To his delight he found himself amid the spreading branches of a pinon tree.
Yet he still lay along the pinon limb, every sense on the alert.
There was no other point except the Pinon from which we could certainly see the enemy on their route and be ourselves hidden.
There was no object to attract our enemies into it, unless indeed they might come up in search of pinon nuts.
Our band cannot either come on to the Pinonor cross the war-trail at any point.
We cannot touch the Pinon spring without leaving our marks too plainly; and it is the very place where the war-party may make a halt.
We found a small stream heading in the Pinon Range, and running westward to the San Pedro.
In this manner we rode forward to the Pinon mountain, where we came together again, and turned northward along the foot of the range.
The uneasiness I had hitherto felt arose from an expression which Seguin had dropped at the Pinon spring.
Why, to conceal ourselves in the Pinon range; what else?
We were lying with our bodies behind the rocks, and our faces partially screened by the foliage of the pinon trees.
We see the Indians fling the pinon nuts into the cinders, and then draw them forth again, parched and smoking.
They gathered a capful of the pinon cones--the seeds of which Lucien knew how to prepare by parching and pounding.
The point, that is, where it lost itself in the wilderness of chaparral and pinon trees, among which he had met the adventure which ended in his capture.
Close at hand was a pinon tree, which spread out low-growing branches all about.
Those of Pinon knew all about it, lifting their brown heads out of the water and never missing their piece of bread.
It was very dull in those days living in the canyon of Pinon Pines.
In the spring of one year two old men came up into the canyon of Pinon Pines.
Now what happened to the creek of Pinon Pines is not very well known to any one, for the stream is not very clear on that point, except that it did not have a happy time.
That is not because it is unusual to find pinon trees on Oppapago, but because there are so few of them in the canyon of the stream.
The canyon of Pinon Pines has a pleasant outlook and lies open to the sun, but there is not much other cause for the forest rangers to remember it.
A taxonomic and evolutionary study of the pinon mouse, Peromyscus truei.
Through the pinon forest, which renders the mesa a perfect labyrinth to the uninitiated, chance alone can guide the explorer to the exact spot from which a view of Cliff Palace is possible.
Should he intend going up the mountain my chance of seeing him again that day was over; if he was going to feed in the pinon ridges, then careful stalking and the avoidance of all mistakes would make him my meat.
At daylight the next day we started for the spot where the turkey-tracks had been seen; the snow was melted off the low ground, but still lay thick on the cedar and pinon ridges, and in patches on the bottoms.
Stretches of bad-land desert are interrupted by other stretches of sage plain, and on the high lands gnarled and picturesque forests of juniper and pinon are found.
I hang up my barometer to give it a few minutes' time to settle, and occupy myself in collecting resin from the pinon pines, which are found in great abundance.
Here cedar and pinon trees take the place of the taller pines.
In Nevada, Ridgway (1877) first observed this warbler "among the cedar and pinon groves on the eastern slope of the Ruby Mountains.
Linsdale (1938) writes: "The black-throated gray warbler was one of the few species adapted to occupy the pinon belt on the Toyabe Mountains.
The grandson of this baron, Robert de Coucy, in 1213 granted the people of Pinon 'a right of assize according to the use and custom of Laon,' and the next year founded there a hospital.
It is perhaps worth while to tell what befell Anizy, and how Pinon escaped.
Two of the most important châteaux in this region in 1789 were those of Pinon and of Anizy.
Twenty years afterwards Pinon became a commune, and John de Coucy granted the inhabitants a free market.
The De Courvals became possessors of Pinon through the murder of the Marquis d'Albret.
About fifty years ago, the then proprietor of Pinon was building a lodge for one of his keepers when the workmen came upon a gold ring in digging for the foundation.
The Château of Pinon was originally built by Enguerrand II.
Not a man in Anizy or in Pinon owns a rood of land now which he might not just as easily have owned had the alienation of the Church property in those communes been conducted through the gradual and systematic processes of law and order.
To that end he first of all climbed the tallest pinon tree in sight; a tree that stood on a rise of ground apart from its brothers.
In spite of his long experience with desert scenery, Casey was somewhat astonished to find himself in a new land, fairly level and with thick groves of pinon cedar and juniper trees scattered here and there.
After that he put a kettle of beans on to boil, filled the stove with pinon sticks and closed the drafts.
Higher on the table-topped ranges low trees of juniper and pinon stand each apart, rounded and spreading heaps of greenness.
A mile farther on, the ripped punk of a dead pinon betrayed the passing of the fugitives.
Back at the rock, the Ranger was cooking their supper over a fire of withered moss and pinon chips, keeping the old man's mind off his fevered thirst by calling attention to the tricks of Desert growth to save water.
And always, the trail had grown rockier, the forests more scattered, the trees scantier and dwarfed, till the way led from clump to clump of scrub pinon amid red buttes and sand hummocks.
All specimens examined of subspecies compared with the series of pinon mice from northeast of Durango are in the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History.
Peromyscus truei erasmus is a dark race of thepinon mouse known from the west side of a rough area of dark lavas a few miles northeast of the city of Durango and closely surrounded by the light colored race, P.
Alcorn for the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History contains fourteen pinon mice from lava rocks eight miles northeast of the city of Durango, Mexico.
These mice are all much darker than the pinon mice, Peromyscus truei gentilis, of adjoining areas in Durango and Zacatecas and show a superficial resemblance to the widespread P.
I spent two days in the little park at the foot of Pinon Mountain, and saw and heard a great many elk, in bands of three to thirty, but refrained from shooting.
Pinon was dead, but he was said to have had a confidant in Jean Maillard, auditor to the exchequer.
The commissioners of the Chambre had the good luck to find unexpectedly, in one of the reports, a denunciation against a certain Pinondu Martroy, a councillor to the Parlement, who had been involved in the disgrace of Fouquet.
Where the streams poured down through gullies, there was always a cedar or a PINON to cling to.
On the floor at his head stood a small pinon tree top held erect by several stones.
One fine morning, as the riders were working through a country covered densely with cedar and pinon trees, with occasional open glades and grassy valleys, the wagon boss and the man with him heard shouts off to their right.
Half way down the hill was a lonepinon tree about twenty feet high, and true to his nature the steer headed for it.
The Jacob's Well was located in the center of a very large level mass of sandstone covering perhaps three or four acres, with a dense thicket of cedar andpinon trees all about it.
At about the same hour that Clark and Bill were searching among the pinon and scrub growth for some solution of the mystery of Rob's inexplicable disappearance, an equally perplexed party was assembled on a small rise some miles away.
Slipping noiselessly from his pony as he rode under a dark clump of pinon trees, the boy turned it loose.
Naturally, the more they shouted and fired, the faster the little animal ran, and every step took them farther from Rob, who was crouching under his pinon trees.
With it, but at lower levels to which the flexilis will never come, is found frequently the one-leaved pinon pine, the food-crop of the wild tribes.
But the pinon is a pushing sort, it establishes itself upon the slightest invitation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pinon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
