At another kiva it was an agave stalk, at one end of which were attached several crane feathers and a circlet of corn husks.
The cotton of these blankets was grown by these Arizona Indians from time immemorial, and they also used the tough fibres of the yucca, and agave leaves, and the hairs of various wild animals, either separately or with cotton.
Finally, he approached his native city Thebes, where his own cousin, Pentheus, son of Agave and grandson of Harmonia and Cadmus, was king.
A sort of candied preserve and molasses, expressed from the fruit of the cereus giganteus and agave Americana was found by our party in 1851, as we passed through the Pinal Llano camps and among the Gila tribes, to be most acceptable.
The tall Cereus Giganteus and Agave Americana are found in abundance.
We were scarcely fifty paces from Allende and his aide-de-camps, when Ximenes turned to me and handed me the despatch, which was written on an agave leaf.
Pulque is the favourite drink of the Mexicans, made from the sap of the agave or aloe.
The maguey or American agave (Agave vivipara) was introduced into the Philippines from America, and is cultivated there to a slight extent.
The fiber is extracted from the thick coarse leaves of a century plant, known as Agave sisalina or Agave rigida, which looks not unlike the century plant so common in cultivation.
The grief and banishment of Agave for her unwitting offense conclude the play.
Hence Agave says that she adorns the thyrsus with a new-fashioned wreath, viz.
These ladies seem to have been rather undomestic in character, as Agave makes this very fact a boast, vs.
Agave was a daughter of Cadmus, and mother of Pentheus, king of the Boeotian Thebes.
The traveller in Mexico to-day sees growing all along the sides of the railway huge stiff bunches of the Agave Americana.
The agave has served them for many other purposes, from the earliest times.
The agave is native in the whole region between the tropics of America, where it flourishes from the sandy soil by the sea to table-lands and mountain altitudes.
Of all these properties of the agave the Toltecs were cognizant.
For the agave of the Mexicans is their maguey, from which they extract pulque, the national beverage.
The whole is covered with branches, straw, and roots of the Agave tree.
They consist merely of a few poles made of the trunk of the Maguay-tree (Agave Americana), and connected together by transverse ropes; the ropes being overlaid with twisted branches and pieces of hoops.
Maguey-sugar is derived from the sap of the maguey-plant (Agave Americana).
The cultivated species, from which most of the commercial product is obtained, is the Agave sisalina, which much resembles the ordinary century-plant.
The outskirts of the city looked quite pretty, with the agave hedges, and groves of olive, peach and willow trees, all just throwing out their fresh green leaves.
A few hedges made of cacti and agave mark out where some wheat or Indian corn has been planted.
A woven rope of agave fiber and many charred strings of the same material were found in a niche in the wall of a house in the eastern section, and from the same room there was taken a string, over a yard long, made of human hair.
These fragments were of cotton and agave fiber, of cotton alone, and in one instance of the hair of some unknown animal.
Agave Americana, so common on the shores of the Mediterranean, although introduced from America, and our cardoon, which now covers a great part of the Pampas of La Plata, are remarkable instances in point.
The pinons afforded their farinaceous cones, the agave yielded its esculent roots, and the prairie-turnip grew upon the borders of the runlet.
She thrusts stalks of the agave into the heart of the pit before it is finally closed up, and when she deems "time up," she pulls forth one of these stalks.
This mescal is the succulent and sweet inner leaf of the agave deserti, which is found in large quantities in this region.
On the hot rocks are then laid the pulpy stalks of the agave; over these is placed a layer of wet grass; then more agave or mescal leaves, more grass, and so on, until the pit is full.
India the Agave vivipara, when grown in rich soil, invariably produces bulbs, but no seeds; whilst a poor soil and dry climate lead to an opposite result.
Henequen (Spanish jeniquen or geniquen) is a fibre commercially known as Sisal hemp, from the fact that it is obtained from a species of cactus, the Agave Sisalensis, first cultivated around the tiny port of Sisal in Yucatan.
The older Indian name for the plant isAgave Ixtli.
In any of these where the agave is old and has had most of its leaves cut away, he can find what he wants.
My second joyful memory centres round another thing of beauty--a spiky agave (miscalled aloe) of monstrous dimensions which may be seen in the garden of a certain hill-side hotel.
In connexion with the various designs such fine plants asAgave americana, Dracaena indivisa are often used as centre-pieces.
Chief of these is the maguey (Agave americana), which is indeed one of the staple resources of the country, with a varied use, as described in the pages dealing with agriculture.
The maguey--the Agave americana--was an invaluable ally of life and civilisation.
The agave (Agave americana; the maguey of Mexico) is found in the Philippines, and is called pita, but Delgado and Blanco think that it was not indigenous there.
As used in the text, pita means, apparently, some braid or other ornament of agave fibers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "agave" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
