Crossword-Solution: CORRIDAS 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

But here again the season will have been before you with the glory of those _corridas_ which you have still hoped not to witness but to turn from as an example to the natives before the first horse is disemboweled or the first bull slain, or even the first _banderillero_ tossed over the barrier.

The relative merits of the different studs which are to supply, not only the local corridas, but practically the tip-top ones throughout the chief cities of Spain, are discussed over and over again, while the admirers of Joselito (since killed) are as lavish in words and gestures of praise as are those of Belmonte, while, at the same time, the claims of other aspirants to championship as matadors are heard on every side.

When, in summer, Gallardo with all his people went to a music hall in some provincial capital, eager for gambling and sport after having despatched the bulls in several _corridas_, Nacional remained silent and grave among the singing girls with their gauzy dress and their painted lips, like an anchorite from the desert in the midst of the courtesans of Alexandria.

The excited populace, already intoxicated with bull-fever and the anticipation of the coming _corridas_, lining the way to the Plaza, careless if in the enthusiasm for the morrow they risk some awkward rips to-day.

Many additions to the original corridas were inaugurated, and the sport assumed more diversified and even more dangerous forms.