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. From Wordnik.com. [The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock] Reference
The man made no reply, but spat carefully into the tarweed. From Wordnik.com. [The Rules of the Game] Reference
The tiny flames licked past them in the tarweed; they did not heed. From Wordnik.com. [The Rules of the Game] Reference
He looked down upon his clothes, stuccoed with tarweed burrs and wet mud. From Wordnik.com. [Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University] Reference
With short, quick jabs of his hoe, he was tearing away at the tough tarweed. From Wordnik.com. [The Rules of the Game] Reference
The tarweed, especially, was stubborn under even the most vigorous wielding of his sharpened hoe. From Wordnik.com. [The Rules of the Game] Reference
The brushed marks went not only through the carpet of pine needles, but through the tarweed, the snow brush, the manzañita. From Wordnik.com. [The Rules of the Game] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Rules of the Game] Reference
The resinous paradisiacal smell of tarweed and bay-tree refreshed us, and the wonder of life was a something strong and tangible like bread and wine. From Wordnik.com. [It, and Other Stories] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Killer] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Sisters] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Pride of Palomar] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Rules of the Game] Reference
During the spring, visitors can observe beautiful wildflowers including fields of mustard, unusual red sticky monkey flowers, Santa Susana tarweed, California poppies, and the rare chocolate lily. From Wordnik.com. [YubaNet.com] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California] Reference
Welton explained to Bob that only the fact that Stone Creek bottom was at a low elevation, filled with brush and tarweed, and grown thick with young trees rendered the forest even inflammable at this time of year. From Wordnik.com. [The Rules of the Game] Reference
The autumn rains came and the dry, sniffly dust of the campus lay flat under the quiet air; the clear, fall weather that is mixed in one's mind with the pungent smell of tarweed in the pasture lands, and with long exciting afternoon practices, hung cool over the land, and still Pellams went girling, with his beautiful joke on the college. From Wordnik.com. [Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University] Reference
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