herbage

• For their food they prefer nuts to herbage, which is natural enough in a region where the latter is scanty and the former exists in plenty; and in eating they "squat" upright on their haunches, and convey the food to their mouth after the manner of squirrels. —  Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
• Often a season of unusual drought, reducing the existing herbage which is scarcely adequate at best, gives rise to those irregular, temporary expansions which enlarge the geographical horizon of the horde, and eventuate in widespread conquest. —  Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
• And as he walked behind his cattle, they said to him, "Good is the herbage which is in that place;" and he listened to all that they said, and he took them to the good place which they desired. —  Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri Second series, XVIIIth to XIXth dynasty
• The chapel and its shabby plot of ground, from which the herbage was all trodden away by busy feet, had a living human interest that the numerous minsters and churches knee-deep in fresh green grass, visited by him during the foregoing week, had often lacked. —  A Laodicean : a Story of To-day
• Quite a different kind of herbage, and you know that it is a matter upon which we must take a woman's word Seti burst out laughing and I looked at the old priest angrily, though now that I came to think of it my father always said that his mother was one of the biggest liars in Egypt Well, let it be," went on Bakenkhonsu, "till we find out the truth before Thoth. —  Moon of Israel

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