The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows. From LearnThat.org. [William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)]
The head is shaved, except a straight tuft, which is allowed to grow. From Wordnik.com. [Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago] Reference
This little tuft, which is altogether white, is the Hyperborean Hills. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference
I remember seeing these as a little girl...oh and the tuft is the end of the little girl's ponytail I think. From Wordnik.com. [Inappropriate, Much?] Reference
As I do not know the points of an elephant as well as those of a horse, the want of the tuft was the only mark I could distinguish. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home] Reference
By the tall canes feather'd in tuft and brake. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woman, With Other Poems] Reference
"I think," said John, as one impersonally generalizing, "that a fortune-hunter with a tuft is the least admirable variety of that animal. From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Prospero] Reference
‘I have read of another species,’ said he, ‘called the tuft-tailed porcupine, which must be even more curious-looking than this is. From Wordnik.com. [Swiss Family Robinson] Reference
Highest of all, on a tuft of soft earth, sat Rusialka. From Wordnik.com. [The Dumpy Books for Children; No. 7. A Flower Book] Reference
This duck with the powder blue head and the white tuft. From Wordnik.com. [Route 346] Reference
The tuft of black hair shows above the pink swaddling blanket. From Wordnik.com. [Bundle] Reference
Draw a leaf, a flower, a pair of pods, and a seed with its tuft. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
I had a tiny mosquito shaped tuft and hook at the end of my line. From Wordnik.com. [Lalla, Chuckachucka] Reference
Mohammad's smile curls beneath a formidable white tuft of mustache. From Wordnik.com. [Vampire Weekend's guitarist has his mind in Brooklyn, his roots in Georgetown] Reference
"Thar's a tuft of black fur in the teeth of the trap," he pointed out. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
The central feather is stripped, and crowned with a tuft of white down. From Wordnik.com. [The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo] Reference
I also have a red eyebrow and a red hair tuft over my brown, hairy head. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest] Reference
She kisses the top of his head, smoothes down a tuft of his red hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives That Came Before You, The Lives That Never End] Reference
"They would sleep there" -- he points to a tuft of trees -- "and drink vodka.". From Wordnik.com. [In The Germ Labs] Reference
"There it is!" grunted Tom, getting up and wiping his hands on a tuft of grass. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
The ovary in this case was wanting, but in its place was a tuft of small leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
But Lemminkainen put his hand into his leathern pouch and pulled out a tuft of wool. From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
A little tuft of green caught his eye, and stooping he pulled it from between the stones. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
It was wiry, stubborn hair, with a tuft in front which resembled the comb of a turkey-cock. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
I saw a horseman suddenly bound over the first; he wore a tuft of red-and-white feathers in his hat. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
When he got there, he sat down on a tuft of grass near the cave, and considered what he should do next. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
This is when my hair tuft goes white and shudders in place and falls from off the face of this nest bird. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest] Reference
Carolyn reached out, brushed a windswept tuft of hair from above the rock-steady eyes that looked at her. From Wordnik.com. [Next Door, Next World] Reference
Every broken edge, every tuft of feathery grass, every aspiring ivy-spray, stood sharply out against the sunny blue. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
The high tassles hold the pollen, the ear develops way lower in the leaf joints, first as a small tuft of golden silk. From Wordnik.com. [Groundwork: When Sweet Corn Tasted Like Corn] Reference
And as his head moved as he uttered these words, the horrible tuft at the end of his nightcap waggled as an accompaniment. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He usually chooses a thin tuft of grass on a level spot, but often in an open place concealed by only a few straggling blades. From Wordnik.com. [Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [August, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference
Under the blue muslin, between the pillow and the white coverlet, I discovered two little black eyes and a tuft of golden hair. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The soldiers hacked these plants with their sabres, and cut out the central tuft of leaves, or the heart, as gardeners call it. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Finally, one day, when she was walking through a great, great wood, she felt tired, and sat down on a mossy tuft and fell asleep. From Wordnik.com. [East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon] Reference
And Plunger's eyebrows had a way of mounting to his head, as though they were anxious to get on terms of friendship with the tuft above. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
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