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Examples

  • "You can judge of that for yourself, sir, when I tell you that the freight of the spice on the San Gabriel and the Berrio is as sixty to one, compared with the cost of the voyage!"

    Spice and the Devil's Cave 1930

  • Rubi Marte, 18, her friend Catalina Gonzalez, 24, and her mother Omaira Berrio, 54, were making their own souvenirs as they photographed themselves in front of the bank of television crews, photographers and reporters huddled in one section of the stadium.

    Catholics 'so blessed' by pope's presence 2008

  • Portugal has ferried evacuees to the Cape Verde islands aboard the naval frigate Vasco da Gama and supply ship Berrio, and people have then been flown on to Lisbon.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • A man named Berrio was appointed to go with him and assist him; but this Berrio turned out to be anything but a help, refusing to obey the clerico's orders, and finally leaving him, without permission.

    Las Casas 'The Apostle of the Indies' Alice J. Knight

  • Berrio got together about two hundred vagabonds, not at all the right sort of people for colonists, and sent them to Seville, to be shipped to the Indies.

    Las Casas 'The Apostle of the Indies' Alice J. Knight

  • It was necessary that Las Casas should be accompanied on his recruiting tour through the country by some trustworthy man to help him in enrolling his emigrants, and, as fate would have it, his choice fell most unfortunately upon one Berrio, an Italian, a circumstance which Las Casas afterwards observed was, in itself, sufficient to explain his treachery.

    Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt

  • Berrio sold himself to the Bishop of Burgos before the recruiting expedition even began, and his signed instructions, which he had engaged to obey, were fraudulently altered by the latter so as to free him from all control.

    Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt

  • Squire Berrio, he was disobeyed by De Soto and abandoned by his colonists, while all hope of establishing friendly relations with the Indians in the territory conceded to him was annihilated by the Spaniards at Cubagua, whose aggressions kept the whole country in a state of alarm.

    Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt

  • The Berrio hadn't caught up – Coelho had been delayed by storms.

    Spice and the Devil's Cave 1930

  • But at the palace we found messages from the San Gabriel and the Berrio.

    Spice and the Devil's Cave 1930

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