The frogs in the tules chanted their hoarse matins.
Doña Beatriz is tall like the mother, and sway when she walk, like you see the tules in the little wind.
And what a pleasant prospect you still find from the sooted rock shelters above Croton Springs as you look out across the grasslands and the tules at the spring, toward the crenelated wall of the Chisos.
Today you cannot even find the source, so thick is the tangle of tules and cane grown up around it.
He breathed relief, however, when Dade got up and stretched his arms to the dried tules overhead, and laughed a lazy surrender of the argument, if not of his opinion upon the subject.
Diego and Juan are skillful; and the tules they lay upon a roof will let no drop of rain fall within the room.
A large wave like an eagre, diverging from its bow, was extending to either bank, swamping the tules and threatening to submerge the lower levees.
The bed of the old creek had receded; the last tules had been cleared away; the channel and embarcadero were half a mile from the bank and log whereon the pioneer of Tasajara had idly sunned himself.
The low palisades of regularly recurring tules that had fenced in, impeded, but never relieved the blankness of his horizon, were forever swallowed up behind him.
I helped to clear out them tules and dredged the channels yonder.
It's very well to say the creek is an embarcadero, but callin' it so don't put anough water into it to float a steamboat from the bay, nor clear out the reeds and tules in it.
But it was when the tules grew in the square opposite, and the tide of the creek washed them.
Year by year the tules reclaim the muddy confluence of the twin rivers.
I have seen it flourish by springs so charged with mineral that each slender column is ringed with its stony deposit, but I do not recall any standing water where tules are not.
We succeeded in this, saving everything and recapturing our two [dead] auxiliaries and five live ones who were hidden in the arroyo of Santa Rita where the tules were high.
We sailed up this channel and at five miles descried a crowd of Indians in the tules at the edge of the river.
From here southward there are no more trees, only tules and more tules.
From a small boat on the water only the break in the tules can be seen.
IN THE TULES He had never seen a steamboat in his life.
They were soon out of the miniature city of the Post, and held on down through the low reach of tules and sand-dunes that stretch between the barracks and the old red fort.
At night our boat, filled with green tules for a bed, was tied to a willow tree, with its roots submerged in ten feet of water.
The water in the channel was stagnant, swift streamlets rushed in from the tules on the north, and rushed out again on the south.
Twice we attempted to cut across, but the water became shallow, the tules stalled our boats, and we were glad to return, sounding with a pole when in doubt.
It was a marsh, covered with a growth of flags and tules but with the ground frozen enough so that we did not sink.
As far as the eye could reach, and that was very far when we climbed part way up the mast to look, thesetules extended.
Occasionally the hedge of the tules broke to a greater or lesser opening into a lagoon.
Yes," answered Gesnip, "I don't like to gather tules in winter.
The hawk flew with this ball into the sky and set it afire but because of the green tules it burned with only a dim light; and this, children, is our moon, ruler of the night.
It is made of framework of dried tules covered with feathers and fish bladders.
Originally there was only one spring and when I first saw it, it was a round pool about eight feet in diameter, three feet deep and so hidden by tules that one might pass within a few feet of it unaware of its existence.
I opened the bight of Turner's Shipyard, rounded the Solano wharf, and surged along abreast of the patch of tules and the clustering fishermen's arks where in the old days I had lived and drunk deep.
In a cluster of fishermen's arks, moored in the tules on the water-front, dwelt a congenial crowd of drinkers and vagabonds, and I joined them.
The inhabitants made them welcome and furnished them with tules from their own houses, with which they constructed other boats and crossed to this shore.
Farm laborers receive in the tules thirty dollars per month and board if they are white men, but one dollar a day and feed themselves, where they are Chinese.
As to myself, now, I'd share your displeasure; For I admit in this Jack of the Tules Certain good points.
And when my father was a young man, somewhere up north of Sacramento, in a creek called Cache Slough, the tules was full of grizzliest He used to go in an' shoot 'em.
The tall, rustling tules grew out of the deep water close to the dilapidated boat-landing where they sat.
In many instances, the den is merely a nest in a thick clump of tules completely surrounded by water.
In the shallow water along the shore, water plants such as tules and cattails will become established.
These are probably nothing more or less than a refinement of the way otters travel through the tules and slippery mud flats, in which they spend much of their time hunting crayfish and small amphibians.
Dead thistles were on the bank rustling in the breeze and the long tules by the water-side, some broken, others upright, waved gracefully, moved by both wind and current.
To get around thetules comfortably you have to strike farther in and that's a long way.
His friend was silent; a side glance showed him studying thetules with meditative eyes.
Didn't you tell us your ranch was up near the tules where those bandits buried the gold?
They were like a crystal inlay covering the face of the tules with an intricate, shining pattern.
He saw the tules grow dark, black walls flanking paths incredibly glossy, catching here and there a barring of golden cloud.
The tramp had brought to his mind the money found in the tules and he decided to walk up the road and try to locate the spot described to him that morning by Sadie.
The boat had passed beyond the shelter of the hills to where the tules widened.
A blasted cotton-wood with a single black arm extended over the tules stood ominously against the dark sky.
The low sun burned the black edge of the distant tules with dull eating fires as he prayed, lit the dwarfed hills with a brief but ineffectual radiance, and then died out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tules" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
