Lexicographical Neighbors of Mezquites
Literary usage of Mezquites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Final Report of Investigations Among the Indians of the Southwestern United by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1892)
"This is traversed by the Arroyo de la Calera; afterwards comes a region quite
broken, and thickly overgrown with mezquites and cottonwoods; and finally bare ..."
2. The Earth and Its Inhabitants by Elisée Reclus (1891)
"The prevailing species are the mezquites ... every grove or thicket is a chaparral,
even where the mezquites and large cactus are the dominant types. ..."
3. New Trails in Mexico: An Account of One Year's Exploration in North-western by Carl Lumholtz (1912)
"The mezquites, far apart and small, take the place of grease- woods and the cacti
have almost disappeared. There was an abundance of very dry grass of a ..."
4. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1869)
"We also left the softly dimpling voluptuous mezquites and the grim-looking
live-oaks for the sumac and the post-oak. We will take the lorgnette, ..."
5. Southwestern Historical Quarterly by Texas State Historical Association, Herbert Eugene Bolton, Eugene Campbell Barker, University of Texas at Austin Center for Studies in Texas History (1905)
"... de mezquites). We crossed some little dry creeks; and then we came upon one
that had water in it, on the bank of which we halted. ..."
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