Vera
['vɪrə]
Examples
- On the 29th Vera Cruz and San Juan de Ulloa were occupied by Scott's army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The only army Santa Anna had to protect his capital and the mountain passes west of Vera Cruz, was the one he had with him confronting General Taylor. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Some years later he was informed that both his companions had gone to Vera Cruz, Mexico, and had died there of yellow fever. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He who rejects it, rejects the vera causa of ordinary generation with subsequent migration, and calls in the agency of a miracle. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- They admit variation as a vera causa in one case, they arbitrarily reject it in another, without assigning any distinction in the two cases. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It was the 13th of April before this division left Vera Cruz. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The troops were in a healthy climate, and where they could subsist for an indefinite period even if their line back to Vera Cruz should be cut off. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- General Scott had less than twelve thousand men at Vera Cruz. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The debarkation took place inside of the little island of Sacrificios, some three miles south of Vera Cruz. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Vera Cruz, at the time of which I write and up to 1880, was a walled city. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Editor: Omar