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Example sentences for "prickly pear"

  • At the edge of a clump of prickly pear he found the evidence of grim tragedy which the circling buzzards had already warned him to expect.

  • At the top of the rise the Ranger waited behind a prickly pear to search the landscape.

  • Beside this trail, behind a clump of prickly pear, the Ranger sat down and waited.

  • The next day we passed over the hill in Prickly Pear canyon, where there was the grave of a young man named Lyon, who had accidentally shot himself but a few weeks before.

  • The head of Prickly Pear canyon, the home of the brave Malcolm Clark, has a place in my memory, for it seemed to be the sunniest spot in the wilderness.

  • Mr. Bruce, the master mechanic at the railway shops, informed me that they were to run on the Montana Central railway from Clancy, on Prickly Pear creek, and over the Rocky Mountain divide.

  • When we had to use this water, we bruised the leaf of a prickly pear cactus, and placed it in a bucket of water.

  • A previous visit to Ha Va Su was made in the month of May when every group of prickly pear was a riot of pure colour.

  • Many a time has a poor unhappy ostrich, the victim of prickly pear, been brought to me in a helpless, half-dead state, to be nursed and fed at the house.

  • He took it away drenched with bright, arterial blood, and threw it carefully into a clump of prickly pear.

  • By this time I had turned the sand out of my boots and unpinned myself from the prickly pear; and by the time he gets half a mile out of Pimienta, I singlefoots up beside him on my bronc.

  • I went out and sat on the ground in the shade of the store and leaned against a prickly pear.

  • He sat down in the grass and laboriously plucked the spines from a prickly pear, one by one.

  • Henry's story are just three samples of southwestern literature that bring in prickly pear.

  • A long essay might be written on prickly pear.

  • People may look at prickly pear, and it will be just prickly pear and nothing more.

  • No active-minded person who reads any one of these three samples will ever again look at prickly pear in the same light that he looked at it before he read.

  • We see also another species of prickly pear.

  • A Wallapai, making a Meal on the Fruit of the Tuna, or Prickly Pear.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    before taking; buttered mould; chronological order; clear fire; common parlance; draw lines; exact knowledge; feet depth; little farm; more correct; over each; personal character; prickly pear; quite still; round trip; shall come; should prefer; smooth surface; take shelter; three boys; tremendous amount; zero hour