Reject all stones, rough clods, tussocks, and the like.
"Mushrooms: how to grow them" by William Falconer
On the bottom is placed about one foot of "tussocks" from a neighboring bog, which may in time decay.
"Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings" by George E. Woodward
The downy woodpecker is very useful in the orchard, because it destroys great numbers of larvae of the tussock-moth and other insects.
"Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study" by Ontario Ministry of Education
The girl picked her way across the bog, jumping from one tussock to the next.
"The Flaming Jewel" by Robert W. Chambers
Presently he sees a dark form raise itself near a tussock of grass.
"Our Home in the Silver West" by Gordon Stables
With them have gone a fair portion of the tussock worms, but the sparrow holds his own.
"The Meaning of Evolution" by Samuel Christian Schmucker
Sometimes there is a scant lining of grasses or weeds and again the nests will be situated in the midst of a tussock of grass.
"The Bird Book" by Chester A. Reed
Acres of alder swamp spread away on either hand, set with swale and pool and tussock.
"The Moonlit Way" by Robert W. Chambers
She came out upon the narrow tussock slowly, but surely.
"The Girls of Central High on Track and Field" by Gertrude W. Morrison
What methods would you use that the tussock moth might be destroyed or kept out of a community?
"A Guide for the Study of Animals" by Worrallo Whitney
When there was bright moonlight, he sat upon the highest tussock he could find and thought about his grandfathers and grandmothers.
"Among the Night People" by Clara Dillingham Pierson
An Indian grazing-ground is all rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines, among which the herds scatter and disappear.
"The jungle book" by Rudyard Kipling
On very many farms there are meadows with deep, rich soils that are now lying under grass; or, worse, under tussocks and swamp weeds.
"Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring" by Anonymous
He sunk up to his knees, and with great difficulty got out by clinging to the tussocks that grew near.
"Spinning-Wheel Stories" by Louisa May Alcott
Between them and the road could be seen the figure of a man sitting on a doubled-down tussock of "twa" grass.
"Between Sun and Sand" by William Charles Scully
With head pushed between the dusty tussocks, I stared along the flat, white road.
"Memoirs of a Midget" by Walter de la Mare
So they started out to walk and presently they came to the big tussock of grass.
"Mother West Wind's Animal Friends" by Thornton W. Burgess
The nests found on grassy islands are fashioned in the same manner, and generally placed at the foot of a large tussock of grass.
"Audubon and his Journals, Volume I (of 2)" by Maria R. Audubon
The meadow lodge is built thus: The muskrat first chooses a large tussock of sedge that stands well out of the water for his bedstead.
"A Watcher in The Woods" by Dallas Lore Sharp
Farther and farther I pushed on into the treacherous marsh, picking my way from tussock to tussock.
"Everyday Adventures" by Samuel Scoville
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Emblems of storm and danger,
Spindrift and mountain stern,
Plants that welcome the stranger—
Seaweed, tussock, and fern.
"Seaweed, Tussock and Fern" by Henry Lawson
Plants that welcome the stranger,
Sea-swept and driven astern,
Beloved by the wide-world ranger—
Seaweed, tussock, and fern.
"Seaweed, Tussock and Fern" by Henry Lawson
Known to the world-wide ranger,
Who sailed on the “Never Return,”
Emblems of storm and danger—
Flax and tussock and fern.
"Seaweed, Tussock and Fern" by Henry Lawson
Guarded broods and litters
Behind shut doors; the dairy herds
Knelt in the meadow mute as boulders;
Sheep drowsed stoneward in their tussocks of wool, and birds,
Twig-sleep, wore
"Hardcastle Crags" by Sylvia Plath