Crossword-Solution: COMPADRES 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

The city was flooded with sunshine, and crowded with a pack-train going to Sonora; the animals restlessly protesting against the heat and flies; their Mexican drivers in the pulqueria, spending their last peso with their compadres, or with the escort of soldiers which was to accompany them--a little squad of small, lithe men, with round, yellow, beardless faces, bearing in a singular degree the stamp of being native to the soil.

Damit war der Handel abgeschlossen, und die beiden Compadres verabschiedeten sich, jeder zufrieden: Der Estancieiro, weil er ein gutes Geschäft gemacht hatte, und der Tropeiro,[63] weil er morgen ein noch besseres zu machen hoffte! Des anderen Tages stellte sich unser Estancieiro bei guter Zeit im Geschäftshause ein und fand daselbst seinen Compadre Bento schon in angeheiteter Stimmung in der Venda[64] sitzen.

And not only Jasper with his pet man-killing Chihuahuano and all those low-browed _compadres_ whom he called by circumlocution "brothers," but Jim, sore with his defeat, and many others--and every man armed.

The _padron_ was a kind man and called them _compadres_, when he was pleased, but if one of them suffered a cut he cursed, and fired him, and made him walk back to town.

Also, with each halt Felipe made with _compadres_ along the trail, friends who entered with him in loud badinage over the ownership of the colt--an ownership all vigorously denied him--the colt himself would cock his ears and fix his eyes, seemingly aware of his importance and pleased to be the object of the cutting remarks.