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Authors names:  (4) Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 (2) Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923 (2) Raine, William MacLeod, 1871-1954 (2) more...

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Synonyms: Old; adobe; adobe brick; erstwhile; former; honest-to-god; honest-to-goodness; old; older; one-time; onetime; previous; quondam; sometime; sure-enough

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  1.  The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks /
    that somewhere over in the Mission is the old adobe church. They rejoice that it escaped the fire ... upon the brick building next door and crept close to the walls of this old adobe, when suddenly  details...
  2.  Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch / Vachell, Horace Annesley, 1861-1955
    to lend an old _adobe_ building to the village fathers, to be used as a schoolhouse, until the schoolhouse ... . Then she walked swiftly to the door and locked it. The old _adobe_ had been built at a time when Indian raids  details...
  3.  Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft /
    horses at full speed, we whirled past the old adobe wall (which the Mormons had built to defend ... here and there, on guard, about the grounds. The house was an old-fashioned adobe farm-house; the windows  details...
  4.  A Summer in a Canyon / Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
    in Southern California. A light mist hung over the old adobe mission church, through which, with its snow ... they passed an old adobe hut, with a crowd of pretty, swarthy, frowzy Mexican children playing in the sunshine  details...
  5.  Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State /
    dollars to have them taken to a room in an old adobe building on the west side of what is now known ... for an old adobe building, which stood upon the bank of the river, and near which were numerous tents  details...
  6.  A Ward of the Golden Gate / Harte, Bret, 1836-1902
    in the form of deep verandas, while the old adobe walls themselves were hidden beneath flowing Cape jessamine ... himself on a cushioned lounge that filled the angle of the deep embrasure--the thickness of the old adobe walls  details...
  7.  Stories of California / Sexton, Ella M.
    by and are making adobe bricks, hoping soon to build a church like the old Mission long since crumbled away ... -covered porch of her old adobe house at Monterey one summer afternoon. And as she talked of those early times  details...
  8.  A Texas Ranger / Raine, William MacLeod, 1871-1954
    suburbs Neill slipped to the ground and walked beside her toward the old adobe plaza of the Mexican town ... . Only at the moving picture shows can the old West, melodramatically overpainted, be shown to the manicured sons  details...
  9.  The Long Chance / Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard), 1880-1957
    the position of cashier in the eating-house. The old adobe ranch was still deserted--the kitchen door still ... . An old greasy wide-brimmed gray felt hat, pinched to a "Montana peak," was shoved back on his curly black  details...
  10.  The Bells of San Juan / Gregory, Jackson, 1882-1943
    , goading his burro impatiently, to know what great event had occurred in the old adobe town of San Juan ... the most silent and deserted of thoroughfares, at other times a mad and turbulent lane between sun-dried adobe  details...

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Date created: 1994-07-23
Date updated: 2009-10-02
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