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Under the piazza of a "pulperia," two men were seated, decked out with knots of ribbons and bouquets, and playing the violin and the Spanish guitar.
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869
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Under the piazza of a "pulperia," two men were seated, decked out with knots of ribbons and bouquets, and playing the violin and the Spanish guitar.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848
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At night we stopped at a pulperia, or drinking-shop.
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At night we stopped at a pulperia, or drinking-shop.
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I was acquainted with a man who owned a horse of which he was very fond This animal bore him one evening to a pulperia some miles distant, and was left tied outside while he imbibed his fill inside.
Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray
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Murderers are hardly ever caught out here, and murders used to be as common as a fight in a pulperia.
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At night we stopped at a pulperia, or drinking-shop.
Chapter III 1909
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Returning to the large pulperia, we found the violin and guitar screaming and twanging away under the piazza, where they had been all day.
Chapter XVIII. Easter Sunday-Sail Ho!-Whales-San Juan-Romance of Hide-Droghing-San Diego Again 1909
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Having returned to the town, we saw a great crowd collected in the square before the principal pulperia, and riding up, found that all these peoplemen, women, and childrenhad been drawn together by a couple of bantam cocks.
Chapter XVIII. Easter Sunday-Sail Ho!-Whales-San Juan-Romance of Hide-Droghing-San Diego Again 1909
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The big vulgar shop-keeper and trader, Fitch, is long since dead; Tom Wrightington, who kept the rival pulperia, fell from his horse when drunk, and was found nearly eaten up by coyotes; and I can scarce find a person whom I remember.
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