Strawy

Beside the walkways, strawy hemispheres of grass crouch between indicative junipers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the strawy warmth of the stall he made no haste. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They had the same ideas or lack of, and the same colour hair - a like dyed strawy. ❋ John Myles Aavedal (2010)

News at Eleven: Thomas Hardy remembers sitting with other children by the fireside at midnight, listening wide-eyed to the adults tell them that the animals are kneeling now in their "strawy pen." ❋ Rus Bowden (2006)

And in his stable at Ascot the son of Sleeping Dove, from home for the first time, pondered on the mutability of equine affairs, closing and opening his eyes, and breathing without sound in the strawy dark, above the black cat he had brought to bear him company. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Rumbold scratched his ear with the three strawy jampots he held in his hand. ❋ Unknown (2003)

And when she rose from her strawy grave to Carter's house she went ❋ Unknown (1997)

Batch plants are suitable for digesting strawy, fibrous material with a high solids content, usually in areas with low annual precipitation, and for use as simple demonstration plants. ❋ Unknown (1989)

The yellow mite (probably _Lyroglyphus infestans_) is extremely common in strawy litter on the surface of hotbeds, and I have no doubt finds its way into the mushroom house as manure vermin rather than a mushroom parasite. ❋ William Falconer (N/A)

The Beta we gave no winter protection, but all of the others we covered with strawy manure. ❋ Various (N/A)

During the autumn months we get along very well with it out of doors; after every turning cover the heap with strawy litter to save it from the drying influences of sun and wind. ❋ William Falconer (N/A)

Some growers use the droppings only, and reject all of the strawy part, or as much of it as they can conveniently shake out. ❋ William Falconer (N/A)

Shake out all the rank, dry, strawy part of the manure and lay it aside for other purposes. ❋ William Falconer (N/A)

The idle "riding" horses are usually fed very strawy local grass hay with just enough supplemental alfalfa and grain to maintain a minimal healthy condition. ❋ Steve Solomon (N/A)

There is a roof, a stick chimney, drenched cattle crowding in beneath a strawy barrack, and some forlorn fowls huddling under ❋ William Worthington Fowler (N/A)

The plants will require no special protection or care during the winter; though a slight covering of strawy, stable litter may be applied after the forking-over of the bed in the autumn, just before the closing-up of the ground. ❋ Fearing Burr (N/A)

The application of coarse, undigested, strawy manure, tends to the production of forked and misshapen roots, and should be avoided. ❋ Fearing Burr (N/A)

Here the Arabian berry evolved clouds of perfume; here Curaçoa glistened from behind its strawy shield; and here a decanter of warranted real French brandy, side by side with a bottle of Stoughton's bitters, suggested that a cocktail might not only be desirable, but possible. ❋ Various (N/A)