What is "prickly pears"

Usage examples of "prickly pears".

The spotlight beam flickered palely over the low scrubby bushes and outlined the flat spiky plates of the prickly pears, but in the shifting uneven shadows that they threw, I reckoned I must be just another clump.

We got water by crashing cactuses, century plants, and prickly pears between flat stones, but we had nothing to store it in.

But from now on they planned to extend it for just one hour in the early morning, between six and seven o'clock-barely long enough for the people to go out to the hills and gather enough prickly pears for their daily ration of Pi.

We were at last relieved of our obligatory fast, and enabled to look with contempt upon the humble prickly pears, which for many a long day had been our only food.

He reached into his pocket and took out the two prickly pears and their sweet night-cooled juice refreshed him.

It was nothing for them to walk twenty miles for the sake of a cactus fruit or a few prickly pears.

They then went to where the large patch of prickly pears grew, and cut a quantity, which they planted on the top of the bank.

Get over to the other side and keep them out of the prickly pears.

And as it vanished he heard curses and bellowing voices and saw the numerous band of men reappear from behind the sharp rocks and the prickly pears, but completely changed now and unrecognizable.

The only thing there had been to laugh at was Allen O'Brien getting pitched into a pile of prickly pears by a bronc.

It picked up the metal tube, looked at it briefly, and tossed it down among the prickly pears and dried bread.

All the food in it, with the exception of the prickly pears, was ruined.

The dew moistened each leaf, or hung in glittering pendant drops upon the thorn of the prickly pears which lined the roads.

He carried a brimming basket of prickly pears to the house and set it down in the main chamber.

A giant, ruined castle, completely overgrown with prickly pears, dominated the headland before them.