Foam from their muzzles drips onto the ground in fat drops, like a lather of amole (soap) When they run, they make a loud noise, as if stones were raining on the earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Aztecs speak - an Aztec account of the Conquest of Mexico] Reference
Another variety of yucca is the amole, or soap plant. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Sketches] Reference
In the meantime eight or ten men have gathered the amole and soke. From Wordnik.com. [Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan] Reference
I've got the deer-brush spotted, and we'll pass an amole before we go very far. From Wordnik.com. [Her father`s daughter] Reference
Inyo California towhee, Lyon's pentachaeta, purple amole, and Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep. From Wordnik.com. [YubaNet.com] Reference
Yucca (Yucca sp.) — Both the datil (Y. baccata) and the amole (Y. glauca) grow in the Chaco area. From Wordnik.com. [Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico :] Reference
Just where the desert began to climb the mountain Linda had for a long time watched a big bed of amole. From Wordnik.com. [Her father`s daughter] Reference
It was not long before Donald spied an amole, and having found one, discovered many others growing near. From Wordnik.com. [Her father`s daughter] Reference
When you reach the place where your left hand feels empty without a piece of bread in it, just butter up another amole and try it. From Wordnik.com. [Her father`s daughter] Reference
Those who had been baptized were washed with amole in the Rio Chiquito, in order to be cleansed from the infection of Christianity. From Wordnik.com. [The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway] Reference
We take our choice today between finding deer-brush and digging for amole, because the mock oranges aren't ripe enough to be nice and soapy yet. From Wordnik.com. [Her father`s daughter] Reference
Then, standing on one side with her field knife, Linda began to slice the remainder of the amole very thin and to throw it over the surface of the pool. From Wordnik.com. [Her father`s daughter] Reference
After that she turned her attention to drawing a hillside whitened here and there with amole bloom showing in its purity against the warm grayish-tan background. From Wordnik.com. [Her father`s daughter] Reference
This, too, is the home of the agaves, or century-plants, and I know of nothing so astonishing as the gigantic flower-spike that shoots upward from the comparatively small plant called amole. From Wordnik.com. [Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan] Reference
On the left one giant specimen of amole, reared from a base of exquisitely waving leaves, ran up the side of the drawing and broke into an airy and graceful head of gold-hearted white lilies. From Wordnik.com. [Her father`s daughter] Reference
If Donald were lost now, he could keep alive for days, because he would know what wood would make him a bow and how he could take amole fiber and braid a bow string and where he could make arrows and arrow points so that he could shoot game for food. From Wordnik.com. [Her father`s daughter] Reference
Corn-meal sieve of amole. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuñi, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona, in 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 511-594] Reference
Soap is provided by the amole. From Wordnik.com. [Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico :] Reference
With this and the amole they ran back to Katy. From Wordnik.com. [Her father`s daughter] Reference
She knew how to prepare the amole for roasting. From Wordnik.com. [Her father`s daughter] Reference
No status change is recommended for Burke's goldfields, Contra Costa goldfields, Inyo California towhee, Lyon's pentachaeta, Peirson's milk-vetch, purple amole, Riverside fairy shrimp, San Bernardino bluegrass, and San Diego fairy shrimp, Sebastopol meadowfoam, Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep, and Sonoma sunshine. From Wordnik.com. [YubaNet.com] Reference
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