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  • Mexican fashion, the roof supported on stout poles, and then mudded walls were built up on arrowweed latticing.

    Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert James H. McClintock

  • The arrowweed and the soapweed were everywhere, as was also the stunted creosote.

    A Man Four-Square William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • An arrowweed thicket had struggled up from a jutting spar of rock.

    Oh, You Tex! William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • It was within a few feet of the top, just below the arrowweed bush, that she came to an _impasse_.

    Oh, You Tex! William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • By means of the arrowweed she lowered herself over the edge while her foot groped for the spar of quartz.

    Oh, You Tex! William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • Webb, stung to irritable action, fired into the cholla and the arrowweed thickets.

    A Man Four-Square William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • By means of this she went up hand over hand till she could reach the arrowweed.

    Oh, You Tex! William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • Four willow poles driven in the ground, a few crosspieces, a thatch of arrowweed, three strips of plank nailed round the bottom, some mosquito netting, and it was done.

    The Desert Fiddler 1902

  • He ran stumblingly, desperately, along the uneven bank, dodging willows and arrowweed, stopping now and again to peer up and down the stream.

    The Desert Fiddler 1902

  • The black cherry trees were masses of snowy bloom; the water at the river's edge held spikes of blue arrowweed in its crystal shallows; while the roadside itself was gay with daisies and feathery grasses.

    Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

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