Crossword-Solution: PELOTAS 7 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

From instant to instant, clack! the snap of the pelotas, their sharp noise against the glove which throws them or the wall which receives them, their same noise giving the notion of all the strength displayed--Clack! it will snap till the hour of twilight, the pelota, animated furiously by arms powerful and young.

Except three or four children of the school who ran like young cats after the lost pelotas, there were only the girls, seated in a group on the lowest one of these deserted steps, the old, reddish stones of which bore at this moment their herbs and their flowers of April.

Cuando deshiela y la nieve desaparece, los niños están muy tristes porque no pueden patinar ni jugar más con pelotas de nieve.

The German element is very strongly represented in the important cities of Porto Alegre and Pelotas as well as in the "municipios" of São João de Montenegro, São Sebastião do Cahy (now includes Nova Petropolis), Venancio Ayres, Lageado, Taquara, Cruz Alta and Palmeiro.

The men on horseback swimming or wading their horses; the women and children ferried over in skin boats--those of the Chaco termed _pelotas_--with troops of dogs intermingled in the passage; all amidst a _fracas_ of shouts, the barking of dogs, neighing of horses, and shrill screaming of the youngsters, with now and then a peal of merry laughter, as some ludicrous mishap befalls one or other of the party.