Sahuaro

The deceptive green of occasional palo-verde bushes now gave place to the columns of the giant sahuaro. ❋ Robert Ames Bennet (1912)

What he saw was only the green of mesquite and palo verde, the fluted columns of the giant sahuaro, and the gray of sagebrush. ❋ Robert Ames Bennet (1912)

Little frisk-tailed things ran up and down the spiney shrubs, and a woodpecker, who had made his nest in its pithy stalk, peered at them from a tall _sahuaro_. ❋ Mary Hunter Austin (1901)

The children saw the plains of Texas stretching under the heat haze, stark sand in wind-blown dunes, tall stakes of _sahuaro_ marching wide apart, hot, trackless sand in which a horse's foot sinks to the fetlock, and here and there raw gashes in the earth for rivers that did not run, except now and then in fierce and ungovernable floods. ❋ Mary Hunter Austin (1901)

In the meantime the sahuaro had caught fire at the top, and was burning down through the interior. ❋ Edmund Day (1894)

A half-hour later the Mexican guards appeared upon the scene, and unbound Lane's unconscious form from the sahuaro, which the fire had consumed to a foot of his bowed head. ❋ Edmund Day (1894)

With his mind occupied by these horrible apprehensions, Lane looked at the rattlesnake upon the sahuaro whose struggles by this time had diminished to a movement of the tail. ❋ Edmund Day (1894)

I could only climb the sahuaro, "he thought," and fly my red shirt as a flag, to let the Rurales know I've flanked the enemy, it might hurry them along in time to put a crimp in these devils before they get me. ❋ Edmund Day (1894)

As McKee bent over his captive's feet, piling against them the burning ends of the sticks, the rattlesnake on the sahuaro, incited by the fire above, struggled free from the impaling thorns by a desperate effort, and dropped on the back of the half-breed. ❋ Edmund Day (1894)

But from the clump of cactus growth along the parapet arose a sahuaro, with branching arms, and against this the snake was flung. ❋ Edmund Day (1894)

And the renegade dragged his helpless captive up to the thorny sahuaro, and bound his back against it with the dead horse's bridle. ❋ Edmund Day (1894)

For the first time he observed the snake impaled on the sahuaro, writhing but feebly. ❋ Edmund Day (1894)

AJ albritton from sahuaro? im pretty sure he had a 40 pt game this year ❋ Unknown (2009)

Then there are the pears of the tuna and the fruit of the sahuaro or giant cactus. " ❋ Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower (N/A)

Person 1: Bro did you hear about [the fight] at Sahuaro High School? Person 2: No, what was it about this time? Drugs or fake [gang] [beef]? ❋ Fuck_Sahuaro (2019)

[Boy 1]: what [school] do you go to? Boy 2: Sahuaro High [School]. Boy 1: I’m [so sorry]. ❋ Ar.Ca.Ra.Be (2019)