One night she smelt the touch of a hand on the grass-bents near her "form," and found also that the herbage had been moved aside.
He uncurled himself on the litter of withered grass-bents that formed his winter couch, crept towards the nearest bolt-hole of his burrow, and peeped at the fleecy clouds as they wandered idly overhead.
Besides, the Bents wouldn't know of any," said Mrs. Scott.
The Bents were strange people, they behaved well, yet everything that one knew definitely about Mrs. Bent was that she was a hotel-keeper's daughter.
Devil appointed them to meet at the Bents of Balruddrie'.
Bents of Balruddrie and Gibson's Craig, where Sathan was present at them both'.
I can always go to her, but I know she is taken up with her grief over Philippe's going a soldiering," she thought as she put her plate and cup back on the shelf where the Bents kept their assortment of china.
The Bents have left for America and have given me their key to use their studio as I see fit.
Ouer the bents soe browne; Saies hee, And if cryance come vntill my hart, I am ffarr ffrom any good towne.
At which hour I was aware of a long, lean, bony-like Lothian man of a very swarthy countenance, that came towards us among the bents on a farm horse.
Scarce any road came by there; but a number of footways travelled among the bents in all directions up to Mr. Bazin's door.
In truth we had caught them unawares; their whole party (as I was to learn afterwards) had not yet reached the scene; what there was of them was spread among the bents towards Gillane.
I have never seen the place look so pretty as these bents by Dunkirk; and the windmill sails, as they bobbed over the knowe, were like a tune of music.
In dewy mornings when she came this way Sweet bents would bow to give my love the day; And when at night she folded had her sheep, Daisies would shut, and, closing, sigh and weep.
Twas no fault of thine, lass, that I went to Bents to-day.
I shall ride toBents Farm on Thursday, as I had in mind to.
In a flash she recalled that other day when she had sought to save him from going to Bents Farm in face of peril; now as then her very care for him had been his undoing.
Three of my folk I'll take, to equal his, and none shall say that Wayne of Marsh fought against odds when he was slain on the road to Bents Farm.
And fast as they galloped across the moor, toward Bents Farm, the pace seemed sluggish when measured by her thoughts.
Suppose Wayne has a farm called Bentsclose up to Wildwater?
Thinking to keep thee safe, I said thou would'st go to Bents to-day instead of yestermorn.
Tis only that there's work to be done up at Bents Farm, and I shall scarce get there and back as 'tis by dinner-time.
Ned," she cried, looking up on the sudden, "do not go to Bents Farm this week.
He will not go to Bents Farm on Thursday, for thou hast warned him; nor will he go on Friday, since thou tellest us so glibly the place and hour.
And thou'rt right about Bents Farm; I should have gone there yestermorn, but was prevented.
By Our Lady, I think he'll not fare back again from Bents to Marsh.
I have never seen the place that looked so pretty as these bents by Dunkirk; and the windmill sails, as they bobbed over the knowe, were like a tune of music.
They generally breed in marshy and boggy places and about the grassy margins of lochs, but I have also found them amongst bents and dry sandy places by the sea-shore.
Without thinking for a moment of what he was doing, he flew after it,—among the bentsand sand hillocks, grasping after it with his hand.
Stooping down, and with my gun upon my back prepared for action, I managed to crawl through the bents and across the shingle for a considerable way.
The Yellowhammer When shall I see the white-thorn leaves agen, And yellowhammers gathering the dry bents By the dyke side, on stilly moor or fen, Feathered with love and nature's good intents?
The ground parched and cracked is like overbaked bread, The greensward all wracked is, bents dried up and dead.
We gat the moss fra' the elditch aile, The bents fra' the whinny muir, And a fause knight threw us the bonny broun hair, To please his braw new fere.
Ptarmigans pair early in spring, and build their nest of grass, bents and twigs in a slight hollow behind a stone or bush, and lay from seven to twelve eggs.
The sun began to set, and a night-wind thrashed along the bents of the foreshore.
The Manager of the hotel is abusing the Bents, and the Bentsare abusing the manager.
I sat down on the dried bents turning it over and over between my fingers, until I was aware of Gunga Dass standing immediately behind me with glowing eyes and outstretched hands.
The Bents and the Delvilles inhabit the same hotel; and the Delville is detested by the Waddy--do you know the Waddy?
The manager of the hotel is abusing the Bents, and the Bents are abusing the manager.
The Bents and the Delvilles inhabit the same hotel; and the Delville is detested by the Waddy do you know the Waddy?
The ground still went up and up, though at whiles were hollows, and steeper bents out of them again, and the half-blind path or slot still led past the close thickets and fallen trees, and he made way without let or hindrance.
The Dale went due west a good way, and then winded about to the southwest, and so was hidden from them thereaway by the bents that lay on their left hand.
My dear Molly Brown Green: The Bents are good friends of mine, but I must say I'll be sorry to see them back in their studio, for it will mean the departure of your wonderful mother.
If you can, I'll make the Bents move out of their studio to-morrow so you can move in.
The Bents expect to go to Italy for six months and are very much pleased to have good tenants in their absence.
A little note was stuck in the flowers, bidding them welcome from the Bents and wishing them joy in the apartment where they had been so happy themselves.
The grass and yellow bents of the lower slopes were slippery as glass; and she rose slowly until she could look down on both slopes of the roof of the little church and see into the square beyond it.
They raised another slope of the hill, and a dimness less black showed, a shorn crest of grey bents among the heather.
Gorse and yellow bents spread north up the High Moor, and to the south, close to the road, lie the old coal workings.
A path of slippery bents ran up from below among the rocks and heather, as a wave washes up a steep beach; unhesitatingly he crouched and crawled towards it.
The nest is built of bents and dry grass, those of the most slender texture being placed inside.
This bird makes a slight nest of bents and leaves upon the ground in grass, corn, or clover fields; however, instances have been cited where it has been found at considerable elevation.
The nest is a mere unlined hollow, with sometimes a few bents in it, which may as easily as not have been blown there.
In the palmy days of the fur-trade the Bents employed from eighty to a hundred men who made their headquarters at this post.
It is composed outside of woolly fibres, flax, and bits of dried leaves, and inside of bents and small dried twigs, the whole compact and neat.
So, all day long, the uncertain combat flowed, Between the gray bents and the broken ground; And the smooth sward was cumbered with the dead, On whom we stumbled.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
