| 单词 | adobe house |
| 例句 | At noon the guests began to arrive by coach and horse, and the great adobe house filled with laughter and conversation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes are only upon the adobe house, ahead a small distance. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z We went by adobe houses with no front yards and unpaved streets. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Everything built up over fifteen years here can come apart as easily as an adobe house in an earthquake. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Not back in South El Paso, where he had first lived in a little apartment above a bar, then in a little adobe house that had a cesspool instead of a sewer. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a small, run-down adobe house with a sign over the entrance. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to be back in Phoenix, sitting under the orange trees behind our adobe house, riding my bike to the library, eating free bananas in a school where the teachers thought I was smart. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Silence reigned on the only street, which was lined with modest adobe houses, and he felt as if he were walking in his sleep. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Milagro itself was almost hidden in a lax bluish gauze of pinon smoke coming from all the fireplaces and cook stoves of its old adobe houses. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Already I could see in the setting sun the peaceful adobe houses on the other side of the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The house with the green shutters was more valuable, but Mom had chosen the adobe house. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The agent waited alertly for some movement down among the adobe houses, for some telltale stir in the shadows between buildings or in the cottonwood darkness along Indian Creek. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The road dropped into the flat valley and revealed the adobe houses of the peaceful village. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The adobe houses of the founders had been replaced by brick buildings with wooden blinds and cement floors which made the suffocating heat of two o'clock in the afternoon more bearable. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Her boutique, inside an adobe house from the early 1900s, is stocked with chunky wool jackets that resemble chain-mail armor, and woven necklaces, often trimmed with feathers. 36 Hours in Lima, Peru 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z “The Hispanics, in my time, all lived in little adobe houses,” said Rito Rivera, 78, who still lives in one of those houses. In a Texas Art Mecca, Humble Adobe Now Carries a High Cost 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z I stopped at the first adobe house to ask if there was a place to stay. Memories of Mexico 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z There he started painting again, inspired by art and architecture he saw — weavings, ceramics, ancient stepped temples, brightly painted adobe houses — on vacations in Mexico and Latin America in the 1930s and ’40s. Art Review: ‘Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper,’ at the Morgan 2012-07-26T23:09:42Z Slide Show: Homes for $1.1 Million A stucco house in Pennsylvania, an adobe house in Phoenix and a log house in Tennessee. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia 2013-01-25T22:53:40Z But instead of the scenes of adobe houses and sombrero-wearing peasants of the curios, this vessel is decorated with blank-faced Los Angeles office buildings. Art Review | Josef Albers and Ken Price: Josef Albers and Ken Price: Bauhaus Meets Venice Beach 2010-03-18T22:29:00Z “We lived in an adobe house there,” Cassandra says. A place to practice the fine art of urban retirement living 2014-05-12T04:00:00Z But when he heard the news, he thought back to an evening in May 2002, when his father was living in Medanales, N.M., in a small adobe house overlooking a mesa. Did John McCracken Make That Monolith in Utah? 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Their well-situated but unlikely choice was an authentic adobe house just off Sonoma, California’s town square. Ken Fulk Crafts A Contemporary Wine Tasting Space in Sonoma 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z And then he would sing along, the raggedy kid mimicking Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo in the tiny adobe house he shared with his parents and siblings. Portrait of a young singer on the cusp of stardom 2011-05-28T22:31:06Z O’Keeffe met me at the door of her smallish, single-story adobe house. Dinner with Georgia O’Keeffe 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z One shows the dark, elaborately framed window of an adobe house next to one of his “Variant” paintings, this one from 1955, whose composition evokes a flat-topped adobe structure with two doors. Art Review | Josef Albers and Ken Price: Josef Albers and Ken Price: Bauhaus Meets Venice Beach 2010-03-18T22:29:00Z Now 70, she lives in a spare adobe house in Santa Fe, overlooking an acre of scrub and the Sangre de Cristo mountain range. The Queen of Change 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z To fix the problem, and increase tax revenues, the town created a separate, higher appraisal classification for adobe houses, an unusual move. In a Texas Art Mecca, Humble Adobe Now Carries a High Cost 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Steve, Paul, and I built an adobe house for Sun and Steve, and an A-frame for Paul and me, the three of us working topless in the hot, high desert sun. Screw the sisterhood! I’d rather screw your boyfriend 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Smoke fills her dirt-floor adobe house, where the family shares a few hammocks for sleeping. In a warming world, hunger stalks Guatemala's Mayan highlands In the adobe house she built with her husband in a small village in Peru, Antonia Huillca pulled out a stack of documents that once represented a glimmer of hope. As Protesters Die, a Nation’s Security Forces Face Little Scrutiny 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Cuen-Buitimea, 48, grew up in an adobe house in the impoverished farming village of Buaysiacobe in the Mexican state of Sonora, according to his relatives and friends there. Death and Justice on the Border: A Migrant Is Killed, a Rancher Is Charged 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z They now stand at 20 feet — taller than the adobe house. A round barn rises in rural America. There is grief and hope in its rafters 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Now, the ruins of an adobe house stand among the creosote bushes. Surfing in the desert? A developer’s plan for a surf lagoon sparks outrage 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z It has a lawn and trees and fountains and a replica adobe house filled with memorabilia from California’s Mexican era. Column: At the L.A. site of an old cease-fire, looking for peace in an impolite society 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z So they abandoned the gift house, which now sits empty, and returned to the adobe house where they survived the tragedy. Gift for El Salvador mudslide victims comes at steep price 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z “That’s the toxic masculinity and patriarchy that goes on around here,” said Ashley Sarracino, standing in the doorway of her trim adobe house on Acorn Street, a tumbleweed on its front porch. The Promise and Pressures of Deb Haaland, the First Native American Cabinet Secretary 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Eventually, Jay built himself a squat adobe house a 25-minute drive from Marshall and built a happy life there with his new wife, Julie, her two little girls, and their infant daughter. A round barn rises in rural America. There is grief and hope in its rafters 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z In time the ranchos became like little kingdoms, but at first they were pretty rudimentary operations: build a modest adobe house and outbuildings, and turn the cattle loose to graze. You know their names: Palos Verdes, La Brea, Sepulveda. But what were the ranchos? 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Bullet holes pockmarked the outer walls of the adobe house, remnants of a gunfight months earlier. She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One by One 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z Sanchez´s mother, brother and two nephews who were sleeping in an adobe house next to theirs were buried alive. Gift for El Salvador mudslide victims comes at steep price 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z “They are both gone, and there was no one to help us plant the corn this year,” said Hilario, speaking Nahuatl through a translator as she fought back tears outside her adobe house. In Mexico's Guerrero state, slaughter of band members reflects legacy of violence 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z On a June evening in 1955, an investment banker and amateur mycologist named Robert Gordon Wasson found himself in an adobe house high in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, encountering the divine. Psychedelics have lost their cool. Blame Gwyneth Paltrow | John Semley 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Now, among the ruins are a vast necropolis with 130 tombs, small pre-Islamic altars, and some adobe houses - structures made from earth - in what used to be the city's living quarters. Saudi Arabian tourist spots you can now visit 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Poverty is visible along its cobbled streets and adobe houses. A museum in Bolivia pays homage to President Evo Morales 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z But as she peered inside the 1930s-era adobe house, Huston said she fell in the love with the big fireplace, and the rest felt like an adventure. Dishing Dirt with Anjelica Huston: The home that ‘Prizzi’s Honor’ bought 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Zilacayota is a picturesque village of indigenous Tlapaneco people living in adobe houses with no phone signal, doctor or paved roads. Fentanyl use could end the opium era in Mexico: 'The only crop that paid’ 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z She and her husband earned $8 a day baking bread in a firewood oven attached to their adobe house and selling it on the street in their town of Jícaro Galán. Finding a way through the border fence was easy. Winning the right to remain won’t be. 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Both were born into rural poverty, Lincoln in a log cabin in Kentucky, Juárez in an adobe house in Oaxaca. Perspective | How did a Mexican president come to have a traffic circle in D.C. named after him? 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Poor people in the area use chunks of the mounds to build adobe houses. In Brazil backlands, termites built millions of dirt mounds 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z The main adobe house and smaller bunkhouses were nondescript and in disrepair. Dishing Dirt with Anjelica Huston: The home that ‘Prizzi’s Honor’ bought 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z He wore an olive overcoat with a fur collar, which he kept zipped up even when he entered an adobe house to meet with villagers. Behind Public Persona, the Real Xi Jinping Is a Guarded Secret 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z It was a scattering of adobe houses with no running water, no sewage, and electricity for only a couple of homes. Unraveling an Ancient Code Written In Strings 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z When an adobe house became unoccupied, a ranger hosed it down until its walls dissolved. Death Valley Is Alive 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z He was found dead 160 yards down the road, behind an abandoned adobe house, lying face down next to a sugar cane field. El Salvador’s conflict with gangs is beginning to look like a war 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Huston added more trees — pomegranates, quince and magnolia — near the old orchard by the adobe house that includes a variety of venerable citrus trees and an heirloom Arkansas Black apple tree. Dishing Dirt with Anjelica Huston: The home that ‘Prizzi’s Honor’ bought 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z As you move up into the hills, makeshift brick and adobe houses become more common. Where are the world's highest cities? 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Many of the town’s residents live in tin-roofed, hillside adobe houses with limited supplies of water and power. Venezuela’s Soaring Poverty Hurts Ruling Party’s Chances in Sunday’s Elections 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z In the port city of Coquimbo fishing boats were tossed across streets, roads were blocked by rockslides and streets were filled with piles of devastated adobe houses. Aftershocks rattle Chile after earthquake as death toll rises 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Many homes in Illapel and surrounding areas are simple, adobe houses and are more prone to damage. Powerful Quake off Chile Slams Waves into Coastal Towns; 8 Killed 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z According to the report, at least half of all west African migrants who reach Lampedusa first pass through this warren of adobe houses. No wonder they still try 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z There is no doubt that the flattened adobe houses of La Pintada - just some of the more than 30,000 homes damaged in Guerrero by the storm - are now little more than a mass grave. Mexican village 'wiped off the map' 2013-09-27T10:08:31Z From the shade of an adobe house overlooking Peru's Santa River, Jimmy Melgarejo squints at the dual peaks of Mount Huascarán looming against a cloudless sky. Melting in the Andes: Goodbye glaciers 2012-11-07T18:20:47.557Z Twenty-two years ago, I built a small off-the-grid adobe house beneath the mountain. The Fight Over Fracking in Colorado's North Fork Valley 2012-07-12T23:27:28Z The 1850 adobe house has suffered before, from floods as far back as the 1860s and 1880s. Whittier Journal: California?s Pio Pico State Historic Park May Close 2012-04-09T03:23:47Z An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Village scene, showing new adobe houses built for the Indians. Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians 2012-03-11T03:00:11.673Z It grew manifestly hotter after they had ridden to the ruined adobe house, dismounted, and followed their leader in. The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo 2012-01-19T03:00:22.827Z At last they were driven off to bed, and gradually they quieted down, and all were asleep in the little adobe house. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z Posts, railroad ties, frames for the adobe houses, furniture, fellies of wheels, paving blocks, and charcoal are made of this wonderful tree's root system. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z San Francisco was at this time mainly a city of tents, although there was a sprinkling of adobe houses, and a few frame buildings. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z Looks more like an enchanted palace than a collection of adobe houses. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z They proved to be simple adobe houses, instead of imposing structures with classical architecture. Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History 2011-08-25T02:00:28.183Z At the time of the British occupation, St. Augustine was a small Spanish town with adobe houses and narrow streets. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z The zoo is surrounded by the winding hills of Kabul, a cirque of rock flanked by ochre adobe houses. Afghanistan: The Kabul Zoo Is Buzzing Again with Visitors 2011-07-04T09:20:00Z The settlement consisted of the Fort and an old adobe house, called the hospital. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z The adobe house was very quiet and was darkened by lattices pulled across the narrow windows; and there was no stir in the town between noon and early evening. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z Not only from the most distant and well-to-do ranches, but from all the small adobe houses and huts that skirt the mountains, the people were on the way to town in the early hours. E.P. Roe: Reminiscences of his Life 2011-05-05T02:00:19.377Z We traveled for miles on what was then called Maxwell's Ranch, where great herds of sheep, cattle and horses were to be seen, with an adobe house here and there, where herders lived. Little Pills, An Army Story Being Some Experiences of a United States Army Medical Officer on the Frontier Nearly a Half Century Ago 2011-04-28T02:00:13.453Z Pueblo culture takes its name from the towns or villages of stone or adobe houses which form the characteristic feature of the area. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z He had his shop in a little adobe house that stood directly opposite the "President's Office" on the lot where the Amelia Palace was afterwards erected. The Mormons and the Theatre or The History of Theatricals in Utah 2011-03-14T03:01:07.627Z A half mile down this stood a little adobe house owned by a Spaniard who was suspected of sympathizing with the revolutionists although he had many friends among the rurales. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z It was a tiny place: a few adobe houses about the plaza, and a warehouse or two at the docks. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z The town was utterly strange to me, so different from anything I had ever seen: adobe walls, adobe houses, and the people were as strange looking as the houses. Little Pills, An Army Story Being Some Experiences of a United States Army Medical Officer on the Frontier Nearly a Half Century Ago 2011-04-28T02:00:13.453Z There, concealed from exterior view, she found an automobile at rest; she went on to the adjoining rear door of the adobe house. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z Three small adobe houses, of one room each, with flat roofs and earthen floors, had been built here, as the large and never-failing springs made the spot a sure rendezvous for every round-up. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z Instead of homely villages there were groups of adobe houses, such as Marise vaguely pictured in Africa. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z My grandma's adobe house, which was about 80 years old, collapsed completely. Snippets of news 2011-01-01T06:07:03Z This town was at that time a straggling Mexican village of adobe houses along the east bank of the river. Little Pills, An Army Story Being Some Experiences of a United States Army Medical Officer on the Frontier Nearly a Half Century Ago 2011-04-28T02:00:13.453Z While slow remembrance dawned upon him, he found himself reposing in the back yard of an adobe house; how he got there was never explained. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z Conrad felt sure that she was announcing their near approach to the food and shelter within the adobe houses. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z Across from them stood a long, low adobe house of a single story. The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines Many of our adobe houses were deluged with water, and the mountain-sides exhibited cataracts in every direction. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes From Loma to the camp, a distance of some fifteen miles, the mountains sloped gradually to the river and there were a few adobe houses occupied by Mexicans. Little Pills, An Army Story Being Some Experiences of a United States Army Medical Officer on the Frontier Nearly a Half Century Ago 2011-04-28T02:00:13.453Z A large house, we found, was attached to the chimney, and a flag to the pole, and at last the place grew into several extensive buildings, flanked about by adobe houses. Narrative of the March of Co. A, Engineers from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Fort Bridger, Utah, and Return May 6 to October 3, 1858 As the train rushed northward along the banks of the muddy stream, he looked at the little adobe houses, wondering how long these peaceful Mexican homes could withstand the pressure of the dominant American. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z On the other hand, there were the Yumas--often called the Apaches--and the Maricopas, both agricultural tribes and most probably at one time dwellers in adobe houses. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) The present city chiefly consists of low adobe houses and cane huts, tenanted by Indians. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" San Marcial was at that time a small straggling Mexican village of one street with adobe houses on each side and all told maybe had one hundred inhabitants. Little Pills, An Army Story Being Some Experiences of a United States Army Medical Officer on the Frontier Nearly a Half Century Ago 2011-04-28T02:00:13.453Z It was well along in the morning when Felipe pulled up next day before his little adobe house in the mountain settlement. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance Men and women rushed out of the adobe houses, for the plaza. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters There were several adobe houses near, and from it a road along which there were some huts, led to the convent, and another road, almost due east, passed in front of the convent. Company 'A', corps of engineers, U.S.A., 1846-'48, in the Mexican war The idea of protection seems to have been the dominant one in building the cliff houses and the adobe houses of the plain. History of Human Society The square adobe houses cast long black shadows across the whitened dust of the street and as the man burrowed deeper to keep out the light the door of the stone house slammed. Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp With a curse of but five words–words of great scope and finest selection, however–he mercilessly raked Felipe’s ancestors for five generations back; he objurgated Felipe’s holdings–chickens, adobe house, money, burro, horses, pigs. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance Then they went over a slight rise, and finally came into view of a long row of one-story buildings with several rows of adobe houses behind them. Dave Porter and His Double Or, The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune Waddling reluctantly back to her sewing, she saw Lola standing in the white-pillared porch of the big adobe house beyond, and a gleam of inspiration crossed the se�ora's dark, fat face. A Prairie Infanta During the afternoon wagons and horsemen and men on foot began to appear in town, to join already aroused relatives or friends at their adobe houses or to loaf along the main street in groups. In the Shadow of the Hills The variety of colors used upon the façades of the low adobe houses produces a pleasing effect. Aztec Land They struck between some adobe houses, crossed some back yards, dodged under clothes-lines, and found themselves in a tiny graveyard. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance While viewing this somber scene, Saint-Prosper had made his way to a little adobe house which the natives had built near the trail that led through the valley. The Strollers He seems always busy and is extremely polite, but I gave him the adobe house across the arroya after Papa Phil––went. The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine The tension of his body relaxed and his hands slowly unclosed and involuntarily his eyes went up to the moon sailing serenely in the sky above the treetops and the flat-roofed adobe houses. In the Shadow of the Hills The admirable climate, the hot springs, the beautiful gardens, vineyards, and abundant fruits, render this place thoroughly attractive, notwithstanding that so large a portion consists of adobe houses of only one story in height. Aztec Land Every day Schiefflin set forth on his mule from the adobe house. When the West Was Young Nearly all of these adobe houses are fifty years old, and some of them are said to have been built one hundred years ago. Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly This turned out to be a straggling adobe house, shaded by cottonwoods and built around three sides of a square. Louisiana Lou A Western Story The wire fences and the adobe houses of Mexicans owning little farms adjoining soon ceased. In the Shadow of the Hills It is thought by some that besides having the apex crowned originally with a temple of worship, the sides were covered by adobe houses from base to near the summit, accommodating a large population. Aztec Land She had swept 3 every inch of the deep adobe house, had fixed over the arrangement of Indian baskets on the mantel, had filled all the lamps with coal-oil. Tharon of Lost Valley The birds began to sing, and still there was no sound from the tiny gray adobe house under the fig tree. The Mexican Twins A little adobe house, halfway up the mesa, with the desert far below and the Indian village far above. The Faith Healer A Play in Three Acts In the busiest part of the main street, a flat-roofed adobe house with a narrow, covered porch forming the sidewalk in front, flanked the street for half a block. With Hoops of Steel The better dwellings of Tlaxcala are nearly all adobe houses, standing in a rough, hilly region on the eastern slope of the mountains which inclose the valley. Aztec Land Around the corner of the adobe house he went, out across the trampled yard, and away along the open to the south, running level and free. Tharon of Lost Valley Part of the town was destroyed by an earthquake two years ago; but the adobe houses are so simply constructed that they can be rebuilt with little difficulty. Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California "I love those adobe houses of the Mexicans," said Enid. The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure The gray walls of an adobe house took dim shape in the darkness, and beyond it a mass of trees, their leaves rustling in the night wind, told of running water. With Hoops of Steel Well beyond the last adobe house, Stratton glanced back to see old Pop Daggett still standing on 23 the store porch and staring after him. Shoe-Bar Stratton “Tharon,” said Billy Brent this day, clanking around the corner of the adobe house, his leather chaps flapping with every step, his yellow hair curling boyishly under his hat-brim. Tharon of Lost Valley The simple exposure to sunshine would quickly convert a Mandan house built with it into an adobe house; the coating of earth would become a coating of brick. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest An hour later when the girls were entering the little desert town of Saugus, and just as they came to the first adobe houses, they saw a horseback rider coming toward them. The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure He checked his horse to a slow trot and, without turning his head, searched with a sidewise glance the yard and veranda of the adobe house. With Hoops of Steel On either side of these two structures a dozen or more discouraged-looking adobe houses were set down at uneven intervals. Shoe-Bar Stratton The riders were gone, the vaqueros were at their posts around the resting stock, the low adobe house was settling into the quiet of the night. Tharon of Lost Valley It is not exactly an enchanting place—deformed mountains, sun glare, adobe houses, loneliness, and dust. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter He stole along the outside wall of the adobe house and peered out into the plains. 'Firebrand' Trevison She was hidden away in one of the adobe houses of the settlement near by, receiving congratulations from friends. Children of the Desert Lieutenant Whipple says, “Large fields in the valley of the Rio Gila, and many spots among the Pinal Lena Mountains, are marked with the foundations of adobe houses.” Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology Bob Rogeen slept in the east wing of the squat adobe house. The Desert Fiddler A little adobe house stood near the center of the clearing. The Range Boss A long, low adobe house, brilliantly white with plaster; a verandah with swinging hammocks; the inevitable green blinds; the inevitable cane and banana patch; this was Don Annunzio's. Rita It is an adobe house; and the walls are so damp that I gave up all idea of living in it, as soon as I laid my hand on them. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California The huge, squat adobe house was ablaze with light as he urged his jaded pony into a gallop to pass it quickly. The Fifth Ace I remember we were sitting in our adobe house one evening, three or four of us together. Adventures in Many Lands I have a good view of the plaza and the adjacent streets, with their rows of brown adobe houses, and dusty ways between. The Scalp Hunters This belief has been strengthened by the popular tale, that the old adobe house, of two low stories, adjoining the ancient chapel of San Miguel, was an ancient Indian home. Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I The people shut themselves up in their thick adobe houses. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California That blue adobe house on the southern end of the square began to loom large in the architecture of Limasito. The Fifth Ace From the four corners of the piazza, narrow, unpaved, dusty lanes lead off to the country, for some distance bordered on both sides by the adobe houses. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse The future Western metropolis was only a town of scattered wooden and adobe houses, with irregular streets and a general lack of uniformity in its buildings; but everybody seemed on the alert. The Young Miner or Tom Nelson in California A fortnight later found me in Socorro, plodding through its sandy streets to an adobe house in the suburbs where Thornton lodged. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Nearly ten hours later Jack Roberts dismounted in front of the whitewashed adobe house that was the headquarters of the A T O ranch. Oh, You Tex! It was the girl of the adobe house on the plaza. The Fifth Ace There are the interesting little donkeys, the low adobe houses of the native Mexicans, and the water ditches winding through the gardens and fields, which are divided into squares by low ridges of earth. The Western United States A Geographical Reader They were crowded into small, leaky, adobe houses, without floors and with doors which could not be closed tightly. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 Johnson was his name, and he offered his adobe house as a place of refuge for the night. Kid Wolf of Texas So Polk had bought her one of the old adobe houses in Santa Barbara, and each year she extended the limit of her sojourn in a town where memories were still sacred. The Californians A long, low adobe house, tinted a screaming blue which rivaled the skies, faced the southern end of the plaza, covering nearly an entire block. The Fifth Ace For my part I think I'd fancy living in one of those three story adobe houses of the Hopi Indians, we saw pictures of at the hotel; or even a Navajo hogan. The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave I first saw my sweetheart as we were driving the herd along the dusty road, passing a small adobe house near the city of Old Mexico. The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick" A bullet zipped the stone flags under his feet; another smacked solidly into the corner of an adobe house. Kid Wolf of Texas Some thirty people living in small adobe houses in Owens River valley were killed. Forty-Six Years in the Army The old adobe houses which they left brought them little. The Blood of the Conquerors A Mexican village in autumn is picturesque with crimson "rastras" of Chile pepper hung on the walls of the adobe houses. Ranching, Sport and Travel There is one street in Gunsight, running grandly down to the station; but the rest is mostly vacant lots and scattered adobe houses, creeping out into the infinitude of the desert. Rimrock Jones XCVI, illustrating an unroofed adobe house in Zuñi, shows several bundles of this material on an adjoining roof. A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 They had not gone many rods when through an opening in the trees they beheld a good-sized adobe house. The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes They had lived in a small adobe house on the mesa. The Blood of the Conquerors At that time Los Angeles had only a few adobe houses and a Catholic mission. Sixty Years of California Song It was located in the outskirts just back of the cluster of adobe houses and frame shacks that made up the town. Roughing it De Luxe The lesser Holy Ones worked much in clay, making pottery and adobe houses. The North American Indian The open bamboo huts, shingled with banana leaves, were followed by warmer adobe houses, and these, in turn, by the straw hovels of the mountain-top, made entirely of the long, wiry grass of the paramos. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America He owned a great adobe house, built about a square courtyard like a fort, and shaded pleasantly by cottonwood trees. The Blood of the Conquerors The Caïd lived near the old town, in an adobe house, with a garden which was a tangle of roses and pomegranate blossoms, under orange trees and palms. The Golden Silence Four denim-clad troopers and a sergeant marched raggedly down the street and stopped in front of Harrison's adobe house. Steve Yeager The buildings were all huddled together—a lot of flat, brown adobe houses. The Boss of the Lazy Y They looked down to the big adobe house and saw no one; the place slept tranquilly in the late afternoon sun. Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure They exchanged no other words until they came within sight of the group of adobe houses. The Blood of the Conquerors This place, with its surrounding acres, was my property, and had been before the fire which had destroyed the adobe house, one of the prettiest spots in the country. The Beautiful Eyes of Ysidria La Paz was then, as now, a little old town, with narrow, stony streets and adobe houses, standing amidst palms, and chaparral, and cactus. The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches Over elegant dwellings, over modest flat roofs of adobe houses, over military buildings, institutes for the education of those of all races and creeds, the moonlight rests peacefully. The Delight Makers As in the adobe house here was a place where a curtain beyond the doorway hid from any chance eyes what might lie in this room. Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure Yonder he now could see the three bare cottonwoods, with the low adobe house near by where he and Dave had lived and laboured at the surveys for the project. The Iron Furrow The low adobe house, with its gleaming roof, looked like a jewel set in the valley. The Bad Man He had noted a cluster of adobe houses a mile or so back, and toward these he was headed. The Enchanted Canyon And fifty yards away squatted the old adobe house in the sand, with a tree at each front corner and a narrow porch extending from one to the other. Skyrider As they drew near the big adobe house both men were interested. Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure We continued our descent, and, having dropped altogether some 2,000 feet, at last found ourselves alongside some lonely and unattractive old adobe houses. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan The only places which could be converted into jails, were the common adobe houses of the inhabitants. The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself All consist of adobe houses, of a rich brown color, roofed with tiles. In Indian Mexico (1908) Columns of smoke rose from two or three of the adobe houses, and he heard the faint, mellow voices of men singing in a field. The Texan Star The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty The Ranger gathered up the crippled rustler, took him home, attended to his wounds, nursed him, and in fact spent days in the little adobe house with him. The Rustlers of Pecos County Through narrow, twisted streets he sauntered, along unpaved roads bounded by century-old adobe houses. A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today This mission then consisted of a single adobe house. The Log School-House on the Columbia Stanley turned up a side street to the one-roomed adobe house on the edge of town that served as city headquarters for himself and Johnson. Copper Streak Trail The two never talked together in his presence, but strolled away where even their voices would not reach him, or went inside the adobe house and stayed there until Cliff was ready to return. The Thunder Bird Among the few dim lights flickering on the outskirts of town I picked out the one of his little adobe house but I knew almost to a certainty that he was not there. The Rustlers of Pecos County Some wooden barns, a corral, an adobe house, and outhouses marked the place as one of the more ambitious ranches of the valley. A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today The Casa Ortega was a very long adobe house one story in height and one room deep, except in an ell where a number of rooms were bunched together. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories Near by are three old adobe houses, all recently renovated out of all resemblance to their original condition, and all roofed with red Mission tiles. The Old Franciscan Missions Of California Ten or a dozen bull-fighters boarded in one place near the bull-ring—a large, square, two-story adobe house; a grand house, with walls painted in colors and splendid high rooms arranged around a patio inside. Wide Courses I could plainly see the lights of his adobe house, but of course, nothing else was visible. The Rustlers of Pecos County It was lined with low-walled adobe houses, roofed with the red curved tiles which add so much to the adobe houses that otherwise would be far from picturesque. In the Footprints of the Padres This is the story Señora Sanchez told us children as we sat on the sunny, rose-covered porch of her old adobe house at Monterey one summer afternoon. Stories of California Hidden in the trees we came to the buildings—three or four flat-topped adobe houses. Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico The town consists of a few adobe houses, two or three of which only have plank floors. What I Saw in California We could not use an adobe house for a jail, because that could be easily cut out of or torn down. The Rustlers of Pecos County Sir, I have the honor to report that, while on the air flight, I noted the location of a solitary adobe house about four miles out. Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz In the valley the red-tiled white adobe houses studded a little city which was a series of corners radiating from a central irregular street. The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California He went to the stable, and from there he returned to the adobe house, squat like the "ketch-all" but larger. The Phantom Herd Besides the main large buildings connected with the church, there are standing, and partially occupied, several small squares of adobe houses, belonging to this mission. What I Saw in California We saw him working round his adobe house; then we saw him on horseback. The Rustlers of Pecos County Then, as the aircraft passed and left the adobe house to the rear, Darrin bent over and whispered something in Bowers's ear that the signalman behind them could not hear. Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz Then the straggling town with its white adobe houses crouching on the grass. The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California You will have the relinquishment of his right to the claim, Babe, and a small adobe house with sheds and yards and a good spring of living water. Starr, of the Desert The red-tiled white adobe houses of the Presidio and of the little town clustered under its wing, the brown mud huts of the Indians, were grouped in the foreground of the deep valley. The Doomswoman An Historical Romance of Old California We visited outlying ranches, water-holes, old adobe houses famous in one way or another as scenes of past fights of rustlers and ranchers. The Rustlers of Pecos County You will plan, Lieutenant, to leave here at a little before eleven o'clock to-night, which will bring you to the adobe house about midnight. Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz We have a beeg adobe house with more than twenty rooms, and a corridor for the front more than one hundred feets. The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California With the stars came voices from the porch of the adobe house below him. Starr, of the Desert Mr. Stockton fenced his orchard by setting posts and tying sycamore poles to them to keep the stock away, built an adobe house on the claim and called the property his. Death Valley in '49 When I reached the edge of town I turned aside a little and took a look at the ruins of Steele's adobe house. The Rustlers of Pecos County "No, sir, but the adobe house is large enough to hide them all." Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz The hot sun beat upon the white adobe houses of the stately city. The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California "More than a century ago there dwelt in this old adobe house a beautiful maiden," I began. The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks At the adobe house, kept by a Spaniard we had breakfast, then shouldered our packs for the march of ten leagues to Los Angeles for there was no chance to ride. Death Valley in '49 A few hours' walk over the mountain pass brought us to a little straggling village of adobe houses, sleeping drowsily in the sun. Further Foolishness Finally the adobe house stood out dimly against the night sky at a distance of less than half a mile. Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz At length, after passing a picket of our riflemen, we came to a large adobe house directly on the roadside, where we found the main body of the detachment encamped and sleeping. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 "No," he answered me, "I'm an antiquary and I want to see the old adobe house." The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks After seven or eight days we arrived in San Pedro, and found the town to consist of one long adobe house. Death Valley in '49 We passed across the open plaza, and went down a narrow side road, bordered here and there with adobe houses, and so out into the open country. Further Foolishness A large emigrant wagon stood near the adobe house where my new brother-in-law drew rein. The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate The adobe house of the Mexican is a peculiar institution of the southwest. Arizona Sketches His glance strayed over the square, the tumbled kiosk, the old adobe houses, over the mountains in the background, and over the sky, burning like a roof afire. The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution From that vantage point he looked out over the little hamlet, somewhat to his right, and was surprised at its extent, its considerable number of adobe houses. Desert Gold Here were the railroad tracks, and just beyond—a huddled mass of roofs, with here and there an adobe house on its outskirts—the little town of Guadalajara. The Octopus : A story of California Assaulted by the Mexican police and populace, eight of the band rode away and four were penned into an uncompleted adobe house. Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert Shortly afterwards we gave a shout at the appearance, on a little bluff, of a neatly-built adobe house, with glass windows. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Demetrio sat down with the chief officers under the roof of the municipal portals in front of a city square covered with weeds, a tumbled kiosk, and some abandoned adobe houses. The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution The raiders had slept inside the little adobe house, and had not yet brought out the carbines. Desert Gold These streets are built with large brick houses and small adobe houses. Cæsar or Nothing A vast number of swallows have built their adobe houses on the face of the cliffs, on either side of the river. Canyons of the Colorado Here, at the little adobe house on the banks of the Arroyo Seco, they separated. History of California The adobe houses were covered with coconut leaves and adorned with rustic entrances. Autobiography of a Yogi The adobe houses of these modern villages look fairly modern. Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru Half-way down the valley, a quarter of a mile from the bench, the buildings of the Quarter Circle KT clustered together in a group—the low adobe house, bunk shack, stables, graineries. The Ramblin' Kid The water was already arranged for and the wagon containing the casks was at Buck's adobe house. The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure After a four hours' gallop, the marauders reached an adobe house on Picosa Creek, a tributary of the Rio Pecos. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" In a moment Apolinaria came out of the little adobe house which had been her abode since leaving the Carrillos, bearing a small bundle in her arms. Old Mission Stories of California The large square or plaza has the church at one end; on the other three sides are red-tiled adobe houses and stores, with floors of clay or red bricks. The Naturalist in Nicaragua It was a low, four-room adobe house with a lean-to kitchen built of boards. The Long Chance Wherever they reach a ranch of their people, they are protected; the pursuers are baffled; they are misled by the sly hangers-on of these gloomy adobe houses. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance Here they purchased a large adobe house, and an extensive tract, suitable both for grazing and tillage. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" The newly wedded couple took up their abode in the tiny adobe house Diego had built, and began a life of great happiness, little disturbed by affairs outside their own domain. Old Mission Stories of California Ouray resided in a neatly built adobe house erected for him by the government; it was nicely carpeted and furnished in modern style. The Great Salt Lake Trail However, life in the roomy, fortress-like adobe house was pleasant enough. Heart of the Sunset Nightfall finds Valois in a squalid adobe house, thirty miles from Gavilan Peak. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance When all was over, the boys hoisted Tad Butler on their shoulders and marched around the adobe house shouting and singing. The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico Or, the End of the Silver Trail Walking swiftly on the road for a half-mile farther, he came to a little adobe house where he and his parents lived. Old Mission Stories of California No better testimony could there be of the indefatigable spiritual energy of the padres than this artistic structure standing now amidst a few adobe houses, and once completely abandoned to the elements. The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons He was in a great adobe house surrounding a court in which a fountain splashed among ferns and little orange-trees. The Valiant Runaways A few days saw the two families settled,—the Hyers in their tent and wagon, at the hot springs, and Alessandro and Ramona, with the baby, in a little adobe house in the Saboba village. Ramona Some of their adobe houses are six and seven stories high. The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico Or, the End of the Silver Trail The two were sitting on the porch of a little adobe house on the outskirts of the presidio town of Tubac, Mexico, a few, miles from the coast of the Gulf of California. Old Mission Stories of California Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses. Cabbages and Kings Many of the Ranches, deserted by the Mexicans on account of the Apache Indians, have upon them large, well-built adobe houses which must have cost the builders thousands of dollars. Memoir of the Proposed Territory of Arizona At last we crossed the Jagisstai and in a few hours descried at first the fortress and then the low adobe houses huddled on the plain, which we knew to be Uliassutai. Beasts, Men and Gods It was shortly after two o'clock in the morning when Kris Kringle espied a party of horsemen slowly encircling the adobe house. The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico Or, the End of the Silver Trail A short time before he had married an Indian girl, and, with her, lived in a little adobe house, a few paces from the mission church. Old Mission Stories of California There appeared a breadth of rolling country, covered with verdure, and in the midst of it the white walls and long, shadowed veranda of an adobe house. The Golden Fleece, a romance Out through the lane that leads to Atrisco, which slept in the stolid blackness of low adobe houses with flat roofs and tiny windows, they rode at a trot. The Heritage of the Sioux From the porch the cluster of adobe houses added a picturesque touch of color and contrast to the waste of gray valley. Light of the Western Stars "Yes; I don't see why it might not be any of the ruined adobe houses in this valley?" said Ned Rector. The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico Or, the End of the Silver Trail The Governor occupied at that time a low, rambling adobe house, on Palace Avenue, and this, with its thick walls and low window-seats, made a fit setting for the treasures they had gathered. Vanished Arizona It was just sunset when he made out a cluster of adobe houses that marked the half-way point between Bradford and Fairdale. The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border Just below us are the adobe houses of the Mexicans. Light of the Western Stars Quarters for the cowboys—comfortable, roomy adobe houses that not even the lamest cowboy dared describe as crampy bunks—stood in a row upon a long bench of ground above the lake. Light of the Western Stars Every clump of cottonwoods surrounded a small adobe house. The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border We were greeted by the sight of a few old adobe houses, and the usual saloon. Vanished Arizona At that distance, about a quarter of a mile, Mercer appeared to be a cluster of low adobe houses set in a grove of cottonwoods. The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border Duane rented a small adobe house on the outskirts of town and moved the family into it. The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border |
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