There was a bare little plot of grass in the middle, protected by a cheap wire fence.
"The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins
He didn't need it, now; he would lie on wire springs, instead of on the crisp, prairie grass.
"Chip, of the Flying U" by B. M. Bower
At long intervals could be found a marsh of wire-grass, or a few acres of withered bunch-grass.
"The Lions of the Lord" by Harry Leon Wilson
About the mouth of the well was a wire grass that seemed to prevent it caving in.
"Death Valley in '49" by William Lewis Manly
The men slipped like eels through and under the wires, and lay in the long grass behind.
"Crittenden" by John Fox, Jr.
So we turned aside and walked miles by a barbed wire fence, among fired rocks and cinders, where never a blade of grass grew.
"A Tramp's Notebook" by Morley Roberts
The little cocks were incessant singers, their favorite perches being the wire fences, or weeds and grass tufts in the pastures.
"Birds of the Rockies" by Leander Sylvester Keyser
I raised my head cautiously to the level of the wire-grass.
"A Village of Vagabonds" by F. Berkeley Smith
It was a strange sight to see green grass on one side of the wires and outside perfectly bare.
"Reminiscences of Queensland" by William Henry Corfield
At frequent intervals it was necessary to crawl out and visit the listening posts, who lay in the rank grass just beyond our own wire.
"From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade" by Frederic C. Curry
Dropping it, and kneeling excitedly in the grass, she searched another, and still another wire, and with the same result.
"The Heart of Thunder Mountain" by Edfrid A. Bingham
It was composed of two wires, only a foot apart, and was almost hidden by the long grass.
"Out on the Pampas" by G. A. Henty
The gate was wired up, and the drive overgrown with grass.
"The Thread of Gold" by Arthur Christopher Benson
For rabbits I tie coarse grass around the trees with label wire, and leave it on two years.
"The Apple" by Various
I produce upon myself the impression of being one of those larks who sit behind wires on a little square of wet grass.
"A House-Party" by Ouida
But the wire that you pushed through the grass to indicate the spot, was not found by my friend.
"Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist" by Alexander Berkman
It will trample down the barb-wire entanglements as if they were grass.
"The Romance of War Inventions" by Thomas W. Corbin
But feed was short, for the cold had set back the grass, and Henry Lee had wired that he could deliver on the twentieth.
"Bat Wing Bowles" by Dane Coolidge
His foot had caught in a wire stretched taut under the grass.
"Airship Andy" by Frank V. Webster
Here and there through the long wire-grass come perfect gushes of blue and white violets.
"Palmetto-Leaves" by Harriet Beecher Stowe
***