grass-blade

From being immersed in well-nigh solid media of cloud and hail shot with lightning, I find myself uncovered of the humid investiture and left bare to the mild gaze of the moon, which sparkles now on every wet grass-blade and frond of moss.

A Changed Man 2006

He walked down the trail with comparative carelessness, here and there crushing a grass-blade beneath his foot.

The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

He walked down the trail with comparative carelessness, here and there crushing a grass-blade beneath his foot.

The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

Here a drop poised on a grass-blade; there filled the cup of a wild flower, till the breeze stirred and the rain was spilt.

The Years 2004

Now a weird flash turned night into day and showed every little grass-blade, separate and distinct, that grew about their feet.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2003

As a grass-blade, if badly grasped, cuts the arm, badly-practised asceticism leads to hell.

The Dhammapada 2003

‘These are the men,’ Hurree whispered, as the ritual went on and the two whites followed the grass-blade sweeping from Hell to Heaven and back again.

Kim 2003

There was always dust in the air, and the sun blazed through in a thick beam, like pale honey, full of dancing motes, shining through each grass-blade with such intensity that against the dark walls they glowed like tiny spears of emerald.

The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991

They moved slowly across the glade, and then one stiffened, grunted and pointed with his broad-bladed stabbing spear at a crushed grass-blade where the path entered the forest again.

The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

He walked down the trail with comparative carelessness, here and there crushing a grass-blade beneath his foot.

The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989