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Riders of the Purple Sage
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A horseman showed dark on the sky-line, then merged into the color of the sage.
Chpt 2 *

sage = a type of plant
CHAPTER I. LASSITER A sharp clip-crop of iron-shod hoofs deadened and died away, and clouds of yellow dust drifted from under the cottonwoods out over the sage.†
Chpt 1
Withersteen House was hers, and the great ranch, with its thousands of cattle, and the swiftest horses of the sage.†
Chpt 1
She loved it all—the grove of cottonwoods, the old stone house, the amber-tinted water, and the droves of shaggy, dusty horses and mustangs, the sleek, clean-limbed, blooded racers, and the browsing herds of cattle and the lean, sun-browned riders of the sage.†
Chpt 1
Her clear sight intensified the purple sage-slope as it rolled before her.†
Chpt 1
I'll turn you out in the sage.†
Chpt 1
"Venters, will you take your whipping here or would you rather go out in the sage?" asked Tull.†
Chpt 1
Once more her strained gaze sought the sage-slopes.†
Chpt 1
Jane Withersteen wheeled and saw a horseman, silhouetted against the western sky, coming riding out of the sage.†
Chpt 1
The grass was deep and rich, welcome contrast to sage-tired eyes.†
Chpt 2
For she was thinking of more than the desire to be fair in her own eyes, in those of her friend; she wondered if she were to seem fair in the eyes of this Lassiter, this man whose name had crossed the long, wild brakes of stone and plains of sage, this gentle-voiced, sad-faced man who was a hater and a killer of Mormons.†
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No, no. I'll go to the sage.†
Chpt 2
"Lassiter," said Venters, with a half-bitter laugh, "my bed too, is the sage.†
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But the sage is wide an' I won't be near.†
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Here in a secluded nook was a bench from which, through an opening in the tree-tops, could be seen the sage-slope and the wall of rock and the dim lines of canyons.†
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And for Venters the outlook before him was in some sense similar to a feeling of his future, and with searching eyes he studied the beautiful purple, barren waste of sage.†
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Jane, your riders seem as many as the bunches of sage.†
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The outgoing riders moved swiftly, came sharply into sight as they topped a ridge to show wild and black above the horizon, and then passed down, dimming into the purple of the sage.†
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The sage now spread out black and gloomy.†
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the sage-dogs are barking," said Venters.†
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At night, sometimes when I lie awake, listening to the long mourn or breaking bark or wild howl, I think of you asleep somewhere in the sage, and my heart aches.†
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The sky was now turning from gray to blue; stars had begun to lighten the earlier blackness; and from the wide flat sweep before him blew a cool wind, fragrant with the breath of sage.†
Chpt 2
They were riding along the border of the sage, and instantly he knew the hoofs of the horses were muffled.†
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Then, farther out on the sage, a dark, compact body of horsemen went by, almost without sound, almost like specters, and they, too, melted into the night.†
Chpt 2
For about this man there was mystery, he seldom rode through the village, and when he did ride through it was swiftly; riders seldom met by day on the sage, but wherever he rode there always followed deeds as dark and mysterious as the mask he wore.†
Chpt 3
That night the villagers whispered in the street—and night-riding rustlers muffled horses—and Tull was at work in secret—and out there in the sage hid a man who meant something terrible—Lassiter!†
Chpt 3
Venters passed the black cottonwoods, and, entering the sage, climbed the gradual slope.†
Chpt 3
From time to time he stopped to listen and heard only the usual familiar bark of coyote and sweep of wind and rustle of sage.†
Chpt 3
Arising, he greeted the fawning dogs and stretched his cramped body, and then, gathering together bunches of dead sage sticks, he lighted a fire.†
Chpt 3
He saw him, presently, a little way off in the sage, and went to fetch him.†
Chpt 3
Before him, to left, to right, waving, rolling, sinking, rising, like low swells of a purple sea, stretched the sage.†
Chpt 3
Numberless red and black and white dots speckled the sage, and these were cattle and horses.†
Chpt 3
"I was snug hid in the sage," replied Lassiter, "an' didn't see or hear no one.†
Chpt 3
Here he became a rider of the sage, had stock of his own, and for a time prospered, until chance threw him in the employ of Jane Withersteen.†
Chpt 3
He paused a moment and flicked a sage-brush with his quirt.†
Chpt 3
Next to his horse a rider of the sage loved a spring.†
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It was the spring that made old Withersteen a feudal lord and now enabled his daughter to return the toll which her father had exacted from the toilers of the sage.†
Chpt 3
It was all in strange contrast to the endless slopes of lonely sage and the wild rock environs beyond.†
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My racers of the sage!†
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Now, ma'am, if you was wantin' to make a long an' fast ride across the sage—say to elope—" Lassiter ended there with dry humor, yet behind that was meaning.†
Chpt 3
On this side of the ranch the outlook was different from that on the other; the immediate foreground was rough and the sage more rugged and less colorful; there were no dark-blue lines of canyons to hold the eye, nor any uprearing rock walls.†
Chpt 3
Soon Jane left the trail and rode into the sage, and presently she dismounted and threw her bridle.†
Chpt 3
It lay in the shade of a sweeping sage-brush close to the edge of the promontory; and a rider could have jumped his horse over it without recognizing a grave.†
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A grave in the sage!†
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Gray slopes, tinging the purple, barren and wild, with the wind waving the sage, swept away to the dim horizon.†
Chpt 3
The horse disappeared in the sage, and then puffs of dust marked his course.†
Chpt 3
Jane, your riders haven't gone out in the sage.†
Chpt 4
Wrangle's the biggest en' fastest hoss on the sage.†
Chpt 4
Wait till he smells the sage!†
Chpt 4
The swing of this fiery horse recalled to Venters days that were not really long past, when he rode into the sage as the leader of Jane Withersteen's riders.†
Chpt 4

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(1) (sage as in: sage advice)
profound wisdom; or one known for being wise
(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)

sage in Riders of the Purple Sage (Auto-generated)

sage
in
Riders of the Purple Sage
(Auto-generated)