For this purpose, large casks are sunk at intervals, some well hidden among rushes, others in open pools; but in these latter cases the tubs were cunningly concealed by cut tamarisks and other water-plants.
Yet the tamarisks had hardly begun to feather before there was brought into the countryside a hound which proved the most terrible enemy that ever shadowed my life.
The wind, just strong enough to bear us smoothly against the current, scarcely stirred the shadow of the tamarisks on the water.
At the edge of the sandy desert, where high dunes are piled up by the wind, tamarisks and saxauls were often growing.
Bananas hang down like golden cucumbers, and in barren places tamarisks and mimosas perfume the air.
When we come to the first tamarisks we are again on sandy ground.
We had now some hope of safety, and we chewed the soft needles of the tamarisks like beasts.
It would be beneath his dignity to offer any opinion, so under the tamarisks he sat smoking, watching the Arabs taking each other by the shoulders and talking with an extraordinary volubility.
The swallows had just come over and were tired; Owen was provoking enough to drive them out of the tamarisks just to see how tired they were, and was sorry for one poor bird which could hardly keep out of his way.
She stood on the summit of the bank, the tamarisks rising to her knees, waving in the wind about her.
The garden of Mr. Menaida was hedged off from a neighbor's grounds by a low wall of stone and clay and sand, in and out of which grew roughly strong tamarisksnow in their full pale pink blossom.
VI Seen from a balloon, Moonstone would have looked like a Noah's ark town set out in the sand and lightly shaded by gray-green tamarisks and cottonwoods.
The tamarisks were still pink, and the flower-beds were doing their best in honor of the linden festival.
The scarlet sage bloomed late in the front yards, the cottonwood leaves were bright gold long before they fell, and it was not until November that the green on the tamarisks began to cloud and fade.
The cottonwood trees were a-flicker with sticky, yellow little leaves, and the feathery tamarisks were in pink bud.
At last, and doubtless by the merest of accidents, we emerged from the true oasis of orderly fruit trees and vegetables; the soil became sandy and uneven, with palms sprouting up in isolated clusters amid tamarisks and bristly reeds.
It was fine to sit there under the tamarisks around an immense camp-fire and listen to a really good band playing the old favourites again and giving us a few new ones, to be whistled or sung about the camp for weeks.
Westward of the cemetery and below the town is a kind of vale or declivity planted with tamarisks and fig trees, and containing three wells provided with handspikes.
Near the village we saw several "Sidr" trees, as well as tamarisks (Atel) and sycamores.
In this way he had covered half a mile and more when his right foot plunged in a rabbit hole and he was pitched headlong into the tamarisks below.
After this, the shade of the sycamores and tamarisks outside the tombs was silver-green and cool; and the pure air of the sunny morning seemed strange after the perfumed, sickly-sweet atmosphere of the sultry underground sepulchres.
At every moment, dense palm-clusters or sycamores raised their regular canopies along the river, forming an avenue, or else tamarisks luxuriated and their branches threw fine shadows, like blue stripes upon gold.
The sunny morning outside seemed strange, with silver-green shadows between waving tamarisksand rustling sycamore-leaves.
The Zor is full of DA'm trees and tamarisks in which the sun-birds swarm, while the ground is riddled with the burrows of the jerboa.
Even the Zor was green, and Jordan's banks covered with flowers, while the brown Turfah or tamarisks and the canebrake hid the rushing stream, and the white marl banks stood out in striding contrast.
He turned, and walked round the tiny group of tamarisks in the centre of the patio.
Though she skipped along with the alertness of an antelope, yet at intervals she was forced to desist, and rest beneath the tamarisks to recover her breath.
Along the Viale the road was sun-bleached, the wind-swept tamarisks were whitened by the dust, and the town that day had throbbed and gasped beneath the terrible, fiery August glare.
Bunches of tamarisksand reeds form little islands on a calm sea.
Happily, an islet of tamarisksfinally appears and I can get myself onto some dry land.
The naked earth was parched and rent with gaping fissures; the tamarisks and spurges and the drab grass which fringed the roadside were old and dry.
Here and there were little gardens full of tamarisks and oleanders and morning glories.
Flowers grow upon the shore only separated from the sea by a strip of shingle,--tamarisks and sea-holly, mallows and yellow mulleins.
A large, low moon turned the tops of the plume-grass to silver, and the stunted camelthorn bushes and sour tamarisks into the likenesses of trooping devils.
Presently thetamarisks were distributed by a cold breeze; they sighed aloud; the stagnant perfumes of the garden were confused and scattered; a whiteness came upon the wall before him, and the windows in it gave a pallid gleam.
Iskender parted the growth of tamarisks and stood out before him.
We learnt that in India," as he (Iskender) dashed through the hedge of tamarisks and cleared the low wall at a bound.
The hooting of an owl, or the bark of some dog in the distance, alone broke the stillness, of which the rustle of the tamarisks seemed part, so faint and vague it was.
In the morning we passed two broad Wadys full of tamarisks and of Talh trees, which have given to them the name of Abou Talhha (Arabic).
Rock salt is found here as well as in Gharendel; date, acacia, and tamarisks grow in the valley; but they were now all withered.
The banks of the rivulet are overgrown with willows, Defle, and tamarisks (Arabic), and I saw large petrifactions of shells in the valley.
Though she skipped with the alertness of an antelope, yet, at intervals, she was forced to desist, and rest beneath the tamarisks to recover her breath.
And why had she read somewhere, that in the days of ancient Rome tamarisks were bound around the heads of criminals?
Haidee loved tamarisks with a joy that she was sure was unholy because they looked so wicked and painted somehow when they were all dressed out in their pink feathers.
Anyway why were tamarisks the only trees to be found growing in the ruins of Babylon?
Now the Ironworker could attempt anything he liked against Don Jaime; he could lie in ambush for him among the tamarisks at the foot of the tower and shoot him as he passed.
He had left his mother and sister half way on the road and had hidden among the tamarisks waiting for his father to leave the tower.
The howl rent the air again, not at the foot of the stairway now, but farther off, perhaps among the tamarisks which grew around the tower.
Ought he to go down and search among the tamarisks for him, to taunt him in his agony?
His feet became entangled in the roots of the tamarisks which the wind had bared, and which sunk in the earth like a tangled skein of black serpents.
Febrer was about to step away from the door when he saw rise from among the groups of tamarisks on the hillside a boy, who, after glancing cautiously about to convince himself that he was not observed, ran toward him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tamarisks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
