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"Sagebrush" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... over Kettle Creek way that the sagebrush whiskey they take a man's two bits for there would gnaw holes in limestone. Peter is likelier to find a ledge of dollar bills than he is good whiskey this far off the main trail. The late Daniel J. could have told him as much, and ...
— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson
... deserted. Outside, the California August lay withering and suffocating over all the land. The far hills were burnt to dry, hay-like grass and brittle clods. The eucalyptus trees in front of the wine shop (the first trees Felipe had seen all that day) were coated with dust. The plains of sagebrush and the alkali flats shimmered and exhaled pallid mirages, glistening like inland seas. Over all blew the trade-wind; prolonged, insistent, harassing, swooping up the red dust of the road and the white powder of the alkali ...
— A Deal in Wheat - And Other Stories of the New and Old West • Frank Norris
... rather slowly across the rough, sagebrush-covered flat, and presently Hugh led Sylvie into the fragrant silence of the forest trail. To her it was all scent and sound. Hugh whispered to her what this drumming meant and that chattering and that sudden rattle ...
— Snow-Blind • Katharine Newlin Burt |
Words linked to "Sagebrush" : Artemisia californica, aster family, subshrub, Compositae, Artemis spinescens, Artemisia cana, blue sage, gray sage, Asteraceae, suffrutex, bud brush, family Asteraceae, California sage, Seriphidium canum, silvery wormwood, family Compositae, silver sage, Artemisia filifolia, Seriphidium tridentatum, grey sage, sand sage, Artemisia tridentata |
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