Mesquit and cactus and mimosa were the only vegetation, except the blistered stalks of the sun-dried grasses.
As we came down toward the main valley, the timber grew smaller, the persistent mesquit more and more possessed the land, and the sun fell full upon us.
Leaving San Antonio, we traversed a country still flat, always flat, covered with sand and mesquit for miles and miles and miles.
Here and there the mesquit trees were cut away, and wide, sandy fields were planted with cotton.
He wanted to get away and have a good long sleep somewhere in the sun on the mesquit grass with his handkerchief over his face.
They stood on one leg, chewed mesquittwigs and circumlocuted, for they hated to hurt his feelings.
A thong of hide, knotted hard, so that nothing but a knife could undo the knot, connected an arm of each captive with a stout arm of a mesquit bush, close to the sharp-eyed sentinel at the head of the widest path.
Cal, for the hitherto unseen horseman, who now came out from behind a clump ofmesquit trees, wore the yellow-trimmed uniform of the United States cavalry.
Cal did not know that the red men who had threaded that maze before him had left marks of their own upon the trunks of the mesquit scrubs.
Hardie fed his men and horses on mesquit bean, a plant heretofore considered poisonous.
Scattered over the plain were dusters of mesquit and in the low sags where moisture was near the surface patches of thorns.
The Irishman was careful to take no chances, and kept his party in the mesquit till the headlight of an approaching train was visible.
The sheriff nodded a good day, cut down the hill on the slant, and disappeared in a mesquit thicket, from the other side of which he presently emerged astride a bay horse.
Then he lay down in a dense mesquitthicket and waited for his foe.
It sure seemed that way to me when I looked out of that mesquit wash just above Eldorado Springs and seen you and him eating together like brothers and laughing to beat the band.
A great, sleepy owl fluttered out, and sailed off with a slow flapping of wings to the shelter of a stubby mesquit farther on.
Here flourishes the mesquit tree, Prosopis juliflora, with a tale to tell well worth knowing.
When a mesquit seems stunted, it is because its strength is withdrawn for the task of delving to find water; where a tree grows tall with goodly branches, it betokens success in reaching moisture close at hand.
When found they were lying beneath a little mesquit bush, locked in each other's arms, and quietly awaiting the approach of death.
We were now suffering terribly from hunger; and in every direction our eyes were searching for something to satisfy our craving appetites; but we saw nothing till we reached the South Canadian river, at the mouth of Mesquit creek.
As I was sitting beneath the shade of a mesquit tree, three or four venerable heads of the village came to me, bearing two large pieces of the meat, which appeared to have been cut from the thigh, and offered them to me to eat.
The dew gave the darkness under the mesquit a velvet quality that made air seem nearer to water, and no eye could have seen through it the black things that moved like monster lizards toward the camp.
The smoke of his supper-time fire was curling across the shadowy sea of mesquit when the instinct of the plainsman warned him that the stillness, the desolation, was again invaded.
Upreared twigs, prominent branches, shone with golden light, while the shadows under the mesquit were heavily blue.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mesquit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
