sage-brush

I had just come up with an armful of sage-brush, and I stopped to listen and to stare at the intruder, whom I hated, because it was in the air to hate, because I knew that every last person in our company hated these strangers who were white-skinned like us and because of whom we had been compelled to make our camp in a circle.

Chapter 12 2010

And as I counted them now, as a child will to while away tedium, they were all there, forty of them, all canvas-topped, big and massive, crudely fashioned, pitching and lurching, grinding and jarring over sand and sage-brush and rock.

Chapter 12 2010

While some of the men chopped sage-brush and we children carried it to the fires that were kindling, other men unyoked the oxen and let them stampede for water.

Chapter 12 2010

Our city lies in the midst of a desert of the purest—most unadulterated, and uncompromising sand—in which infernal soil nothing than that fag-end of vegetable creation, ‘sage-brush,’ ventures to grow.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

Our city lies in the midst of a desert of the purest—most unadulterated, and uncompromising sand—in which infernal soil nothing than that fag-end of vegetable creation, ‘sage-brush,’ ventures to grow.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

Materializing at the campfire, he looked to an astonished Henry Adams like “a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush.”

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

Adams, who spent a summer with the survey, saw him as “a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush.”

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

We wrestled briefly over the controls, and the big rig slewed off the blacktop, jacknifed through a roadside diner, double-rolled into the sage-brush.

I Met John Scalvi! « Whatever 2008

Materializing at the campfire, he looked to an astonished Henry Adams like “a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush.”

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

Adams, who spent a summer with the survey, saw him as “a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush.”

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008