31 examples of magueys in sentences

On the causeway, opposed to them, were planted Santa Anna's reservesfour thousand foot and three thousand horsein a measure protected by a dense growth of maguey.

A long, level plain, covered with a dense growth of coarse sea-grass, was between them and the hills, which were covered with palms, maguey and other tropical trees.

This beverage is made from the roots of the maguey, a plant common to this region.

The medicine which Quetzalcoatl drank was the white wine of the country, made of those magueys call teometl.

[Footnote 1: Tlalli, earth, oc from octli, the native wine made from the maguey, enormous quantities of which are consumed by the lower classes in Mexico at this day, and which was well known to the ancients.

Following the example of their Master, many of the priests of his cult refrained from sexual relations, and as a mortification of the flesh they practiced a painful rite by transfixing the tongue and male member with the sharp thorns of the maguey plant, an austerity which, according to their traditions, he was the first to institute.

They were seen to store acorns in the dead stalks of the maguey (Agave Americana).

The maguey throws up a stalk about fifteen feet in height yearly, which, after flowering, grows stalky and brittle, and remains an unsightly thing.

The maguey, or Agave, is used in the manufacture of fine roping.

On Maguey, is an object of great value in the table land of the interior of Mexico; from this plant is obtained the favourite liquor, the pulque.

The stems of the maguey can supply the place of hemp, and may be converted into paper.

"If this writer," says Mr. Wilson, "had really been acquainted with the tribes of the table-land, he must have known that the fibres of the maguey were, among them, substitutes for that article, and are even now used at the city of Mexico in the manufacture of some fine fabrics.

" We do not see how Bernal Diaz could be expected to know that the fibres of the maguey are now used in Mexican manufactures; neither can we comprehend how his statement, that the Tlascalans had no cotton, is at variance with Mr. Wilson's assertion, that they used the maguey as a substitute.

" We do not see how Bernal Diaz could be expected to know that the fibres of the maguey are now used in Mexican manufactures; neither can we comprehend how his statement, that the Tlascalans had no cotton, is at variance with Mr. Wilson's assertion, that they used the maguey as a substitute.

One of them is dragging a maguey lead-rope.

"Maguey rope, and that saddle was made in Mexico.

The intoxication of the battle field is compared to that produced by the strong white wine prepared from maguey, which was drunk only on solemn occasions.

from ay, to do. octicatl, apparently an old form from octli, the intoxicating beverage prepared from the maguey.

The tzihuactli is a small kind of maguey which grows in rocky localities.

A thorn, especially of the maguey.

The native wine from the maguey.

Their festivals and public gatherings were more refined than those of the Caribs, who held but one meeting, called a Vin, for consultation upon war-matters and a debauch upon cassava-beer.[R] The Haytians loved music, and possessed one or two simple instruments; their maguey was like a timbrel, made of the shells of certain fishes.

Mexico had a wonderful collection, native books on Maguey paper, amulets of gold, sculpture, carved idols, remarkable lookin', though I wouldn't worship one on 'em not for a dollar bill.

It is said that the early inhabitants of the islands subsisted for a long time upon roots and palms and magueys.

The maguey is a plant belonging to the class vulgarly called evergreen.

31 examples of  magueys  in sentences