pharos

Example Sentences

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“I’ve seen a thousand head of cattle, fat as butter, feedin’ where you see them sahuaros, and now look at it!”

From Hidden Water by Dixon, Maynard

Then once more the cattle gathered about the house, waiting to be fed, and Hardy went out as before to cut sahuaros.

From Hidden Water by Dixon, Maynard

Day after day dragged by, and without thought or hope Hardy plodded on, felling sahuaros into the cañons, his brain whirling in the fever of the great heat.

From Hidden Water by Dixon, Maynard

As Hardy climbed along the rocky bluffs felling the giant sahuaros down into the ravines for his cattle, the sweat poured from his face in a stream.

From Hidden Water by Dixon, Maynard

They ran through bushy gulches and over cactus-crowned ridges where the sahuaros rose up like giant sentinels; until at last, 12as he came to the sandy creek-bed, the black hobo stood at bay.

From Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp by Coolidge, Dane