Tarweed

We tried him at sun-up, an 'again at sundown, an' nights too, laying in the chaparral an 'tarweed, an' scouting up an 'down that blame river, till we were sore. ❋ Unknown (1995)

The valley swam under a haze of pure heat; a buzzard hung motionless over the cabin, and the dry air was sweet with resinous scent of pines and manzanita and even of tarweed. ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)

Grasshoppers whirred everywhere; squirrels whistled; occasional little dust-devils whirled up the now thoroughly dry river-bed and the atmosphere was redolent of the aroma of dust and tarweed. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The resinous paradisiacal smell of tarweed and bay-tree refreshed us, and the wonder of life was a something strong and tangible like bread and wine. ❋ Gouverneur Morris (1914)

He looked down upon his clothes, stuccoed with tarweed burrs and wet mud. ❋ Will Irwin (1910)

The autumn rains came and the dry, sniffly dust of the campus lay flat under the quiet air; the clear, fall weather that is mixed in one's mind with the pungent smell of tarweed in the pasture lands, and with long exciting afternoon practices, hung cool over the land, and still Pellams went girling, with his beautiful joke on the college. ❋ Will Irwin (1910)

He raked carefully his broad path among the pine needles, laying bare the brown earth; hoed and chopped in the tarweed and brush. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

The tiny flames licked past them in the tarweed; they did not heed. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

The Douglas squirrels scampered and barked; the birds twittered and flashed or slanted in long flight through the trees; the sun shone soft; a cool breeze ruffled the feathery tips of the tarweed. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

Up the slope they galloped, whirled around the end of the fire line, and began eagerly to lick up the tarweed and needles of the ridge-top. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

The man made no reply, but spat carefully into the tarweed. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

Welton explained to Bob that only the fact that Stone Creek bottom was at a low elevation, filled with brush and tarweed, and grown thick with young trees rendered the forest even inflammable at this time of year. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

And the tinkle of pleasant waters, the song of a meadow lark, the distant mellow lowing of cows came to his ears; the smell of tarweed and of pines mingled in his nostrils. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

The brushed marks went not only through the carpet of pine needles, but through the tarweed, the snow brush, the manzañita. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

The fire had leaped the cleared path and was greedily eating in all directions through the short, pitchy growth of tarweed. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

With short, quick jabs of his hoe, he was tearing away at the tough tarweed. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

The meadow at the back was gay with mariposa lilies, melodious with bees and birds, aromatic with the mingled essences of tarweed, lads-love, and the pines. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

The tarweed, especially, was stubborn under even the most vigorous wielding of his sharpened hoe. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

The stifling heat, the whirling dust clouds broken by whiffs of air, dry as from a kiln and impregnated with the pungent scent of the tarweed, made the men drowsy. ❋ Geraldine Bonner (1900)

The doorway was shadowed, the blackness of the barn's interior behind it, the scent of clean hay drifting out and mingling with the scents of baked earth and tarweed that came from the heated fields. ❋ Geraldine Bonner (1900)