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  • Willie Cuesta is appropriately persistent and resilient, and he comes up with the answers just before it's too late for all concerned.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Bill Crider 2007

  • It was now too late to think of reaching Uruapa, or of venturing to climb by night the series of precipices called the Cuesta de Curu, over which we should have had to pass.

    Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843

  • Paz from the top of the "Cuesta" both by day and night, and the latter effect, while losing much of its grandeur and magnificence, on account of the darkness, almost surpasses in beauty that of the daylight vision.

    Argentina from a British Point of View Various

  • Isolated gusts up to 50 mph are possible in the foothill areas such as Cuesta Pass and Hearst Castle, according to the Weather Service.

    SanLuisObispo.com: Breaking News 2010

  • Most of our baggage and what we might not require at a moment's notice we sent on ahead with a day's anticipation, and eventually on the 20th May, 1901, our caravan departed from the then capital of Bolivia, at 8 a.m. Our conveyance, to start with, consisted of a coach drawn by four mules, and it took much longer to climb the steep "Cuesta" than it had taken us to descend on previous occasions already mentioned.

    Argentina from a British Point of View Various

  • When we split, I headed south toward Acapulco, then north up the coast to a kind of shanty strip of land between a lagoon and a ferocious sea called Pie de la Cuesta.

    "Best" Beach 2009

  • I was young, very young, eager, foolish and I had a penchant toward showing off while riding bone crushing waves at Pie de la Cuesta.

    "Best" Beach 2009

  • When we split, I headed south toward Acapulco, then north up the coast to a kind of shanty strip of land between a lagoon and a ferocious sea called Pie de la Cuesta.

    "Best" Beach 2009

  • I was young, very young, eager, foolish and I had a penchant toward showing off while riding bone crushing waves at Pie de la Cuesta.

    "Best" Beach 2009

  • When we split, I headed south toward Acapulco, then north up the coast to a kind of shanty strip of land between a lagoon and a ferocious sea called Pie de la Cuesta.

    "Best" Beach 2009

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