She stood on a hump of tussocky ground in the middle of a swamp. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Ship]
It was rough going along the side of the hill through tussocky grass on a steep slope. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
However that might be, leave it he did, in the tussocky grass braced against the bole. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Novice]
The bow touched, and Sharpe clambered over the thwarts, then jumped up onto tussocky grass. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
All this stretch of coast was swamp and tussocky islands and shifting sand bars that changed seasonally. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Magic]
The forest of Dunway gave way to rocky land covered in tussocky grasses and wind-twisted bushes and trees. From Wordnik.com. [Voice of the Gods]
Once we took a wrong turning, and once we missed a gate and found ourselves plunging through a tussocky bog. From Wordnik.com. [Wales: a cross-country adventure on horseback] Reference
She noticed, ill the tussocky places of the grass, cottony young cowslips standing up still bleared in their down. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
He turned, and began to run in wild hare-leaps downhill across the tussocky grass, full tilt towards the river-bank. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose Rent]
Once the ground had become solid enough to support more than tussocky grass, the vegetation had grown tall, lush and dense. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Wilds]
We quickly unloaded our bags and walked down and away from the tussocky hillock on which we had landed towards the wardens 'hut. From Wordnik.com. [Last Chance to See]
Some dry grass here on top of banks up to my waist; further out there is some good tussocky grasses and there has been plenty oats. From Wordnik.com. [McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia] Reference
But this hindered them; for the grass was thick and tussocky, and the ground uneven, and the trees began to draw together into thickets. From Wordnik.com. [The Fellowship of the Ring]
They \expndtw-2 climbed down and walked over the tussocky grass and then \expndtw2 across shingle to the door of the hut. \cf0\expndtw0\par. From Wordnik.com. [Poem About Never Growing Up] Reference
He came at last to the marshy bottom of the valley, where the wet and tussocky grass was set in a tangle of blackberry bushes and bracken higher than a man. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
It had been a night of iron frost and the tussocky pastures beyond the walls were held in a pitiless white grip with every blade of grass stiffly ensheathed in rime. From Wordnik.com. [Favourite Dog Stories]
A few patches of very rough, tussocky land, dotted with little tarns, lay between the glaciers along the foot of the mountains, which were heavily scarred with scree-slopes. From Wordnik.com. [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]
Such a scenic gem is Lambfoot Dub, positioned on a shelf worthy of Tiffany's, except it is on wild tussocky grass above the corridor route from Sty Head Pass to the Scafells. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Lake District] Reference
A few patches of very rough, tussocky land, dotted with little tarns, lay between the glaciers along the foot of the mountains, which were heavily scarred with scree – slopes. From Wordnik.com. [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference
On the endlessly rolling and tussocky terrain of northwest. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Roo cull 'will increase city's bushfire risk'] Reference
The white grass was tussocky and long, and the trail here and there had been churned into quagmire. From Wordnik.com. [Masters of the Wheat-Lands] Reference
The reddish soil thus exposed marked the winding line athwart the field, through the tussocky bunches. From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Poacher] Reference
Far away the coast reached out, and melted into the morning, the tussocky sandhills seemed to sink to a level with the beach. From Wordnik.com. [Sons and Lovers] Reference
She was walking with her hand hanging, her legs swinging as she kicked through the dead thistles and the tussocky grass, her arms hanging loose. From Wordnik.com. [Sons and Lovers] Reference
As soon as there was any light we let out the teams to fill themselves on the tussocky grass that grew about, and meanwhile cooked and ate some food. From Wordnik.com. [Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain] Reference
They also sneak on wild ducks that are nesting by the edge of the water among the rushes and tussocky grass, and catch quail also, especially sitting birds. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
Yukon Territory - Here on the endlessly rolling and tussocky terrain of northwest man has hunted caribou since the Stone Age, the vast antlered herds are fast. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Maldives Cabinet Signs Climate Change Document 20 Feet Under Sea] Reference
Here, ran a mighty cypress, half buried in water, hidden from view by a wilderness of bushes, growing upon the tussocky ridge on the edge of which it had fallen. From Wordnik.com. [The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc.] Reference
Round the wild, tussocky lawn at the back of the house was a thorn hedge, under which daffodils were craning forward from among their sheaves of grey-green blades. From Wordnik.com. [Sons and Lovers] Reference
The tussocky hills above Pukerua Bay where the accident happened were so shrouded in cloud that the other two helicopter crews initially did not know about the tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [New Zealand Herald - Top Stories]
Forest gave way to tussocky pastureland. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Ship]
"We must back out of these 'hurrah-bushes,' and git upon the tussocky places, among the pines. From Wordnik.com. [The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc.] Reference
She sat down, panting, on the tussocky grass. From Wordnik.com. [Sons and Lovers] Reference
It was wild and tussocky, given over to rabbits. From Wordnik.com. [Sons and Lovers] Reference
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