It flows into the Colorado at Yuma

Usage examples of gila.

It had one source of income: a factory that manufactured stuffed souvenir armadillos, armadillo purses and Gila monster wallets, then sold them to tourists blowing through on the highway.

In fact, the fields around the spaceport housed a dozen prairie fields of gila grass, bleet weed, and curdleberries.

Here were bottle after bottle of dried lizards: the harmless albino cave gekko from Costa Rica, a bottle full of dried saliva glands from the Gila monster of the Sonoran Desert, two jars full of the shriveled corpses of the tiny red-bellied lizard of Australia.

Gilas and Wellan Dasinger, the chief of the Kyth Detective Agency, who had arrived before Telzey, that the danger was real.

Godzillas, lagoon creatures, giant Gila monsters: nothing now prevents life from running amok in the shower of mutagenic material already unleashed.

Gila monster, and no ornithorhynchus, and lacked a multitude of other indispensable blessings which a loving Creator had provided for man and forgotten about, they having long ago wandered to a side of this world which he had never seen and with whose affairs he was not acquainted.

It ran from the gold mines down near the Mexican border beginning at Lukeville up through Gunsight, to Ajo, through Gila Bend, and finally into Buckeye, where it linked up with the railroad that ran east and west out of Phoenix.

The first significant event occurred at the mines at Santa Rita, between the Mimbres and Gila rivers.

Mexican peppers in a frying pan, the Gila River Gang entered town and rode through carefully until they came first to a seedy hotel called the Donover House and a cash store right next to it.

Not here with none to witness save the lizards and Gila monsters, the scrubwood, cacti, and tortured Joshua trees.

Snuffy greeted them with the openhearted good humor and warmth he usually reserved for rattlesnakes, gila monsters, and the bubonic plague.

We cut across the scaly land and it seemed to glide a tongue among the bones of mules and greed, and all signs pointed to national monuments, to Organ Pipe, Casa Grande, Saguaro, Chiricahua, Gila, White Sands, loving attempts to embalm the long riddle of the cliff-dwellers, and we moved into evening, crest of the setting sun at our rear window, the tender menace of our land, freetailed bats in flight above the whispering huts of mystics and every unwritten death singing in the hills.

Was she supposed to tell him that the sometimes sulky, often frightened Harold that had come to Boulder from Ogunquit had turned into a stout politician, a backslapper, a hail-fellow-well-met type of guy who nonetheless looked at you with the flat and unsmiling eyes of a gila monster?

From Lubbock, Texas, where his father stationed at the Reese Air Force Base and where John Reddy Heart born, to Gila Bend, Arizona, and the air force base there, where Farley Heart was born, at last to the base at San Angelo, Utah, where his father killed in a plane crash on a routine flight.

It's just north of the Gila Bend Indian Reservation, not that far from here.