Water Grass

Word WATER GRASS
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The word "water-grass" in example sentences

He reached over, pulled up a handful of water-grass, rinsed the muddy roots off in the flowing stream and then peeled the slimy outer skin off them. ❋ Hobb, Robin (2008)

Olikea had saved some cooked fish and water-grass roots in a carry-net. ❋ Hobb, Robin (2008)

I recalled that once Soldier's Boy had eaten vast quantities of the water-grass that grew along the bank. ❋ Hobb, Robin (2008)

By the time Likari returned with an armload of shriveled plums, Soldier's Boy had cleared a substantial patch of water-grass. ❋ Hobb, Robin (2008)

The first four miles today were along the top of a sandy rise, with swampy flats on each side, with a number of reeds growing in them, also rushes and water-grass. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Its colour is dark-green from the reeds and rushes and water-grass which cover it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Outside these, bright water-grass of the liveliest green was creeping, tempting any unwary foot to step, and plunge, and founder. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

Broadswords of flag and rapiers of water-grass, which had been quivering merrily, began to hang down and to dip themselves in loops, and the stones of the brink showed dark green stripes on their sides as they stood naked. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

She sank into the delicious spring, soft water-grass under her tired, sore feet, her skin drinking in the moisture, relieving the chaff and dryness of the desert air. ❋ McLaren, Teri (1996)

The path is by way of shops containing every sort of merchandise known to Moors, and of stalls of fruit and vegetables, grateful "as water-grass to herds in the June days." ❋ S.L. Bensusan (N/A)

If the banks be sloped to the bottom, and the land be thus laid into beds or ridges, the appearance of the field may, indeed, be improved, but there is still a loss of soil; for the soil is all removed from the furrow, which will always produce rushes and water-grass, and carried to the ridge, where it doubles the depth of the natural soil. ❋ Henry Flagg French (N/A)

The lake is shallow, blind with reeds, vivid with water-grass, and lively with moor-fowl. ❋ John Masefield (1922)

A caribou swims even better than a moose, but whereas a moose not only feeds by preference in the water, but half the time has its head under water, the caribou feeds on land, although occasionally cropping water-grass that stands above the surface. ❋ Unknown (1916)

The latter's nest is sometimes so small as hardly to be able to contain the eggs -- a little, shallow, circular cup of rushes and water-weeds or floating lotus leaves or tufts of water-grass. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

Where the land is low it is covered with papyrus and water-grass; if a few feet higher, with open palm forest. ❋ Unknown (1916)

He was close to the alders, wading in the shallow water and deep mud and grazing on a patch of fairly tall water-grass. ❋ Unknown (1916)

Head and shoulders were in plain sight above the water-grass. ❋ William Joseph Long (1909)

One autumn day I passed the place and, looking cautiously over the top of a hill, saw a single black duck swim out of the water-grass at the edge of the pond. ❋ William Joseph Long (1909)

Then they drew gradually nearer till they were again within the fringe of water-grass. ❋ William Joseph Long (1909)

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