| Hummingbirds favored the maguey cactus, and people who extracted the plant's sap were also known as hummingbirds. |
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| This food grouping includes corn, beans, and squash, but is also enriched by the addition of chilies, cactus, maguey, and amaranth. |
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| Pita is another maguey fiber, finer than ixtle, used to create fancy trim on the edges of leather work. |
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| Then, as the heat of the coals wilted the maguey, we would fold the pencas over, one by one, in a basket weave over the top of the coals. |
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| Steady-handed, Mosby on his patio took ice with tongs, and poured more mescal flavored with gusano de maguey — a worm or slug of delicate flavor. |
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| This was essentially the diet of the peasant, with the addition of pulque, the fermented sap of the maguey, at higher altitudes. |
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| Commoners, for example, wore clothing woven from maguey fibre, while the upper classes wore cotton garments. |
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| This reminded one student of the maguey, and he enthusiastically described to the class the process of making mescal and tequila from that cactus plant. |
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| Then with a knife one cuts a piece of the leaf of the maguey. |
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| When night fell she crawled away into the maguey plants, her skirts knotted up so as not to hamper her, and dug a little hole into which she could press her face to weep without being heard. Miss Hernández took all this down. |
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| In Mexico, lamb is the meat of choice for the popular barbacoa dish, in which the lamb is roasted or steamed wrapped in maguey leaves underground. |
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| Maize is the major crop cultivated but they also harvested maguey. |
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| Maguey is a kind of agave with succulent leaves and a sharp thorn on the tip. |
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