chaparral

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One afternoon shortly after the vote, members of the splinter group gathered outside of San Francisco, hiking through the chaparrals of the San Bruno hills, and plotted what to do next.

From Salon • Nov. 14, 2024

Sometimes we were compelled to cross broad plains, acres in extent, called chaparrals, covered with low shrubs, which, leafless and barkless, stand like vegetable skeletons along the dreary waste.

From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith

And it was always growing older, because I had to waste time in dodging chaparrals and things like that that might hold him and his gun.

From The Orphan by Mulford, Clarence E.

As we went the homeward journey 'Twixt hot chaparrals and thickets, Heard brisk fiddles, scraping still, Drone and thump the quaint quadrille, Like a worried band of crickets.—

From Days and Dreams Poems by Cawein, Madison J.

Soon the other six were lost to sight among the chaparrals to the west and the guard sat stolidly under the blazing sun.

From The Orphan by Mulford, Clarence E.