When they had all disappeared I crept into the long elephant-grass which grew by the side of the vast pit. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Long after dawn had broken I crept out of the elephant-grass which had so successfully hidden me. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He skirted round it, but to all appearances it was closed and empty, and he sat down behind a clump of rough elephant-grass and tucked his heels under him. ❋ Marjorie Douie (N/A)
The building weaver-bird betakes itself to a clump of elephant-grass, and, perching on one of the blades, makes a notch in another near the base. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)
Between them ran recesses, sometimes three or four hundred acres in extent, high with elephant-grass or little trees like alders. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
Outside the palms grow tall elephant-grass and bush. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
Beyond the elephant-grass flats low ridges ran down to the river, varying in width, but carrying always with them the dense thorn. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
The ideal path would, of course, have cut across all the bends and ridges; but the thorn of the ridges and the elephant-grass of the flats forbade it. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
The path here, I should add, ran past a clump of green bushes; I remember they bore a white flower that smelt sweet, and were backed by some tall grass, elephant-grass I think it was, among which grew mimosa trees. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
The nest was a loose structure almost globular, but open at the top, composed externally of very coarse dry grass (lallung or elephant-grass), and lined with green durian leaves cut into small bits. ❋ Allan Octavian Hume (1870)
They were not attached to anything, but simply laid in a depressed platform about a foot above the ground, in among the thickest of the stalks of elephant-grass. ❋ Allan Octavian Hume (1870)
Here they frequent the immense tracts of long grass abounding in dense, swampy thickets, bristling with canes and wild roses; and in these spots, or in the long elephant-grass on the bank of jheels, the buffalos lie during the heat of the day. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
We can not sight the entire herd as the tall elephant-grass obscures their visibility. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Thin layer of mist floats in the open area of tall elephant-grass - an ideal haven for animals where they feel safe and secure. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Ere the midnight murderer could spring to his feet, we had dashed away as fast as our legs could carry us, running along the fetish-grove, past the cluster of executioners 'houses, across the open space where in the centre stood the great tree under which Prempeh had sat to witness the wholesale sacrifice, and continuing until we came to a path through the high elephant-grass, we soon left the city far behind us, and plunged into the dark, dismal forest by the narrow winding way that led to the unexplored regions of the north. ❋ William Le Queux (1895)
"When the bird frequents elephant-grass, where there are no shrubs, it builds on the ground at the edge of a clump of grass, and I have found two nests in such a situation, only a few feet from each other. ❋ Allan Octavian Hume (1870)
"The nests were placed a few feet apart in an immensely thick patch of elephant-grass, the undergrowth being fine, once tall, but now dead, grass. ❋ Allan Octavian Hume (1870)
"The nest is never more than 4 feet from the ground, and is attached either to two or more stalks of elephant-grass or to the stem of a low weed, or to the blades of certain tender grasses which grow in thick tufts. ❋ Allan Octavian Hume (1870)
