When all is completed you can conceal the ventilator with dry brush or by planting weeds or shrubs around it, which will not interfere with the ventilation but will conceal the suspicious-looking pipe protruding from the ground.
The smooth and fantastically worn rocks, and the perfectly clean and tress-like rock-weeds falling over you, and attached so firmly to the rocks that you could pull yourself up by them, greatly enhanced the luxury of the bath.
These weeds were the symbols of those grotesque and fabulous thoughts which have not yet got into the sheltered coves of literature.
You thus employ'd, I will go root away The noisome weedswhich without profit suck The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.
When the gate lanthorn was set that night, a sentry noticed me creeping in the weeds at the moat's edge.
She looked through the weeds growing on the edge of the brook and saw a real horse and wagon and a real man driving down to the water through the vacant lot.
Together they tramped through the weedsuntil they were close to the toy.
Away ran the dog with the Lamb on Wheels in his mouth down the street, over a low fence, and soon he was in the vacant lots where the weeds grew high.
It is very rough going in this lot, full of weeds and stones.
And you get to regard it so, as the days and the weeds lengthen.
As I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden,--name things as I find them.
Several fields were allowed to become overrun with grass, not the least attention being paid to them; the weeds sprang up, and the grass ran over from the hedges.
At first the weeds require keeping down, but after awhile the crop itself kills them a good deal.
The same cause gave origin to that mass of weeds which was the standing disgrace of arable districts.
The sinews of the right arm had continually to drive the steel through straw and tough weeds entangled in the wheat.
Before planting, the land has to be dug or ploughed, and cleared; the weeds collected in the same way as on an arable field.
The land then went begging at the old price, for it had become so dirty--full of weeds from want of proper cleaning--that it was some time before any one would take it.
Tangled weeds float down the brook, catching against projecting branches that dip into the stream, or slowly rotating and carried apparently up the current by the eddy and back-water behind the bridge.
Inside the copse stand innumerable thistles shoulder high, dead and gaunt; and a grey border running round the field at the bottom of the hedge shows where the tall, strong weeds of summer have withered up.
The two kindly men on these occasions did their best to pluck out the ill weeds which had been growing up in Master Harry, while under his grandmother's care.
I can look after him the better," he said to himself, "and go on with the process of pulling up the weeds during her ladyship's absence.
And Henriette, alone with her dead, in her widow's weeds that she had not laid aside, was weeping silently.
Often they were caught in the weeds and bushes on the bank, where they remained to poison the atmosphere, swinging to the tide with a gentle, tremulous motion that imparted to them a semblance of life.
Sometimes it would leap down rocky shelves, making small cascades, over which the trees threw their broad balancing sprays and long nameless weeds hung in fringes from the impending banks, dripping with diamond drops.
The wreck had evidently drifted about for many months; clusters of shell-fish had fastened about it, and long sea-weeds flaunted at its sides.
The enormous losses, amounting to several hundred million dollars annually in the United States, caused by weeds stimulate us to adopt a better system of agriculture.
Conserving moisture and keeping the soil clean from weeds is worth all the painstaking care it requires.
Weeds grow without regard to our convenience, and they must be kept down from the first; and well on into the intervals of the hay-harvest the corn-field needs all of the cultivation that there is time for.
But there, Mr. Wren, the children are calling you from that bunch of weeds over yonder.
Mr. and Mrs. Wren led them from one place to another, always among the weeds and shrubbery where they were soon taught to earn their own livelihood.
NEST--On branches of trees, in open and exposed situations, six to twenty feet from the ground; built of stems of weeds and grasses.
Older sight would have seen only a poor shanty set in a patch of weeds and briers, and a narrow path straggling down to the dust of the public road.
Weeds grew around it, higher than the steps and the floor of the porch, and the crumbling chimney, which ran up on the outside of the house, was covered with a thick growth of Japanese ivy.
I declare," said Migwan, "I have become so zealous in the pursuit of weeds that I mechanically start to pull them along the roadside.
I little thought when I proudly won an honor last summer for identifying ten different weeds that they'd get to haunting my dreams the way they do now.
I don't want you to think of my garden as merely a lot of weeds to be forever pulled.
When set to weeding she pulled weeds and plants impartially, working such havoc in a short time that she was forbidden to touch a single growing thing.
In sea-weeds Devonshire is richer than any other county except Dorset.
So the little sailor toiled along, scrambling over rocks, and through high weeds and grasses and bushes, till they came to a road.
Every thing seemed on a gigantic scale, even to the weeds and grasses that grew on the edge of the beach, where it sloped up to join the main land.
No successful gardening where the weeds are permitted to grow!
The drought at the beginning of the season had been succeeded by copious rains, with warm southerly winds, under which the weeds were making an alarming growth, notwithstanding the trampling which they received from the pickers.
It was a sweltering day for a gentleman to work among the weeds in a strawberry-field, in coat and cravat.
It was evident that grubbing up weeds was no greater novelty to him than to us.
I had intended bestowing no particular care on these, except to keep down the weeds so that the runners could take root.
The morning gossamer spread in the grass or hung among the weeds and glistening in the dew--who has not seen it, and thought of the agile, long-legged proprietor somewhere lurking near by?
A certain thrifty granger of the writer's acquaintance was recently converted from the error of his attitude towards the "tarnal weeds and brush.
At all events, grass grows on the tops of the shattered pillars, and weeds and flowers root themselves in the chinks of the massive arches and fronts of temples, as if this were the thousandth summer since their winged seeds alighted there.
The grass is yellow, the weeds are parched; and where there have been wayside pools, the ground is cracked and dry.
