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They now contained a most luxuriant crop of oat-grass (Anthistiria).
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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On the oat-grass and the sword-grass, and the bulrush in the pool.
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation Various 1878
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On the oat-grass and the sword-grass, and the bulrush in the pool.
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850
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On the oat-grass and the sword-grass, and the bulrush in the pool.
Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 Various 1840
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Although its sides were covered with low dark brush, there was a considerable quantity of oat-grass in its deep and sheltered valleys.
Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832
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We traversed about eight miles of as dreary a shore as can be imagined, backed, like Lake Bonney, by bare sand hills and barren flats, and encamped, after a journey of thirteen miles, on a small plain, separated from the lake by a low continuous sand ridge, on which the oat-grass was most luxuriant.
Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832
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These ranges generally have the appearance of open forest, and are covered with several kinds of grasses, among which the long oat-grass is the most abundant.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume I Charles Sturt 1832
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These ranges generally have the appearance of open forest, and are covered with several kinds of grasses, among which the long oat-grass is the most abundant.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete Charles Sturt 1832
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Still, however, the soil upon these elevations was sandy, and coarse, but the large oat-grass was abundant upon them, which yielded pasture at least as good as that in the broken country between Underaliga and Morumbidgee.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume 2 Charles Sturt 1832
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Still, however, the soil upon these elevations was sandy, and coarse, but the large oat-grass was abundant upon them, which yielded pasture at least as good as that in the broken country between Underaliga and Morumbidgee.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete Charles Sturt 1832
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