There was considerable excitement in the camp of the communists that morning, owing to preparations which were going forward for an excursion over the land where somebody's Number One lay shrouded in green greasewood and gray sage.
She had contrived herself a broom of greasewood branches, with which she swept the space between stove and tent, keeping it clean down to hard earth.
This, and one noted bounding up a slope of greasewood chaparral near Cattle Canyon, were the only gray squirrels seen in areas which were not grown to oaks or adjacent to oak woodland.
In the chaparral it is usually the most plentiful rodent, being dominant on slopes which have been burned over and on which greasewood chaparral has taken over.
Traps set in tracts of greasewood brush on dry south slopes at the head of Cow Canyon produced only California mice, Peromyscus californicus insignis Rhoads.
The distribution of several chaparral-inhabiting mammals seems to be influenced by the distribution of locally characteristic plants, for example oak and bay woodland, or greasewood chaparral.
In the greasewood chaparral one-half mile west of the mouth of Palmer Canyon, where the soil was hard and rocky, mole tunnels were in soft soil that had accumulated at the edge of a fire road beneath a steep road cut.
Crawling stealthily through the greasewood bushes, they crept inch by inch nearer the water, fairly holding their breath with excitement.
Leaving the trail, he rode up between a clump of sage-brush and greasewood bushes, and threw his hat with all his force toward a hole beneath them.
I can tell you the situation out in the greasewood country, if that's what you want to know," said Gantry after a thoughtful pause.
You'll have to reckon pretty definitely with her if you go out to the greasewood country, Evan.
For that reason, and for some others, I hate to see you bucking a dead wall out here in the greasewood hills.
If you get into trouble with the Boston police let me know, and I'll ask for a change of venue to the greasewood hills and Judge Lynch's court.
You take my advice, and don't you go huntin' a job night-ridin' in the greasewood hills.
The general surface of the soil here is nearly bare, wild sage, greasewood and a few stunted weeds being the only vegetation.
The face of the country there is nearly destitute of vegetation, wild sage, greasewood and an occasional bunch of grass being the entire product of the soil.
A moving splotch of red showed above a clump of greasewood half way down the hill.
As he fell the loud whirr of a rattlesnake sounded from the bush of greasewoodbeside him.
The young man ate his breakfast alone, his captor standing near by and talking pleasantly with him, but holding alertly a shot-gun at half cock, while crouching behind a bunch of greasewood was the Mexican with a drawn pistol in his hands.
Cactus clumps and bunches of mesquite and greasewood blotted the whitely gleaming earth.
These were further screened by occasional willows or greasewoodgrowing on the banks.
In the shade of a high greasewoodwe unpacked the pony carriage.
The greasewood and thorn-bush grew in long, narrow patches.
In a little swale, where the greasewood reached above her head, she stopped again to listen.
And there under the scornful stars Hiram and the old man lounged on packbags and talked, with their tiny camp fire of greasewood roots between them.
When the rider ahead had reached it and was galloping across if, Drummond speeded up, reached the lake in turn, and at last was able to make a wide half circle over land where no greasewood grew to impede the course of the car.
Then it was that Al Drummond, who had been slowly creeping through the greasewood bushes toward Hiram, arose with a yelp of triumph and ran to the weighted-down copy of the precious directions.
Jo's black mare, Babe, had not been ridden for weeks, and every greasewood bush that she saw became in the weird light of sunrise a grotesque goblin ready to spring at her and devour her whole.
Slowly the teams forged ahead into the infinite sandy waste, where whispering yuccas and thorny cactus grew, and jack rabbits went looping away among bronze greasewood bushes.
Miles of low greasewood and sparse yellow sage led to the first almost imperceptible rise of the valley floor on that side.
He followed the tracks to a pile of rocks where the Creeches had made a greasewood fire and had cooked a meal.
She had hidden the packs near the tallest bunch of greasewood along the trail; and when she halted behind it she had no fear of being seen from the corrals.
A clear trail led up a dusty, gravelly slope, upon which scant greasewood and cactus appeared.
He stood just outside a clump of greasewoodand cactus.
Once up, Slone found himself upon a wide, barren plateau of glaring red rock and clumps of greasewood and cactus.
The first bush he created was the greasewood bush.
And when they were married Ee-ee-toy, foreseeing what would happen, went & gathered the gum of the greasewood tree.
The ball was about two and one half inches in diameter, merely a heavy pebble coated thick with black greasewood gum.
And she put all the Apache hair in the olla, and placed the flat plate on top to cover it with greasewood gum to seal it up tight.
The local touch in making the greasewood bush the first vegetation is very strong.
To the southward is Paradise Valley, a plain desert strewn with greasewood and chamiso; and down in the floor of Death Valley is, or rather was, Greenland.
By the time they had finished the task darkness had shut down and, gathering sufficient greasewood brush to make a fire, they cooked their evening meal with a scanty supply of water and vainly searched for more.
It was on the left among the greasewood bushes, and there we put up our paulins for shelter on oars as before.
In the scant shelter of some greasewood bushes we devoured the repast which the morning's exercise and the crisp air had made so welcome, and each drank several cups of tea dipped from the camp-kettle wherein Andy had boiled it.
Seth Winters laid another stick of quick-burning greasewood on the fire and squinted across the smoke at Matson who was lying on his back, arms crossed behind his head, eyeing the night sky with the fascination of a dreamer.
The yellow flare of a greasewood fire cast flickering spears of light into the encircling darkness.
He lighted a stick of greasewood at the fire, and looked about his part of the sleeping ground.
Babe, helping himself to another of the flapjacks which Buck was making in a skillet over the greasewood fire.
Bud, as he rustled up some sticks of greasewood to make a fire over which they might boil coffee and fry bacon.
Sage brush and greasewood grow abundantly near the villages, and these curious gnarled and twisted shrubs furnish the principal fuel of the Tusayan.
The horizontal reeds are held in place by pegs of greasewood driven into the wall at intervals of 1 or 2 feet and are tied to the pegs with split yucca.
The small smoke-blackened sticks that are used for the suspension of bundles of greasewood and other fuel in the hatchway are clearly shown.
It is made partly of boards, partly of tent cloth, and partly of poles, thatched with greasewood boughs.
Though the days on the desert are terrifically hot, the nights are apt to be chilly, and the greasewood often proves a most welcome friend to the traveler.
We gathered greasewood bushes and piled them up to make a wind-break for our heads.
The plain was thinly scattered with sage brush, and up near the base of the mountain some greasewood grew in little bunches like currant bushes.
John lighted a handful of greasewood and by its brilliant light they examined the floor and walls.
The sun was setting as they climbed through a wide stretch ofgreasewood to the first rough rock heaps of the mountains.
No man who knows will ever buy land where the greasewood grows thickly; it is unproductive because of the large percentage of alkali.
This is not to be mistaken for the prickly greasewood which infests the more alkaline regions; nor the rabbit-brush with its blossom so like the goldenrod, but with a very disagreeable odor.
The loping jack rabbit slips softly to his greasewood shelter and the prairie dog bounces barking from his snake-infested haunt, noisily preparing for his day's digging and foraging.
We found the road very sandy toGreasewood Creek and after that it was somewhat better.
All except our ten and William's stayed back at Greasewood Creek.
In silence, as they drew nearer, they watched the low yellow hills lift their naked bulk up from the gray and green patches of salt-bush and greasewood that so thinly carpeted the plain.
The land is a rough jumble of small hummocks, covered with a heavy growth of greasewood and mesquite, and practically all of it lies so high that we could never get the water on it at all.
And to think," he added wonderingly, "that it was the root of a pesky greasewood bush that saved your life!
The little twigs of greasewood shivered and bent, and a cool breath fanned his cheek.
Here and there the tap root of a greasewood was half exposed for its entire length, just as it had been left by the falling earth.
Along the brink grew stunted bushes of greasewood and of sage.
Two hundred yards away a fringe ofgreasewood bushes marked what, at this distance, appeared to be a water course.
Many of these yellow-brown roots, tough as hempen rope, descended quite to the bottom of the arroyo, for the greasewoodperseveres astonishingly in its search for moisture.
On the strength of Mose's friendly encouragement, Parker betook himself next day to where Eben Starkweather was trimming greasewood roots, and moved about sociably from one hillock to another while his neighbor worked.
The sage and greasewood ended abruptly, and a row of leafless walnut-trees stretched their gaunt white branches above the road.
What can Providence do with a man who grubs greasewood when he ought to be in bed!
Mentally as well as physically he was a product of the sun and the wind, as tough and unyielding as a greasewood sapling.
They came into the country of crumbling mesas and painted cliffs, of hillsides where greasewood and giant cactus struggled from the parched earth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greasewood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
