An hour later he found the red rock Morgan had spoken of--and with a flaming bunch of mesquitein hand he searched the vicinity.
If you will examine those mesquite bushes you will find a bean pod on them.
She was a doctor for eyes that had been made sore from being struck by mesquite leaves or by a rushlike plant called hatelypo.
There he saw a spring: a single screwmesquite grew there.
Gnatcatcher will take the land where the mesquite grows; you will have the overflow land.
CastaA+-eda speaks of the people beyond Chichilticale making a bread of the mesquite which kept good for a whole year.
Then the young cow, embarrassed by so much attention, crossed the shallow river and went up among some hills where she had once ranged and where the vining mesquite grass grew luxuriantly.
When I came to the surface I made a few strokes swimming and landed in a clump of mesquite brush, to which I clung, got on my feet, and waded out to the opposite bank more scared than hurt.
These two cows were almost inseparable during the entire summer, and it was as natural as the falling of a mesquite bean that he should form a warm attachment for his speckled playmate.
Within another hour I noticed we were going down a dry arroyo, with mesquite brush on both sides of the road, which was little better than a trail.
The mesquite is a shrub that somewhat resembles our locust.
Reaching the historic place, they tethered their ponies among the mesquite bushes in the rear of it, after which all entered through a crumbling doorway.
Yet the boy never expected to come through the mesquite thicket without being swept from his pony and trampled under the feet of the savage steers.
The mesquite was still full of stragglers dashing wildly here and there.
Suddenly, in the darkness, rider and pony crashed into a dense mesquite thicket.
The cow pony tore through the growth at a fearful pace, while the boy's clothes hung in shreds where they had been raked by the mesquite thorns.
A mesquite forest stands in the Santa Cruz valley south of Tucson that is a fair sample of its growth under favorable conditions.
The mesquitebean furnishes a superior article of food and feeds about everything that either walks or flies on the desert.
Even as carnivorous a creature as the coyote will make a full meal on a mess of mesquite beans and seem to be satisfied.
Jogging on slowly after them and enjoying the beauty of the landscape, I unexpectedly caught a glimpse of a deer lying down under a mesquite tree on the brow of a distant hill.
The amount of firewood that is sometimes obtained by digging up the root of a small mesquite bush is astonishing.
Cattle that feed on the open range will leave good grass to browse on a mesquite bush.
The mesquite tree is peculiarly adapted to the desert and is the most valuable tree that grows in the southwest.
They are found in the southwestern deserts, where they are not uncommon in certain localities, being found in mesquite or chaparral brush.
Their nests are semi-pensile and usually placed in mesquite trees not more than ten or fifteen feet from the ground.
They dragged up a great pile of mesquite roots and built a fire; Pat went to watch his horses and Johnny returned to the lake.
Stargazer shuffled by farm and farm, and turned aside at last to where, with ax and pick and team and tackle, a big man was grubbing up mesquite roots.
If he had only had a pole, a stick, or even a twig, on which to tie his handkerchief and erect it above the clump of mesquite as a signal to the searchers in case they should be overcome by fatigue or sleep, he would have been happy.
And you was shot at by Peyton, he thinkin' you was an Injun in the mesquite grass?
But on reaching it he found that it was only a tangle of taller mesquite grass, into which he sank with his burden.
But he did not go far, for he found to his alarm that when he turned back again the clump of mesquite was scarcely distinguishable from the rest of the plain.
From time to time Jack stooped to poke another stick of mesquite into the blaze, or give the clothes in the boiler a stir with an old broom-handle.
Chris, the Mexican, had made the round of the tents, building a little fire of mesquite wood in each tiny drum stove, for in February the air of the desert grows icy as soon as the sun disappears.
The desert mule deer, another blacktailed, long-eared browser, may also appear at dusk to forage mesquiteand lechuguilla.
Honey bees and butterflies visit the yellow mesquite flowers, quail roost in the branches, and wood rats collect mesquite beans in tremendous numbers.
Deer, horses, and cattle also relish the beans, while Indians and early settlers made a nutritious bread from mesquite bean flour.
But the screwbean mesquite or tornillo—for which Tornillo Creek was named—puts out a curious cluster of corkscrew-shaped fruit pods.
They hunted desert animals for meat and skins, ate juniper berries, pricklypears, century plant hearts, yucca blossoms, and mesquite beans.
Mesquite trees multiply as persistently as salt cedar, but are highly useful to man and to wildlife.
Specimens from 53 kilometers north of El Limon were taken along with Liomys irroratus; the specimen from two kilometers west of El Carrizo was trapped near a dead mesquite log.
The area outside the fence supported mesquite and ebony trees (10-12 feet high) and the ground was covered with cat claw.
On they loped, looking keenly over the plain and occasionally using their field glasses to more closely scrutinize distant objects, searching the barrancas and coulees and threading through mesquite and cactus growths.
Half an hour later Hopalong pointed to one side, to a few half-burned greasewood and mesquite sticks which radiated like the spokes of a wheel.
The honey from the flowers of mescal and mesquite is the best to be obtained in this country of innumerable bees.
A long sandy slope of mesquite extended down to the bare crinkly floor of the valley, and here the descent to a lower level was scarcely perceptible.
Straddling derricks reared themselves everywhere; their feet were set in garden patches, in plowed fields, in lonely mesquite pastures, and even high up on the crests of stony ridges.
The scattered mesquite stood against the night like a wall, spotted with inky shadows, and, above, the heavens resembled a boiling caldron.
The southern portion of the valley is devoid of vegetation, save where irrigation has been introduced, but about the northern portion of the valley the sage and mesquite have obtained a foothold in the sandy soil.
Moreover, without the mesquite tree the valley would be an absolute desert.
It is true, it is mesquite timber, and they profess to cut only the dry trees, but the mesquite is invaluable to the Indians.
The mesquite bean is used green and dry, and at the present time is their principal article of food.
At the house he told her just how to fix a "coolereupboard" under the lone mesquite tree which stood at one end of the adobe cabin.
She sat in the one rocking-chair under the mesquite tree and crocheted lace and talked comfortably about Holly and her chickens in the same breath, and frankly admired Helen May's "spunk" in living out alone like that.
He watched them come on up to the little house, where they disappeared at the end where the mesquitetree grew.
Mormon watched them well into the mesquite before he put back the hair in the water the dog had left and went on with his plaiting: As he handled the pliant horsehairs he talked aloud, range fashion.
The creature left the cover of the mesquite and came slowly but determinedly toward the ranch-house, past the corral and cook shack; its daring proclaiming it anything but a cowardly, foot-hill coyote.
Then he headed for the spot in the mesquite whence he had emerged, marking the opening of a narrow trail.
If not, it meant that she was out of the chrysalis and had become, not the busy bee that belongs to the mesquite and the sage, but a gaudier, less responsible flutterer among eastern flower-beds.
Through gray sage and ferny mesquite Pronto moved, elastic of every sinew, springy of pastern, without fret or fuss though he had not been ridden for two days.
Indeed if it had not been for him I should not have had that limp in my right foot, for both of my feet would have been mouldering these many years under the curly mesquite of the Southwest plains.
I held his hand to the last, and when the silence fell, I stretched myself on the brown curly mesquite beside him and thanked God that He had let me know this boy.
I'm going to see the Indian rule broken here, or crawl into the lonely grave Bud talks about and pull the curly mesquite over me for a coverlet.
She saw the place where he had scrambled out of the arroyo, and, oh, good luck, a clump of mesquite growing out of the crumbling wall further down.
Marc Scott, stopped by a mesquitebush near the bottom of the canyon, lay for a few moments where he had fallen, literally too shaken to move.
She clutched at the tufts of mesquite that grew out of the rock and thanked Providence that her brown suit was so nearly the color of the cliff.
Gasping and sobbing, she finally sank behind the mesquite bush which covered the cave.
She fastened the bridle reins to the mesquite and left the horses contentedly chewing at it.
Though we descended with terrific velocity, nothing gave us any particular trouble before dinner, which we ate in the shade of a mesquite on the right at the mouth of a couple of giant gulches.
Our stop for the night, Camp 92, was made on a wide sandbank on the left, with some mesquite growing nearby, our first acquaintance with this tree on the river.
I found small pieces of driftwood lodged behind mesquite bushes fully one hundred feet above the prevailing stage of water.
Near this point there was a small abandoned hut of mesquite logs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mesquite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
