jungle-grass

He crept through a “pestiferous” flat country of muddy greens and browns, a sea of “rank jungle-grass” that parted for the odd acacia tree or the conical brush roof of a native hut.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

He crept through a “pestiferous” flat country of muddy greens and browns, a sea of “rank jungle-grass” that parted for the odd acacia tree or the conical brush roof of a native hut.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

He crept through a “pestiferous” flat country of muddy greens and browns, a sea of “rank jungle-grass” that parted for the odd acacia tree or the conical brush roof of a native hut.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Here and there a treacherous, slimy watercourse wound its slinking way along, making a bog in which a horse would sink to his shoulders; and over all these traps and pitfalls the long waving jungle-grass drew a veil.

Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life 1902

Five miles west of Chachuran is a patch of the plumed jungle-grass, that turns over in silver when the wind blows, from ten to twenty feet high and from three to four miles square.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

On the level plain of the farther bank the stiff jungle-grass had died standing, and, dying, had mummied.

The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

To appreciate an unseen voice thoroughly you should hear it when you are lost in stifling jungle-grass.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

Then she wheeled round and set off for the river through beds of burnt down jungle-grass, bad even to ride a pig over.

Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

These things happened when the jungle-grass was tall; and the villagers of Chachuran told me that a sounder of pig had gone into the Arti-goth patch.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

To enter jungle-grass is always an unwise proceeding, but I went, partly because I knew nothing of pig-hunting, and partly because the villagers said that the big boar of the sounder owned foot long tushes.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900