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Usage examples of mesquite.

Laura had gone only twenty yards along the edge of the arroyo, she discovered a wide channel leading straight down to the floor of that dry river, unobstructed by rocks or mesquite.

Some there were among them, however, who, feeling perhaps a hint of rebellion upon the part of overdriven muscles, cut switches from ready mesquite and lashed recalcitrant legs until they bled, scarifying them to renewed life and vitality.

Nya grinned and led him away from the picnickers, past a clump of mesquite, towards a weathered outhouse half hidden by thick stalks of wild sorghum.

A stone bowl or basin made from an oblong, somewhat oval-shaped quartzite slab, and used for pounding and grinding mesquite beans.

A low nickering sound and the jingle of reins as Fandango pushed through the mesquite, looking for care and companionship.

The house itself was dark, but she smelled the scent of burning mesquite and as she neared the front door, she could see through the glass wall that logs were burning in the screenless living room fireplace.

He expected any moment to hear sirens and helicopters or see National Guard troops deploying to recapture them, even though he could look around and see the perfect circle of short scrubby oak and mesquite, which had unaccountably replaced the rest of Huntsville.

This plant had thriven all winter, and the cattle had forsaken the best mesquite grazing in the river bottoms to forage on it.

In the center, a large artificial waterfall plunged into a rocky pool surrounded by showy clumps of grass, a fifteen-foot green cactus with many branches and symmetrical ribs, and a tornillo mesquite with twisted limbs, hung wim odd-shaped corkscrew beans.

It consisted of a rank, coarse kind of grass, and arrowweed, mesquite, and tamarack.

Staring out the window, she thought that the feathery blooms of the mesquite trees looked like little green caterpillars.

Vast, undulating plains, sometimes sparsely covered with bunchgrass, but for the most part dry and sandy with cactus and mesquite thrusting skyward.

His unfocused gaze instinctively searched the prairie for hidden danger in the clumps of spiny mesquite and catclaw shrubs.

Beyond riparian woodland on the floodplain are thickets of mesquite and catclaw and these give way to chaparral and an evergreen woodland of oaks and junipers on the slopes.

He could not see the humour of his situation at the moment, but as he took a short cut through the shady mesquites toward his hut, he presently espied Margarita in ambush.