Slowly the teams forged ahead into the infinite sandy waste, where whispering yuccas and thorny cactus grew, and jack rabbits went looping away among bronze greasewood bushes.
Sometimes the yuccas they whisper about it; but I always plug my ears and begin to sing, or talk to the asses about the fun we'll have when we find Jean Prince and get the gold Len knew about up there Death Valley way.
When I see those Yuccas in bloom I fully believe that they are the grandest flowers of our gardens; but happily, I have a short garden memory, so I mourn not the Yucca when I see the Anemone japonica or any other noble white garden child.
Great Judas trees, sadly broken yet bravely blooming; decayed hedges of several kinds of Lilacs, Syringas, Snowballs, and Yuccas of princely size and bearing still linger.
The hill was covered with yuccas and magueys, but the nearest oak trees were thirty miles away, and so it was calculated, these industrious birds had to make a flight of sixty miles for each acorn stowed thus in the stalks!
Down in Mexico there lives a Woodpecker who stores his nuts and acorns in the hollow stalks of the yuccas and magueys.
The two extreme ends of the border are treated in the same way withYuccas on rather lesser mounds, only leaving space beyond them for the entrance to the little alley at the back.
Some of the Yuccas will bloom before the end of the month.
Yet old stems of Yuccas and the like, that continue to increase in diameter, do form a sort of layers and a kind of scaly bark when old.
Yuccas show well the curving of the woody bundles (Fig.
A green glare lit up the surroundings, the yuccasstanding out blackly against the constant flashes.
About noon that same day, after crossing a rather barren stretch of country covered with giant yuccas and stunted trees, I came in sight of a clump of willows, amidst which smoke was rising.
On benches around 5000 feet, where yuccas are scattered in their occurrence, pallidus is nearly always taken near (often right at the base of) this plant.
As the last words of this dismal chant rang out, an echo seemed to be flung back at the singer from behind a neighboring ridge, upon which the lone yuccas stood upright, like, so many figures of formed bits of humanity.
They had walked about a quarter of a mile when they reached a spot where yuccas and prickly desert plants of different varieties grew thickly.
Yuccas are perfectly hardy, need no protection in winter, no fertilizer, no water in dry weather.
Yuccas are readily propagated at the proper season; and in specifying the season it is needful to point out that of offsets, from which young stock is soonest obtained, there are two kinds.
In planting Yuccas it must never be forgotten that perfect drainage is the all important requisite, and if it is not afforded the stock will never thrive, but ultimately die from rot or canker.
Many of the yuccas were only six feet in height, with tufted heads, and branchless trunks as gross as the body of a man, and they might readily have been mistaken for human beings.
I cross thy fields of lava, rugged in outline, and yet more rugged with their coverture of strange vegetable forms--acacias and cactus, yuccas and zamias.
To my joy he was going in the right direction--straight for the yuccas upon the hill.
Several species are there of these fruit-bearing yuccas in the region of the Rio Grande, as yet unknown to the scientific botanist.
The yuccas are very common throughout the Southwest, from low desert to mountains.
The angle-clumps in the grass are planted with Magnolias, Yuccas and Hydrangeas.
Yuccas all like a raised mound and some good loam to grow in.
Passing between a clump of Yuccas on either side is the cross-walk leading by an arched gateway through the wall.
Cactus and Spanish bayonet harassed him like malignant creatures; skeleton ocatillas and bristling yuccas imposed thorny barriers before him.
Eastward he rode through tall mesquite thickets, over rolling hills where clumps of bear-grass grew among spiked yuccas and needle-pointed tufts of Spanish bayonet, and climbed the pass beyond.
Now it marches for leagues with the yuccas that fling crazed arms and shrunken limbs like posturing dwarfs; again it is dotted with lonely mesas, monolithic masses that raise orange and vermilion facades out of a violet mirage.
Since the Yankee went back on his "controls," or they on him, a sahuaro cactus had raised its fluted barrel within the excavation, captaining a squad of dwarf yuccas that poked grotesque arms in pathetic entreaty out of the rubble.
Bueno, the yuccasare all cooked; and now my man says he will not eat them, for this is Friday, and there may be meat with the yuccas.
Sell the panela and yuccas รก buen precio; and remind Captain Julio not to forget on the next trip to bring the little Carmen a doll from Barranquilla.
Well, after the siesta I helped madre Maria clean the yuccasfor supper; and then I did my writing lesson.
If the moths were destroyed, no Yuccas would ever set their seed!
Trees grew rarer; here and there a small clump of cedars rose from a gorge, or an isolated group of prickly yuccasdecorated the rocks, and at times a mimosa hung over our path from a crevice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yuccas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
