tarweed

1 The man made no reply, but spat carefully into the tarweed.

2 With short, quick jabs of his hoe, he was tearing away at the tough tarweed.

3 The valley swam under a haze of pure heat; a buzzard hung motionless over the cabin, and the dry air was sweet with resinous scent of pines and manzanita and even of tarweed.

4 The doorway was shadowed, the blackness of the barn's interior behind it, the scent of clean hay drifting out and mingling with the scents of baked earth and tarweed that came from the heated fields.

5 The meadow at the back was gay with mariposa lilies, melodious with bees and birds, aromatic with the mingled essences of tarweed, lads-love, and the pines.

6 And the tinkle of pleasant waters, the song of a meadow lark, the distant mellow lowing of cows came to his ears; the smell of tarweed and of pines mingled in his nostrils.

7 The tiny flames licked past them in the tarweed; they did not heed.

8 He looked down upon his clothes, stuccoed with tarweed burrs and wet mud.

9 The tarweed clung to my socks, and a happy little bee hovered by my elbow.

10 Under the common designation of "tarweed," plants belonging to two different genera—Madia and Hemizonia—and comprising thirty or forty species, may be found.

11 We tried him at sun-up, an' again at sundown, an' nights, too, laying in the chaparral an' tarweed, an' scouting up an' down that blame river, till we were sore.

12 He raked carefully his broad path among the pine needles, laying bare the brown earth; hoed and chopped in the tarweed and brush.

13 The Douglas squirrels scampered and barked; the birds twittered and flashed or slanted in long flight through the trees; the sun shone soft; a cool breeze ruffled the feathery tips of the tarweed.

14 We are plowing a piece of light sandy mesa land, dry, which has considerable tarweed and other weeds growing before plowing.

15 Up the slope they galloped, whirled around the end of the fire line, and began eagerly to lick up the tarweed and needles of the ridge-top.

16 Tall, stately teasels stand like sentinels along the way, and the balsamic tarweed spreads its fragrance along the outer edge.

17 Grasshoppers whirred everywhere; squirrels whistled; occasional little dust-devils whirled up the now thoroughly dry river-bed and the atmosphere was redolent of the aroma of dust and tarweed.

18 Lysander, tired of waiting, came striding through the tarweed, with his hoe on his shoulder.

19 The stifling heat, the whirling dust clouds broken by whiffs of air, dry as from a kiln and impregnated with the pungent scent of the tarweed, made the men drowsy.

20 The tarweed, especially, was stubborn under even the most vigorous wielding of his sharpened hoe.

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