Coincidentally or not, the club switched to bent-grass greens that year and regained the top 10 for 1983.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Course in America Is...] Reference

Now and then a hare will start among the bent-grass, while aloft the falcon rests poised on her mighty wing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference

She stood for several minutes peering out into the darkness and listening; no sound was to be heard but the lapping of the waves, and the sigh of the wind through the bent-grass on the common.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Loose End and Other Stories] Reference

Autumn hues gild the trees, the wide pastures are of brilliant green, and on the rough land the reddening bent-grass glows richly in the declining sun, which throws its glory alike over snowy hills and rosy clouds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference

If we're playing on bent-grass, that's my favorite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dallas Mavericks] Reference

The bent-grass heaves not, the couch-grass quails not or cowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI] Reference

But I caught hold at last by the long bent-grass on the brae-top, and pulled myself to a good footing.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.] Reference

Seitz marveled at how well the bent-grass fairways have held up in conditions not ideally suited for them this summer.    From Wordnik.com.  [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference

The bent-grass greens are unusual for a climate that saw 54 straight days of temperatures above 30 C. this past summer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

"The difference is this is pure poa, there's no bent-grass between the patches, which is the mistake they made at Pebble," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference

This grass, with many others of the genus agrostis, has received the name of bent-grass, by the English; here it is always called herds-grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference

For perhaps a quarter of an hour I puzzled over this: then I noticed that in the middle of each circle was an isolated blade of bent-grass, which, lashed hither and thither by every gust of wind, must have described the circle with its point, compass-wise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Try Anything Twice] Reference

Say we run northward in the train and resolve to work to the south on foot; we start by the sea, and foot it on some fine gaudy morning over the springy links where the grass grows gaily and the steel-coloured bent-grass gleams like the bayonets of some vast host.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour] Reference

She looked about her, and saw in all the fair meadow neither man nor woman, nor draught-beast nor milch-beast, nought but the little creatures of the brake and the bent-grass, which were but as the blossoms thereof; and the birds running in the herbage or singing amidst the tree-boughs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

In a mild and steady light, which came from no illumination of moon or stars, but seemed to be interfused with the air, in the strong warm wind which wrapped the fell-top; upon a sward of bent-grass which ran toward the tarn and ended in swept reeds he saw six young women dancing in a ring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lore of Proserpine] Reference

He crossed the Abbey Burn in a couple of leaps, his feet hardly seeming to touch the stones, and in a moment more his tall figure was hoisting itself up the opposite bank, his hands grasping rock and tree-trunk, root and dry bent-grass indiscriminately, till presently, without once turning round, he was out of sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patsy] Reference

We constantly came across snakes, generally harmless ones; but there were a good many vipers, and once, when Somerville and my daughters, with Mr. Cromek, the artist, had gone from Genzano to Nettuno for a couple of days, a small asp which was crawling among the bent-grass on the seashore, darted at one of the girls, who had irritated it by touching it with her parasol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville] Reference

Imagine a low, marshy peninsula, verging landward into stunted woods, full of irregular water-courses and stagnant pools -- tapering off seaward into a mere spit of sand, on which reeds and bent-grass scarcely deign to grow, towards the extreme point, just where the neck is narrowest, are the "blinds" -- ten or twelve in number -- a long gunshot apart, in which the "fowlers" lurk, waiting for their prey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border and Bastille] Reference

If you're a fan of bent-grass fairways, these are good, but zoysia is so much easier to take care of and easier to hit off. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference

He bared his blade of the bent-grass blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Posy Ring A Book of Verse for Children] Reference

Reed bent-grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

Many and various as the breeds of men, or the trees of a forest, were the stalks that made up that greenish jungle with the waving, fawn-colored surface; of rye-grass and brome-grass, of timothy, plantain, and yarrow; of bent-grass and quake-grass, foxtail, and the green-hearted trefoil; of dandelion, dock, musk-thistle, and sweet-scented vernal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Freelands] Reference