Your aim as a student of Nature should be to encourage the survival of the fittest. There is a grass called nut grass, and another called Parramatta grass, either of which holds its own against anything living or dead. The average gardening manual gives you recipes for destroying these. Why should you destroy them in favour of a sickly plant that needs constant attention? The Parramatta grass is the selected of Nature, and who are you to interfere with Nature?英文原著 · 《Three Elephant Power》
"Lock him up for to-night," Sheldon said to Kwaque. "Sun he come up put 'm that fella and five fella belong him along grass-cutting. Savvee?"
Kwaque grinned. "Me savvee," he said. "Cut 'm grass, ngari-ngari {4} stop 'm along grass. My word!"
"There will be trouble with Gogoomy yet," Sheldon said to Joan, as the boss-boys marshalled their gangs and led them away to their work. "Keep an eye on him. Be careful when you are riding alone on the plantation.英文原著 · 《Adventure》
To-day I seen the hosses were gettin' fat. Gettin' fat in this desert! But mebbe they've about grazed up all the grass. Go an' see, Dick. An' may you come back with more good news!"
Gale, upon the few occasions when he had wandered down the arroyo, had never gone far. The Yaqui said there was grass for the horses, and until now no one had given the question more consideration. Gale found that the arroyo widened as it opened. Near the head, where it was narrow, the grass lined the course of the dry stream bed.英文原著 · 《Desert Gold》
another cloud?" asked Ferguson. "Yes, and a famous one," replied Kennedy. "I never saw the like of it," added Joe. "I breathe freely again!" said the doctor, laying down his spy-glass. "That's not a cloud!" "Not a cloud?" queried Joe, with surprise. "No; it is a swarm." "Eh?" "A swarm of grasshoppers!" "That? Grasshoppers!" "Myriads of grasshoppers, that are going to sweep over this country like a water-spout; and woe to it! for, should these insects alight, it will be laid waste." "That would be a sight worth beholding!" "Wait a little, Joe.英文原著 · 《Five Weeks in a Balloon》
But the next day there was hard work for Margery's father! Every bit of that "scrambled" turf had to be broken up still more with a mattock and a spade, and then the pieces which were full of grass-roots had to be taken on a fork and shaken, till the earth fell out; then the grass was thrown to one side. That would not have had to be done if the land had been ploughed in the fall; the grass would have rotted in the ground, and would have made fertilizer for the plants. Now, Margery's father put the fertilizer on the top, and then raked it into the earth.英文原著 · 《How To Tell Stories To Children》
This was the pleasantest and easiest part of the harvest toil. The real work was when they pre- pared the rice for use. First of all, it must be made perfectly dry. They would spread it upon buffalo robes and mats, and sometimes upon lay- ers of coarse swamp grass, and dry it in the sun. If the time was short, they would make a scaffold and spread upon it a certain thickness of the green grass and afterward the rice. Under this a fire was made, taking care that the grass did not catch fire.英文原著 · 《Indian Boyhood》
And why are we even trying to keep an apartment that has grass growing in the bathroom?美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
You know, I just, uh, wanted to throw a few blades of grass in the air, see what kind of environment my office can expect on "Dollar" Bill Stern's pre-trial hearing.美剧 · 《Billions》
We have the Wagyus, Tomahawk ribeye, Fullblood Tenderloin -- all grass-fed, of course.美剧 · 《Billions》