palmilla

Not far from the palmilla, two plastic decorative flamingos dawdled on the lawn, useless and remarkable to the eye.

Their Dogs Came With Them Helena María Viramontes 2007

Besides all these were massive biznagas, cholas, bear-grass or palmilla, and the mescal, supplying the principal vegetable food of the Apaches.

Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

After leaving this creek we passed a barren rolling prairie with scanty herbage and covered with the palmilla or soap-plant.

Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

The palmilla, standing like a huge porcupine upon the plain, cannot be mistaken; and he descries it at more than a mile's distance, the shadow of his own head already flickering among its bayonet-like blades.

The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid 1850

A flock of buzzards, seemingly scared by his shadow, have suddenly flapped up from among the sage-plants, and are now soaring around, close to the spikes of the palmilla.

The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid 1850

It was no labour to fill her xuages with fresh water at every spring or runlet, to spread the blanket softly over her saddle, to weave her a _quitasol_ out of the broad leaves of the palmilla, to assist her in mounting and dismounting.

The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid 1850

I observed also the _palmilla_, or soap-plant, another yucca whose roots yield an excellent substitute for soap; and various forms of cactus -- never out of sight on Mexican soil -- grew thickly around, a characteristic feature of the landscape.

The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850

In less than five minutes after, the smoke from a sage-stalk fire was seen ascending from beside the palmilla, and in its blaze, quickly kindled, a huge piece of venison, cut from the fat flanks of the doe, weighing at least four pounds, spitted upon one of the stiff blades of the plant, was rapidly turning from blood red to burnt brown.

The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid 1850

Treeless save a skirting of dwarf cedars along the cliff's edge, with here and there a _motte_ of black-jack oaks, a cluster of cactus plants, or a solitary yucca of the arborescent species -- the _palmilla_ of the Mexicans.

The Death Shot A Story Retold Mayne Reid 1850

The cold bath, assisted by some Taos brandy from the gourd _xuage_ of the trapper, soon restored my strength; and the hideous pigment, lathered with the bruised roots of the _palmilla_ -- the soap-plant of the New Mexicans, soon disappeared from my skin.

The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850