banderilla

1 Dark-browed boys played toreros to our car as bull, their coats muletas, sticks their banderillas, yelling and springing lithely aside as the enemy rushed on them.

2 One of them steps to within speaking distance of the animal, and holding a banderilla in each hand lifted above his head, stamps his foot and shouts insulting words.

3 The Judge will plant a banderilla here and there, you may be sure.

4 Always he had faced the enemy; and now he rushed to play with his horns for the glittering banderillas which waited for his shoulders.

5 In celebration, the story goes, the quintessentially Peruvian condor was set like a living banderilla to torment the imperial bull.

6 At the instant he reaches them, when it seems nothing can save them, they step aside and plant the banderillas in the neck of the bull.

7 And the smile was as a banderilla to her niece's goaded spirit.

8 It also says that bullfights should be adjusted immediately so that the animals aren’t killed in arenas or attacked with pikes and handheld harpoons called banderillas.

9 As far as Kantner’s volatile sensibilities were concerned, blue uniforms were like a flaring red cape to a thrice-gored bull still smarting from the banderillas.

10 Three, or even four pairs of banderillas are planted in the shoulder of the bull, and they mislike him much.

11 To stimulate them now, the dogs or the banderillas de fuego, both alien to true tauromachy, would have to be called in.

12 Consequently a great confusion arose, and a simultaneous call for banderillas de fuego, was heard on every side.

13 It was here that the same difficulty arose, for alas! it could not be expected that the poor bull, who had shown no relish whatever for the pica, should evince any taste for the banderillas.

14 As darkness falls, stroll over to Bar Acuda for garlicky bruschetta topped with local tomatoes, grilled flank steak banderillas with black pepper-pineapple jam and other small plates.

15 The animals are not weakened by banderillas – darts which stab the bull in the neck and shoulders before the kill.

16 Soon, we were seated in an alcove, sipping $14 gin-tonics from bulbous glasses and snacking on gildas, the classic Basque banderilla made with large olives adorned with a sweet pepper cap and an anchovy fillet handle, all speared with a toothpick.

17 This whirlwind of a bull, who shook off all but one of the banderillas, mortified even the matadores.

18 The banderillas are whisked in the brute’s face until he charges, which is the result desired.

19 Soon the bull was going round the ring, with five or six pairs of banderillas decorating his neck.

20 A banderillero now advances with a pair of the banderillas, or barbed darts, before mentioned.

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