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  • A fine hair-grass grew close to this soil, as though to produce as many blades as possible in the limited area.

    The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909

  • From the advantage of a hill we looked far down to a hair-grass meadow through which twisted tortuously a brook, and by the side of the brook, belittled by distance, was a miniature man.

    The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909

  • We camped that night at a lake whose banks were pebbled in the manner of an artificial pond, and whose setting was a thin meadow of the fine hair-grass, for the grazing of which the horses had to bare their teeth.

    The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909

  • From the advantage of a hill we looked far down to a hair-grass meadow through which twisted tortuously a brook, and by the side of the brook, belittled by distance, was a miniature man.

    The Mountains 1904

  • A fine hair-grass grew close to this soil, as though to produce as many blades as possible in the limited area.

    The Mountains 1904

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