Still shorter of ear and hind leg is the pigmy rabbit which ventures outside its burrow to feed only among the tall and closely-spaced bushes of sagebrush among which its burrow is dug.
The pigmy rabbit lives in burrows, mostly dug by itself, preferably where tall sagebrush grows densely.
This shows probably an extension of range with reference to life zones, as heretofore the main reported localities of capture have been in sagebrush in the Transition Life-zone.
From the sagebrush of the southern slopes they climbed slowly up to a country of scattered juniper.
They followed trails through thick sagebrush and cottonwoods, over dry beds of streams and sunken deserts, marveling how the dull gray and olive of the sagebrush and trees mingled.
The smell of the sagebrush is such that very few animals will touch it.
In the morning they were all very stiff, but glad of the sun on sagebrushand river, and the boy and girl sang over breakfast.
I allow Tom Meade ain't going ter allow the perogatives of sheriff tuk away frum him by no sawed-off bit of a sagebrush chawing, jackrabbit of a cattle rustler.
Call me a horn-toad of the sagebrush desert if here ain't a go, boys!
It blew up in clouds from the bleak, lifeless country through which they passed, until they were one color with the sagebrush and sandhills.
After a summer rain there is no aromatic perfume surpassing that of the odor of sagebrushfilling the newly washed air.
Dust, heat, and sagebrush were the main features of the place.
Upon this he grunted deeply, shook hands cordially, went back to his many-wived tents over across the creek, and soon we saw them filing off through the sagebrush toward their Skull Valley home, many miles over the Onaqui range.
Oroscoptes montanus) which inhabits the sagebrush plains of Western North America.
Virginia had told Donald they would be at Sagebrush Point at six!
The fire on Sagebrush sparkled like a single jewel in a vast setting.
With every nibble Vivian peered among the trees behind her, glanced fearfully right and left, and ended by gazing with longing eyes at the fire on Sagebrush Point.
At last the flame-colored smoke burst into tongues of fire, leaping, crackling tongues which told the anxious watchers on Sagebrush that the note had been found and that all was well.
But the climax had occurred shortly afterward when while going through a country of sagebrush stretches and grim, almost naked buttes, she had seen--actually seen a cow boy!
There was nourishment in plenty between the sagebrush clumps, and he wandered at will, his dragging reins giving sure proof that he would not stray too far.
It was easy to climb their sloping, well-trailed sides on horseback or even afoot, and the view across the wide mesa, blue with sagebrush to the distant mountains blue with August haze, was quite reward enough.
He was galloping through the sagebrush on a mottled, ugly-looking broncho, doubtless bent on some secret errand.
She turned Pedro, and, followed by Carver and Vivian, rode back up the trail, while the others kept on down the mountain side toward Sagebrush Point where they were to meet Malcolm and Aunt Nan.
A half hour here would sustain them against the three miles of sagebrush beyond.
Moreover, she was determined that the Sagebrush Point fire, replenished from time to time by a black dot, should not eclipse her own.
She always felt that Pedro entertained scorn for her, contempt that wild gallops through the sagebrush should, together with his youth and speed, present terrors.
Now she had mercifully halted him on the brow of the mesa, and was allowing him to rest and feed while she sat in silence and looked across the sagebrush stretches to the mountains.
It was of an enormous canvas, covered weakly enough by a thin reproduction of a range of the Rockies and a sagebrush flat.
The thin grasses bent before it, the sagebrush took on new and fantastic shapes, and danced like demons to the tune.
There's a green strip along the river, then bare sagebrush flats, and beyond the flats are sand dunes where nothing grows but cactus and mesquite, and here and there some tufts of grass as tough and dry as wire.
It builds the dunes into new shapes every day, and the sagebrush is always bent and lopsided and torn, and the colors are the gray and brown of the world's secret tragedy.
The Worst Bad Man slipped out of his pack, gathered some dry sagebrush and lit a roaring fire, while his youthful companion ministered to the baby.
But cut out this religious talk, Bob, an' rustle up some sagebrush for a fire.
He was about to discard his six-shooter and belt, but a stealthy crackle in the sagebrush caused him to reconsider.
After seeing how this air makes the ugly sagebrush and the patches of alkali and brown earth a feast to the eye, one can understand how the light of heaven may make the ugliest faces beautiful.
The whitey-gray of the alkali-patches, the brown of the dry earth and the rusty green of the sagebrush filled the foreground, melting in the distance into a purple-gray.
In point of fact, he knew the sagebrush would not burn.
They stepped out from among the ruins of their sagebrush booth upon a patch of hard bare earth close to the railroad track.
John sped away between the high sagebrush and willows which skirted the stream running along west from camp.
And the warden would have handed it to him, despite his past experience with the beast; but suddenly the coyote headed straight off for a low manzanita bush that stood up amid the scraggly sagebrush back from the shore.
Patches of scraggly sagebrush grew here and there, and out near the cliffs on the sloping lava sides was a field of golden California poppies.
He was searching the stunted sagebrush off to the left of us.
Across the wide sagebrush and up and down the river they were now asleep or riding, dispersed irrevocably.
Illustration: Here the camera catches an S-curve in the river at Sagebrush Point.
You'll seeSagebrush Point where the Gallatin flows in a graceful S-curve hundreds of feet below the road .
When the Bannock brethren came, late in September, the next year, she walked the sagebrush paths to their encampment with her young son in her arms.
She had seen Henniker in a new light; and whatever her heart line said, her head line told her that she had best keep a good breadth of sagebrush between herself and that particular pair of broad blue shoulders that moved so fast above it.
Out of the many wagons which Jesse Wingate originally had captained, now not one hundred remained in his detachment when it took the sagebrush plateaus below the great Snake River.
The other letter rested unopened until later, when she broke the seal and read by the light of a sagebrush fire, she frowned.
Sagebrush and sand took the place of trees and grass as they left the river valley and crossed a succession of ridges or plateaus.
The little sagebrush fire flared up brightly for an instant as Molly Wingate dropped one of her letters on the embers.
The sagebrush occurred singly at spaced intervals, with tiny bare spaces between across which the plumed little rascals scurried hurriedly.
I knew him for a very speedy bird, much faster than our bob white, dwelling in the rounded sagebrush hills, travelling in flocks of from twenty to several thousand, exceedingly given to rapid leg work.
This I constructed of tumbleweed and willow shoots, with a lucky sagebrush as a good basis.
Near at hand the sparse gray sagebrush reared its bonneted heads; far away it blurred into a monochrome where the plains lifted and flowed molten into the cañons and crevices of the foothills.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sagebrush" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
