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"Hurrah!" shouted Cal, for the hitherto unseen horseman, who now came out from behind a clump of mesquit trees, wore the yellow-trimmed uniform of the United States cavalry.
From The Red Mustang by William O. Stoddard
They found themselves treading short dead mesquit that did not greatly obstruct their progress.
From Lahoma by J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis
His feet sank deep in the sand, then trod lightly over vast stretches of short sun-burned mesquit, then again traversed hot shifting reaches of naked sand.
From Lahoma by J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis
The moonlight played strange tricks with the mesquit and the giant cactus, a grove of which gave to the place an awesome aspect of some ghostly burial ground of a long vanished tribe.
From Crooked Trails and Straight by D. C. Hutchison
Scattered over the plain were dusters of mesquit and in the low sags where moisture was near the surface patches of thorns.
From The Ramblin' Kid by Earl Wayland Bowman
