turves

When Hugh was gone, with his own cares to keep him fully occupied, and his errand in friendship faithfully discharged, Cadfael damped down his brazier with turves, closed his workshop, and went away to the church.

A River So Long 2010

It's pay-off time and will counter the girlie brigade when he turves-out Hewitt Jowell etc.

Who Will Follow John Reid Out of the Cabinet? 2007

Results from experiments with intact turves from a managed lowland New Zealand pasture in controlled environment conditions have demonstrated the following: that elevated CO2 results in an increase in net primary productivity, particularly below ground Newton et al.

Swedish Tree Line « Climate Audit 2007

She was kneeling down in the chimney-corner, before two pieces of turf laid together with the heather inwards, blowing at the red-hot ashes with her breath till the turves flamed.

Wessex Tales 2006

As it was, he advanced carefully toward the edge, where Brianna was kneeling, reaching across with her shovel to remove another layer of turves from the willow-work frame that arched across the top of the pit.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

The scorched turves that had covered it in operation were scattered round it, and the general impression was that of an enormous, smoking grave from which something large, hot, and doubtless demonic had just arisen.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

And so when he was entered into the town he ran through the town to the castle; and then all the young men of that city ran after Sir Launcelot, and there they threw turves at him, and gave him many sad strokes.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

“You intend to pass the night here,” I said, not as a question, for Holmes was already laying a fire with the dry peat turves.

The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998

Just as I realized that this effect was the result of the mound's being covered in cut turves, the whole thing blew up.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

When Hugh was gone, with his own cares to keep him fully occupied, and his errand in friendship faithfully discharged, Cadfael damped down his brazier with turves, closed his workshop, and went away to the church.

Brother Cadfael's Penance Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1994