bent-grass

Coincidentally or not, the club switched to bent-grass greens that year and regained the top 10 for 1983.

The Best Course in America Is... 2009

She looked about her, and saw in all the fair meadow neither man nor woman, nor draught-beast nor milch-beast, nought but the little creatures of the brake and the bent-grass, which were but as the blossoms thereof; and the birds running in the herbage or singing amidst the tree-boughs.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

Now and then a hare will start among the bent-grass, while aloft the falcon rests poised on her mighty wing.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

Autumn hues gild the trees, the wide pastures are of brilliant green, and on the rough land the reddening bent-grass glows richly in the declining sun, which throws its glory alike over snowy hills and rosy clouds.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

She stood for several minutes peering out into the darkness and listening; no sound was to be heard but the lapping of the waves, and the sigh of the wind through the bent-grass on the common.

A Loose End and Other Stories S. Elizabeth Hall

For perhaps a quarter of an hour I puzzled over this: then I noticed that in the middle of each circle was an isolated blade of bent-grass, which, lashed hither and thither by every gust of wind, must have described the circle with its point, compass-wise.

Try Anything Twice 1938

In winter the bent-grass is the only vegetation, except for an occasional bush of buckthorn or tamarisk: but in summer the dunes have a queer succulent flora of their own – sea-convolvulus with its thick shining leaves; yellow horned poppy with its silky petals and twisted green scimitars; and that most noble, symmetrical and heraldic of flowers, the sea-holly.

Try Anything Twice 1938

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

A Nympholept 1917

But I caught hold at last by the long bent-grass on the brae-top, and pulled myself to a good footing.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

In a mild and steady light, which came from no illumination of moon or stars, but seemed to be interfused with the air, in the strong warm wind which wrapped the fell-top; upon a sward of bent-grass which ran toward the tarn and ended in swept reeds he saw six young women dancing in a ring.

Lore of Proserpine Maurice Hewlett 1892