The nest is built in high grass nearly on the ground, or in date-palms, or in arrowroot in the jungle up to heights of 3 feet.
Sometimes the nests are placed in tufts of high grass or in thick bushes, but never at any great elevation above the ground.
They build in low thorny bushes, and occasionally in clumps of high grass, the nest being rarely more than 3 feet from the ground.
The country through which the Mogoung river passes is very uninteresting, and almost exclusively jungle, either tree or high grass.
Throughout the 1st part, all the bottoms of the valleys are cultivated, thence all is jungle, either of high grass or of trees.
The ground, which was everywhere seen between the high grass, was an indurated whitish clay, on which the plants, of which we collected several, grew only in single spots.
Under its tall slender poplars grew high grass, or a thick undergrowth of roses, mostly very nourishing food for the wild animals, which we saw in several places.
This forms the principal excitement of tiger-shooting in high grass, as the sport may last for hours, especially if there are only two or three guns in a long line of elephants.
The animal took refuge in a patch of high grass only a few yards square.
There is a necessity for great precaution, lest a tiger when disturbed should steal away and escape unobserved from the dense covert of high grass.
The wind was right, and between us and the bull lay only four hundred yards of knee-high grass.
Below us, about fifteen yards away, was the carcass of a waterbuck half hidden in the foot-high grass.
It lighted a plain two miles in extent, broken by ridges and gullies and covered with thick, high grass, and with bunches of cactus and palmetto.
On the left of the trail it shut off fields of high grass blocked at every fifty yards with great barricades of undergrowth and tangled trees and chapparal.
The camps were pitched along the trail as near the parallel stream as possible, and in the occasional places where there was rich, high grass.
On such occasions they generally halt either in forest or high grass, according to circumstances, about half a mile from the camp they propose to attack.
Before us, as usual, is the hopeless sea of high grass, along which is a dark streak which marks the course of the ditch through which we slowly clear a passage.
The river, although fourteen feet deep, had entirely disappeared in a boundless sea of high grass, which resembled sugar-canes.
Ascending rising ground in perfectly open prairie on the opposite side of Atabbi, I saw a dense herd of about two hundred elephants--they were about a mile distant, and were moving slowly through the high grass.
In about a quarter of an hour, after a careful chase over deep ruts and gullies concealed in high grass, I arrived at a level space, and shooting ahead, I gave him a shoulder shot with the Reilly No.
There were no trees except the dolape palms; these were scattered at long intervals in the bright yellow surface of high grass.
After nearly two hours passed in slowly following upon his path, we suddenly broke cover and saw him travelling very quietly through an extensive plain of high grass.
Should he retreat, you follow him; but you may shortly discover that he is leading you to some favourite haunt of thick jungle or high grass, from which, when you least expect it, he will suddenly burst out in full charge upon you.
After strolling over the country for some miles, we came upon fresh elephant-tracks in high grass, which we immediately followed up.
At nine o'clock, Christmas Eve, the tent arrived and was soon put up in the jungle of high grassat the middle of the little peninsula.
True, our guide, who had never been over the trail before and who was trying to guess the way by instinct, had got us hopelessly becalmed in a sea of high grass so that we didn't know where we were.
Here was grass, high grass in which the boys were almost lost to sight.
When we came upon the little herd in the neck-high grass, I took a shot.
We found blood on the trail, and followed it a hundred yards and over a small ridge to a wide patch of high grass.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "high grass" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
