It was a sandy shore; the banks were high, and a clump of mimosas grew above high-water mark.
His grave was beneath a clump of mimosas that shaded the spot, and formed the most prominent object in the foreground of our landscape.
The jungle was open, composed of thorny mimosas at such wide intervals that a horse could be ridden at considerable speed if accustomed to the country.
The rains had almost ceased, so we should be able to live in a tent by night, and to form a shady nook beneath some mimosas by day.
The young wanderer advanced at once from under the mimosas to meet his deliverers; but as he came nearer, the aspect of one of the horsemen seemed familiar to his sight.
A few miserable stunted thorny mimosas are here to be seen scattered irregularly, as though lost in this horrible desert.
My wife quickly made about sixty yards of bandages, while Barrak, the maid, prepared thick gum water, from gum arabic, that the mimosas produced in unlimited quantity.
I set the thigh, and secured it with gum bandages, as the mimosas afforded the requisite material.
The jungle was open, composed of thorny mimosas at such wide intervals, that a horse could be ridden at considerable speed if accustomed to the country.
Numerous mimosas afforded a shade, beneath which the Arabs sat in groups, and at the bottom of the valley flowed the Atbara.
Having descended the valley we bivouacked in the shade of thick nabbuk trees (Rhamnus lotus), whose evergreen foliage forms a pleasing exception to the general barrenness of the mimosas during the season of drought.
The route was upon the river's margin, due east, through a sandy copse of thorny mimosas which fringed the river's course for about a quarter of a mile on either side; beyond this all was desert.
Giraffes are inhabitants of open country, and owing to their length of neck and long flexible tongues are enabled to browse on tall trees, mimosas being favourites.
When standing among mimosas they so harmonize with their surroundings that they are difficult of detection.
The females are much more rare, and are seen only on the borders of the forest, wandering from tree to tree, and depositing their eggs on low mimosas which grow in the shade.
Other dwarf mimosas trailed along the ground close to the edge of the road, shrinking at the slightest touch of the feet as we passed by.
Do you observe how the mimosas are torn up on the other side of the river?
They went therefore in that direction, and found that she was in the clump of mimosas to which the lion had first retreated.
Drooping mosses depend like human hair from widespread branches, and soft, velvety moss carpets the way, with here and there dwarf mimosas trailing beneath the ferns.
They furnish a great contrast to the delicately feathered mimosas of the more fertile sections of the continent.
Stubbles and tufts of mimosas are the only signs of vegetable life.
Kokreb was a lovely oasis beneath the high mountains, with a forest of low mimosas in full leaf, and a stream running from the mountains, the produce of a recent storm.
I was helpless to attack, and it required the greatest attention to keep up the pace through the thick mimosas without dashing against their stems and branches.
It was a sandy shore; the banks were high, and a clump of mimosas grew above high water-mark.
Yesterday we anchored at a dry spot, on which grew manymimosas of the red bark variety; the ground was a dead flat, and the river was up to the roots of the trees near the margin; thus the river is quite full at this season, but not flooded.
That afternoon, after a march through a most beautiful forest of large mimosas in full blossom, we arrived at the morass that had necessitated this great detour from our direct course to the lake.
The Nile at this spot about two miles wide--dead flat banks--mimosas on west bank.
The "tree," or rendezvous for all boats when leaving for the White Nile voyage, consists of three largemimosas about four miles from the point of junction.
At all events, they broke upon us without our having had any suspicion of their being in our neighbourhood, bursting through the thick mimosas round us, as though they had been so many bulrushes.
The group of mimosas where he had been was waving slowly in the wind, and for the first time Charlie remembered that most essential part of African hunting.
What lay beyond the mimosas was hidden by the rise, toward which they were rapidly approaching.
Oddly enough it sounded, in the hot, early morning air, already heavy with the scent of the mimosas in full bloom.
We are bivouacked ourselves far up the river, in a secluded nook amongmimosas and kopjes with the thick current of the lately unknown, but now too celebrated, Modder rolling in front of us.
North of Bloemfontein we get into a pretty, uneven country with several level-topped kopjes set end to end like dominoes, and thickets of grey mimosas clustering in the hollows.
Many of the larger mimosas had resisted all their efforts; and indeed, it is only after heavy rain, when the soil is soft and loose, that they ever successfully attempt this operation.
They saw broken branches of the mimosas giving out their odour, that had not had time to waste itself.
The small herbaceous mimosas contribute in this zone to fatten the cattle, but are very rare between the Rio Jao and the mouth of the Guaviare.
It is also perfectly bare, except for thorny mimosas scattered here and there, with willows fringing the banks of the few streams.
The trees are mostly the thorny mimosas I have mentioned.
The Spaniards designate by the name of dormideras (sleeping plants), the small number of mimosas with irritable leaves.
Mimosas with hemispheric tops, and stems only four or five feet high, alone vary the dull uniformity of the savannahs.
On a more careful examination of the plants of the islands of Lancerota and Forteventura, which are nearest the coast of Morocco, we may perhaps find a few mimosas among many other plants of the African flora.
The mimosas and the tamarinds close their leaves, in a clear and serene sky, twenty-five or thirty-five minutes before sunset, and unfold them in the morning when the solar disk has been visible for an equal space of time.
Huge mimosasand sycamores fill up the centre of the square with domes of foliage so intensely green that it looks almost black.
Opposite the hotel, on the other side of the road, stood in the shade of the mimosas the carriages placed at the disposal of the invited guests by the splendid hospitality of the Khedive.
On my journey into Kaffirland, our road one day lay through a pleasant country, where the grass was green, and the mimosas bright with their golden clusters of flowers.
And the route to Shebacat was open desert, so far as the eye could reach from the balcony, with but few mimosas or black rocks.
On the east were more mimosas and rocky ground in which the enemy could find cover to within five hundred yards at the furthest part; up to two hundred at one point.
No; one where there are neither rivers, nor fruit-trees, and only low acacias and mimosas grow.
They looked over the wood, but saw no signs of them, and Ayrton returned to the banks of the river, where magnificentmimosas were growing.
Great clumps of mimosas and eucalyptus, and various odorous gum-trees, broke the uniform monotony here and there.
The mimosas growing on the western part, and the substantial herbage on the eastern, give those plains a peculiar appearance.
The tall grass disappeared before it as if cut down by a scythe, and clumps of mimosas were torn up and drifted about like floating islands.
Their bodies were already cold, and a flock of half-starved looking ravens croaking among the mimosas were watching the unexpected prey.
Beyond the grove of mimosas was a stretch of sparsely timbered country, which quite deserved its name of "open plain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mimosas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
