"Adobe house" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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
... 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
... with its surrounding acres, was my property, and had been before the fire which had destroyed the adobe house, one of the prettiest spots ...
— The Beautiful Eyes of Ysidria • Charles A. Gunnison
... surmised, from its weight, it might contain gold. Hastily filling the hole, and making the surface smooth as possible, in the dim light, he climbed out of the window, taking the box with him. Walking swiftly on the road for a half-mile farther, he came to a little adobe house where he and his parents lived. Passing the house, he hurried on to the garden and wheat-field belonging to his father, and, reaching the far end, he sat down on the ground and took the box in his lap to examine it at his ease. For a moment he hesitated, realizing the magnitude of his crime, but ...
— Old Mission Stories of California • Charles Franklin Carter
... 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 |
