Example Sentences

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No wolf in the encinal could have been warier.

From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod

Lance Lovelace located a ranch a few miles south of the Nueces River, and, from the cooing of the doves in the encinal, named it Las Palomas.

From A Texas Matchmaker by Adams, Andy

Don Lance wanted to build it over in the encinal, with twice as nice a site right here in the rancho.

From A Texas Matchmaker by Adams, Andy

Well, the first few years we lived here, whole flocks roosted every night in that farther point of the encinal.

From A Texas Matchmaker by Adams, Andy

Soon a flock of fully a hundred wild turkeys came running out of the encinal on the opposite side and started across to our ridge.

From A Texas Matchmaker by Adams, Andy