| 单词 | grassless |
| 例句 | There was a round grassless patch in the middle of the lawn, like an island in a green sea, where a thin palm tree stood. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Beyond the gate, leaves and dandelions lined a long grassless swatch of ground all the way to a dilapidated old house. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Beatriz’s steps match the different beats: a slow tread through the grassless patches of black soil, followed by a faster two-step on the cracked concrete. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z They were set in small grassless plots littered with broken things, bricks, planks, crockery, things of a once utilitarian value. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In the grassless section in front of the house, a baby is crawling on top of a dog with black matted fur, and a boy of about six is poking a stick in the dirt. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z There the last living things gave up their struggle; the tops of the Morgai were grassless, bare, jagged, barren as a slate. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But it was she who was the diamond, sparkling out of that muddy, grassless, dirty-brick setting. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z The houses all be small, but every front yard’s different—some scrubby and grassless like a baldheaded old man. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The gymnasium was contiguous to the east wing of the school, and a grassless football field with cracked baked mud harrowed by cleats formed the far boundary of the campus to the north. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Rabbits avoid close woodland, where the ground is shady, damp and grassless and they feel menaced by the undergrowth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z To the right stood a decaying high school with a grassless campus. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z No hippos would be attracted to a grassless rock. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We trekked all over Mica, past hundreds of grassless stone-and-cactus front yards, through the Tudorized shopping center, skirting the electronics business park around which the city had' been invented a mere fifteen years before. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Beginning in 1960, those unheralded Patriots practiced on grassless high school fields and played games at Boston University, Harvard University, Boston College and Fenway Park. Foxboro(ugh!): Where Visiting N.F.L. Teams Hate to Play 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z Recreation takes place in a grassless compound, and the old motel’s damaged swimming pool is covered up. Cleaning Toilets, Following Rules: A Migrant Child’s Days in Detention 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z But she said Rogers, her mother and the children all seemed to share a comfortable existence on a quiet street where overturned bikes lay in rocky, grassless front yards. Quiet street, smiling family: Internal investigation launched after 3 children killed 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Reid’s father’s grave in the town’s grassless cemetery is marked with the etching of a pickax to mark that time. Harry Reid’s land sale to gold mine is boon for him and opportunity for Searchlight Then they used a tarp to carry and carefully drag him to a grassless post. No Way Is Matt Power Gone 2014-04-11T09:58:30Z After a neighbor began hitting a Wiffle ball with a club, Golden designed a course that crossed streets with the "greens" patches of grassless dirt on the sidewalks. Golf's True Renaissance Man 2014-03-05T05:00:00Z The buildings in the complex sat opposite a muddy, grassless field. India Ink: Why Does the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Resent Cricket? 2013-07-02T07:29:57Z Unsurprisingly Australia have encountered brown, grassless pitches, which negate their pace attack, the one facet of the game in which they look strong. England will lick their lips ahead of the Ashes as Australia struggle in India 2013-03-05T13:34:58Z This is especially the case on the outer slopes of the Outer range, which are formed of rocky ribs with a covering of gravel, and are "barren, treeless, waterless, and grassless." Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z The team’s practice site was a grassless high school field. Early Patriots Were a Comical Traveling Sideshow 2012-01-28T02:07:29Z Across the skylight lay a few scanty backyards—treeless, grassless, uninteresting. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z There's a small grassless public garden in a residential area just off Hama's Street 40, delineated by a modest black metal fence, and full of olive trees, their leafy branches laden with small unripe fruit. Syria's City of Graves: Hama and Its History of Massacres 2011-08-15T16:25:00Z The town is home to a grassless golf course called the Snakehole and serves as the launch pad for people searching for the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine. Special Report: The bonds that turned to dust 2011-08-15T11:42:49Z Finding a place to practice also remains a problem in Kabul, as players found themselves spraining their wrists in falls on the largely grassless field of a Kabul park. Afghan players dream of rugby glory 2011-06-24T09:34:12Z Miles upon miles of dull-brown crumbling grassless spaces became green and refreshing. The Sweep Winner 2011-06-24T02:00:21.067Z To the traveler, who has been wearily jolted over grassless plains, the sight of even this isolated Dutch town is as welcome as an oasis in the desert. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z The body is creaking now but on grassless pitches there are still enough batsmen around who will be mesmerised by the smiling assassin and who will fail to recognise his doosra. World Cup offers last chance for greats 2011-02-12T21:00:00Z For thirty years thereafter, the grave was grassless; a bare spot in the shape of a coffin marked, amidst the surrounding luxuriance, the place where lay the penitent criminal, unjustly executed. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z The middle distance was dotted with half a dozen "follies" "for sale," each with its small bunch of workmen's cottages, some empty, some full, alas! and all treeless and grassless under the blazing sun. John March, Southerner It looked out upon the village street—a rough, unkempt sort of track—and on its other side the ground rose abruptly to some height, but treeless and grassless. Four Ghost Stories I had to spread these people out, over a country still grassless, with teams of war-worn oxen, mules and horses that died by the dozen on my hands. The Passionate Friends It was very quiet in the grassless yard. A Prairie Infanta By day one might easily see from wall to wall, the lowest branches of the trees being well clear of the ground, the latter being trampled grassless, hard, and smooth by thousands of youthful feet. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life The book on the ground beside her had only just been laid there; its pages, wide open, had been turned face downward upon the dry, grassless patch surrounding the tree trunk. The Law-Breakers Half a mile or more beyond this hill, in the direction of the Kerr place, a small butte stood, its steep sides grassless, its flat top bare. The Duke Of Chimney Butte Within, a few lime-trees closely planted threw deep shadow over the grassless garden; shrubs and flowers wilted in a neglected bed. The Belovéd Vagabond The bare grassless yard was filled with old boxes and rubbish. The End of the Rainbow J. Holdsworth, `Station Hunting': "To scoop its grassless grave Past reach of kites and prowling warrigals." Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia He must be aware of our extreme impatience to leave this dreary spot, whose brown and grassless surface renders it a place more proper for convicts, than an assemblage of patriots. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. I don't know what I expected, but I went out and wandered eastward, soon losing my way in a labyrinth of grimy streets and black, grassless squares. The Picture of Dorian Gray Berrie looked round at the forlorn shops, the irregular sidewalks, the grassless yards. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range The lawns, if such they could be called, were as arid and grassless as the great plains of Chili. Peking Dust On, therefore, they ride across treeless, grassless tracks; along the banks of streams, of whose bitter, saline waters they cannot drink, but tantalising themselves and their animals. The Lone Ranche For answer, she gave a scornful glance at the blackened plains, flowerless, grainless, grassless. The Way of the Wind It was impossible to approach the trench more nearly during daylight, as the grassless brown flats were noisy with bullets from the German lines. The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 They had come to a road at the level of the valley—a desert valley, treeless, grassless, gray, and desolate. The Furnace of Gold His cattle browsed that night on a rocky, almost grassless ground, making the best of what poor shrub growths they could lay their dry tongues to. The Desert Valley Winter softens the hard details of bare rock, and rounds the melancholy grassless mountain flanks, suspending icicles to every ledge and spangling the curved surfaces of snow with crystals. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series But, from the moment of leaving the Buffaloes behind him, the country begins to shoal, as a sailor might say, growing rapidly sterile, treeless, and all but grassless. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy They gleam where corn grows tall and black on fertile prairies; where seas of wheat have flooded barren, burning plains, and perfumey alfalfa sweetens the air above what was once grassless desolation. Vanguards of the Plains Those under the canvas were resting and drinking as the others played soccer; but Sang Huin was alone on a dry and grassless bluff that overlooked the activity. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America What moved him most was an account of the dry, dusty, burning, grassless plains of Bundelcund in the hot season. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden The high school occupies a treeless, grassless, windswept block by itself. What eight million women want Somewhere about midday we halted alongside an immense grassless field, on which were innumerable wooden huts of the simplest and most unattractive construction. Bullets & Billets Beyond her, it smote upon and incarnadined the shining, white, grassless faces of the sand dunes. Anne's House of Dreams I don't know what I expected, but I went out and wandered eastward, soon losing my way in a labyrinth of grimy streets and black grassless squares. The Picture of Dorian Gray The ground in the courtyard was grassless, a flooring of grit and loose stone, on which no impression could well be made by human foot. Scarhaven Keep The Plaza was deserted; woe-begone burros drawled forth sacrilegious brays, as the warm sunbeams roused them from hard, grassless ground, to scent their breakfast among straw and bones. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway The corduroy path ran out about four hundred yards across the grassless, sodden field. Bullets & Billets They drove along under the elms which here stood somewhat at random about the wide, grassless street, between the high, windowy bulks of the shoe shops and hat shops. Annie Kilburn : a Novel The pasture country brought meat to the grassless region. My Life and Work Finally, the river led them amongst plains gaping with fissures, grassless and waterless, where the only change in the flat character of the country was the sandhill formation, that exactly agreed with Sturt's description. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 The public square was bare and grassless, and out of it ran streets of frame houses, long straight streets that finally became country roads running away into the flat prairie country. Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories But Reuben and Jane saw only the desolate rocks, and treeless, shrubless, almost--it seemed to them--grassless fields, and an unutterable sense of gloom came over them. Saxe Holm's Stories The floor seemed to be rich, grassless loam, and here and there were pallets of long grass, evidently the couches of these homeless men. Beverly of Graustark Miller soon proved a poor guide, and again the party became bewildered among rugged hills, unknown streams, and the burned and grassless prairies. The Great Salt Lake Trail His stay on the banks of the Darling at least lifted from those plains the stigma of a grassless, naked waste, intersected by a river of brine. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 I don't know what I expected, but I went out, and wandered eastward, soon losing my way in a labyrinth of grimy streets and black, grassless squares. The Picture of Dorian Gray For one thing, there is no more imperfect combustion of coal going on everywhere, and no roadways like grassless open scars along the earth from which dust pours out perpetually. In the Days of the Comet He threw himself down among the trees; and stretching out his arms, by chance touched a beetle trying to crawl over the grassless soil. The Patrician But on the other hand this band of sheep had left a broad bare swath, weedless, grassless, flowerless, in their wake. To the Last Man |
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