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Example sentences for "tule"

Lexicographically close words:
tuition; tuk; tuke; tulares; tulasi; tules; tuley; tulip; tulips; tulisan
  1. Tulchuherris held to the spear with one hand, grasped tule grass with the other, used all his strength.

  2. The elder brother took a stem of tule grass, opened it, placed it on the water, made himself small, and sat down in the middle of it.

  3. The younger brother fixed himself in another stem of tule in the same way.

  4. The two tule stems floated away on the water, till they came near the place where the brothers had seen Haka Lasi spring up the first time.

  5. The captain called all the men to go on a deer hunt, and all set off westward about midday to build a deer fence and set snares around Tule Lake, for they knew that many deer were feeding in the tule marsh there.

  6. Some of the children stealthily followed them, while two others ran over to Tule Lake to warn the hunters.

  7. She lives in a tule hut behind the very walls of the Mission, and the Indians go to her by night when dreams have warned them that death threatens.

  8. No gringo can come among us Californians and flap the wings and crow upon the tule thatch for naught.

  9. Natives advanced from the region of San Mateo and vigorously attacked the San Francisco Indians, burning their houses and compelling them to flee on their tule rafts to the islands and the opposite shores of the bay.

  10. Benicia took her skirt between the tips of her fingers and swayed her graceful body forward, as a tule bends in the wind.

  11. When she walk it was like the tule in the river.

  12. Meanwhile Tule carried his arms into the fertile province of Khorasan, and after having captured Nessa by assault appeared before Merv.

  13. From Merv Tule marched upon Nishapur, where he met with a most determined resistance.

  14. At this moment news reached Jenghiz that the inhabitants of Herat had deposed the governor whom Tule had appointed over the city, and had placed one of their own choice in his room.

  15. The Department has under consideration the propriety of establishing a new reservation, upon which shall be concentrated these and numerous other Indians, in which event the Tule River Agency could advantageously be discontinued.

  16. Many of their houses are of tule or brush, their clothes were scanty and ragged, some of the older men wearing but a single garment.

  17. There is one school in operation at the Tule River Farm, with an attendance of thirty-seven scholars.

  18. Among the Aztecs the newly born babe was laid upon fresh green tule rushes, with great ceremony, while its name was given to it.

  19. When the tule is not within reach our cat-tail rush is used.

  20. There was an Aztec god, Napatecutli, who was the god of the tule and of the mat-makers.

  21. The former can be eaten either raw or cooked, but the tule bulb is always roasted between hot stones.

  22. The bear loves the tule swamp, from which, in days primeval, he sallied out to attack the squaws and children gathering the tule powder or tule bulb.

  23. That of the roasted tule bulb is sweet and not at all disagreeable.

  24. Guautli, generally spelled "yuautli," one of the foods paid to Montezuma as tribute, may have been tule pollen.

  25. The Shoshoni and Bannock of Idaho and Montana eat the tule bulb.

  26. To celebrate this it was incumbent upon the priests to cut and carry to the temples bundles of the tule, which were woven into a sacred mat, after which there was a ceremonial procession to a tule swamp in which all bathed.

  27. Thomas and George Meeks, the interpreter, as well as the many other people that were murdered on Lost river and Tule Lake.

  28. A few days later Jack came to my house and said: "Agent no come to-morrow, I go Tule Lake, take all Injuns.

  29. On our return trip we took the divide between the Klamath River and Tule Lake.

  30. Jack said: "Agent no come next week and bring something to eat, I take all Injuns, go Tule Lake and catch fish.

  31. We did not name it, but it has since been known as Tule Lake, and is the outlet of Lost river, but has no visible outlet itself.

  32. They all seemed to be perfectly willing to surrender and go back to headquarters, so we started back via Tule Lake.

  33. The courier that brought the news to Linkville said that the soldiers had come down to Tule Lake and fired on Captain Jack without any warning whatever, which we learned later to be all too true.

  34. The third day from this it was reported by a citizen who had passed over the country that day, that he saw Indians up on Tule Lake.

  35. But for fear there might be some truth in it, the next morning by daybreak George Jones and I were scouring the country in the vicinity of Tule Lake.

  36. In the afternoon of the same day it was reported that there had been Indians seen along Tule Lake.

  37. As soon as the Indians of the village at the end of the lake saw the others coming they fled from their village to a tule swamp near by.

  38. We even caught them going ashore, whereupon they threw away their possessions, abandoned their boats, and hid in the tule swamps.

  39. After a winding course for two days, the party camped on the Tule R.

  40. We followed our course, coming finally to sleep at a lake at the edge of the tule swamp.

  41. I was here three days, sending my Indians on sorties through the tule swamps.

  42. After having gone about a league and a half into the tule swamp along a narrow trail we found the village on the other side of an arm of the lake, with some twenty armed men in front of it.

  43. The bank of the river still has some oak trees, but from here downward the tule swamps begin again.

  44. I followed through the tule swamp and after going a little way I met three armed Indians at a distance of about one hundred long varas.

  45. We landed on an island of tule which was flooded when the tide rose and had to take refuge in a bramble patch to protect ourselves against the water until it went down.

  46. After having set him on his way I took a southerly direction and emerged from the tule swamp.

  47. At fourteen leagues[27] the rivers begin to form, with tule on the banks.

  48. There are also great tule swamps in all this region and much black willow along this stream.

  49. In the darkness of the night, along the river and in the tule swamps and thickets it was impossible to catch them.

  50. That, going through the oak park and leaving on the left hand the tule swamps, there is a region of fresh-water lakes so spaced that there are pockets of solid ground in which are encountered rancherias inhabited by Gentiles.

  51. Everything is tule swamp on each side, with an occasional bush.

  52. But why didn't the glaciers clean them off the basins of the Kaweah and the Tule Rivers, too?

  53. There the giant rock spurs of the canyons of the King and the Kern protected the Tule and the Kaweah, by shunting the ice off to right and left.

  54. The doctor and his Mexican friend rode with us to Tule to see us well started.

  55. Our late start compelled stopping at Tule for the night.

  56. It had the effect of discouraging the Greenfields claim, but Amos used to sit on the headgate just the same, as quaint and lone a figure as the sandhill crane watching for water toads below the Tule drop.

  57. Amos owned the half of Tule Creek and the other half pertained to the neighboring Greenfields ranch.

  58. They make little arched runways deep into the heart of the tule beds.

  59. When I got there, some one had built up a little booth of tule over his head, to keep the sun off.

  60. The great fig-tree, whose luxuriance and size were noted far and near throughout the country, stood half-way down the slope; but its boughs shaded all three of the tule houses.

  61. Ysidro stared after him; but seeing him enter the doorway of the little tule hut, he understood, and a sad smile passed over his face.

  62. In different directions from the village slow-moving herds of goats or of cattle could be seen, being driven to pasture on the hills; some men were ploughing; several groups were at work building houses of bundles of the tule reeds.

  63. The tule house which stood nearest to the dove-cote was, by a lucky chance, now empty.

  64. The tiles of this roof were laid on bundles of tule reeds, in which the linnets delighted to build their nests.

  65. They were made of the tule reeds; so they would do again.

  66. She saw Alessandro lift his hand and point to the house, then to the tule sheds in the rear.

  67. If the tule house is good, I shall not let you, Alessandro, build another.

  68. At a distance, the tule of these marshes presents the appearance of immense fields of ripened corn.

  69. Leave New Helvetia for San Francisco Cosçumne River Mickélemes River Ford of the San Joaquin Extensive plain Tule marshes Large droves of wild horses and elk Arrive at Dr.

  70. The San Joaquin is connected with Tule Lake, or Lake Buena Vista, a sheet of water about eighty miles in length and fifteen in breadth.

  71. Leave New Helvetia Pleasant weather Meet Indian volunteers Tule boats Engagement between a party of Americans and Californians Death of Capt.

  72. The tule-boat consists of bundles of tule firmly hound together with willow withes.

  73. As a matter of fact, the section of the California Pacific across the tule lands was washed away before the associates got around to strengthening it.

  74. To tell the truth, I went up to file that contract for the sale of the tule land.

  75. But all this doesn't settle that matter of the tule tract.

  76. I want to talk over that tule land proposition with him, but as he isn't here I'm going over to talk on the same business with a miserly old curmudgeon named Bolton.

  77. Moreover, the tribe was oriented ecologically toward the Kaweah delta and oak forest, although it was actually situated on the lower Tule River.

  78. The following day he pushed five leagues south through tule swamp and found the settlement on the bank of the lake although his soldiers had to wade waist deep for two leagues farther in order to catch most of the inhabitants.

  79. The Yaudanchi on the upper Tule River also, according to Kroeber and to Latta, had 8 villages and covered considerably more territory than the Koyeti.

  80. There they stopped and spread tule mats on the ground, and dusted them over with powdered tule-leaves mixed with yiauhtli incense.

  81. Then he fell into a rage and cursed these two women that were magpies and went far away to the north, and there he set the world on fire, made for himself a tule boat in which he escaped to sea, and was never heard of more.

  82. I present a superb piece of work executed by the Indians of the Tule River, California.

  83. Obtained from the Indians of the Tule River, California--1/8.

  84. The curious combination of images fascinated him, and he watched the stealthy silent progress of this night visitor from the tule lands of the north, that looked as if it might have obliterated the world.

  85. Gwynne made a fire out of decayed tule weed and driftwood, then climbed down into the boat and brought up the provisions and utensils intended for an earlier interlude.

  86. He likes the rushes and the reeds where the Red-winged Blackbird and the Tule Wren live.

  87. Altho subjected to considerable rigors in winter, this species is partially resident, being largely confined during the cold season to the shelter of tule beds, wild rose thickets, clematis bowers, and the like.

  88. But it is to the Wrens that the Bush-Tit owes most of all, and especially to the Tule Wren, for he has taken the general conception of a completely enclosed nest and worked it out more daintily.

  89. Save in favored localities, such as the margins of a tule swamp, nests of the Rusty Song Sparrow are not obtrusively common.

  90. It seems probable that our Tule Wrens are largely resident.


  91. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tule" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.