The action here and along the whole line continued until dark, when the enemy retired into the chapparal in rear of his position.
The Mexican cavalry with two pieces of artillery were now reported to be moving through the chapparal to our right to threaten that flank, or make a demonstration against the train.
A week from to-day I shall be married-to a girl even better and lovelier than the peerless "Chapparal Quails.
In thechapparal both were alike, and so too upon the sky.
As I glanced ahead, I saw the chapparal near, with taller trees rising over it; beyond, I saw the swell of a hill, with white walls upon its summit.
Even the naked plain is not more bewildering than the openings of the mezquite groves and the chapparal that border it.
The road we were travelling upon was entirely without habitations; most of it ran through lightchapparal forest, with neither clearing nor homestead.
At the last moment of twilight we leaped into our saddles; and rode silently into the chapparal that skirted the camp.
But we reached the town without seeing aught of the Chapparal Fox.
The chapparal aided us by concealing our movements; and in half-an-hour we had deployed around the prairie.
This time there was no mystery about the disappearance of the steed; the chapparal explained it.
Silent was the chapparal around me-- silent as death; not even a bird moved among its branches.
Walking carelessly up the canyon, now examining the trees for game, then scaling the declivity to the right, or pushing through the chapparal and the heavy timber, I had wandered on, for more than an hour.
The wounded men and officers were next despatched to Point Isabel, and we then moved across the Llano Burro towards the edge of the dense chapparal which extends for a distance of seven miles to the Rio Grande.
Seeing this, Thornton turned to the right, and skirted the interior of the chapparalwith his command, whilst the enemy poured in their vollies in every direction.
Cooped and hampered as were our men within the impervious walls of chapparal and aloes, their flight was almost hopeless.
Montgomery with his regiment pursued the Mexicans vigorously into the chapparal on the opposite side of the Resaca until from their rapid flight, further attempts were utterly useless.
Hence we awaited their first assault, made by a regiment of Mexican lancers led by Torrejon and supported by two pieces of artillery, which threatened our right flank by moving through the chapparal in the direction of our train.
So spake that pensive man--this Thompson, the hero of Angels, Bitterly smiled to himself, as he strode through the chapparal musing.
Where the road at intervals ran through openings, the ranks were broken at will; and the troop would get clumped together, to string out again on re-entering the chapparal path.
They had taken to the wild chapparal which grew close to their village; and there had they hidden themselves.
Their fire was rapid, but the dense growth of chapparal hid their objective points from view making good aim impossible, so that the damage done was not strikingly evident.
The chapparal was well chopped away to give free range to the officers who sighted the pieces, the aim being for the walls below the flag-pole.
Due precautions were taken against a night attack, as the dense chapparal was only twenty yards distant.
Here the dense chapparal feathered down to the river’s edge affording a splendid opportunity for ambush.
I did not allow the grass to grow much under my feet, as I dodged through the chapparal brush to reach the prairie beyond.
He suddenly leaped to his feet and dashed off to a thicket of chapparal some twelve or thirteen rods away.
In ten minutes' time she was across the river, entering the chapparal where the horseman had disappeared.
Moreover, he had the chapparal to contend with, requiring constant detours to take advantage of its openings.
Having secured her in the chapparal where he had halted, he walked on-- along the track taken by Calhoun.
Another stage of trotting--with his eyes kept steadfastly fixed upon the chapparal gap--brought Zeb to the timber.
The nearest way to it is through an opening in the chapparal you see out yonder.
I know it, madame; but that accomplishment would have availed you very little had you lost yourself, a thing you were like enough to have done among these chapparal copses, where the oldest Texan can scarce find his way.
There, poised on tremulous pinions, with eye turned to earth, it scans both the open space and the chapparal that surrounds it.
It did not disturb his tranquillity to see a horseman ride out from the chapparal on the opposite side, and proceed onward across the open plain.
Presently it becomes hushed, and the chapparal is again silent.
On the morning that succeeded that sombre night, when the three solitary horsemen made the crossing of the plain, a spectacle similar to that described might have been witnessed above the chapparal into which they had ridden.
I foun' him yesterday, clost upon sun-down, in the chapparal beyont.
You will guide the capitan through the path in the chapparal to the hunters' hut.
It was level; but fortunately for him, its surface was studded with copse-like islands of timber, and here and there straggling patches of chapparal through, which the path led.
To have scattered through the chapparal would have resulted in certain capture.
The vehicle, after passing out of the chapparal path, took the main road leading to the lower settlements of the valley.
To attempt to get off through the chapparal without showing themselves at all would have been the plan that Carlos would have adopted, had he not feared that they would be overtaken before night.
Having ascended the opposite bank, they were first headed towards the cliffs, but before they had proceeded far in that direction they turned into a path of the chapparal leading downward.
He loses himself in the chapparal paths in spite of the spies.
Moreover, the thick chapparal screened it from observation on one side, while the cliffs shut it in upon the other.
She was given up to them without more ado, and they took her away to a house in the chapparal below the town.
The whole garrison turned out, and the chapparal was surrounded, and at length entered.
But a path that led through the chapparalwould bring him out on the main road that ran up to the front gate, and this path he took.
From a point in this pass they obtained a distant view of the chapparal and the plain beyond.
Even before he had half crossed the open ground this thought had troubled him more than his own peril, and a plan had been before him:-- to make direct for the pass of La Nina, and shun the chapparal altogether.
He seemed surprised to see me in a tree, but I soon related my experience and pointed out the chapparal brush in which the bear was lying.
He went on up the side of the mountain, perhaps a hundred yards, and crawled into a thicket of chapparal brush and laid down.
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