Ocote/Citations
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Citations of ocote
- 1953 — The stones of the street were slippery, but neither from dew nor from rain, and the smells which I didn't yet know how to sort rose thickly mixed-smells of straw, clay, charcoal and ocote smoke, cookery, stone, shit and corn meal, boiled chicken, pepper, dog, pig, donkey. — Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
- 1953 — Two days it rained, and I was sunk in it while wet wood tried to burn and I tossed in whole bundles of resinous ocote to try to make a blaze. — Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
- 1994 — They have come without ocote pine, because the wood is wet, and without oak mulch, because it, too, is wet from the long rain. — Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo, 1955. Translated from Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.