Tufts

Examples

• On their backs were oval shields, in their noses huge rings, while from the kinky wool of their heads protruded tufts of gay feathers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I found the island to be all rocky, only a little intermingled with tufts of grass, and sweet-smelling herbs. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• If we lay such a magnet on a pile of iron filings, it will be found on lifting the magnet that the filings cling to the ends in tufts, but leave it almost bare in the center (Fig. 222). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Red suns and tufts of fire one by one began to arise, flecking the whole country round. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In this, brush blocks of varying sizes, but of the same pattern, are bored by the same machine which receives the bristles, and the tufts are inserted as fast as the holes are bored. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• More than once, as tufts of grass came out in my hand or my foot slipped in the wet notches of the rock, I thought that I was gone. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

Edited by Harold