The thin-legged bicyclist explained his machine to us very fully and carefully when we asked him, and then we saw the men were cutting turfs and turning them over and rolling them up and putting them in a heap.
I've been digging up turfs and getting this out, and putting the turfs back, and stamping them down not to show, ever since six o'clock.
I shall, ere long, with greenturfs cover'd be; Then sure thou'lt like or thou wilt envy me.
If I lie unburied, sir, These my relics pray inter: 'Tis religion's part to see Stones or turfs to cover me.
So shall the blankets which come over me Present those turfs which once must cover me: And with as firm behaviour I will meet The sheet I sleep in as my winding-sheet.
Pray, hurt him not, though he be dead, He knows well who do love him, And who with green turfs rear his head, And who do rudely move him.
Those who had donkey-carts would willingly bring home turfs for those who had none, in return for help with their own turf-cutting.
Pray hurt him not; though he be dead, He knows well who do love him, And who with green turfs rear his head, And who do rudely move him.
Time had been when, at similar employments, I was the helper or onlooker; but now Bettesworth's sight was so bad that I could no longer leave him to unroll two turfs side by side and make their edges fit.
I was meaning to lay turf over a plot of ground where the shrubs had stood; but the work had to wait: the frozen turfs could not be unrolled.
Our hands touching the turfs had no thought either; but they were alive for all that; and of such a nature was the life in Bettesworth's brain, in its simple touch upon the circumstances of his existence.
As he neared it, the turfs sent up a ruddy glow, and touched the whole interior with warm color.
Another party, for being drunk, was sentenced to carry forty turfs to the fort; while another, being in the company of drunkards, was set in the stocks.
The Earth beneath abounds with Stores Of Oils and Sulphurs too, And Turfs and Coals, which all will Flame, When God commands the blow.
There is very little plain ground, and no grass except a little, which is much like unto moss that groweth on soft ground, such as we get turfs in.
Their dwelling-houses were made on both sides with stones, and wood laid across over them, which was covered over with turfs of earth, and they are flat on the tops, and many of these stood hard by the shore.
Dig obeyed, and selected one of the turfs in question, which he clandestinely conveyed up to his room.
Pray hurt him not; though he be dead, He knows well who do love him; And who with green turfs rear his head, And who do rudely move him.
In one corner of this hut stood a fireplace with a chimney artfully built of clay, and on the fire of turfs boiled an earthen pot.
In front the large round room, fashioned from the basement of the mill, lit only by the great fire of turfs and a single horn lantern, hung from the ceiling that was ribbed with beams of black and massive oak.
In many other official documents there are repeated references to the right to dig turfs and cut wood for smelting the tin.
Then carry the turfs to the church and have the priest sing four masses over them and have the green sides 20 turned toward the altar.
No hurry," said I to Bertric, who was anxious, "there is no wind to fan the turfsinto flame.
The turfs blazed a little in the draught as we cast them overboard quickly.
Some of the turfs may still have had fire within them, but we did not wait to see.
The thin-legged bicyclist explained his machine to us very fully and carefully when we asked him, and then we saw the men were cutting turfs and turning them over and rolling them up, and putting them in a heap.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turfs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
