Texas sage

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noun

a slightly woody, hairy plant, Salvia coccinea, of the mint family, native to the southeastern U.S. and tropical America, having elongated clusters of scarlet flowers.

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How to use Texas sage in a sentence

Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.
How the PC Police Threaten Free Speech|Nick Gillespie|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
This is not making the 228,000 residents of Irving, Texas feel very relaxed.
26 Earthquakes Later, Fracking’s Smoking Gun Is in Texas|James Joiner|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The energy economy has always been a fixture of Texas life, and that has not changed.
Will Texas Stay Texan?|David Fontana|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This “Sixth Migration” of massive human migration to Texas is the larger story of the book, and it is a significant story.
Will Texas Stay Texan?|David Fontana|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Texas has also started to become an engine of economic growth.
Will Texas Stay Texan?|David Fontana|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Ten thousand of the best troops in Mexico entered Texas and were shortly to be followed by ten thousand more.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
From Canada on the north, to Texas on the south, the hot winds had laid the land seemingly bare.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
But here at Fort Walsh we're among a class of people that are a heap different from Texas cow-punchers.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Bien valut Monsieur de Biancourt d'etre plus sage que plusieurs de son esquipage, qui ne crioyent lors que de tout tuer.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
Near noon I found a place where they'd cached two extra horses in the brush on Sage Creek.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair