grass-seed

• “No piles of dirt and grass-seed bags or rolling shelves full of begonias and impatiens will be found at the design centers.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Home Depot Set to Test

• “The June air infected us with primitive hungers, grass-seed and thistledown idled through the windows, we smelt the fields and were tormented by cuckoos, while every out-of-door sound that came drifting in was a sharp nudge in the solar plexus.”

  Cider With Rosie

• “Their food consists almost entirely of insects with a very little grass-seed.”

  Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation

• “She used a native grass-seed in place of soap, and made the linen very white with it.”

  Morocco

• “No cultivation is usually given, the grass-seed being sown upon the ashes remaining from the burnt scrub, which forms very effective manure.”

  Australia, The Dairy Country

• “Farther on, we saw five old and miserably emaciated Indian women, gathering grass-seed for bread.”

  What I Saw in California

• “A thick seeding of lawn grass-seed should be sown early the next spring and raked lightly in.”

  Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study

• “Then a new grain drill with fertilizer and grass-seed attachments was added.”

  Hidden Treasure

• “Trees and vines had also been planted outside, and the inevitable grass-seed sown broadcast.”

  Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls

• “They pricked his consciousness at unexpected moments, like a grass-seed in a walker's stocking ....”

  The Long Trick

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