From Hunter's, in Nevada, to the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains, stretches the long space of unfinished work, ten hundred and fifty-four miles of railroad line, with three sharp crests and a gently rolling intra-mountain desert, where the dew never falls, where the twilight lingers long into the evening, and the eye wearies of the wastes of sage-bush, and the tracts of scant grass between arid breadths of dazzling white alkaline sand. ❋ Various (N/A)
It was a vast sandy plain, thinly dotted with sage-bush and other stunted shrubs. ❋ William Worthington Fowler (N/A)
Going west, you pass through what seems an endless waste of sage-bush and sand. ❋ Horatio (N/A)
Leaving at noon in procession, with three ambulances and as many army wagons, scaling the bluffs, bare of everything like trees or shrubs, and only covered with grass and wild flowers, and now and then sage-bush and prickly-pear cactus, which are very troublesome to the horses 'feet. ❋ Edmund B. Tuttle (N/A)
Mormons had encamped, and apparently halted a day, for more than ordinary pains had been taken to make their camp comfortable, and several piles of twigs, of the sage-bush and rushes, remained, of which they had made beds. ❋ Unknown (1916)
And do you recall the day we trailed across the Yuma deserts, and the sun beat into our skulls, and the dry, brittle hills looked like papier-mache, and the grey sage-bush ran off into the rise of the hills; and then came sunset and the hard, dry mountains grew filmy, like gauze veils of many colours, and melted and glowed and faded to slate blue, and the stars came out? ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
The loosened golden hair streamed back on the wind like hands of despair wildly clutching for help, and the jaunty green riding cap was snatched by the breeze and hung upon a sage-bush not fifty feet from the cabin gate, but the pony rushed on with the frightened girl still clinging to the saddle. ❋ Grace Livingston Hill (1906)
As he walked along by the fence he caught sight of a small dark object hanging on a sage-bush a short distance from the front of his house. ❋ Grace Livingston Hill (1906)
It was then that Bud, flying frantically from one spot to another, got down upon his knees behind a sage-bush when Gardley was not looking and mumbled a rough, hasty prayer for help. ❋ Grace Livingston Hill (1906)
She was sitting in the deep shadow of a sage-bush that lay on the edge of the trail like a great blot, her suit-case beside her, her breath coming short with exertion and excitement, when she heard a cheery whistle in the distance. ❋ Grace Livingston Hill (1906)
And he turned with a silly leer to enforce his command; but with a cry of horror Margaret slid to the ground and ran back down the trail as hard as she could go, till she stumbled and fell in the shelter of a great sage-bush, and lay sobbing on the sand. ❋ Grace Livingston Hill (1906)
The sun had been hot as it beat down upon the whiteness of the sand, and the girl had crept under a sage-bush for shelter from it. ❋ Grace Livingston Hill (1906)
What a revelation it must be to one used to the barren alkali deserts of Wyoming, where, nothing grew but sage-bush and cacti! ❋ Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1906)
Suddenly she thought she saw something dark stir behind a sage-bush just ahead. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)
A gray sage-bush with beautiful purple blossoms she called purple sage; another bush with yellow flowers she named buck - brush, and there were vermilion cacti and low, flat mounds of lavender daisies which she said had no name. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)
Slone drew his own horse back and tied him to a sage-bush amidst some scant grass. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)
_ Out of the den, beside a sage-bush, there poured a procession of little Coyotes, merrily tumbling over one another. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)
The old man, with his quantities of sage-bush, thought Thomas owned all the virtues mentioned in high-class literature, and his opinion, too, was of commercial value. ❋ Unknown (1899)
I have also sold for four thousand dollars the ten acres of outlying sage-bush which you once foolishly tried to give away. ❋ Unknown (1899)
His name became entangled with the name of Wilkins in the ownership of vast and valuable tracts of sage-bush in Tin Can, Nevada. ❋ Unknown (1899)
