So he wallows in a 'dobe mud-hole an' covers himself thick with mud.
But the fact is not for hours did they get thet 'dobe off him.
Because he never said a word about how he come to lose his clothes or why he had the 'dobe on him.
In these dugouts lived Joe Volmer, Dobe Charley and Jack Crowley, prospectors.
When Dobe Charlie had finished this story he turned to a clear-eyed ancient standing nearby.
He lived in a 'dobe cabin which, because it was on the main street, had its window shades always down.
His old dobe under the cottonwood tree and the water running by with plenty of outdoors--that suits Jack.
Dobe Charlie Nels was at Bodie, rendezvous of the toughest of the bad men when the United States Hotel rented its rooms in six-hour shifts and guests were awakened at the end of that period to make places for others.
You'll think it's twenty, though, if the rain strikes 'Dobe Flat before we do.
The road was sodden with the water which had fallen, and as they went down the hill to 'Dobe Flat the horses strained at the collar and plodded like a plow team.
Where an occasional arc lamp threw a spot of radiance across the 'dobe road lurked shadowy creatures who whined in an American dialect for money to buy drugs.
Bim surveyed the natural citadel with the eye of a trained Border man who occasionally has to reckon with such elementals as the killing power of a rifle bullet and the protective quality of a 'dobe wall.
Now here's my stack of 'dobe dollars for any Mex to cop if he thinks the copping's good.
Dead Shot heads for the little 'dobe he's fitted up, packin' his bloo-eyed doll in his arms.
Look, Russ, what's left of my old 'dobe house is on fire.
But I keep a light burning in the 'dobe house and make it look as if I were there.
It was one heap of crumbled 'dobe bricks and burned logs, still hot and smoking.
An' he's offered to rent that old 'dobe of mine just out of town.
The next fanned his shirt across the shoulders and the biting scraps of 'dobe stung his back.
Puffs of 'dobe pulverized before Harris's eyes as the systematic fire crept toward him down the crack in six-inch steps.
Then they angled in cautiously, edging past the 'dobe outbuildings and the corrals toward the hacienda.
Old Flores had just stepped from behind the crumbling 'dobe wall of the stable.
From the outer darkness to the glare of the light in the 'dobe was a blinding transition.
It was about nine o'clock next morning when he pulled up at Flores's 'dobe and dismounted stiffly.
In an hour they were at the 'dobe and clamoring for breakfast.
A ghastly dawn burned into Showdown, baring the town's ugliness as it crept from 'dobe to 'dobe as though in search of some living thing to torture with slow fire.
Upon returning to the 'dobe Flores was told by The Spider to say nothing of having seen him.
But that's a heap better 'n gittin' stood up against a 'dobe wall.
Across the somber brown of the 'dobe walls hung strings of chiles drying in the sun.
But the 'dobe in the distance shaded by a clump of trees, the gleam of the drying chiles, the glow of flowers, offered an acceptable antithesis to the barren roadway and the empty mesas.
As he sat on the doorstep gazing contentedly at the flowers bordering the path, Anita's mother appeared from some mysterious recess of the 'dobe and questioned Anita with quick low utterance.
Ute, he lay low, saying nothing, but he sure grinned volumes while he whirled in with his axe, cutting twelve loopholes through the 'dobe walls.
A 'dobe house is the next thing to comfort in a climate like ours, where the sun will scorch a man's hide worse than boiling water.
Bein' possessed of genius, Moses, you'll now proceed to set my 'dobe home in flames.
And now the whirlwind had dropped him on the doorstep of a 'dobe shack to think the matter over quietly and have a look at himself.
He dug out bricks of 'dobe one by one, and while he worked he made poor Curly sing hour after hour, to hide up the sound of the crowbar.
Curly was fretted up to high fever, riding herd on a bunch of dream cows, and Jim was pouring in his strength on the 'dobe bricks.
They brought them up through Guadalupe Cañon and came on northward to the Double Dobe Ranch.
When they arrived at the Double Dobe they found nothing of their former prizes but a fresh trail.
The dobe picks up a garment, souses it in the water, and flails the stone with it.
One day during the Rodeo we were out where the vaqueros were working and on our return found our home, a 'dobe house, burned down, and all our belongings with it, including considerable provisions.
My wife found a $10 gold piece hidden in a crack between the 'dobe bricks and later my son, John, unearthed twelve Mexican dollars beneath some manure in the hen-coop.
Near my place Crazy John, a Chinaman, had his gardens, where he made 'dobe bricks besides growing produce.
A few yards to his right stood an old 'dobe wall, relic of some former building, and so absorbed was he in his musing that he never noticed a rifle-barrel projecting through a crack till a voice broke the golden silence.
As in a cinematograph they saw Don Manuel, insolent and threatening; the American border tightly closed; the fusilado against a 'dobe wall that would surely end their Mexican operations.
It was her contempt for Indians, expressed on Mr. Hanrahan's door, that brought out the 'Dobe Walls to defend its hair.
Whether from the fright of capture or the menu of the 'Dobe Walls, and although with time she slimmed and shaped up to be the silken image of a full-grown mustang, Inez stood no higher than nine hands.
It was a pageant to remember--that swoop of the red five hundred over the half mile of grassy flat between the cottonwoods and the 'Dobe Walls.
The several specimens of this interesting sept whom they saw about the 'Dobe Walls, trading robes for calico and cartridges, served by their appearance to confirm the warnings of Mr. Wright.
Once aroused, the 'Dobe Walls was instantly an armed fort.
His medicine told him they might ride into the 'Dobe Walls and kill the palefaces in their sleep with clubs.
The charging Indians were a minute covering the space between those river cottonwoods and the 'Dobe Walls where the buffalo guns so hopefully awaited them.
Those Indians who came calling at the 'Dobe Walls sniffed suspiciously at Inez and said she was the "White Man's Medicine.
Dicky, with the rest of the prisoners, could look out through the barred door at the grass of the little plaza, at a row of orange trees and the red tile roofs and 'dobe walls of a line of insignificant stores.
That night, according to arrangements, me and Henry took the phonograph to a room in a 'dobe house in a dirty side street, where the grass was knee high.
A handful of 'dobe dust sprang from the corner of the building and sifted down upon them, causing Red to cough.
A bullet chipped the 'dobe at Terry's side and he ducked as he leaped back.
The groups withdrew to their 'dobe huts and squatted on the mud floors.
The little parties organized themselves after the early-morning visit to the 'dobe church and paraded with their odd trotting dance-steps through the lanes of the town.
Pedro 'd reached that ole dobe house that Clay Peters lived in oncet, pulled the door open, and makin' Carlota lay flat on her saddle (she was tied on!
We went through the quarantine and custom-house indignities; and then O'Connor leads me to a 'dobe house on a street called 'The Avenue of the Dolorous Butterflies of the Individual and Collective Saints.
The squat arcade of 'dobe surrounding the patio was lighted vaguely by a single lantern at his left.
She started back against the 'dobe wall of the house and threw up one hand as though a miracle had flashed across her vision.
And they marched in a wide circle around an interior court which was bordered with a clumsy arcade of 'dobe pillars.
The 'dobe dividing wall on that side, which once had separated the Mission garden and the Seed ranch, had long since crumbled away, and the boundary between the two pieces of ground was marked only by a line of venerable pear trees.
He lived in one of the remodelled 'dobe cottages, where his mother kept house for him.
Somewhere in the interior of one of the 'dobe houses a guitar snored and hummed sleepily.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dobe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
