couch-grass

• “Such arable fields as had not been sown, but where the last stubble had been ploughed up, were overrun with couch-grass, and where the short stubble had not been ploughed, the weeds hid it.”

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• “Now after all my labouring to pay every man to a penny, and to allow the women over, when among the couch-grass (which is a sad thing for their gowns), to be charged like this, I say, so amazed me that I stood, with my legs quite open, and ready for an earthquake.”

  Lorna Doone

• “So we packed it out bag by bag, and made an ironbark coffin for it, and buried it away there, and put some couch-grass turfs on it.”

  Robbery Under Arms

• ““Yes, I must make it clear to myself and understand,” he thought, looking intently at the untrampled grass before him, and following the movements of a green beetle, advancing along a blade of couch-grass and lifting up in its progress a leaf of goat-weed.”

  Anna Karenina

• “Gardens will always produce a great deal more than is wished for, in the shape of various herbs, shrubs, and plants, called weeds; such as dandelions, couch-grass, cow-parsley, chick-weed, and many other plants, which go by the general name of _weeds_.”

  The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering

• “I saw no green grass there, except in the garden: and this was some English grass, appearing to me to be a sort of couch-grass; it was in drills.”

  George Washington: Farmer

• “A few plants should be selected for special study, and the following are recommended: annuals -- sweet-pea, pumpkin, and corn; biennials -- cabbage, parsnip, and carrot; perennials -- dahlia, rhubarb, and couch-grass.”

  Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study

• “The rope is made of tough couch-grass and is painted in alternate stripes of red, yellow, and blue.”

  The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion

• “The bent-grass heaves not, the couch-grass quails not or cowers;”

  A Nympholept

• “In this warm valley, carpeted in the irrepressible couch-grass, there was no lack of fodder that season, and even the lanes and byways would have served as fattening paddocks.”

  Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

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