Our country upon the whole is fertile and well watered, has timber enough to supply its demands, and an everlasting amount of stone for building; it has an eternal range of mesquit grass, on which horses and cattle that never smell corn keep perfectly fat all winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference

Bill saw a type which did not belong in the mesquit.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man and Some Others.] Reference

A rattlesnake above a prairie dog's hole slid into the mesquit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brand Blotters] Reference

He surveyed with evident surprise this apparition in the mesquit.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man and Some Others.] Reference

Chaparral, mesquit, and pear were distributed in just proportions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roads of Destiny] Reference

Then he lay down in a dense mesquit thicket and waited for his foe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bucky O'Connor] Reference

The moonlight played strange tricks with the mesquit and the giant cactus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crooked Trails and Straight] Reference

They looked down over a desert green with bajadas, prickly pears, and mesquit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brand Blotters] Reference

Hardie fed his men and horses on mesquit bean, a plant heretofore considered poisonous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama] Reference

They found themselves treading short dead mesquit that did not greatly obstruct their progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lahoma] Reference

They stood on one leg, chewed mesquit twigs and circumlocuted, for they hated to hurt his feelings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roads of Destiny] Reference

For hours they wandered in mesquit, dragged themselves through cactus, crossed washes, and climbed hills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brand Blotters] Reference

One swift, searching look the girl gave him, then "Wait!" she ordered, and was off into the mesquit on the run.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brand Blotters] Reference

Upreared twigs, prominent branches, shone with golden light, while the shadows under the mesquit were heavily blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man and Some Others.] Reference

He wanted to get away and have a good long sleep somewhere in the sun on the mesquit grass with his handkerchief over his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X)] Reference

The Irishman was careful to take no chances, and kept his party in the mesquit till the headlight of an approaching train was visible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bucky O'Connor] Reference

The cow-puncher of Texas and Arizona wears chaps of leather or sheepskin to protect his legs from the mesquit-bushes or the thorns of the cactus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama] Reference

Road runs along at the foot of the hills or spurs of the desert; small rugged hills, vegetation dwarf mesquit, cacti, etc. Good grass at camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions] Reference

They live chiefly upon fish and the fruit of the algarroba, a species of mesquit or honey-locust, but will eat anything that is not poisonous, even rats and grasshoppers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

The sheriff nodded a good day, cut down the hill on the slant, and disappeared in a mesquit thicket, from the other side of which he presently emerged astride a bay horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bucky O'Connor] Reference

The sun's brilliant rays swept over the sea of mesquit, painting the far mists of the west with faint rosy light, and high in the air some great bird fled toward the south.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man and Some Others.] Reference

He recommends the "tall oat grass" (Arrhenatherum avenaceum) and the Texas mesquit grass (Holcus lanatus) introduced from England, called also velvet grass and white timothy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

Close at hand clumps of cactus, thickets of mesquit, together with the huddled adobe buildings of the ranch, made up the details of a scene possible only in the sunburnt territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brand Blotters] Reference

The dew gave the darkness under the mesquit a velvet quality that made air seem nearer to water, and no eye could have seen through it the black things that moved like monster lizards toward the camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man and Some Others.] Reference

And, gathering some mesquit brush for fuel, and rubbing a dead branch into tinder, he drew out a knife and, rapidly and repeatedly striking the back of its blade with the flint, produced a stream of sparks, which fell on the tinder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama] Reference

Some of us aboard that train did not seem to care deeply for the desert; the cactus possibly disappointed others; and the mesquit failed to give general satisfaction, though at a conservative estimate we passed through nine million miles of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing it De Luxe] Reference

He stepped high along the mat of curly mesquit grass, for he was afraid of everything there might be in this wilderness -- snakes, rats, brigands, centipedes, mirages, cowboys, fandangoes, tarantulas, tamales -- he had read of them in the story papers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roads of Destiny] Reference

They tied their horses in the mesquit and lurked in the thick brush until the engine had taken water and the signal for the start was given Then O'Halloran and Bucky slipped across in the darkness to the train and swung themselves to the platform of the last car.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bucky O'Connor] Reference

Behind the perpendicular arm, or spur, that ran out into the sea of mesquit, rose a low hill that was itself in the nature of an inner spur although, since it failed to reach the mountain, it might be regarded as a long flat island, surrounded by the calm green tide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lahoma] Reference

"He come down on his head on a chunk of mesquit wood, and he didn't show any designs toward getting up again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixes and Sevens] Reference

I. DARK mesquit spread from horizon to horizon.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man and Some Others.] Reference