It wasn't long before all the surface of the comfortable was filled with rows of neat, white tufts and was ready to be ripped from the frame and have its edges finished with herringbone stitches.
She wished that she were tall enough and nimble enough with her fingers to help fasten the pretty little tufts of white Saxony yarn that tied the comfortable.
The fire had seemingly burned the very roots out of the ground, so that the little grass visible at the time of our visit in the latter part of July, was in tufts here and there with vacant spaces in between.
What grass was left, or rather roots, stood intufts with a big vacant space of ground between these tufts.
They conceal their nests on the ground under tufts of dead grass or overhanging stones.
Of grass, on the ground, in tufts of grass or under small shrubs; eggs pale greenish white, heavily marked with chestnut (.
Usually high up in pines and often concealed in tufts of moss; made of fine twigs and strips of bark, held together with cobwebs and Spanish moss; eggs greenish white, spotted with various shades of brown.
Of grasses, on the ground, under shrubs or in tufts of grass; not usually arched as those of Bachman Sparrow seem to always be; four or five pure white eggs (.
On the tops of the houses, tufts of jungle grass and rags are placed, to keep off owls, the ill-omened kottan birds.
At the ends of the tufts of hair at the ears, heavy ornaments are tied or braided.
In a few minutes we were through the dense thicket of grass, and in a rocky bottom, dotted sparely with tufts of bush and loose stones; and, as I ran my eye over this, I turned to the doctor despairingly.
In my eagerness now, I was ready to turn tufts of grass and blocks of stone into tigers; and had taken aim at one with my ears singing with excitement, when the doctor laid his hand on mine.
It grows on the gentle slopes, either in a continuous patch or in scattered and rounded tufts a foot in diameter, and it lasts till it is killed by the first smart frosts.
But I walk encouraged between thetufts of Purple Wood-Grass, over the sandy fields, and along the edge of the Shrub-Oaks, glad to recognize these simple contemporaries.
The second is also quite slender, growing in tufts two feet high by one wide, with culms often somewhat curving, which, as the spikes go out of bloom, have a whitish fuzzy look.
I can skulk amid the tufts of Purple Wood-Grass on the borders of the "Great Fields.
Peel off the skin, garnish withtufts of cauliflowers or Brussels sprouts, and serve.
When cold, glaze it, and put a paper ruche round the root, and garnish with tufts of parsley.
When cold, glaze it, put a paper ruche round the root, which is generally very unsightly, and garnish with tufts of parsley.
Two or three tufts of this species of thyme, Thymus citriodorus, usually find a place in the herb compartment of the kitchen-garden.
Rub a little lobster spawn through a sieve, sprinkle it over the fish, and garnish with tufts of parsley and cut lemon.
Dish them on a hot napkin, and garnish withtufts of parsley.
Draw out the bones, dish the meat, and garnish either with tufts of cauliflower or braised cabbage cut in quarters.
Remove the skewers, put in a plated or silver one, and send the joint to table with gravy in the dish, and garnish with tufts of horseradish.
Roast fowls and water-cresses; boiled bacon, garnished with tufts of cauliflower; hashed mutton, from remains of mutton of Sunday.
Arrange some of it lightly in a small glass dish, and the remainder use for garnishing the joint: it should be placed in tufts round the border of the dish, with 1 or 2 bunches on the meat.
Fry the slices a nice brown, dry them before the fire for a minute or two, dish them on a napkin, and garnish with tuftsof parsley.
Garnish with tufts of horseradish, and send horseradish sauce and Yorkshire pudding to table with it.
Garnish with tufts of scraped horseradish, and send horseradish sauce to table with it (see No.
Roast fillet of veal, boiled bacon-cheek garnished with tufts of cauliflowers, French beans and potatoes.
The nodes are glabrous mostly bearing tufts of leaves with compressed equitant sheaths.
This delicate and small grass occurs here and there as mere tufts especially in sheltered situations.
Stems are prostrate, widely creeping and rooting at the nodes and forming matted tufts with slender, erect or ascending flowering branches, 3 to 12 inches high.
The first glume of the lower spikelets above is somewhat narrower, 5- or 3-toothed with long hairs at the margins and with tufts of hairs at the back about the middle.
These are perennial grasses with stems creeping and rooting at the nodes, and producing tufts of barren branches and flowering stems at the nodes.
It forms fairly large tufts with plenty of green leaves on rich moist soils.
Some grasses grow erect forming tufts and others form cushions with the branches creeping along the ground.
Then he pulled and shook, shook and pulled, until the hand came away with big tufts of hair showing between the fingers.
Without the least respect for his pantaloons, he crossed the lawn on all-fours, scrutinizing the smallest blades of grass, pulling away the thicktufts to see the earth better, and minutely observing the direction of the broken stems.
It merely consists of a few broken branches stuck in the ground, and very imperfectly thatched on one side with a few tufts of grass and rushes.
Here and there scattered tufts of brown wiry grass are supported, and still more rarely, some low thorny bushes.
As soon as it arrived near the edge, but still being under water, it tried to conceal itself in the tufts of sea-weed, or it entered some crevice.
It consists of a crumbling argillaceo-calcareous rock, which, from the dry nature of the climate, supports only scattered tufts of withered grass, without a single bush or tree to break the monotonous uniformity.
Everywhere the landscape wears the same sterile aspect; a dry gravelly soil supports tufts of brown withered grass, and low scattered bushes, armed with thorns.
Why had she put on that chintz dress with tufts of wild flowers glowing on a maroon ground?
Then there are light seeds, like the dandelion, which have tufts or plumes to carry them away.
I see pretty shells with compact whorls, flat as beans; I notice little worms carryingtufts and feathers; I make out some with flabby fins constantly flapping on their backs.
The dorsal tufts consist of short, thick spines, with some fine longer ones.
These latter are elongated, not protuberant, and support eight pairs of spines with very minute intermediate spines; those in the dorsal tufts are numerous and long.
Dorsal tufts with one spine extremely long, equalling a segment and a half in length; the others very short.
The second and third cirri differ from the three posterior pair, only in the bristles being slightly more numerous, and in the dorsal tufts being more spread out.
The latter are slightly prominent, placed some way apart from each other, with the above-mentioned tufts of bristles between them.
The surface appeared broken for several miles; and in many of the valleys we could discern columnar and pyramidal masses of sand-rock, sometimes entirely naked, and sometimes bearing little tufts of bushes about their summits.
It was thickly sprinkled with snow and dotted here and there with little green spots where the grass tufts showed through.
A dead level stretches below us to the river, marked by some bush tufts and the few roofs of Modder River village.
Every Boer as he rides off, you can see through the glasses, is pursued and attended by little dust tufts that tell where the bullets strike.
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