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Prairie grass

noun

Handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn. Synonyms: Andropogon scoparius, broom beard grass, Schizachyrium scoparium, wire grass.

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... it, and waited for the wind to blow itself out. We could see or hear nothing of the horses. There was nota cloud in sight, and the stars still shone down calmly and unruffled, while the wind cut and hissed through the long prairie grass all about us. It kept up for about ten minutes, when it began to stop as suddenly as it had begun. In twenty minutes there was nothing but a cool, gentle breeze coming out of the southwest. We lit the lantern and ...

— The Voyage of the Rattletrap • Hayden Carruth

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... been done to introduce cultivated grasses. The prairie grass looks coarse and unsavory, and yet our horses and cattle will ...

— A New Guide for Emigrants to the West • J. M. Peck

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... obtained. We had in our encampment eight tents, fourteen horses, and from fifteen to twenty persons, counting big and little, whites and Indians. Whenever we camped our horses were turned loose in the luxuriant prairie grass, the only precaution taken being to "hobble" them, as the work of tying their forefeet together is called. It seemed a little cruel at first, and some of our spirited horses resented it, and struggled a good deal against it as an infringement ...

— By Canoe and Dog-Train • Egerton Ryerson Young

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Words linked to "Prairie grass" : Schizachyrium scoparium, broom beard grass, broom grass