the circus
He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots, pans, tongs, and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge.
GALLEON
Before them, surrounded by ferns and palm trees, white and powdery in the silent morning light, was an enormous Spanish galleon. Tilted slightly to the starboard, it had hanging from its intact masts the dirty rags of its sails in the midst of its rigging, which was adorned with orchids. The hull, covered with an armor of petrified barnacles and soft moss, was firmly fastened into a surface of stones.
MELQUIADES
He wore a large black hat that looked like a raven with widespread wings, and a velvet vest across which the patina of the centuries had skated. Melquiades was sitting against the metallic and quivering light from the window.
Meme
Meme got into the train as if she were walking in her sleep, not even noticing the yellow butterflies that were still accompanying her.
She did not look out of the window, not even when the burning dampness of the groves ended and the train went through a poppyladen plain where the carbonized skeleton of the Spanish galleon still sat...
INSOMNIA
The sign that he hung on the neck of the cow was an exemplary proof of the way in which the inhabitants of Macondo were prepared to fight against loss of memory: "This is the cow. She must be milked every morning so that she will produce milk, and the milk must be boiled in order to be mixed with coffee to make coffee and milk."
At the beginning of the road into the swamp they put up a sign that said "Macondo" and another larger one on the main street that said "God exists".
remedios the beauty
Amaranta noticed that Remedios the Beauty was covered all over by an intense paleness.
- Don't you feel well? - she asked her.
Remedios the Beauty, who was clutching the sheet by the other end, gave a pitying smile.
- Quite the opposite, she said, I never felt better.
COLONEL AURELIANO
In the center of the chalk circle that his aides would draw wherever he stopped, and which only he could enter, he would decide with brief orders that had no appeal the fate of the world.
REBECA
Rebeca only liked to eat the damp earth of the courtyard and the cake of whitewash that she picked of the walls with her nails. It was obvious that her parents, or whoever had raised her, had scolded her for that habit because she did it secretively and with a feeling of guilt, trying to put away supplies so that she could eat when no one was looking.
JOSE ARCADIO
His square shoulders barely fitted through the doorways. He was wearing a medal of Our Lady of Help around his bison neck, his arms and chest were completely covered with cryptic tattooing, and on his right wrist was the tight copper bracelet of the nińos-en-cruz amulet.
...sometimes he carried a deer on his shoulder and almost always a string of rabbits or wild ducks.
JOSE ARCADIO BUENDIA
Ten men were needed to get him down, fourteen to tie him up, twenty to drag him to the chestnut tree in the courtyard, where they left him tied up to the trunk.
PETRA COTES
At dawn Aureliano Segundo opened the door and saw the courtyard paved with rabbits, blue in the glow of dawn. Petra Cotes, dying with laughter, could not resist the temptation of teasing him.
- Those are the ones who were born last night, she said.