pampas-grass

They looked not a day older, suspended on wires above pampas-grass.

To Let 2004

Travelling through darkness I see the stretched flower-beds, and Mrs Constable runs from behind the corner of the pampas-grass to say my aunt has come to fetch me in a carriage.

The Waves 2003

It would appear that the guides were conducting the party safely, when a lieutenant insisted on taking another route and landed his troops in a plateau covered with _cogon_ (pampas-grass) about eight feet high.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

It always meant stones and sand and a general grilling, the r ` tam, as it waved like pampas-grass to the far horizon.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

The tall pampas-grass, with its long feathery plumes, gives a profitable crop.

Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

In one patch it is like miniature pampas-grass, only a couple of inches long each seed-pod, but white and fluffy.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

Among them rise the banana, the palm, the aloe, the rubber tree, and the pampas-grass with its tall feathery plumes.

The California Birthday Book Various

Oxydendrum arboreum oyster plant oyster-shell scale pæonia see: peony palmettoes palms. palms for South. pampas-grass. pandanus.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

Such good lawn grasses as arundo, pampas-grass, eulalias, and erianthus are perennials and are therefore not included in this discussion.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

A bamboo-framed talc screen painted with white and yellow marguerites stood before a fireplace filled with pampas-grass dyed red.

Beyond John Galsworthy 1900