beach-grass

One must either do this, or become a real nomad and sleep in the open, with the stars for candles, and a bunch of beach-grass for a pillow.

The Automobilist Abroad

Much of the county is a region of sands, salt-marshes, beach-grass and scattered woods.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

And so we sought islands — sometimes little ones, all rocks, too little even to have collected driftwood for a fire, too little to have grown anything but wisps of beach-grass, low enough to be covered, perhaps, by the highest tides.

More Jonathan Papers Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris 1917

Now that Amanda saw a prospect of getting home she felt more cheerful and so did Anne; and they gathered dry brush, bits of bark and handfuls of the sunburned beach-grass until the hole in the sand was filled, and there was

A Little Maid of Province Town Alice Turner Curtis 1912

On the contrary, let him proceed exactly as he would in stalking a deer: get out of sight, and to leeward, if possible; then take every advantage of bush and rock and beach-grass to creep within range, taking care to advance only when his eyes are turned away, and remembering that his ears are keen enough to detect the passing of a mouse in the grass from an incredible distance.

Ways of Wood Folk William Joseph Long 1909

Contentedly he fell to cropping the coarse beach-grass which grew at the forest's edge.

Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Sewell Ford 1907

Leaving the road with a speed which he had not equalled since the days when he had figured in the "The Grand Hippodrome Races," his sea-green legs quickened by the impetus of the affair behind him, Barnacles cleared the narrow strip of beach-grass at a jump.

Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Sewell Ford 1907

I see upon the sand-dunes the beach-grass sway and swing,

Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

So did the old house and big barn and all the tumbledown buildin's stuck there in the beach-grass and sand.

The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Close by was nothin 'but beach-grass and seaweed and sand.

The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907