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n. (blade of grass English)
Usage examples of "blades of grass".
The tips of the blades of grass, some of which would reach shoulder high on his mare, have already begun to brown.
Outside the shop, the sky was clear and bright, and the first blades of grass were peering from the fields and around the yard.
Ned could see dried mud and blades of grass clinging to the leather where Robert's feet stuck out beneath the blanket that covered him, A green doublet lay on the floor, slashed open and discarded, the cloth crusted with red-brown stains.
Flames flared into the night, a roar of sparks and snake-like blades of grass lifting high.
Where was the herdsman who distinguished among individual blades of grass?
Compared to the size of creation, what were we but very small beings, as bees are small, as seeds of corn are small, as blades of grass are small?
Though not a living creature could be seen in the deep shade of the duskwoods, here where their trunks stood so close together that they might have been gigantic blades of grass, the lone human could feel that someone was watching him.
The ghazneth circled the blazing hilltop once, roaring with laughter as the warriors below cowered away from him with their vainly upthrust swords bristling like blades of grass.
Have to go back, or a fate worse than any you can imagine will spring out at you from between the very blades of grass you seek to pass and rend you to fragments small enough for the beetles to feast upon, rend you with fang and claw and poison stinger.
He banked leftward above the rooftops of tile and thatch, slowing and spilling air as the field came into view, closer and closer, he could see the blades of grass, and then he was down with a thump that jarred every cartilage from his ankle joints to the top of his spine and running, running faster than he'd ever run before, sprinting up the slope as fast as a man running full pelt down it to take off, the glider still flying at shoulder height and no weight at all, and then he could slow and finally stop.
Each hunter killed as many murgu as there are blades of grass on a mountainside.
His arms and legs seemed to flail about more like long blades of grass than go as he wanted them to.