Mescal component

Usage examples of agave.

Kaywaykla says that his people put the long narrow leaves of the agave down into the pit, standing them upright as they filled the pit.

Various references indicate that the agave was cooked from one to two days.

A one-quarter cup serving of prepared agave provides thirty calories and more calcium than does a half glass of milk.

The sharp spine on the tip of the agave leaf can be used as a needle and the strong fibers of the leaf are used as a pre-attached thread.

The juice of young agave leaves is also used medicinally when signs of impending scurvy are detected.

Pentheus, the king, who would attempt to imprison and humiliate him, Dionysos would send after them to spy on their rites, where, discovered, the king would be torn to pieces, and Agave his mother would wrench off his head.

Like Agave, she had torn her Pentheus to shreds when he threatened the rite of love.

She had been Agave, she had torn Pentheus and, in a metaphysical completion of the Dionysiac rite, she had devoured him.

The slugs chopped into steel-threaded rubber and armored supports, cutting free the middle tire and sending it bouncing over the smooth rolls of Agave Dales.

Run Flatlands just as it had hammered through the Taibek foothills and Agave Dales.

On thy form from every side Like a Maenad, round the cup Which Agave lifted up In the weird Cadmaean forest.

Don Juan got up and walked to a blue agave growing in front of the house, next to the porch.

Use the fibres of agave and one of the thorns of a choya to do the sewing.

It was a century plant-a desert agave that bloomed once every hundred years.

He laid the agave leaf beside him and stared out into the blinding desert.