She was the first person I knew to use the word "querencia", and she is the single biggest influence on who I am today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betsy] Reference

E.H. refers in several works to the analogous place a bull prefers, and he defines "querencia" in Death in the Afternoon as that "part of the ring that the bull prefers to be in; where he feels at home.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Querencia] Reference

Did you notice how he went to the bull in its querencia?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carlos The Impossible (Part 1)] Reference

Carl possessed a calm that betrayed his querencia wherever he went.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carlos The Impossible (Part 1)] Reference

Carlos, having played his part, drifted toward his querencia, unrequited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carlos The Impossible (Part 2)] Reference

A bull's querencia is the spot in the bullring where the bull feels safest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carlos The Impossible (Part 1)] Reference

In Argentina, gauchos refer to the region where a horse is born as the querencia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference

His father, William F. Buckley Jr., "was fond of a Spanish word, querencia," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outer Sanctum: Why we love to step outside the box to think inside the shed] Reference

Each bull will find its querencia in a different place in the ring, though not uncommonly near the gate where it entered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carlos The Impossible (Part 1)] Reference

The skilled matador will turn the bull's querencia to his own advantage, luring the bull into a tenuous security before preparing for the final blow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carlos The Impossible (Part 1)] Reference

The Tlaxcalan slowed further still, and retreated toward the gate on the far side of the ring, seeking what Hernando called“that mirage of a corner in the roundness of the ring”: its querencia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carlos The Impossible (Part 1)] Reference

From Kansas to Ronda to Mexico City, Carlos the Impossible, as he would become known, would always find his querencia here, in a sloping sunflower field, beside the gently flowing waters of One Hundred Mile Creek, near the source of the Pequot River.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carlos The Impossible (Part 1)] Reference

In the days before fences, a horse would always try to return to its querencia because it was home, the place a horse knew by the quality of light in the early morning, the taste of the grass, and the look of the hills -- all things that a horse never forgets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference

When a fighting bull's courage is finally taken—when the bull is worn down by the toreros, exhausted and resigned to its fate in the ring—it will go to its querencia, that spot where the bull feels safest, where it will return, predictably, where the matador will have to lure him forward to deliver the final, fatal blow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carlos The Impossible (Part 1)] Reference

So, it's my querencia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outer Sanctum: Why we love to step outside the box to think inside the shed] Reference

I'm a Fan of querencia.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Dill: Election Vaporware] Reference

A little remnant querencia.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Rotten Old Town That Everyone Loves] Reference

More pictures of my querencia!.    From Wordnik.com.  [More pictures of my querencia!] Reference

Reading is one of my "querencia.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-03-01] Reference

Posted 03: 26 PM on 9/25/2007 querencia.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Dill: Election Vaporware] Reference

Tengo una querencia especial por estos discos.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bootleg Series Vol 1-3] Reference

Into the Wardrobe: More pictures of my querencia!.    From Wordnik.com.  [More pictures of my querencia!] Reference