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chaparral
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  • The strike hit when the chaparral of the L.A. valley was ready to burn anyway.†  (source)
  • Eventually, Bob stepped through the chaparral with Shady, his faithful wolf-malamute, and we lit the propane light again.†  (source)
  • I see Chaparral Court.†  (source)
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  • 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.†  (source)
    chaparral = dense vegetation typically consisting of bushes found in dry climates
  • 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.†  (source)
  • Half an hour of riding brought him to the dense chaparral and willow thickets.†  (source)
  • The crashing of wild animals into the chaparral, and the scarcely frightened flight of rabbits and grouse attested to the wildness of the place.†  (source)
  • Colorful as they were, quilts weren't the best material for riding through mesquite and chaparral.†  (source)
  • Small birds were beginning to call from the chaparral.†  (source)
  • Twice he came to a wide bottom-land green with willow and cottonwood and thick as chaparral, somewhere through the middle of which ran a river he decided must be the lower Nueces.†  (source)
  • Pea pointed at the house, fifty yards away, in the chaparral.†  (source)
  • They pulled the wet saddles off the horses and hobbled them and walked off in separate directions through the chaparral to stand spraddlelegged clutching their knees and vomiting.†  (source)
  • If the moon was high enough to cast a shadow, he sheltered beside a clump of chaparral.†  (source)
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