lepero

It was not a superfluous precaution that we had taken, in leaving our valuables in a place of safety, for, on our exit from the first church, we found that Pepe had lost his handkerchief and a cigar-case, which he had stowed away in an inner pocket, and Mr. Christy had been relieved of one of his mamei seeds by some "lepero" who probably took it for a snuff-box.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

"lepero;" while even the lepero class, itself fanatically religious, condemned her for her association with "un asesino," but, still worse, a

The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850

Let the lepero suffer, until Cardenas could take him into custody on suspicion of contracting murder for hire.

The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

That's just what he deserved'to die like anybody else, unnoticed and overlooked, without having his nasty, mean, lepero face spread all over the vit.

The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

If the lepero couldn't get his daughter back, he was going to have her killed, to keep the information stored in her mind out of the hands of competitors and the authorities.

The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

The neglect and oppression which had reduced a laboring man to a _lepero_ had not made him insensible to the unequal laws which elevated above him a race of beings destitute of that manly courage which oftentimes gives plausibility to oppression.

Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Robert A. Wilson

Now the lepero took delight in visiting upon the present occupants of this building a fearful punishment for the crime committed there twenty years before, and among the guilty crowd there was to be found many an innocent sufferer.

Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Robert A. Wilson

But I felt, somehow, as grimy as a Costaguana lepero after a day's fighting in the streets, rumpled all over and dishevelled down to my very heels.

A Personal Record 1919

Here and there a muffled lepero whisked round the corner of a grass-grown street before the ringing hoofs of his horse.

Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

Sitting on one of the carcasses, a lepero, muffled up, smoked a cigarette.

Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904