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This tuft is observed both in the male and female, though only when full-grown.— The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
One never knows what tuft-hunting may not lead people to do; and if I had not caught the post, some pushing person or other might quite possibly have asked him sooner.— The Nebuly Coat
When he got to the top of the rock he saw spread out before him a stony waste without a tuft or blade of grass.— The Golden Spears And Other Fairy Tales
He came from the centre of a grass-tuft, and spoke with solemn deliberation.— "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character

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