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Alonso   /əlˈɑnsoʊ/   Listen
Alonso

noun
1.
Cuban dancer and choreographer (born in 1921).  Synonym: Alicia Alonso.






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"Alonso" Quotes from Famous Books



... they was small, but me. They always told me mother died when I was three days old in the cradle. I don't fur a fact know much about my own people. Miss Agnes took me to raise me fur a house girl. She nursed me wid her Mary. My mother's and father's owners was Alonso Brown and Miss Agnes Brown. Their two girls was Mary and Lucy and their three boys was Bobby, Jesse, and Frank. Miss Agnes rocked the babies to sleep in a big chair out on the gallery. We slept there all night. Company come and say, 'Where the babies?' Miss Agnes take ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration

... with him is energy and tact and valour and resource, as becomes the captain of an indomitable human soul. His society is like old d'Artagnan's: it invigorates, renews, inspires. I had rather lack the friendship of the good Alonso Quijada himself than the brave ...
— Views and Reviews - Essays in appreciation • William Ernest Henley



Words linked to "Alonso" :   terpsichorean, professional dancer, Alicia Alonso, dancer, choreographer



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