There the chaparral grew thickest; and there the scrub-oaks shrugged their shoulders and turned their backs to the wind, and grew all lopsided, with leafage as dense as moss.
The chamisal forms a large part of the chaparral of our mountain slopes, and when not in bloom gives to them much the aspect imparted to the Scotch Highlands by the heather.
Upon wild mountain-slopes where are heard the fluting notes of a certain shy bird that rarely comes near habitations, the chaparral pea often makes dense, impenetrable thickets.
I once emerged from the densechaparral of a steep hillside upon a grassy slope, where myriads of these lovely flowers tossed their delicate cups upon the breeze.
Woe to him who tries to penetrate the chaparral when it is composed of this formidable and uncompromising shrub!
The Sierras may be divided into five different belts, of varying altitudes along the length of the range, beginning with the foothill region, which may be termed the chaparral region.
Chapman (1907): Chaparral hillsides and brushy open woods are the favorite haunts of the Lutescent Warbler.
Chapman (1907): "The Calaveras Warbler is a characteristic denizen of the chaparral and is found on both slopes of the Sierra Nevadas about as far south as Mt.
In nesting, it is usually found in a bush, chaparral or small tree stratum, seldom going to the ground or to the tops of trees.
These are softly and warmly lined with hair and fur of small animals.
They showed fear of me for the first time, eyeing me in the same manner as the parent bird when on the nest.
Fall males are similar to spring males, but the blue areas are more or less tipped with greenish and the throat bands with yellowish.
Both songs are similar in length and in pitch intervals.
Smith has sent me the following note: "The only laboratory report available on the food of the species pertains specifically to a South American subspecies of the pitiayumi group.
If you use echinacea, then chaparralprobably isn't necessary and visa versa.
Echinacea and chaparral are extraordinarily bitter and may be better accepted if ground up and encapsulated, or mixed with other teas with pleasant flavors such as peppermint or lemon grass.
This forms most of the chaparral on the slopes around the Yosemite Valley, ranging from over four thousand to nine thousand feet in altitude, and is widely distributed in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
These shrubs are often very abundant and with Chaparral Pea, Buck Brush, Scrub Oak, etc.
Stevenson was probably describing this shrub when he wrote, "Even the low thorny chaparral was thick with pea-like blossoms.
This usually grows among chaparralin the Coast Ranges.
There was but one answer: back there along the trail somewhere, at some point by which Lockwood had galloped headlong and unheeding, lying up there in the chaparral with Reno's bullets in his body.
They are abundant and active little fellows in the thick chaparral brush, where they build a nest more bulky than the "tit" but not as artistic or compact.
Its slopes were covered withchaparral or thickets of scrub oak.
Feeling tired, with that peon indolence which is not to be disturbed by mere rumors of raiders, he had curled up in a bunch of chaparral and gone to sleep.
Leaving Sliver at his post, Jake moved on down, and after he also disappeared in the chaparral silence spread a warm spell over valley and mountain; golden, sunlit silence that was emphasized rather than broken by the wild screech of a hawk.
Another bunch of chaparral afforded cover, and after tying his horse in it, Jake crawled up to the ridge and looked over.
At its end the ridge ran out on a wide bench from which Sliver looked over the foot-hills, rolling tumultuously under a black blanket of chaparral out to the tawny valleys of the hacienda pastures.
An hour later saw them all placed--Gordon in the chaparral at the top of the trail; Bull, Sliver, and Jake at intervals of quarter of a mile down the zigzag trail.
Turning, he ran down the hill toward the chaparral where they had hidden their horses, half a mile away.
As he withdrew into the chaparral Bull carried with him an irritatingly haunting remembrance.
From the cactus chaparral that clothed their tops, the revolutionary lightnings had struck sometimes twice or thrice; and when the train ran into one, Gordon would feel a prickling at the roots of his hair.
At the crack of the rifle the others had also darted for cover, and as their guns began to spit and flash from the chaparral along the hillside, Bull laughed outright.
You'd come out from your first bunch of pear chaparral naked as on the day you were born.
Of the enemy, thirty thousand Carranzistas, out there on the plain were to be seen only lines of smoke that hung low over sand and chaparral in a great half-moon, the tips of which extended beyond the Vallista positions.
A bunch of chaparral intervened, at first, between Bull and the object at which the other was pointing.
In present ignorance of this, unconscious, again, of the keen eyes that had spied the mozo's signal and were now watching them from the chaparral half a mile ahead, they rode on.
Very cunningly they had taken up their positions at the head and foot of a slippery steep where loose rubble bank and a narrow passage through thick chaparral would allow only one horse to go down at a time.
Then the chaparral swallowed her, and he settled back in black despair.
Straight across through the clear blue-tinged atmosphere above the canada to the shoulders and canons, the forests and clear spaces and chaparral of the mountain flanks, we look.
So we went back to our little open sunny spot in the chaparral on the hillside and lay quiet and silent for a long time.
The assassins had waited in the chaparral for Johnny to pass, probably having seen him riding that way.
Red saw him leave the chaparral and in his haste to reload jammed the cartridge, and By-and-by swept on toward temporary safety, with Red dancing in a paroxysm of rage, swelling his vocabulary with words he had forgotten existed.
Inquired Pie, as they raced past a chaparral and onto the edge of a grassy plain.
He was headin' for yore neck," he explained, watching the chaparral with apprehension.
He fired into the chaparral to express his pugnacious disgust and scared out a huge tarantula, which alighted on Skinny's chaps, crawling rapidly toward the unconscious man's neck.
Skinny wormed his way through the thorny chaparral and bound up the shoulder.
A chaparral cock strutted from its decapitated enemy, a rattlesnake, and disappeared in the chaparral.
Day broke when he had reached the edge of the chaparral and he mounted with a sigh of relief and rode forward along the now plainly marked trail.
He stared after her until she had ridden around a chaparral and out of his sight, and he slammed his sombrero on the ground and swore.
Two puffs of smoke burst from the chaparral and the rustlers ducked out of sight, one of them hard hit.
Go back there in th' chaparral an' get away with a pipeful.
On the west side of the mesa, back in the chaparral and out of sight of the rustlers, Pie Willis lay face down in the sand, quiet.
At last, when the chaparral closed about him he plunged through it recklessly and ran until sheer exhaustion made him drop insensible to the sand.
Joining his friends the three disappeared in the chaparral and two disgusted rustlers helped a badly wounded companion to the rough hospital in the hut at the top of the mesa trail.
As Hopalong gained the chaparral he felt himself heartily kicked and, wheeling pugnaciously, looked into Buck Peters' scowling face.
Buck says that freak spring up on top flows about half a mile through th' chaparral before it peters out.
Twice during the wait Buck disappeared into the black chaparral close at hand and struck a match under his coat to see the time, and on the last occasion he returned to Billy, remarking: "Got half an hour yet before I leave you.
After some difficulty my friend managed to force his way through the chaparral to where Blue stood.
The chaparral and yucca and yerba buena gave place to pine-trees and mountain oaks, with little close clumps of cottonwoods in the stream bottom.
High chaparral flanked the trail, occasional wide gray stretches of "old man" filled the air with its pungent odor and with the calls of its quail.
An hour's riding through the chaparral brought him to the watershed far above the Jackpot.
He knew the danger of fire in the chaparral at this season of the year.
From out of the chaparral a thin column of pale gray smoke was rising.
These bolstered Shorty's growing opinion that the man had deliberately fired the chaparral from a spirit of revenge.
Not a twitching muscle in his face showed what he was thinking, that they might have been full of splendid life and vigor if Dug Doble had not put a match to the chaparral back of Bear Cañon.
After a moment he circled an arrowweed thicket and moved into the chaparral where his horse was hobbled.
I'll lie in the chaparral till night an' ride in after dark.
Sanders crept through the heavy chaparral to the liveoaks above the arroyo, snaking his way among cactus and mesquite over the sand.
The roan plunged through the chaparral and soon was out of sight.
He knew that if the fire ran wild in the chaparral only a miracle could save the Jackpot reservoirs and plant from destruction.
He sprang across, and went inland through the myrtles, his course defined in a measure by the thick chaparral which bordered the grove on each side.
We shall reach home, probably, much earlier than you will," he went on, looking off at the chaparral with an abstracted air.
While crossing the creek a few hundred yards above the ranch, I heard old Lead give mouth, a short distance ahead, in a chaparral rendered impenetrable by tangled undergrowth, and which formed secure covert for countless varmints.
Now and then, miles away, small clumps of stunted jack-oaks or mesquite made dark green polka dot spots on the lighter color of the grass, while far away lay a genuine chaparral thicket.
Then, again, the reforestation problems of the chaparral fields of southern California are more perplexing than any I have mentioned above.
The woods and chaparral were so dense in all directions that neither army could distinguish the line of the other.
His forces and his movements were covered by streams, forests, hills, and by a very heavy chaparral or copse for miles in extent.
Broomfleld was now crossing the river, and Silent waiting at the ford to see him; but learning of Laws's movement, he went forward at once to Chaparral Tavern.
Silent would not attack in his front, as Laws expected, but concluded to plunge immediately into the chaparral and threaten Laws's right.
Warner moved, with cavalry in advance, to Craig's Meeting House, his left resting at Chaparral Tavern.
There were clearings on this ground, but they alternated with a chaparral that was almost impenetrable.
Finally it came out on a level stretch of ground, partly covered with a chaparral of greasewood, ironwood, and paloverde.
The chaparral shook and rustled with the movements of horsemen.
Finally it was shot, and is now known as the chaparral cock.
Wild hogs and large wolves infested the chaparral around the hills, and were caught in traps.
John Davis, while prowling among the chaparral according to his wont, discovered a man hidden in the tall grass, who was trembling all over.
Looking up, I saw for the first time a turkey buzzard, his black coat and red crest showing vividly against the sky as he flapped lazily in front of me to alight in the near vicinity of the chaparral cock.
Illustration] Before darkness had come we learned that the little chaparral cock was not the only neighbor we were to have in our new home, for there came from the distance what sounded like screams of pain, and sharp, yelping barks.
Illustration] Then came a cheery good morning, as I interpreted it, from a chaparral cock, and I fancied it was the same fellow who had welcomed us to the valley.
As we came up to the place a bird called a chaparral cock looked down on me with what I fancied was a note of welcome.
Somebody must have been lyin' there in the chaparral waitin' for him.
Gradually he bulked larger in the public eye, became an anchor of safety to whom the people turned after the war had worn itself out and scattered bands of banditti infested the chaparral to prey upon the settlers.
From the chaparral keen eyes watched them, covering every step they took with ready weapons.
The fragrant chaparralthickets were bursting into flower.
Like many of his kind he had taken to drink, become bitten with the desire to get rich without working, and operated inconspicuously in the chaparral with a branding iron.
Into town from the chaparral drifted the enemies Clanton had made during his career as a gunman.
Laid out in the chaparral till I got a chance to gun him," the young fellow answered sullenly.
Well, I've come to tell you that two of yore men are hidin' in the chaparral below Los Portales.
Since he was unarmed, it was essential that Clanton should get into touch with his associates of the chaparral at once.
Billie knew that three men lay in the chaparral and he believed that one of them at least was wounded.
Chapter XXIII Murder from the Chaparral Webb was just leaving for one of his ranches lower down the river when a horseman galloped up.
He spoke only under the pressure of imminent peril, for he knew that if this ever got back to the men in the chaparral they would kill him with no more compunction than they would a coyote.
Rounding a great clump of black chaparral he stopped short.
Pearson took off his hat and drove Road Runner at a gallop into the chaparral east of the Espinosa ranch house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chaparral" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
