Camote would have liked to have shut up shop; but he was not the man, with only two assistants, to undertake to clear out the horde before he retired to his virtuous pillow.
If we do not answer the bandit, he will think Camote was pushed forward as a decoy by some Apaches within hyar, and will be dumfounded.
Camote produced some sausage and corn cakes, as well as deer meat, of which dona Perla partook.
Tio Camote had closed the thick door smartly, and held a colloquy through a small wicket in its centre, in a language which was not known to Mr. Gladsden.
A vast sheet of flame rose in their rear, and while Camote leaped through it, a fearful explosion in that circumscribed apartment denoted that another cask had burst, and was contributing to the flames.
Tio Camote ran over to the spot, with the most obsequious of hotelkeepers' smiles on his lips.
The camote (Impomoea batata) is the principal food of the more uncivilised tribes.
When boiled it is much sweeter than the camote or batata; indeed it appears to contain more saccharine matter than any root I ever tasted; if eaten raw it is very much like the chesnut.
Camote can be planted all the year around, and ripens in four months; but it takes place generally when the rice culture is over, when little labor is available.
When the cultivation of camote is retained, the old plants are allowed to multiply their runners, and only the tubers are taken out of the ground.
On the way one is sure to see women clad in skirts extemporized from banana leaves, camote tops, or ferns, of a type popularly but wrongly supposed not to have been in style since the days of mother Eve.
On a bit of ground about three feet by six the pupil might plant one tomato plant, one camote vine, one grain of rice, two or three eggplants and a flowering plant or two.
Camote fields are sometimes sold, but it is not the land that is sold, but the crop with temporary possession of the land.
It is also used to pick over the earth in camote sementeras when the crop is gathered.
This labor is unnecessary as soon as the camote vines become large enough for gathering.
Again, camotelands about the dwellings are disposed of to those who may want to build a dwelling.
The Igorot say that if the foreskin is not cut it will grow long, as does the unclipped camote vine.
During June and July these same girls gather the camotevines for pig food.
The woman's rain protector is often brought home from the camote gardens bottom up on the woman's head full of camote vines as food for the pigs, or with long, dry grass for their bedding.
As the earth is turned a camote, passed by in the camote harvest, is discovered; the old woman picks it up and lays it on the dry ground beside her.
I have seen women working long, dry grass under the soil in camote sementeras at the time the crop was being gathered (Pl.
The Potato Dance, or Piña Camote Only one person takes part in the potato dance.
The mambunong takes a camote in his left hand and holds it against the head of the sick person.
The wife carries her camotebasket filled with blankets, breech-clouts, and cloth, which are offered to the pasang.
At the end of this time they go to the brook to bathe, the man taking his ax and the woman her camote basket.
Soon his wife Bangan, who was working in a nearby camote field, called to him saying that it was time to go home.
They found one camote the root of which went far into the ground, and they dug after it and found a wide stone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "camote" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
