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He engaged a man, and sent him out to cut sedges and rushes and cat’s-tail and reeds.
From Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian by Various
Timothy, tim′ō-thi, n. timothy-grass, the name commonly given to Phleum pratense, a grass much valued for feeding cattle—called also Cat's-tail grass or Meadow cat's-tail.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Down in the valley where there are numerous pools, not only willows and osiers grew, but here and there were to be found sedges and rushes, cat’s-tail and a species of reed.
From Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian by Various
Their lives are passed in the great sand plains and along the adjacent rivers; they subsist sometimes on fish, at other times on roots and the seeds of a plant, called the cat's-tail.
From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de
The long, thin cloud which Danny knew as the cat's-tail was scudding fast in the line of their Starboard quarter.
From She's All the World to Me by Caine, Hall, Sir
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