One evening a low-down terra-cotta-colored piute swiped two of Mr. Watkins' paint ponies and by stealth, under cover of the cloaking twilight, went away with them into the far mysterious spaces of the purpling sage.
"One Third Off"
Irvin S. Cobb
The Claywall physician came into the little room as silently as a piute.
"They of the High Trails"
Hamlin Garland
"I didn't put it out just the way I had it in my head, but she 'peared to sense enough of it to call me a piute for butting in.
"They of the High Trails"
Hamlin Garland