As they rode girth-high through the grass the first enchanting glade opened before them, flanked by palmettos and pines.
A few palmettos have been planted here for various agricultural reasons.
Heavy rain had accompanied the first of the storm, but this soon ceased, and a steady roar of wind through the palmettos sounded like a railroad train passing over a long trestle.
I saw something moving over behind that bunch of saw-palmettos on your left.
Van Dyck herded us quickly out of the camp circle, and on the beach he groped under the palmettos and uncovered our scanty arsenal; the three pistols and the two knives we had taken from our former captives.
We had dodged and run nimbly to right and left before the little brass signal piece belched fire and sent a volley of nondescript missiles hurtling into the scrub palmettos under which we had been crouching.
The felled tree lay across a wiregrass-covered space enclosed on three sides by clumps of palmettos and a blackjack thicket.
Noting this, Peters and Jones leveled their guns through their own palmettos without exposing the muzzles to the view of the watchers in the opposite leafy fort.
The wiregrass had entirely disappeared before the flames, but the tall pines, the scrub-oaks and the clumps of fan-palmettos stood for the most part intact.
The slackers promptly fired a volley from their green covert in response, the bullets rattling through the palmettos and passing over the heads of the two seated boys.
Often a detour higher up or lower down the slope was necessary to avoid bogs, marshy tracts, impregnable clumps of fan-palmettos and tangled masses of brambles.
There was a sudden rustling of the palmettos behind Jenkins that seemed to indicate preparation for war.
There it was, the Indian River, rippling idly in full sunlight, palmettos leaning over the water, palmettos standing as irregular sentries along the low, reeflike island which stretched away out of the picture.
Here they formed an ambuscade in a thick grove of palmettos which nearly surrounded the narrow pass.
The spot was open--only a few scattered palmettos growing over it--and the animals were picketed upon the grass near by.
The fan-like leaves of palmettos and yuccas growing all around, gave a southern and tropical aspect to the scene.
Dashing from the clump of palmettos where he had remained, Rowdy came bounding over the intervening space.
Gee," shivered Tom, "I'm mighty glad this clump of palmettos here is between us and them.
A short conference in the shadow of a clump of palmettos was held.
The flags were falling to pieces, and the palmettos withering, unnoticed except by strangers.
Of palmettos there are none that I know of in this immediate region, save the hundred or more on Sullivan's Island and the one or two exotics in the streets of Charleston.
We fell upon one another's necks, the Palmettos slave-girl and I, and cried together glad tears for ten minutes.
Mr. Carvalho never came to Palmettos again, but whenever I went to Kingston to dances I met him, and in spite of mamma I talked to him too.
To think that that queenly old lady was still a slave girl at Palmettos when my poor dear mother was a little child!
A fountain was playing in the middle of the courtyard of marble, surrounded by palmettos and plants of every description.
There is grave danger in any extensive drainage operations, as palmettos and pines will quickly invade such drained land, and thus destroy the grass.
These prairies stretch from the border of the pine woods and palmettos on relatively high ground to permanently wet swamps.
A moment later, in the silence, he heard a rustling of the palmettos near the bank of the bayou.
I was half reclining under a fallen tree, with a clump of palmettos about me.
Its banks were a tangled mass of tree roots, huge ferns, palmettos and some tall upstanding kind of water grass.
The Palmettos of South Carolina, and the Ninth under Ransom, were as severely cut up; and after a while all sought shelter in and about a large barn near the causeway.
Calling to the Palmettos to avenge his death, Shields gives the word to charge.
The glare they reflected was dazzling, but a row of limp palmettos ran between them and the space in front of the presidio, and here and there Kit noted rounded masses of vivid green.
The palmettos grew in small circles and with the pines and cypress seemed like islands in a gentle sea; and each island held in its center a spring of cold clear water seeping up through a limestone bottom.
Having accepted this as a fact he closed his eyes to the soft, intimate stars above the palmettos and went to sleep.
The Indian pointed to a cluster of palmettos that reared its tops above the saw grass to the north.
The palmettos were, as is their way, rustling and waving their leaves like ladies of olden times in swishing silks using their fans as practiced flirts.
Steps from this porch led to a tangled old garden with palmettos and magnolias shading the walks, sadly neglected and grass-grown, that wound around flower beds long since given over to their own sweet will.
Finally, with much maneuvering on her part, everyone was seated on some benches looking out over the water, with a clump of palmettos protecting them from the wind and at the same time hiding the road to the old house on the corner.
The boys were in luck, for under the palmettos on the point was a regular Indian camping-ground, with logs for the camp-fire in place and poles ready for stretching a canvas covering, or rigging up mosquito bars.
He dove for turtle that he never got and hacked at young palmettos for buds that he did get.
As he approached, it brightened and sent up a crackling flame, in the blaze of which Ned saw the tall palmettos of his camp.
Dick the next morning as the rays of the rising sun fell on the waters of the Everglades in the distance and lit up the clumps of cypress and groups of palmettos that dotted the prairie before him.
About the middle of the forenoon they saw a clump of palmettos on a key, for which they headed at once, where they found ground which had been often camped upon.
The boys made their camp beside a little group of palmettos on a bit of dry ground which had often been used for that purpose.
Just beyond it two palmettos had fallen in the stream, one of which lay lengthwise in the channel.
Sometimes an opening in the forest showed broad savannahs, or prairies, or disclosed groups of tall palmettos or magnificent royal palms, the grandest tree that grows.
Johnny led the way to a clump of palmettos beside a clear little spring and a nice shady bit of ground, where they made a camp-fire, after driving away a family of moccasins that seemed to own the place.
The Orange Puppy had disappeared beyond the thicket of palmettos across the point.
The moon glimmered on the Halifax; the palmettos sighed in the chilly sea-wind; the still, night air was scented with orange bloom and the odour of the sea.
Several rusty cabbage-palmettos waved above the whitish, sandy soil surrounding it; one or two discouraged orange trees fruited despondently near the veranda.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palmettos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
