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Examples
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They looked not a day older, suspended on wires above pampas-grass.
To Let 2004
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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
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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
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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
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The tall pampas-grass, with its long feathery plumes, gives a profitable crop.
Stories of California Ella M. Sexton
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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
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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
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Oxydendrum arboreum oyster plant oyster-shell scale pæonia see: peony palmettoes palms. palms for South. pampas-grass. pandanus.
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Such good lawn grasses as arundo, pampas-grass, eulalias, and erianthus are perennials and are therefore not included in this discussion.
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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
jodi commented on the word pampas-grass
also pampas grass
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampas_grass
March 4, 2018