10 Words to use with mesquite

The mesquite bean, whether the screw or straight pod, pounded to a meal, boiled to a kind of mush, and dried in cakes, sulphur-colored and needing an axe to cut it, is an excellent food for long journeys.

Within another hour I noticed we were going down a dry arroyo, with mesquite brush on both sides of the road, which was little better than a trail.

Sparsely over the dull surface grew the few shrubs that could survive the heat and dryness,stunted, unlovely things of burr, spine, thorn, or saw-edged leaf,all bent one ways by the sand blown against them,bristling cactus and crouching mesquite bushes.

Our course lay in the vicinity of two or three little salinas, or salt lakes, but over an arid, barren plain, destitute of any vegetation, except mesquite chaparral; and about three o'clock in the afternoon, we reached the timber that skirted the base of the mountains.

Maybe you sit in the desert about a thousand miles from nowhere, and across the little mesquite fire, there's your pal, the only human thing in sight.

" Then the young cow, embarrassed by so much attention, crossed the shallow river and went up among some hills where she had once ranged and where the vining mesquite grass grew luxuriantly.

And two days after that I had pulled myself out of bed at daybreak to walk down to his camp under the mesquite grove just outside of town.

To do this we must cross through some water, and for fear the ground might be miry, I went to a sand hill near by and got a mesquite stick about three feet long with which to sound out our way.

Places of burial are selected some distance from the village, and, if possible, in a grove of mesquite trees.

Long winds move in the draughty valleys, blown sand fills and fills about the lower branches, piling pyramidal dunes, from the top of which the mesquite twigs flourish greenly.

10 Words to use with  mesquite