Women had done this thing: women for the most part from the Bluegrass who had surrendered ease and chosen effort: women who, out of a volunteer greatness of spirit, elected to "wait in heavy harness on fluttered folk and wild.
The curt interrogation, with the throb of the restraint in the voice that put it, brought to Anne that same feeling of exaltation that had come when he had seized her so vehemently in his arms in the bluegrass garden on a June morning.
But it was not until the wheat had been harvested and threshed in the rich bluegrass fields that the session of court was called to order, whose docket held for Asa Gregory the question of life and death.
Before them, graciously undulating to the white turnpike a quarter of a mile distant, went the woodland pasture where the bluegrass lay dappled with the shadows of oak and walnut.
I've been dwellin' down thar amongst rich folks in ther flat Bluegrass country an' I knows what I'm sayin'.
One lesson he modestly believed he had learned out of his journeying from his log-cabin down to the Bluegrass and up to Capitol Hill.
To you, with your Bluegrass ideas of fat acres, these hills must always be the ragged fringes of things, a meagre land without a future.
Through the billowing richness of the Bluegrass lowlands, he had hurried with a homing throb in his pulses.
I'm going to study oil and I'm going to do it in the Bluegrass lowlands.
When they arrived after traveling conditions that warranted every conception of quaintness, but violated every demand of comfort, the girl from the Bluegrass found Glory a discovery.
Through the gate of the yard fence which was heard to shut behind him there now advanced toward uncle and nephew a neighbor of theirs, the minister of the country church, himself a bluegrass farmer.
There's Oratory; some of the great Kentucky orators have been bluegrass farmers.
There is the pulpit: some of the greatest Kentucky divines have been bluegrass farmers--though I've always wished that they wouldn't call themselves divines.
The stranger was a Kentuckian, he said, from the Bluegrass region, and he was buying timber through the hills.
The teacher was mountain born and bred, but he had been to the Bluegrass to school, and he had brought back certain little niceties of dress, bearing, and speech that irritated the girl.
But Jake had fled and Lum followed him almost to the edge of the bluegrass country, to find that Jake had a wife and child.
Once more the Bluegrass man thought he heard a groan, but the other was only clearing his throat.
Where bluegrass bottom is used for the orchard planting of pecans or black walnuts, there is a possible slight reduction in growth from lack of cultivation, but this loss will be nowhere nearly proportionate to a farmer's loss of pasturage.
The chief question has been about soil acidity and it may be stated that after 12 years of treatment the soil is little or no more acid than it is under bluegrass sod.
Improvement was evident both in the amount of Kentucky bluegrass and the pounds of beef produced.
At home in the mountains, Henry Falkins would have been more wary, but here in the bluegrass he had laid aside all thoughts of danger, as he had laid aside his high-laced boots and corduroys.
As the regiment from bluegrass and mountains filed in their long lines over the side, she stood on the transport deck with the colonel and one of his majors and looked on.
Over this land was brooding one of those days of rare charm that sometimes come to the bluegrass about the first of July.
Brief staccato orders broke from captains and lieutenants and the Shirt-tailers were swinging down the Calle Lemeri, with the bluegrass battalion at their backs.
He looked like a mountaineer and could hardly be expected to measure up to the bluegrass requirements of courtesy.
The smooth swell of the bluegrass began to break into a choppier formation and assume raggedness, while far away the sky-line was broken by a climbing back-bone of foothills.
But they were a part of a regiment whose peace-footing was two battalions, and whose colonel, though a bluegrass Kentuckian, understood and loved highland and lowland alike.
In the basin below somnolent streets spread away and lose themselves in glistening turnpikes between bluegrass farms where velvet lawns and shaded woodlands surround old mansions that mirror the charm and flavor of rural England.
The bluegrass troops grumbled afresh, but the men from the mountains kept their peace.
The bluegrass men had need to lengthen their stride to hold the pace, and from their ranks came a low hum of frank and eager excitement, but the high-landers marched in silence.
For Winchester is the nearest town of consequence to that foothilled borderland where the opulent bluegrass ends and the illiterate Cumberlands pile their grim ramparts.
The horse of race-track and show-ring and hunting field were as alien there as the other bluegrass luxuries of wainscoted halls and silent servants and groaning tables and silver-surmounted sideboards.
With the mountaineer's strong yearning to remain as near as possible to his birthplace, these refugees have made new homes and new lives at the edge of the bluegrasswhere on occasion they can again see familiar faces.
The prisoners themselves stood stoically enough with mask-like faces, and if the roar of bluegrass wrath intimidated them, their eyes and lips showed no trace.
Clip-quadrat studies confirmed this observation and showed the bluegrass understory to be especially heavy.
Population density, life span and mortality rates of small mammals in the bluegrass meadow and bluegrass field associations of southern Michigan.
But the duty in which she took the greatest delight was that of going every evening to the bluegrass glades, a mile away from the fort, to fetch the cows home to be milked and secured for the night.
At intervals the sombre wildness of the scene would be relieved by a bluegrass glade, all agleam with moonbeams and glistering dew drops, saving where flecked with the shadows of clumped or scattered trees.
From that hour Moss became a show-piece which the proprietors of the Bluegrasswould not willingly have parted with.
One afternoon, after laying off his dining-room livery and getting into his own shabby clothes,--in which few of the Bluegrass guests would have recognized their Congo King!
At the first cock-crow, he passed the house where he had stayed all night when he first rode to the Bluegrass on his old mare.
Then awful quiet she grew, an' hadn't spoken for a week, When in came brother Bill one day with news fromBluegrass Creek.
It whisked us through the richness of Bluegrasspasture lands, and the opulent ease of Bluegrass life into a barer country where the color of the soil grew mean and outcropping rocks lay bare.
The tree does not do well under cultivation or mulching, as winter injury to the tree has been recorded when compared to bluegrass sod.
The tree grows best in well drained, fertile soil and a bluegrass sod.
They found that vertical profile a mixture, and we are hoping to have clover sod instead of bluegrass sod.
To leave at once might savor of flight under fire, but when the week was out the painter turned his horse's head toward town, and his train swept him back to the Bluegrass and the East.
From time to time, eminent Bluegrass surgeons came to Hixon by rail, rode twenty miles on mules, and held clinics on the mountainside.
Incidentally, the timber that it hauled and the coal that its flat cars carried down to the Bluegrass went largely to his consignees.
In fact, Shirley once had saved her father's fortune by carrying the Willing colors to victory in the great Kentucky Derby, as related in "The Bluegrass Seminary Girls on Vacation.
The objections of their fathers they soon overcame, and at last found themselves installed as pupils of the Bluegrass Seminary in Lexington.
Have you never heard among the old horsemen of the Bluegrass the odd expression, "The colt will be two years old next 'grass'"?
Was it not one of our innocent Bluegrass girls who declared that up to the close of her "teens" she believed the familiar phrase "damned Yankee" to be a single word?
There came into one of our Bluegrass communities just after the war a clever Confederate adventurer, who speedily established very pleasant social relations by exploiting his military record.
Either," said a sagacious observer from New England, "no other land ever lent itself so easily to civilization as the Bluegrass region, or it was exceptionally fortunate in its inhabitants.
It was like the grass described in the Hudibrastic skit of the bluegrass Colonel: "Where bluegrass grew the winter through-- And where it blooms in summer, too.
In one of our old Bluegrass counties two of these settlements were made in pioneer times, about two miles apart.
Among the most popular of the well-trained African servitors of the mid-century days in the Bluegrass was our versatile drudge, Ben Briler, one of the most active and useful functionaries of that old-time tavern life.
You won't have an adjective left for the beautiful Bluegrass flower!
But he, whose heart was beating against a twenty-page letter from a nymph in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, laughed a negative, this time throwing her a flower that she kissed lightly and put in her hair.
Invitations poured in on them from Lexington and Frankfort and the surrounding Bluegrass country.
None entered that room save the old doctor, and later Kate's mother, become suddenly an old woman, broken by the terrible rumors which had penetrated her peaceful Bluegrass home.
It was all so unlike what she had expected, so appallingly unlike the gracious, well-ordered life of the stately Bluegrass homes she had known.
Beyond the orchard lay a woods pasture, formed of a succession of gentle swells, the heavy bluegrassturf soft as an Oriental carpet to the feet, while scattered about were hundreds of magnificent trees, mostly oak and poplar.
There's blood back of it--Kentucky bluegrass blood.
They have lived in Kentucky a long time, but they have always bought their position in a community, and I have never known one of the name to be a true gentleman, as we of the Bluegrass construe the word.
This yard was carpeted with a luxuriant expanse of bluegrass in which no alien growth was allowed to find root.
For twenty years this drama of the bluegrass and the mountains has held the boards, more than seven million people have seen it, and even to-day it is being produced almost daily with no signs of loss in popular interest.
Bluegrass (Poa pratensis) and crabgrass (Digitaria ischaemum) form most of the sod.
She never tired of hearing Chad tell about the Bluegrass country, and when she knew that the Major wanted him to go back, she followed him out in the yard that night and found him on the fence whittling.
Not yet had he been out of sight of the hills, but the master had told him that they would see the Bluegrass next day, when they were to start back to the mountains by train as far as Lexington.
Wouldn't you like to stay here in the Bluegrass now and go to school?
He was making abolition speeches throughout the Bluegrass with a dagger thrust in the table before him--shaking his black mane and roaring defiance like a lion.
He was taking their path and, in the far West, beyond the Bluegrass world where he was going, he could, if he pleased, take up the same life at the precise point where they had left off.
On one side of the walk Chad saw a rose-bush that he had brought from the Bluegrass for Melissa.
A thrill ran through the entire command when the column struck the first Bluegrass turnpike, and a cheer rang from front to rear.
Kirby Smith had risen swiftly from Tennessee, had struck the Federal Army on the edge of the Bluegrass the day before and sent it helter-skelter to the four winds.
Such instances of carelessness as lately have been exhibited in the Bluegrass will be severely dealt with.
No humor in that phrase to theBluegrass Kentuckian!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bluegrass" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blues; grass; oats; wheat
