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Catching hold of outcropping ledges, mesquit, and even cactus bushes, she went up like a mountain goat But the water swept upon her, waist high, and dragged at her.
From Mavericks by William MacLeod Raine
Chaparral, mesquit, and pear were distributed in just proportions.
From Roads of Destiny by O. Henry
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
Los Algodones.—Road runs along at the foot of the hills or spurs of the desert; small rugged hills, vegetation dwarf mesquit, cacti, etc.
From The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions by Randolph Barnes Marcy
To-night we camp on the left bank in a mesquit thicket.
From Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers by George Iles
