Example Sentences

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Scrub palmettoes and grass overhung the bank above, which made him wonder if there was any danger of their catching fire.

From A Little Florida Lady by Paine, Dorothy C. (Dorothy Charlotte)

I hide under the palmettoes; they no me see.

From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne

They set fire to the grass and palmettoes, but a sudden shift of the wind carried the fire in their direction.

From General Scott by Wright, Marcus Joseph

The camp was in a bend of the Del Norte, in a glade surrounded by tall cotton-woods, whose smooth trunks rose vertically out of a thick underwood of palmettoes and Spanish bayonet.

From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.

It is the tread of footsteps, accompanied by a swishing among the palmettoes, that form an underwood along the edge of the swamp.

From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Reid, Mayne