Grasses

Examples

• When D'Arnot regained consciousness, he found himself lying upon a bed of soft ferns and grasses beneath a little A shaped shelter of boughs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Now, Tarzan heard the soft bending of grasses and wondered why the young white man was not warned. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Man storing graminiferous grasses for his cattle might easily come to beat out the grain for himself. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Upon a pile of grasses at the far side of the room lay the Negress asleep. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Flax, wool, silk, and cotton have been supplemented with the fibres of metal, of glass, of cocoanut, pine needles, ramie, wood-pulp, and of many other plants, leaves and grasses. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• If he could catch his fellow apes with his long arm of many grasses, why not Sabor, the lioness? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He discovered silica in the epidermis of the stems of weeds, corn, and grasses. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Surely the leagues of bright green lawns are swept and brushed and watered every day and their grasses trimmed by the barber. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Let us leave him quietly sleeping among the tall grasses, that you may bear other and stronger apes to guard us in our old age. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• She went to the bed upon which had been spread several layers of soft grasses. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Then he went back again into the jungle and in a few minutes reappeared with a quantity of soft grasses and ferns. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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