There's plenty of water and sand, and palmetto roots and palmetto trees, and swamps, and a perfectly wonderful vegetation of vines and plants and flowers.
Mr. Chestnut of South Carolina wished to "unfurl the Palmetto flag, fling it to the breeze .
The nearly impassable jungle which it forms is called palmetto scrub.
A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
Defn: A genus of palm trees including the palmetto of the Southern United States.
Defn: South California; -- a nickname alluding to the State Arms, which contain a representation of a palmetto tree.
By the way, Miss Standish, don't encourage him to roam around in the palmetto scrub, on your outings with him.
And yesterday you warned me against letting Bobby Burns wander in the palmetto scrub, for fear of rattlesnakes.
To the whole scene the dwarf palmetto gives a semi-tropic aspect.
There may be a bandersnatch," he said doubtfully, dusting the ground with his palmetto fan.
Just see those zebra-striped butterflies darting like lightning over the palmetto scrub!
If you like oily cabbage, the top of any palmetto will furnish it.
Very well; now, break a fan from that saw-palmetto and sweep a place for me on the ground--that way.
Then he saw a dull gray fold without any glitter to it, draped motionless over a palmetto root, and so like the root that he could scarcely believe it anything else.
Hamil, looking down at the twisting reptile which he had killed with a palmetto stem.
This had already been surveyed and there remained nothing to do except to pierce it with a wide main trail and erect a few patrol camps of palmetto logs within convenient reach of the duck-haunted lagoons.
Along a narrow path between the forest and the palmetto field above referred to, a female figure was seen tripping towards a small opening in the wood, formed by the uprooting of a mighty sycamore.
It had originally been part of a palmetto field covering the bank of the river for the breadth of half a mile, at which distance a limit was put to it by the colossal stems of the aboriginal forest.
The houses are mean and low, the walls generally made of mud or wattled, and their sides made up with boards: they are all thatched with palm or palmetto leaves.
We cut palmetto leaves to burn the ship's sides; and, giving her as good a heel as we could, we burned her sides and paid them with lime and water for want of oil to mix with it.
Two members of the Palmetto Guards paid $50 for a boat to carry them to Morris Island.
This was the "Palmetto Battery," called thus because of the protective log cover raised on the exterior.
On the top of the main building at the College was a statue of Washington, and over this statue some of the students hoisted a palmetto flag.
The palmetto groves and the jungles of Georgia, together with the river banks of Florida and the soil of Virginia hold the ashes of those who will ever be sacred to our memory.
The lower part of the island runs down to a sharp angle and is covered with a thick growth of pine and palmetto trees, while the upper part was a low, marshy swamp.
The palmetto tree was green and the air as balmy as June.
Ingraham commanded the Charleston squadron, and flew his flag on board the Palmetto State, Lieutenant Commanding John Rutledge.
Hunter to the Chicora, and Lieutenant Commanding James Henry Rochelle to the Palmetto State.
It was now time to proceed to the place of rendezvous, on the further side of the palmetto field, which was about half a mile wide.
The water itself was of the brightest emerald-green; and the forest of palmetto stems that grew along the edge, was reflected in it like myriads of swords and lances.
Proceeding a short distance westward, we then took a northerly direction, along the edge of the palmetto field, with the marsh upon our right hand.
Thorns there were (and to spare) in the thicket above, and I doubted not I might also find grass or the fibre of a palmetto to serve my turn.
The other knee held down his thighs, and while he lay there incapable of defence, Hassan bound his arms tightly together with the cord of palmetto fibres.
With his hands he continually tested a cord twisted from palmetto fibres, as though doubtful of its strength.
With the dollar which he had given me I bought a little old tent of palmetto and set it up in the corner of the Sok apart from the tents of the cobblers.
Wigwams in the South were of plaited rush or grass mats; of deerskins pinned on a frame; of tree boughs rudely piled into a cover, and in the far South, of layers of palmetto leaves.
The earliest recorded effort to manufacture straw head-wear is shown in a patent given to Mrs. Sibylla Masters of Philadelphia, for using palmetto and straw for hats.
Garden's battery, the Palmetto artillery under Captain Fickling, the Pee Dee under Zimmerman, and Hart's battery continued in their former assignments.
In 1846 he went to the Mexican war as first lieutenant of a company of the Palmetto regiment, and served in the army of General Scott from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico.
The Confederate ironclads Palmetto State and Chicora sent their boats to assist in taking off the command of Colonel Keitt.
He had made the Palmetto a strong battery and had put in command an accomplished officer, Maj.
General Ripley, who commanded the harbor defenses and the forces on James island, regarded the abandonment of Fort Palmetto as a fatal mistake, and at his request, he was ordered to join General Lee in front of Richmond.
Still in the rank of colonel, Palmetto sharpshooters, he commanded R.
A single shell bursting in front of Company K, Palmetto sharpshooters, killed five young men--Theodotus L.
The losses of the Fourth, Fifth and Palmetto sharpshooters at Gaines' Mill are reported as 173.
Ingraham, commanding the Confederate naval forces in Charleston harbor, with the Confederate ironclad gunboats Palmetto State and Chicora, made a brilliant attack on the blockading squadron on the early morning of January 31st.
Butler, colonel of the Palmetto regiment and killed at Churubusco, were his uncles; his grandfather, Gen.
The shooter keeps as much as possible in the shade, with his broad-brimmed palmetto protecting his eyes from the glare, and follows close after the torch bearer, who walks slowly ahead.
They took a black-top road about 10 miles inland from the heavily traveled coastal highway that passes through sparsely settled areas of scrub pine and palmetto thickets.
He had traveled about 50 yards off the road when he ran into a palmetto thicket, so he stopped and looked for a clear path.
As soon as he'd told his story, they all went back into the woods, picking their way around the palmetto thicket.
About halfway through the palmettothicket he saw a car stop on the highway.
People normally didn't go running off into palmetto thickets infested with rattlesnakes at night.
Edna and Ralph had come to be looked upon at the Palmetto Hotel as persons of distinction.
I would advise you to go to the Palmetto Hotel, which is a good family house, and I will write to you there and send another draft.
This could not be a repetition of the life she was leading at the Palmetto Hotel, but whatever the new life might be, she would get from it all that it might contain for her.
The palmetto is also a conspicuous object, and the dwarf palmetto grows abundantly under the shadow of the pine woods.
Here, too, were some young palmetto trees with the new leaves within easy reach.
He was soon busily engaged in building his little fire, hoping no hostile eyes might detect the trailing smoke ascending above the tops of that palmetto clump.
After he had managed to fasten the bow of the sloop to one of the palmetto trees, Jack crawled aboard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palmetto" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
