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sage
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Ceremony, by Silko
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- ...a great variety of herb and root odors were almost hidden by the smell of mountain sage and something as ordinary as curry powder.
Chpt All *sage = any of various plants including one used as a popular spice and another that is a type of brush with a strong scent
- Inside the boxes without lids, the erect brown string handles of shopping bags poked out; piled to the tops of the WOOLWORTH bags were bouquets of dried sage and the brown leaves of mountain tobacco wrapped in swaths of silvery unspun wool.†
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- He smelled piñon and sage in the wind that blew across the stony backbone of the ridge.†
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- Make four bundles tie them with yucca spruce mixed with charcoal from burned weeds snakeweed and gramma grass and rock sage.†
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- He smelled wood smoke and sage in the old man's clothes.†
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- The smell of clay and mountain sage stirred old memories.†
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- She sniffed them and blew on them before she matched the plants with the stones, putting a sprig of blue-gray mountain sage with the blue stone.†
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- The smell of mountain sage surrounded him, and he realized he had skidded through a sage bush; twigs of sage and oak leaves were caught in his hair and crumbled down the back of his neck.†
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- The smell of mountain sage surrounded him, and he realized he had skidded through a sage bush; twigs of sage and oak leaves were caught in his hair and crumbled down the back of his neck.†
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- The smell of mountain sage surrounded him, and he realized he had skidded through a sage bush; twigs of sage and oak leaves were caught in his hair and crumbled down the back of his neck.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(sage as in: sage advice) profound wisdom; or one known for being wise
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(2)
(sage as in: the growing sage) a name for various plants including one used as a popular spice and another commonly called sagebrush
or: the color of such plants (a shade of green with some hint of gray) - (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)