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Sentences starting with grass

Grass grows in its wide streets, and its houses stand in a sleepy, vacant contemplation of each other: the wind must like to mourn about its silent squares. [4]
Grass and weeds grew rank over the whole cemetery. [5]
Grass grows and flowers bloom on its smooth upland, and behind it and in front of it are the snow-peaks. [4]
Grass had already begun to grow on the garden paths, and horses and calves were straying in the English park. [2]

Sentences ending with grass

The country was wild and rocky about here, but there were plenty of trees, plenty of moss, and grass. [5]
Shaggy, undersized horses were wading in the water, nipping off the thin spears of grass. [4]
And then, while we counted out the last seconds of the half, came a snap like that of a whip's lash, and the bowl of Richter's pipe lay smouldering on the grass. [9]
But the singin' was goin' past and recedin' as before, till it died away along the waves of prairie grass. [11]
Within the fort was a big common dotted with forest trees, where such cattle as had been saved browsed on the scanty grass. [9]
The figure sank upon the ground and buried a pitiful face in the wet grass. [11]
Presently she had to cross a little plot of grass. [11]
We had seen them in time for the halberdiers to extend their pikes, and the musketeers to be down amid the grass. [10]
As we left the village, we passed a rocky hay-field, where the Gaelic farmer was gathering the scanty yield of grass. [4]
The shadows of the tall trunks lay in transparent bars on the underbrush, luxuriant moss, and ferns, and the dew clung to the weeds and grass. [10]

Short sentences using grass

Like Indians in the grass. [13]
Prairie grass, is it? [9]

Sentences containing grass two or more times

The grass was tall there, and the blade of the plant is very much like grass, only thicker and glossier. [6]
For the greater part of the year the plateau whereon the Tent stands is covered with a sweet grass, and when the grass dies there comes a fine white frost, ungoverned by the sun, in which the footstep sinks, as into an unfilled honeycomb. [11]
She presently stretched out a hand almost caressingly to the thick trees and the grass, and said aloud: "Oh, the beautiful trees and the long grass! [11]
Then the first duty was to get up out of the grass and kill the scorpion; and the next to bathe the bitten place with alcohol or brandy; and the next to resolve to keep out of the grass in future. [5]
It is very difficult to tell when the grass of last fall became the grass of this spring. [4]

More example sentences with the word grass in them

If the agile youth could reach this cleft unseen, and crawl through as far as the pool of saltwater, overgrown with tall grass and tangled desert shrubs, at which it ended, he might, aided by the clouds, succeed. [10]
About this time you notice, in protected, sunny spots, that the grass has a little color. [4]
Felion sat just within his doorway, looking out into the sunlight which fell upon the red and white walls of the little city, flanked by young orchards, with great, oozy meadows beyond these, where cattle ate, knee- deep in the lush grass and cool reed-beds. [11]
We had hell with the herd that night, an' if the sage an' grass hadn't been wet--we, hosses, steers, an' all would hev burned up. [13]
They are coming with staves and spears and they will tread us down as grass and burn us in this house like the locusts cast into the oven. [10]
Mr. Riddle retired with one gentleman to a side of the little patch of grass, and Mr. Darnley and a friend to another. [9]
He built it with a tail, teeth, fourteen legs, and a snout, and said it ate grass, cattle, pebbles, and dirt with equal enthusiasm. [5]
For myself, I wish the earth close about me, and level green grass above me, and no one knowing of the place; or else, fire or the sea. [11]
A soft summer wind waved a little the long gray grass of the ancient resting-place, and seemed to whisper peace to the weary generation that lay there. [4]
The avenue is wide, and the tracks will be in a grass plot in the centre. [9]
The yachts were whiter, the water bluer, the grass greener; the stern grey rocks themselves flushed with purple. [9]
Little gray and white rabbits crouched in the grass, now nibbling, now laying long ears flat and watching the dogs. [13]
As before, a white man sat with supreme indifference at a table, and in front of him three most unhappy chiefs squatted in the grass, the shame of their irons hidden under the blanket folds. [9]
That curly grass which always grows by country roadsides became clearly visible, still wet with the night's rain; the drooping branches of the birches, also wet, swayed in the wind and flung down bright drops of water to one side. [2]
By the roadside, where the snow has just melted, the grass is of the color of emerald. [4]
And then beneath, where the grass almost hides it, the line: I have followed my Star to the last. [11]
And virgin valleys, where future generations were to be born, spread out and narrowed again,--valleys with a deep carpet of cane and grass, where the deer and elk and bear fed unmolested. [9]
They was thin when water and grass was everywhere. [13]
Time it was when the leaves were grown Your rose-colour, my queen; Ere the birds to the south had flown, While yet the grass was green. [11]
The weaver-bird (Ploceus), when confined in a cage, amuses itself by neatly weaving blades of grass between the wires of its cage. [1]
They had forgotten what grass was like, and the velvety green meadows seemed paradise to their surprised and happy eyes after the long habit of seeing nothing but dirty lanes and streets. [5]
Slipped on the wet grass, and Chartersea had him pinned before he caught his guard. [9]
At sundown, when we loosed our exhausted horses to graze on the wet grass by the streams, Tom would go off to look for a deer or turkey, and often not come back to us until long after darkness had fallen. [9]
Ah, darlin', how we footed it-the grass it was so green! [11]
As soon as we came out upon the southern slope we found great open spaces, covered with succulent grass, and giving excellent pasturage to cattle. [4]
So, perhaps, it was with the old man who watched the sleigh in the distance coming nearer, but that in his nature on which any one could feed was not so easily reached as the fresh young grass under the protecting snow. [11]
What he wanted was to be free of mules and burros and steers, to roll in dust-patches, and then to run down the wide, open, windy sage-plains, and at night browse and sleep in the cool wet grass of a springhole. [13]
Some said it was the softened climate, but others believed it was owing to the habit of keeping their ears open whenever they were walking through the grass or in the woods. [6]
Though the grass was still wet, she got down on her knees in her white skirt, the better to push the boat along the shore: once it drifted beyond their reach, and was only rescued by a fallen branch discovered with difficulty. [9]
And the dew was still on the grass as she crossed the wide lawn and made her way around the lake to the path that entered the woods at its farther end. [9]
I thought we was right on the track of a solution, but it's gone to grass, partly. [5]
The great braggart was no better now than a wisp of grass in the wind, and it was more than homage that bent him to his knees as the Queen looked him full in the eyes. [11]
This March-meeting day was mild, the grass showing a green color on the south slopes where the snow had melted, and the outlying farmers drove through mud-holes up to the axles. [9]
The sodden grass was matted now and unkempt. [9]
His disturbed brain was like some dark wood through which flew songless birds with wings of night; through which sped the furtive dwellers of the grass and the earth-covert. [11]
I knowed he was blind on his left side because he only nibbled the grass on the right side of the trail. [5]
And now I want, so to speak, to roll in the grass and among the dandelions with the other pachyderms. [6]
Venters did not want the burros to stray, so he tied them with long halters in the grass near the spring. [13]
Or had mice wandered to this barren place, where hard brown blades of grass grew between the crusts of salt and the bare spots, and were gnawing the prisoners' hard bread? [10]
Then she had wandered through the deep grass, her tiny feet scarcely turning a fragile blade, and she had dreamed beside some old faded flowers. [13]
On the stockade walls grass grew, as though where men will not live like men Nature labours to smother. [11]
It was a vast exposed surface rising at a slight angle out of the grass and undergrowth. [4]
It is made up of very simple details--just grass, and trees, and shrubs, and roads, and hedges, and gardens, and houses, and vines, and churches, and castles, and here and there a ruin--and over it all a mellow dream-haze of history. [5]
The goldenrod holds up its plumes In the long stretch of meadow grass, The briarrose shakes its sweet perfumes, In coverts where the sparrows pass. [11]
Here was an unusual man, who ignored the conventional preliminary nothings, beating down the grass before the play, as it were. [11]
All day long, under the burning sun, he follows the herd over the rainless prairie, as it nibbles here and there the short grass and slowly gathers its food. [4]
No grass grew under my feet. [5]
Two hundred and twenty yards; and so weightless a toy--a mouse on the end of a bit of wire, in effect; and not sailing through the accommodating air, but encountering grass and sand and stuff at every jump. [5]
His back was toward them, but the fingers of his left hand--working convulsively caught Wetherell's eye and held it; save for the ticking of the clock and the chirping of the crickets in the grass, there was silence. [9]
They have a tough, dry grass, which, matted together, furnishes them with clothes sufficiently warm for their cold-blooded constitutions, and more than sufficiently ugly. [6]
The fifth gentleman took a position halfway between the two, and, opening the leather case, laid it down on the grass, where its contents glistened. [9]
Under the oak, too, were flowers and grass, but it stood among them scowling, rigid, misshapen, and grim as ever. [2]
It is pleasant to sleep in the long grass when the nights are summer, and to hang your cradle in the trees. [11]
I'm either up to my knees in grass or clay fighting Revolutionists, or I'm riding hard day and night till I'm round-backed like a wood-louse, to make up for all the good time I so badly lost in your little island. [11]
He was, therefore, to keep the grass nicely cut, and to keep his cow at home. [4]
No road led to it--only a path up from the green of the village, winding past a gulley and the deep cuts of old rivulets now over grown by grass or bracken. [11]
They cannot afford to have large graveyards, the grass skin is too circumscribed and too valuable. [5]
When I came to again, I was sitting under an oak tree, on the grass, with a whole beautiful and broad country landscape all to myself--nearly. [5]
Presently we came to a place where no grass grew--a wide expanse of deep sand. [5]
I waited some time after the grass needed cutting; and, as my neighbor did not appear, I hired it cut. [4]
After Eva had thrown hers on the grass, she asked the nun to do the same with her own motley bundle. [10]
She looked as though she already lay in her coffin, and the little one as though he would go under the grass before her. [10]
They say when they let one of their big wells burn away all winter before they had learned how to control it, that well kept up a little summer all around it; the grass stayed green, and the flowers bloomed all through the winter. [8]
The birches with their sticky green leaves were motionless, and lilac-colored flowers and the first blades of green grass were pushing up and lifting last year's leaves. [2]
Of such was the talk as we lay down in the grass under the stars on the fifth night. [9]
Behind him was the stout figure of Mr. Darnley, his face solemn; and last of all came Mr. Harry Riddle, very pale, but cutting the tops of the long grass with a switch. [9]
Then I carried the sack about a hundred yards across the grass and through the willows east of the house, to a shallow lake that was five mile wide and full of rushes--and ducks too, you might say, in the season. [5]
As Stephen trod the rough flags between the high grass which led toward the house, Colonel Carvel rose to his full height and greeted him. [9]
She would have the old man refresh himself in this way too, and making him sit down upon the grass, cast the water on him with her hands, and dried it with her simple dress. [12]
Section 3 fronted the Ohio some distance above Bear Grass Creek, and was, of course, on the Illinois shore. [9]
I'm soon for the little low house in the grass. [11]
Each word from the lips of the inspired speaker fell upon the hearts of the Hebrews like the fresh dew of morning on the parched grass. [10]
Yonder, where for the length of a man the snow had vanished and grass and brown earth appeared, people had fought together, and there--Holy Virgin! [10]
Around them were the hills of the Mighty Men-- austere, majestic; at their feet was a vast valley on which the light newly-fallen snow had not hidden all the grass. [11]
The fowlers discover the hillocks where the ruffs congregate by the grass being trampled bare, and this shews that the same spot is long frequented. [1]
The shaking of the high grass told him of the running of animals, what species he could not tell, but from Ring's manifest desire to have a chase they were evidently some kind wilder than rabbits. [13]
Children rolled on the grass, while mothers and fathers, tired out from the heat and labour of a city day, sat on the benches. [9]
Joan lay on the grass, weak and suffering, hour after hour, but still insisting that the fight go on. [5]
In the rain the grass does not brighten as you think it ought to, and it is only when the rain turns to snow that you see any decided green color by contrast with the white. [4]
He stood an the grass beside the grave, and a breeze from across the great river near by stirred the maple leaves above his head. [9]
I shuffle among the grass and the fallen leaves, and my eyes scarce know the stag from the doe. [11]
Dewdrops glittered on the grass and flowers in the meadow with the cart, and in the landlady's little garden. [10]
They crawled nearer the gate, still hidden in the shadows and the grass. [11]
On the whole, the garden could not have been better seen to; though it would take a sharp eye to see the potato-vines amid the rampant grass and weeds. [4]
The property of the freedman Pyrrhus was a flat rock in the northern part of the harbour, scarcely larger than the garden of Didymus at the Corner of the Muses, a desolate spot where neither tree nor blade of grass grew. [10]
He covered up the face, and, returning to the shed, placed his coat against the boards to deaden the sound, and hammered them tight again with a stone, after having straightened the grass about. [11]
Here he turned the burro loose in the grass near the spring, and then lay down on his old bed of leaves. [13]
The grass grows, the buds burst, the meadow is spotted with fire and gold in the tint of flowers. [6]
She had let the book fall on the grass. [9]
I was at the beginning of a deep gorge or valley, on one side of which was a steep sloping hill of grass and trees, and on the other a huge escarpment of mossed and jagged rocks. [11]
She noted indifferently that they passed close under shady, bulging shelves of cliff, through patches of grass and sage and thicket and groves of slender trees, and over white, pebbly washes, and around masses of broken rock. [13]
But you say that it is the grass of last fall. [4]
The man proposed that he should be allowed to cut the grass from my grounds for his cow. [4]
I reminded him that he had been told again and again not to come here; that he might have all the grass, but he should not bring his cow upon the premises. [4]
Noble clumps of tall old trees rose above the green grass plots and splendid shrubs. [10]
We both turned tail and ran out of the house as fast as we could, and stood in the wet grass, panting. [9]
Then, dismounting, he swiftly crept back through the long grass into the thicket again, mounted the mare, and drove her at laboured gallop also around the curve, so that it seemed to the plainsmen following that both men had gone that way. [11]
The meadows were sweet with the newly cut grass, the wind softly blew down the river, large white clouds sailed high overhead and cast shadows on the changing water; but to all these gentle influences the fish were insensible, and sulked in their cool retreats. [4]
This was long sweet grass touching his face, making a couch like down for the battered, wearied body. [11]
The crowded grave-yard surrounds the house and small grass enclosure for drying clothes. [14]

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