So Polk had bought her one of the old adobe houses in Santa Barbara, and each year she extended the limit of her sojourn in a town where memories were still sacred.
The house was as unlike the adobe mansions of the old grandees as was the eucalyptus the palms.
Puttering around his cabin, Shorty had jerked at a wire anchored in the walls and brought tons of adobe down upon himself.
I thought of the crumbling adobe on the Ballarat flat and the lean years that followed.
Thereon he built a small adobe structure, which was named Independence Hall, securing the money for its construction chiefly in California, and in this new building he vigorously preached in opposition to Mormonism.
In a yard nearby, adobe or sun-dried bricks were being made, the size being about 8x12 inches.
The only semblance of a fortification was anadobe wall facing the bluffs.
In the old days the Tithing House was a large adobe structure situated near the Tabernacle, where was received in kind a tenth of the surplus, as a consecration, and after that, one tenth of the increase or earnings annually.
With few exceptions, the buildings were made of adobeand contained two rooms.
In the earlier days in Salt Lake City, this ceremony was performed in a large adobe structure, known as the Endowment House, but since the completion of the Temple, it had been held in the Temple Building.
They undertook to do this, holding the lamps close to the adobe blocks and inspecting every crack.
She laughed scornfully and went out to the shed that connected two of the adobe dwellings and served as a shady lounging place.
They entered the lower chamber, one by one, and this time the adobe door was not closed behind them, although the light of broad day now flooded the place through the opening discovered by Runyon.
The floor was ofadobe blocks similar to those which formed the wall, but smaller in size.
The casement of the window, set far back in the thickadobe wall, was wide open and the night breeze that came through it made the flame of the lamp flicker weirdly.
She reflected that the last Cristoval had doubtless passed away without disclosing the secret of the wall to anyone, and his executors, in selling the mansion, had been quite unaware that anything was hidden in the adobe wall.
Not a sound from within the house penetrated the adobe walls of their prison.
I suppose it will hold its secret rooms for many years to come, for these adobe dwellings are practically fire-proof and are built to defy time.
The houses of Escondido are a queer mingling of modern bungalows and antique adobe dwellings.
The heavy carpet was merely laid flat on the adobe floor and she raised it here and there and tested the blocks to see if any was movable.
Between the orange and the olive groves, and facing a little lane, they came upon a group of adobe huts--a little village in itself.
These were not sun-baked, as is usual in adobe dwellings, but had been burned like brick in a furnace constructed for the purpose by the first proprietor, and were therefore much stronger and harder than ordinary brick.
It's just the stuff to take this paint off, and what drips from you to the old adobe floor won't hurt.
So in silence they rode down the hill into town, past the first little adobe houses and then by way of the outskirts to his mother's house.
There were two mountains, one leaning over the other, and three adobe houses with red chile hanging from the roofs, making bands of red.
Every town in the adobesection of the southwest has a dozen or so buildings almost exactly like this one.
He went to bed and lay for a long time thinking of Helen May out there in that two-roomed adobe cabin, with a fifteen-year-old boy for protection and miles of wilderness between her and any other human habitation.
Starr made the offer with praiseworthy cheerfulness, and sat down on his heels with his back against the adobe wall to wait the dog's pleasure.
He looked up at the gate of unpainted planks, heavy-hinged and set into a high adobe wall such as one sees so often in New Mexico.
Starr had rented a smalladobe cabin and a corral with a shed on the outskirts of town where his movements might be unobserved.
At the house he told her just how to fix a "coolereupboard" under the lone mesquite tree which stood at one end of the adobe cabin.
You will have the relinquishment of his right to the claim, Babe, and a small adobe house with sheds and yards and a good spring of living water.
With the stars came voices from the porch of the adobe house below him.
They were made of adobe bricks with a mud cement over them, flat roofs, and with a second tier of smaller buildings on them.
The roofs were perfectly flat and with round chimneys of greyadobe standing here and there.
Dolores sits often lonely now, on the porch of the baronial residence which has grown up around the Don's old adobe mansion.
Nightfall finds Valois in a squalid adobe house, thirty miles from Gavilan Peak.
Wherever they reach a ranch of their people, they are protected; the pursuers are baffled; they are misled by the sly hangers-on of these gloomy adobe houses.
The town has a straggling picturesque appearance, a considerable part of the habitations being small adobe or brick cabins.
On another was an unfinished two-story adobe building, occupied as a barrack by Bracken's company.
From a dozing sunburnt village of adobewalls and almond-trees it was become something like those places built in a single Western day of riot extravagance, where corner lots are clamored for and men pay a dollar to be shaved.
Bright green branches of fruit-trees and small cottonwoods and a fenced irrigated square of green growing garden hid the tiny adobe home like a nut, smooth and hard and dry in their clustered midst.
The stunt, liquor-perfumed adobe cabin lay on the gray floor of the desert like an isolated slab of chocolate.
Stone ruins are common in this northern region, although wood and adobe seems to have been more commonly used as building material.
Lieutenant Whipple says, “Large fields in the valley of the Rio Gila, and many spots among the Pinal Lena Mountains, are marked with the foundations of adobe houses.
It is probable, however, that these were built of adobe bricks or of timber.
The servant led the way down the cool adobe passage to a larger room that occupied the entire width of the bottom of the belfry tower, and whence a flight of aged steps led upward into the dark.
The adobe walls and sparse brick sidewalks of the drowsing town radiated the heat in an oily, quivering shimmer.
But just so sure as his hands were his own, just so sure as the bark of the pear tree was rough, the mouldering adobe of the Mission walls damp--just so sure had Something occurred.
After I went to work at private employment I did some carpenter work, but most of the houses were adobe or pecan pole buildings, so I got a job from Mr. Jimmy Keating as mechanic for awhile, and then drifted to Mexico.
I am also going to draw a veil over the adobe road during the rains, because we really do like to rent the place to help pay for the children's and the motor's shoes, and it wouldn't be good business.
After a week of rain, such as we know how to have in these parts, adobe becomes very slippery.
Will had a worker whose unhappy lot it was to dig up stumps, apply the pick to the adobe parts of the soil, and generally to toil in the sweat of his brow.
Shouts, yells, wild Comanche-like cries rent the ear, and punctuated the incessant booming that shook even the thick adobe walls of the nursery.
Men were at once sent into the mountains to secure logs for cabins, and work onadobe huts was also begun.
Lack of experience in handling adobe clay for building purposes led to some sad results, the rains and frosts causing the bricks to crumble or burst, and more than one of these houses tumbled down around their owners.
Many settlers therefore built huts ofadobe bricks, some with cloth roofs.
Unground wheat sold for $8 a bushel, wood for $10 a cord, adobebricks for more than seven shillings a hundred, and skilled mechanics were getting twelve shillings and sixpence a day.
These remarks met with general favor, and it was resolved that a public meeting should be held in front of the Adobe house the next morning, and if it approved of the project, that an election should be held at once.
I might, perhaps, have carried one trunk, but I could not manage two; so I was compelled to pay out seven of my ten dollars to have them taken to a room in an old adobe building on the west side of what is now known as Portsmouth Square.
On the evening of the election, there was a general gathering of people at the Adobe house, the principal building of the place, to hear the official announcement of the result of the election.
His old church is still standing,--an adobe building, with earthen floor, the walls and ceiling covered with rude paintings of saints and angels.
It is an adobe house; and the walls are so damp that I gave up all idea of living in it, as soon as I laid my hand on them.
The people shut themselves up in their thick adobe houses.
We pass a Catholic graveyard with highadobe wall and are at the Hospital Municipal, our objective point.
Helen saw children run, white children and Mexican together; then more houses, and high upon a hill an immense adobe church, crude and glaring, yet somehow beautiful.
The train stopped, at long intervals, at wayside stations where there seemed nothing but adobe sheds and lazy Mexicans, and dust and heat.
The big living-room of the ranch-house was warm and comfortable with its red adobe walls, its huge stone fireplace where cedar logs blazed, and its many-colored blankets.
The adobe houses of the Mexicans pleased her, and, then the train got out into Indian country, where pueblos appeared near the track and Indians with their bright colors and shaggy wild mustangs--then she was enraptured.
