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dense vegetation typically consisting of bushes found in dry climates- prescribed burns of chaparral
- It was a relief, after the constant battle with the mesquite and chaparral.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- Eventually, Bob stepped through the chaparral with Shady, his faithful wolf-malamute, and we lit the propane light again.Alice Sebold -- Lucky
- The strike hit when the chaparral of the L.A. valley was ready to burn anyway.John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
- The track of flattened chaparral was still visible bending away over the floor of the desert.Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
- Ahead lay a flat and endless valley of dry sagebrush and chaparral; the no-man's-land between the river and the outskirts of the border city of McAllen.W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
- The crashing of wild animals into the chaparral, and the scarcely frightened flight of rabbits and grouse attested to the wildness of the place.Zane Grey -- The Border Legion
- Half an hour of riding brought him to the dense chaparral and willow thickets.Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
- I see Chaparral Court.James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment
- Like cottontail rabbits and chaparral birds and a baby possum that sulked and lay like dead for the first several hours until he finally decided that Arliss wasn't going to hurt him.Fred Gipson -- Old Yeller
- He was watching the two pigs, who were rooting around a chaparral bush.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- Mouse, a good cow horse, twisted and jumped a medium-sized chaparral bush in an effort to gain a step on the cows.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- They were moving through fairly open country, flats of chaparral with only here and there a strand of mesquite.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- Small birds were beginning to call from the chaparral.Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
- Lonesome Dove was hidden—he could barely see the top of the little church house across the chaparral flats.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- He had grown up with the sun shining, with mesquite and chaparral, armadillos and coyotes, Mexicans and the shallow Rio Grande.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- The new bunch had simply cut around the chaparral thicket from the north and collided with the first herd.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- Just as he ducked, Mouse leaped a sizable chaparral bush.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- He saw what looked like half the herd charging right at him from the rear; some of the horses nearest him veered and went crashing into the chaparral.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- There were lots of low bushes, mostly chaparral, between him and the hut, and there could be a bandit with a bowie knife behind any one of them.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
chaparral = dense vegetation typically consisting of bushes found in dry climates
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