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  • The best work which was done under the classical French influence, however, is to be found in the writers of the so-called Salamancan school, which was properly not a school at all.

    Modern Spanish Lyrics 1899

  • Word of a White Witch Salamancan got around, and she was contacted by the Circuit, a loose international confederation of younger witches—some White, some Dark, and even some who followed the Black Arts—who believed that a neutral position regarding the vampires was in itself a harmful act.

    Crusade Nancy Holder 2010

  • There were six in their team, six Salamancan hunters.

    Crusade Nancy Holder 2010

  • "This that comes next," said the barber, "is the 'Diana,' entitled the 'Second Part, by the Salamancan,' and this other has the same title, and its author is Gil Polo."

    Don Quixote 2002

  • See now who offers to become one; no less than the illustrious bachelor Samson Carrasco, the perpetual joy and delight of the courts of the Salamancan schools, sound in body, discreet, patient under heat or cold, hunger or thirst, with all the qualifications requisite to make a knight – errant's squire!

    Don Quixote 2002

  • In 1525, after he had worked in Mexico for less than a year, he received an anguished letter from his brother, Timoteo, advising him that their father, the Salamancan professor, had been arrested by the Holy Intiaisition on charges of heresy:

    Mexico Michener, James 1992

  • When the savants applauded this unequivocal proof of his orthodon Palafox sought to quench any flicker of doubt about his doctrinal purity by reconfirming the Salamancan dogma:

    Mexico Michener, James 1992

  • Leon suggested that he must have signed a copy in the possession of the Salamancan bookseller, Gaspar de Portonariis; this impression was likewise mistaken.

    Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

  • Vehemence of language had been the rule in the Salamancan _juntas_ of professors, and much of this intemperate tone clung to Luis de Leon.

    Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

  • On thinking the point over, Luis de Leon suggested that he must have signed a copy in the possession of the Salamancan bookseller, Gaspar de Portonariis; this impression was likewise mistaken.

    Fray Luis de Leon Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James 1921

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