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Updated: May 16, 2025
From the alkaline, sunbeaten desert where the bayonet plant thrusts up a tender bloom head six inches in height, it slowly increases in stature as it travels across country more frequently rain washed, and winds its way beside mountain streams to where in more fertile soil and the same sunshine it develops magnificent specimens from ten to fifteen and more feet in height.
She called to the children playing upon the sunbeaten deck: "Come here, and hold up your aprons!" They obeyed, spreading out their little tattered garments. "Catch these!" she cried. They could not believe their eyes.
And the boy, lean and lithe, sunbeaten and browned, skin-clad and in hair- fringed and hair-tufted MUCLUCS that showed the wear of the sea and rough work, coolly withstood her advances, his body straight and stiff with the peculiar erectness common to children of savage people.
Here and there the close ranks of the palms were broken by an outcropping of rock, glaring up hot and sunbeaten at a distant patch of the sky. The air of the forest was still and languid, its heat tempered like that of a room with drawn blinds.
I am informed that in criticizing that literature which preys on strange people and prowls in far-off countries, under the shade of palms, in the unsheltered glare of sunbeaten beaches, amongst honest cannibals and the more sophisticated pioneers of our glorious virtues, a lady distinguished in the world of letters summed up her disapproval of it by saying that the tales it produced were "de-civilized."
She called to the children playing upon the sunbeaten deck: "Come here, and hold up your aprons!" They obeyed, spreading out their little tattered garments. "Catch these!" she cried. They could not believe their eyes.
She called to the children playing upon the sunbeaten deck: "Come here, and hold up your aprons!" They obeyed, spreading out their little tattered garments. "Catch these!" she cried. They could not believe their eyes.
Innumerable lakes and craters surround the base; forests of the charming Williamson spruce fringe lake and crater alike; the sunbeaten plains to east and west make a striking show, and the wilderness of peaks and ridges stretch indefinitely away on either hand.
Hear him after a day on Alaskan peaks: "Dancing down the mountain to camp, my mind glowing like the sunbeaten glaciers, I found the Indians seated around a good fire, entirely happy now that the farthest point of the journey was safely reached and the long, dark storm was cleared away.
Dancing down the mountain to camp, my mind glowing like the sunbeaten glaciers, I found the Indians seated around a good fire, entirely happy now that the farthest point of the journey was safely reached and the long, dark storm was cleared away.
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