What is "bents"

Usage examples of "bents".

No eye of ours could spy what was passing behind there in the bents, no hurry of ours could mend the speed of the boat's coming: time stood still with us through that uncanny period of waiting.

Already he was near in, and the boat securing - already Alan's face had flamed crimson with the excitement of his deliverance, when our friends in the bents, either in their despair to see their prey escape them or with some hope of scaring Andie, raised suddenly a shrill cry of several voices.

At which hour I was aware of a long, lean, bony-like Lothian man of a very swarthy countenance, that came towards us among the bents on a farm horse.

But I observed the officer to remain behind and disappear among the bents.

I have never seen the place that looked so pretty as those bents by Dunkirk.

Why he stops here now that it's delivered, what it's likely to be about, why there's an officer hiding in the bents, and whether or not it's probable that he's alone - I would rather you considered for yourself.

Finally he gives up, smashes the old lock with the peavey, and levers up the lid (the Bents have always learned leverage as they got old, working efficiently long after strength has gone).

Thus was there a clustering on the slopes and bents betwixt the acres of the Wolfings and the wild-wood wherein dwelt the wolves.

But they cast earth on the foemen lower down on the westward-lying bents.

It clarified her vision of things, to be able to defend him to herself, this man who would sit with her in a restaurant on a redwood deck and recount in earnest deadpan detail the methods and bents, the hand-grips, of some woman he'd lately spent a night with.

She looked at the sorrel, and the red and white and yellow clover, and the quaker grass, and the daisies, and the bents that composed it.

But they skim over bents which the midstream washes, Or hang in the lift ‘neath a white cloud’s hem.

Bentsen, Altman, Summers, and Panetta bought the bond-market argument and believed deficit reduction would accelerate economic growth.

Bentsen said we could save $3 billion by dropping the estimated cost of welfare reform from the budget.