No sword-grass grows about the margin; there are no blue water forget-me-nots, nor broad lily leaves; the grass at the brim is short and thick, and the weeping willows that droop over the edge grow picturesquely enough. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Thank goodness we are in forest now, and we seem to have done with the sword-grass. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Frequently we entered extensive _prairies_, covered with blades of sword-grass, tall as our heads, whose jagged edges tore us like saws, though we protected our faces with masks of wattled willows. ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)
In this particular picture I am sitting among clumps of sword-grass on a steep and rocky hillside that we have just taken. ❋ Donald L. Miller (1945)
The Chief's observant glance had lighted on Rhinoceros, lying upside down in a little clump of flowering sword-grass, into which he had been whisked as the Mother shook out the little shawl. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)
Down below, nearer to the stream, a tough green sword-grass grew richly; and beyond lay the deep wood, softly sighing, and containing all sorts of strange scents and haunting presences. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)
On the oat-grass and the sword-grass, and the bulrush in the pool. ❋ Various (1878)
The plant which reaches the greatest height and grows most plentifully is a species of sword-grass, excellent food for cattle, and serving also as a place of shelter to numbers of seals and multitudes of gulls. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)
She directed him to put in his girdle a blade of scented sword-grass, and to proceed the next morning to the banks of the lake, which was no other than that over which the Red Head reigned. ❋ Cornelius Mathews (1853)
For about five hundred yards in width from the stream, the ground was soft and miry to the depth of some four inches, with long sword-grass quite knee-deep, and at every fifty yards ❋ Henry William Herbert (1832)
They tore that open, and there was the hay-rope lying stretched down alongst his breast, so fresh that they saw at first sight that it was made of risp, a sort of long sword-grass that grows about marshes and the sides of lakes. ❋ James Hogg (1802)
They take certain spots to themselves, and build their nests near the edge of the cliffs on little hillocks, which are either those of the sword-grass, or else they are made by the shags building on them from year to year. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
