buffalo-grass

Hard to describe, but it's a really high quality vodka and the spicy, herby buffalo-grass flavour makes it something you can easily quaff ... and quaff ... and quaff.

Poland Whee, Krakow's Heaven Hal Duncan 2006

Hard to describe, but it's a really high quality vodka and the spicy, herby buffalo-grass flavour makes it something you can easily quaff ... and quaff ... and quaff.

Archive 2006-10-01 Hal Duncan 2006

The garden with its shrubberies and lawns of buffalo-grass, its spreading figtrees and dark firs, rested and refreshed the eye.

The Way Home 2003

The windows of his new room were fitted with green venetians; round the verandah-posts twined respectively a banksia and a Japanese honey-suckle, which further damped the glare; while on the patch of buffalo-grass in front stood a spreading fig-tree, that leafed well and threw a fine shade.

Australia Felix 2003

Better still, he turned out to be one of your genuine garden-lovers: as the pair of them walked the grounds of “Ultima Thule,” none of the details and improvements Mahony felt proudest of but was observed and bespoken: the white-strawberry bed, the oleander grove, the fernery, the exquisitely smooth buffalo-grass lawns on which sprays were kept playing.

The Way Home 2003

Its other name is "buffalo-grass"; and in spite of its dinginess, with the assistance of the sage, converting all the Plains west of Fort Kearney into a model Quaker landscape, it is one of the most nutritious varieties of cattle-fodder, and for hundreds of miles the emigrant-drover's only dependence.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

When the chill of the night had set in, Cummings ordered a second halt, and the horses, hobbled, commenced to graze on the short buffalo-grass which spread underfoot.

Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton

A vast sun-burned waste of buffalo-grass, prickly pears, and sagebrush stretched before us to the north and east; and on the west the filmy blue contour of the Highwoods Mountains lifted like sun-smitten thunder clouds in the July swelter.

The River and I John G. Neihardt 1927

Bunch and buffalo-grass cover almost every inch of the ground.

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

Still I never thought that one of the former animal could be in the neighborhood, for my mule was picketed on the little plateau where I sat, and was leisurely cropping the buffalo-grass which thickly covered it.

Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916