80 examples of yuccas in sentences

The yucca was in bloom, too, and added its mammoth flower to the display.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.

The yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age, tipped with panicles of fetid, greenish bloom.

Before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a creamy cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap, the Indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast it for their own delectation.

So it is that in those parts where man inhabits one sees young plants of Yucca arborensis infrequently.

Other yuccas, cacti, low herbs, a thousand sorts, one finds journeying east from the coastwise hills.

Birds, hummingbirds even, nest in the cactus scrub; woodpeckers befriend the demoniac yuccas; out of the stark, treeless waste rings the music of the night-singing mockingbird.

Furthermore, in the environs of Machu Picchu they found every variety of climatevalleys so low as to produce the precious coca, yucca, and plantain, the fruits and vegetables of the tropics; slopes high enough to be suitable for many varieties of maize, quinoa, and other cereals, as well as their favorite root crops, including both sweet and white potatoes, oca, añu, and ullucu.

Our route carried us over this vast plain, strongly impregnated with alkali, and sparsely covered with dwarfed mesquite with an occasional cluster of yuccas, scarce two feet in height; and was so level, we could see for miles over it in any direction.

The Yuccas all do well if planted in light loam of good quality.

"Oh! Maman!" Simpson, his curiosity faintly stirring, accepted the invitation of the open gate, and stepped into an untidy yard, where three or four pigs and a dozen chickens rooted and scratched among the bayonets of yucca that clustered without regularity on both sides of the path.

Yuccas are mostly evergreen shrubs, are very beautiful, and have the habit of palm-trees.

We passed through the Mojava (pronounced Moharvie) desert, where the yucca palm is plentiful.

The Virgin River and Yucca Trees.

It was somewhere along here that we first saw some Yucca trees.

These with the yucca from which they made their casabe or bread, maize, yams, and other edible roots, constituted their food supply.

In dry gulches and on taluses and sun-beaten crags are sparsely scattered yuccas, cactuses, agave, etc.

Several species of tree yuccas in the same deserts, laden in early spring with superb while lilies, form forests hardly less wonderful, though here they grow singly or in small lonely groves.

At first I was extremely delighted with the novelty of their appearance; but now I feel thirsty when I look at them, and the same with their kinsfolk the yuccas and their intimate friends, if not relations, the prickly pears, with all of which once strange growth I have grown, contemptuously familiar now.

Another root which they eat they call yucca; and of this they make bread.

They cut the yucca, which is very juicy, into pieces, mashing and kneading it and then baking it in the form of cakes.

It is a singular thing that they consider the juice of the yucca to be more poisonous than that of the aconite, and upon drinking it, death immediately follows.

In Yucca Pass he had to stop and fill motor and radiator with oil and water, and just as he topped the summit a front tire popped like a pistol.

I'll look the part, all right-" Up a long, winding trail and over another summit to Yucca Pass Casey dreamed, while the stark, scarred buttes on either side regarded him with enigmatic calm.

"Yeahonly there ain't no yuccas on that slope.

80 examples of  yuccas  in sentences