother of Chile] Reference
Sixteenth-century conquistadors cut a swath through ancient civilizations that had once rivaled those of the Aztec and Inca. From Wordnik.com. ['A Voyage Long and Strange'] Reference
It is incredible how they were led to believe the conquistadors were gods that were returning, according to certain legends. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Addresses UJC Congress Closing Session] Reference
BALDWIN (voice over): For decades historians believe the Popol Vuh was tainted by the Catholic views of Spanish conquistadors. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2009] Reference
The Spanish conquistadors, including Cortés (1519), were greeted by the local people with plenty of turkey and other delicacies. From Wordnik.com. [From the President: Talking Turkey] Reference
The Spanish conquistadors enlisted friars to convert many local inhabitants to Catholicism after arriving in the sixteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Church Effort Slows Philippines Mining] Reference
When the conquistadors arrived in Mesoamerica, they observed Aztec rituals that incorporated a chocolate drink made from cacao seeds. From Wordnik.com. [Yoo Hoo's Earliest Ancestor] Reference
When Spanish conquistadors first arrived in the islands, they noted that the natives were bedecked in gold ornaments from head to foot. From Wordnik.com. [Going for the Gold] Reference
But since the conquistadors were more intent on obliterating the civilization than chronicling it, their reports are considered suspect. From Wordnik.com. [Children Of The Ice] Reference
There on the margins between known and unknown, the male conquistadors, explorers and sailors became creatures of transition and threshold. From Wordnik.com. [Where I am] Reference
In Latin America, the faith that arrived with the conquistadors in the 16th century is now expanding in part because the population is exploding. From Wordnik.com. [The Changing Face Of The Church] Reference
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