| Hakone grass also offers the auditory appeal of psithurism, the sound of rustling leaves. |
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| I thought she was my friend, but she turned out to be a snake in the grass. |
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| Landscapers planted grass to stop the erosion of the hillside. |
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| Synthetic turf was installed in the playing field instead of grass. |
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| Ada, on the grass, kept trying to make an anadem of marguerites for the dog while Lucette looked on, munching a crumpet. |
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| In captivity the aoudad seems to like water and to enjoy taking a bath. The diet consists of grass, herbaceous plants, and stunted bushes. |
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| I hid my books in the long grass near the ashpit at the end of the garden where nobody ever came and hurried along the canal bank. |
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| We could see the herd of barasinghas grazing on an open grass patch to the left of the road ahead now. |
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| There were no roads, only paths through the grass worn away by barefooted boys and women. |
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| The bettongs live in moderately dry country and with the exception of the Boodie, which digs burrows, all make nests of grass on the ground. |
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| Fair paths run to Buttermere, Littledale Edge and the north east ridge, once the grass is reached. |
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| The lion crouched in the tall grass, waiting to attack the gazelle. |
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| Some species only rarely preyed upon by the polecat include European hedgehogs, asp vipers, grass snakes and insects. |
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| The lowland, or Bro was devoted to more general branches of farming, cereal, grass for pasture, hay and stock raising. |
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| A handful of grass is lit and the woman runs around the circumference of the mound touching the burning torch to the dried grass. |
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| The activities of sheep farming start with growing grass on the meadows, buying hay from external sources and stacking them. |
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| These pioneer species are marram grass, sea wort grass and other sea grasses in the United Kingdom. |
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| Phragmites peat are composed of reed grass, Phragmites australis, and other grasses. |
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| Scallops can be found living within, upon, or under either rocks, coral, rubble, sea grass, kelp, sand, or mud. |
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| The salt marshes and seagrass beds contain seaweed and grass vegetation, allowing ample habitat for the sea turtles. |
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| Open-handed, he walked steadily down the slope, stepping over the crumpled bodies on the blood-damp grass. |
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| The intertidal zone is also a good place to find plant life in the sea, where mangroves or cordgrass or beach grass might grow. |
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| Where the cliffs aren't steep enough, they may become overgrown with grass. |
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| Its main constituent materials are sphagnum moss, cotton grass, deer grass, heather and sedge. |
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| This region was a large, active dune field during the Pleistocene epoch, but today is largely stabilized by grass cover. |
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| Ammophila arenaria is a species of grass known by the common names European Marram Grass and European Beachgrass. |
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| The rhizomes tolerate submersion in sea water and can break off and float in the currents to establish the grass at new sites. |
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| The presence of this grass was a major cause of the destruction of native dune habitat in Oregon and Washington during the 20th century. |
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| However, in European countries, there are a lot of pests known to feed on marram grass. |
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| However, even at the end of the period, grass was not quite common enough for modern savannas. |
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| Bromus tectorum is a vigorous grass from Europe which has been introduced to the United States where it has become invasive. |
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| Loons use a variety of materials to build their nests including aquatic vegetation, pine needles, leaves, grass, moss and mud. |
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| The ecology of maerl habitats has received very little attention in contrast to other marine ecosystems such as kelp forests or sea grass beds. |
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| The dens are usually lined with moss plants, thistledown, dried grass, and feathers. |
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| In mainly grass farms their numbers are raised when there are improved pastures, some arable crops and patches of woodland. |
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| Outside cultivated land it prefers marginal zones of forests, particularly ecotonal grass and scrub vegetation. |
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| The chambers are frequently lined with bedding, brought in on dry nights, which consists of grass, bracken, straw, leaves and moss. |
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| The fawn stays hidden in the grass for one week until it is strong enough to walk with its mother. |
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| Common pheasants nest solely on the ground in scrapes, lined with some grass and leaves, frequently under dense cover or a hedge. |
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| They are carnivorous and, because they feed on slugs and worms, they can often be found in long grass and other damp environments. |
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| The specific name, berus, is New Latin and was at one time used to refer to a snake, possibly the grass snake, Natrix natrix. |
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| Outside the breeding season, common frogs live a solitary life in damp places near ponds or marshes or in long grass. |
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| This contains a toxin called bufagin and is enough to deter many predators although grass snakes seem to be unaffected by it. |
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| These alkaloids protect grass plants from herbivory, but several endophyte alkaloids can poison grazing animals, such as cattle and sheep. |
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| They can propel themselves over wet grass and dig through wet sand to reach upstream headwaters and ponds, thus colonising the continent. |
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| Through the deep grass the faces of the three children glowed like pensive moons. |
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| Steep slopes on chalk downland develop a ribbed pattern of grass covered horizontal steps a foot or two high. |
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| However most of the land was as yet to be developed, and open grass and marshland still dominated the area. |
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| In field sports, such as tennis played on grass, powdered chalk was used to mark the boundary lines of the playing field or court. |
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| There is also a considerably smaller local airport at Shoreham and a grass airfield handling light aircraft and helicopters at Goodwood. |
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| Other rope in antiquity was made from the fibres of date palms, flax, grass, papyrus, leather, or animal hair. |
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| The ard is not suited for clearing new land, so grass and undergrowth are usually removed with hoes or mattocks. |
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| A few hours before sundown we camped at a small playa lake sunk beneath the level of the grass. |
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| Other marine habitats include sea grass beds, salt pans, mangroves and salt marshes. |
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| These gentle mammals feed on the sea grass and closer relatives of certain land mammals than the dolphins and the whales. |
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| An impressive place with excellent grass and dirt tracks, it runs the best horses in the nation. |
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| The marine biotopes are diverse and include extensive sea grass beds and mudflats, patchy coral reefs as well as offshore islands. |
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| Sea grass beds are important foraging grounds for some threatened species such as dugongs and the green turtle. |
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| The Cherokee lived in wattle and daub houses made with wood and clay, roofed with wood or thatched grass. |
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| The blue gum, as well as other species including the Harding grass, are much more flammable and better adapted to wildfires than native species. |
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| There is little plant growth, consisting mostly of moss and some scurvy grass, but no trees. |
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| Reptiles and amphibians live mostly in the Southern and Central Ural and are represented by the common viper, lizards and grass snakes. |
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| Horses are not ruminants, they have only one stomach, like humans, but unlike humans, they can utilize cellulose, a major component of grass. |
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| Most breeds prefer to graze on grass and other short roughage, avoiding the taller woody parts of plants that goats readily consume. |
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| Ideal pasture for sheep is not lawnlike grass, but an array of grasses, legumes and forbs. |
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| Sahel savannah consists of patches of grass and sand, found in the northeast. |
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| These beliefs and the social practices they engender, help distinguish the middle group from the grass roots majority of the Belizean people. |
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| Other enemies, like the smaller weeds, he could overcome, but injustice, that quitch grass of life, was what stung him to fury. |
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| The principal Swazi social unit is the homestead, a traditional beehive hut thatched with dry grass. |
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| Its paved carpark and grass overflow carpark are located in the eastern area of the outer bailey. |
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| This became Old Sarum Airfield, which remains in operation with a single grass runway. |
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| The band had eventually given up waiting and walked home, along a grass verge that was turning to mud under the heavy rain. |
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| Both types of animals can digest cellulose in grass and hay, but do so by different mechanisms. |
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| During the growing season, which is spring and early summer in temperate climates, grass grows at a fast pace. |
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| Up to the end of the 19th century, grass and legumes were not often grown together because crops were rotated. |
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| If hay is stacked with wet grass, the heat produced can be sufficient to ignite the hay causing a fire. |
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| Keswick Tennis Club has grass courts in upper Fitz Park, and also runs hard courts on Keswick's Community Sports Area in the lower park area. |
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| The sands or mudflats with dangerous quicksands became a grass meadow now grazed by small flocks of sheep. |
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| The surfaces of these routes can vary from broken tarmac and gravel to only grass, often having the appearance of byways. |
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| In fact, only a few species of grass, mosses, and lichens survive on the peninsula. |
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| On the ridges the general terrain is of loose stones, but elsewhere all is grass and heather. |
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| To left and right, the ends of the fell rise from the surrounding lowlands in smooth and sweeping curves, clad in rough grass. |
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| Blease Fell and Scales Fell provided easy walking on grass and fast routes of descent. |
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| The top is rounded and mainly of grass, but there are two low outcrops of rock with loose stones between. |
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| Dwarf fountain grass, bunny grass, and deer grass are beautiful, hardy companions to the conifer garden. |
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| So, the momentum alone has been built up quite well for Wimbledon and Nadal still has roughly one week to buff out the rough spots on grass. |
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| Using cellophane bunny grass, particularly the iridescent kind, is an effective way to give the impression of splashing water. |
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| The grass was so green that it looked like the artificial Easter bunny grass that Dory had bought each year to fill her children's baskets with. |
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| There were stretches of fine, soft grass on the cliffs and great patches of camass and buttercups. |
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| This new approach to the grass roots helped to define Whiggism and opened the way for later success. |
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| As soon as it has enten the tender and green portion of the grass, it rejects the remainder as unfit for camelopardine consumption. |
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| The mash grass, through which the Indian canoes had slithered so caressingly, turned harsh and brittle. |
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| So the woods are silent, still, and deserted, save by a stray rabbit among the thistles, and the grasshoppers ceaselessly leaping in the grass. |
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| Chickens cannot digest coarse or dry grass, and it is likely to cause them to become cropbound. |
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| One must use caution when cruising the Easter baskets, however, because they also contain something called Easter grass. |
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| It also includes ecoservice grass clippings from marginal land where the biodiversity is threatened by an excess level of nutrients. |
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| He had been cutting grass in the churchyard, and an effet ran at him, and bit him on the thumb. |
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| No grass grew under a train when the engineer let Fireman McLash take the throttle. |
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| The horses went at a good pace on this soft grass, and soon the two footgoers called out to us to stop. |
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| These two variegated, great goddesses striving for gloriousness, the golden ones who move crookedly, have approached thy sacrificial grass. |
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| The grass was thick around us, grama and bluestem, more than could ever be eaten. |
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| He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grass him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him. |
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| Ground limestone or other suitable calcium compounds should be used when feeding grains and grass hays, as grasseous plants are short in calcium. |
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| It grasshops over the grass and bounds skyward. A matron crams a fresh stick of gum into her mouth and chews her words up with it. |
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| She glides along, her skirt touching the grass top as she sways to the beat of unwritten songs. |
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| It graveled me like sixty to pay such a price, but I had to do it because the season was just between hay and grass. |
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| Common green corridors include railway embankments, river banks and roadside grass verges. |
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| On 23 June 2013 the A344 was closed to begin the work of removing the section of road and replacing it with grass. |
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| The lawns are spotted with curious, low-spreading, Japanesey-looking trees, and under these trees students squat on the grass with their books. |
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| If you asked her where she learnt them, she would only laugh, her body shaking with laughter like jhow grass swaying in the wind. |
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| The election system was complex and designed to insulate the government from grass roots democracy. |
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| He was a long king brown, sliding through the grass as silky as 50 SAE motor oil as it pours from the can. |
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| That evening, we laagered close to a large open area covered with elephant grass about six feet high. |
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| The 18 hole Wells Golf Club is on the outskirts of the city and also has a 24 bay driving range with optional grass tees. |
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| Of all the mowers, a properly adjusted cylinder mower makes the cleanest cut of the grass, and this allows the grass to heal more quickly. |
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| If the gap between the blades is less than the thickness of the grass, a clean cut can still be made. |
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| A rotary mower rotates about a vertical axis with the blade spinning at high speed relying on impact to cut the grass. |
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| Depending on the placement of the reel, these mowers often cannot cut grass very close to lawn obstacles, like trees, driveways, edging, etc. |
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| The quality of cut can be inferior if the grass is pushed away from the blade by the cushion of air. |
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| Riding mowers typically have an opening in the side or rear of the housing where the cut grass is expelled, as do most rotary lawn mowers. |
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| Some have a grass catcher attachment at the opening to bag the grass clippings. |
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| A rear bag mower features an opening on the back of the mower through which the grass is expelled into the bag. |
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| Mulching and bagging mowers are not well suited to long grass or thick weeds. |
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| One example is the grass Anthoxanthum odoratum, which can undergo parapatric speciation in response to localised metal pollution from mines. |
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| With no grass to eat at home, cattle are heading for the abattoirs or are going droving down the long paddock. |
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| When Shawn spat a loogy across cracked concrete he looked satisfied to have reached the grass. |
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| During the summer months, and when Her Majesty is in residence at the Castle, the guards occasionally change in the Upper Ward on the grass. |
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| Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit. |
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| Each year, a grass court tournament and an induction ceremony honoring new Hall of Fame members are hosted on its grounds. |
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| Lawn bowls is played on grass and variations from green to green are common. |
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| The levels of grass are varied to increase difficulty, or to allow for putting in the case of the green. |
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| The primary reason for the sliding roof was to avoid shading the pitch, as grass demands direct sunlight to grow effectively. |
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| The kids sat there messing around with leaves and blades of grass because they were bored. |
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| The pitch at Twickenham was replaced by a hybrid 'Desso' type, in June 2012, which uses artificial fibres entwined with real grass. |
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| It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London, since 1877 and is played on outdoor grass courts. |
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| Since the Australian Open shifted to hardcourt in 1988, Wimbledon is the only major still played on grass. |
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| The Australian and United States tournaments are played on hard courts, the French on clay, and Wimbledon on grass. |
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| The FIFA Goal programme sponsored the Qaqortoq Stadium in Qaqortoq, which has an artificial grass pitch. |
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| There is large tennis centre with indoor and outdoor courts, a children's cycle track, play area and a grass boules lawn. |
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| With its mild, moist climate, Britain is uniquely placed to grow good grass. |
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| Oil in affected coastal areas increased erosion due to the death of mangrove trees and marsh grass. |
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| An organic mulch is a mulch made of natural substances such as leaves or grass clippings. |
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| This was Marcus, this effeminate, mincing nancyboy, picking his way fastidiously across the grass? |
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| The game is traditionally played on grass, although as of 2009 the sport may be played on artificial turf. |
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| Many small airports have dirt, grass, or gravel runways, rather than asphalt or concrete. |
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| Biomass of the domesticated and wild animals was increased by a higher quality of grass. |
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| When the rains arrive, the Guban's low bushes and grass clumps transform into lush vegetation. |
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| This land was divided into the infield, which was in continuous arable cultivation, and the outfield which was rotated between arable and grass. |
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| However, the Gaelic gorm is also used as an adjective and verb, meaning green or greening and is often seen in connection with growing grass. |
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| If covered with sand, it will compost to form a fertile bed where annual coastal flowers and marram grass will thrive. |
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| In areas where snowfall is rare, such as Ireland, grass may form the bulk of the diet. |
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| Before the airport was constructed there was a grass strip in use on the same site. |
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| Originally, the course was reversed every week in order to let the grass recover better. |
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| A cow's grass was equal to the amount of land that could produce enough grass to support a cow. |
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| The Atlantic puffin burrow is usually lined with material such as grass, leaves and feathers but is occasionally unlined. |
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| As the armies are set out on the table, which is covered in the same crumbly grass and broccoloid trees used to decorate model-railroad scenes, Read is getting nervous. |
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| However, it is ideal for growing the rich grass required for dairying, leading to the production of Cornwall's other famous export, clotted cream. |
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| Invasive species, such as the Australian blue gum tree, olive tree, sweet fennel and Harding grass threaten native species through competition for light, nutrients, and water. |
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| Local ingredients, such as chili peppers, kaffir lime leaves, lemon grass, galangal are used and, in central and southern Thai cuisine, coconut milk. |
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| The lawnmower was out of gas so he decided to let the grass grow. |
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| Nests are made of sticks and are lined inside with grass and leaves. |
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| Lawn vacuums will clean up grass cuttings either as behind-the-mower units or self-propelled or push-type outfits that look like an overnourished Hoover. |
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| The type of feed may vary from naturally growing grass to animal feed. |
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| So for a potential bridleway, if the grass is cut, or a hedge cut back, this could constitute street works for the purpose of this section, so enabling it to be used. |
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| Her bow is not to her liking. In a temper, she casts it on the grass. |
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| I could see through the open doorway some fishermen in guernseys sitting on the grass listening, and a boat was drawn up on the shingle and others moored to the cauchie. |
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| The sooner the grass can be got into quoils the better, for not only does the quoil stage give temporary protection but hay makes a good deal in quoil. |
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| If you compost your grass clippings, you can improve your soil. |
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| The soils are generally poor, except on the plains, where areas with natural grass, fertile soils and warm summers provide an opportunity for tillage. |
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| While you can remove thatch from small areas with a metal garden rake or hand cultivator, you ought to rent a dethatcher for working over large areas of grass. |
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| In front of us was a stand of doghair pine, the kind of stunted, thin trees that grow close together like grass, each stem maybe three to six inches in diameter. |
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| Many sectors were left in ruins and ancient monuments became fields of grass used as pastures for animals, thus the Roman Forum became the Campo Vaccino, the field of cows. |
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| An Easter basket that now had Easter grass strewn all over the place. |
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| Grasses sprout on the sands long before the early rains have restored the echard of adjoining clays and given a surplus as chresard which can initiate grass growth. |
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| The dietary needs of these animals is mostly met by eating grass. |
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| Additionally the Stuttgart Open men's tournament converted to a grass surface and was rescheduled from July to June, extending the grass court season. |
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| Springing up between the carrot-seed during the first season were the long frail, feathery stalks of the wind-blown eragrostis, a lush sweet grass. |
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| The Committee seeds the top players and pairs on the basis of their rankings, but it can change the seedings based on a player's previous grass court performance. |
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| Wimbledon is the only Grand Slam event played on grass courts. |
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| This AAWT track varies from a four wheel drive track along the Barry Mountains to a foot pad across the snow grass plains of the high country from Hotham to Mt Bogong. |
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| The grass is forward, or forward for the season. We have a forward spring. |
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| Even landlubbers who find yacht racing about as exciting as watching grass grow might get a charge out of the litigious storm swirling around the America's Cup. |
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| At one time, all the Majors, except the French Open, were played on grass. |
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| The Silver Shoes took but three steps, and then she stopped so suddenly that she rolled over upon the grass several times before she knew where she was. |
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| Fans watch from an area of grass officially known as the Aorangi Terrace. |
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| They feed mainly on grass, leaves, berries, and young shoots. |
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| In Wassenaar in the Hague there is a grass course at Duindigt. |
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| It has an outer layer of stems and roots, a middle layer of dead grass and leaves, and a lining of feathers, as well as of paper and other soft materials. |
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| With large grass pitches it is widely used for field sports. |
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| Moss is often considered a weed in grass lawns, but is deliberately encouraged to grow under aesthetic principles exemplified by Japanese gardening. |
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| This preference has a diurnal pattern, with a stronger preference for clover in the morning, and the proportion of grass increasing towards the evening. |
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| I slewed into the deep grass, throttled up again to regain runway speed, tried to abort the take-off and ground-looped through the perimeter fence. |
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| Heimdall is the watchman of the gods.... So acute is his ear that no sound escapes him, for he can even hear the grass grow and the wool on a sheep's back. |
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| A suburban arena that was so sepulchral you could hear the grass grow. |
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| Similarly, sea grass used to coat huge tracts of ocean floor, but have been damaged by trawling and dredging have diminished its habitat and prevented its return. |
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| They thanked him and bade him good-bye, and turned toward the West, walking over fields of soft grass dotted here and there with daisies and buttercups. |
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| The mammoth steppe was a periglacial landscape with rich herb and grass vegetation that disappeared along with the mammoth because of environmental changes in the climate. |
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| Grass hay cut too early will not cure as easily due to high moisture content, plus it will produce a lower yield per acre than longer, more mature grass. |
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| They are built of rough sticks, covered with bulrushes or grass, in such a manner as to completely protect the inhabitants from all the inclemencies of the weather. |
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| We continued northwest, the grass tall with scattered thick motts of oak and the mesquites with their flickering leaves and the yuccas in bloom with their white flowers. |
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| Desert shrub and desert grass, common to southern Arabia, are found in Oman, but vegetation is sparse in the interior plateau, which is largely gravel desert. |
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| It is said that where he killed the trow, the grass turned a light green. |
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| The papers also advertised upcoming meetings, typically organised by local grass roots branches, held either in public houses, or in their own halls. |
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| Professional cricket is almost always played on a grass surface. |
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| The grass is rich and matted, you cannot see the soil. It holds the rain and the mist, and they seep into the ground, feeding the streams in every kloof. |
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| Kokoma or guinea grass is a heavy cropping plant which makes good silage. |
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| It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. |
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| Wind stirred the grass, leaving streaks of gold-green light, and the patterns of lambas on women coming home from the market took on the vividness of a Degas painting. |
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| It was therefore resolved that the king should ride on Humphrey Penderel's horse, which was taken from the grass, and accoutred with a pitiful old saddle and a worse bridle. |
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| She'd scrubbed up. Moved on. Stepped right over Phil, over his grave. For this was not a girl to let the grass grow under her feet, particularly the grass on a mound. |
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| Triclopyr is highly selective, it only affects actively photosynthesising dicots, leaving grass, and flowering monocots such as narcissus and bluebell bulbs, undamaged. |
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| This includes planes, baggage trains, snowplows, grass cutters, fuel trucks, stair trucks, airline food trucks, conveyor belt vehicles and other vehicles. |
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| Some variants have only three blades in a reel spinning at great speed, and these models are able to cut grass which has grown too long for ordinary push mowers. |
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| Typically, the cutting reels are ahead of the vehicle's main wheels, so that the grass can be cut before the wheels push the grass over onto the ground. |
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| Straw, a dried form of grass, is also used for stuffing, as is kapok. |
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| This tends to result in a rougher cut and bruises and shreds the grass leaf resulting in discolouration of the leaf ends as the shredded portion dies. |
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| Sugarcane belongs to the grass family Poaceae, an economically important seed plant family that includes maize, wheat, rice, and sorghum, and many forage crops. |
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| The operator can then easily move the mower as it floats over the grass. |
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| Marram grass plants on coastal sand dunes all over the world. |
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| It was claimed that grass will never grow on the grave where Shovell was first buried at Porthellick Cove because of his tyrannical act against an islander. |
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| The grass is kept short by cattle and sheep, which also add trample and add texture to the sward, forming tussocks that favour a number of bird species. |
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| Marram grass can be useful for edible uses, medical uses and other uses. |
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| Like NunatuKavut, the straits is also known for its Labrador sea grass and the multitude of icebergs that pass by the coast via the Labrador Current. |
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| For example, the adaptation of horses' teeth to the grinding of grass. |
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| The habitat varies from floodplain near the Brathay to higher, dryer haymeadow with both being home to a wide variety of herb, grass and flower species. |
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| Some keys have thin growths of mangroves, and various other vegetation, while others have only small patches of grass, or are devoid of plant life. |
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| Farmers try to harvest hay at the point when the seed heads are not quite ripe and the leaf is at its maximum when the grass is mowed in the field. |
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