"Adobe house" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on a canvas and then had worked them with magical speed into a picture. 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. Freeman saw the vines clambering over the eaves and roof, the vases of earthenware suspended between the pillars and overflowing with flowers, the long windows, the steps descending into the garden. ...
— The Golden Fleece • Julian Hawthorne
... half smile, "dthat adobe house vidth vines look cool—suppose I buy dthat and ve stay ...
— Under the Southern Cross • Elizabeth Robins
... whooping and laughing and swinging under mesquite trees as if his whole heart was in the race. Catching the contagion Hardy's sorrel dashed madly after him, and the moment they struck the open he went by like a shot, over-running the goal and dancing around the low adobe house like ...
— Hidden Water • Dane Coolidge
... street to the one-roomed adobe house on the edge of town that served as city headquarters for himself and Johnson. He unsaddled in the little corral; he brought a feed of corn for brown Awguan; he brought currycomb and brush and made glossy ...
— Copper Streak Trail • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... the way of Salt Lake, struck the Oregon trail, and finally came to the mission that Dr. Whitman had founded among the Nez-Perces (pierced noses) at Walla Walla. This mission then consisted of a single adobe house. ...
— The Log School-House on the Columbia • Hezekiah Butterworth |
