Only the flimsy wooden houses of the Americans scattered among the adobes of the town and the aging faces of the women who had been young in her brief girlhood marked the lapse of years.
That night the moon streamed through her grating, and she deciphered the fact that Andreo had loosened eight adobes above her garden, and would await her every midnight.
The door was protected against hostile tribes by a heavy iron bar, but Pilar's small hands were hard and strong, and in a moment she stood over the adobes which had crushed her roses and sweet peas.
Of the villages strewn along this delightful way, some are hamlets of half a dozen straggling little adobes drowsing under their rustling cottonwoods.
I have given them their task; each is to make fifty adobes a day, and for all over this they are paid.
There must be somewhere in this row of adobes a place where a lady could stay.
In reality, these old adobes were remnants of a long-abandoned mission, but still in such excellent repair that they were utilized for the ranchman's quarters and for the business of the great estate.
It's a picturesque corner of the town and maybe a sight of some old adobes would do your homesick eyes good.
His house where he lived more plain than our adobes at Sobrante, that house is closed.
Main Street (the price of which must be paid) and made some adobes with which to build thereon, he felt that he ought to decline Brother Richards' kind offer.
This it was which had enabled the adobes beneath to endure for years, and perhaps for centuries, in spite of the lapping of rains and the gnawing of winds.
Three miles south of Fernandez lies still another Mexican village, named Ranchos de Taos, in contrast with whose adobes the traveler finds a newly-erected flouring mill.
Potatoes and carrots and adobesdisappeared as currency, and coin and greenbacks enlivened trade which more and more conformed to the ordinary methods of American commerce.
The use of adobes in the construction of cliff-house walls has not been previously mentioned, although we find references to "lumps of clay" in the earliest historic times among Pueblos.
Sure, in that hallway between the twoadobes where the bunk house ends and offices begin.
He had always seemed a grave, silent man, intent only on herding the stock and caring for the family, at the little cluster of adobes by the well of Palomitas.
The adobes are made of brown clay and baked in the sun, then stuck together with the same mud after they're baked hard.
After the adobes were set in place, the walls were plastered inside and out with a coat of the same adobe material.
The entire block is surrounded by a wall fifteen feet high, consisting of a base of cut sandstone, courses of adobes or sun-dried brick, capped by a sandstone coping; the adobes are plastered on both sides.
The adobes are hidden by a durable dressing of cement.
Northward the mountains loomed, dim and mysterious, in tender light that reduced the vivid chromes and blues of lime-washed adobes in the compound to pale violet and clear gold.
The village of Las Nieves, a straggling collection of adobes the exact color of the earth of which they are built, lay before us, like some strange growth of the desert.
And so we strolled slowly up the street toward the edge of town where the whitewashed plaster walls of rich men's houses give way to the undecorated adobes of the poor.
Chasing a little cow bareback and riding loosely she made a quick turn and the mare stuck to her just where we had worn a track bringing the adobes for houses.
Once they were shooting in the night around the adobes and a policeman fell down and was carried home but when they searched they found the ball in his clothes and he was not hurt a bit.
Elder Brannan has a man in California who will take three men, make adobesfor a thirty foot house, build the house and put a family in it in a week.
Colonel Rockwood remarked that a log house 16 by 15 would cost forty dollars and one of adobes half as much.
This latter fort was first built of wood about thirteen years since, and named Fort William, but being destroyed was afterwards built seven years ago with adobes and named John.
The walls are built of adobes or Spanish brick, being large pieces of tempered clay dried in the sun and apparently laid one on another without mortar or cement.
The whole idea of the adobes and the mud being to secure a cool temperature in summer and warmth in winter.
The Indians worked willingly for him, and by the 1st of July six thousand adobes were made for the church.
The presidio remained at Cosoy (now old San Diego), and four thousand adobes that had been made for the Mission buildings were turned over to the military.
Most of the long, flat adobeswere saloons--The Kid did not need to read the signs above them to see that.
The town of Santa Fe--long rows of flat-topped adobes nestling under the mountain--was at that day under Spanish rule.
At the northern edge of the city, on the stretch of sand between the huddled adobes and the sandy waters of the Rio, things had taken place.
Thick-walled old adobes of the period of the Spanish Occupation give off a faint reek of this compelling condiment at every pore, and as for the musk, it was always about the gallery in saucers and broken flower-pots.
Tio Juan, who sunned himself daily in her patio, had achieved the richness of weathered teak; his moustachios were whitened as with the rime that collects on old adobes sometimes near the sea-shore.
Here we found a fort commenced and partly built by the pioneers, consisting of an enclosure of a block of ten acres with a wall, or in part of buildings of adobes or logs.
I learned all about adobes while I lived in South America eight years ago.
Since Juan has the adobes ready to use, Chappo and I can fix up the wall.
Last summer the wall of the bedroom bulged and Juan made new adobes to fix it; but Mr. Glendon has been too busy to attend to it.
The dark green of the acacias bordering the hacienda, the twinkling white of the speeding windmill, and the dull brown of the adobes became distinct and separate colors against the far edge of the eastern sky.
The clusteredadobes of the Loring homestead glimmered in the sun.
All them melted-down adobes was plumb full of people, the saloons were running full blast, and the miner that couldn't steal ten dollars a day had no business working underground.
This city of the dead should come back to life if what the stars said was true; and the long rows of adobesnow stripped of windows and doors, would awaken to the tramp of miners' boots.
Domingo is a tiny village of adobes nestling along the curve of Santa Fe creek under the gray sharpness of Bajada hill; there is also an Indian pueblo of the same name.
Meantime, Mrs. Crump had passed along the winding row of adobes and finally turned into a corral of high boards.
Its residential section was extensive, and consisted ofadobes occupied by "native" miners or workmen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adobes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
