foxtail

Historical Examples of foxtail

• He was not used, he said, "to flatter or to tickle with a foxtail."

  The Rise of the Dutch Republic, Volume I.(of III) 1555-66

  John Lothrop Motley

• The larv feed on the roots of grasses, having particular liking for the roots of foxtail, timothy and blue-grass.

  Manual of American Grape-Growing

  U. P. Hedrick

• Asher was chewing the tender joint of a spear of foxtail grass, and Champers had lighted a heavy cigar.

  Winning the Wilderness

  Margaret Hill McCarter

• The "Foxtail" milkwort, whose name I don't accept, C. 1006, is intermediate between this and the next species.

  Proserpina, Volume 2

  John Ruskin

• Those who travel and camp among the highest mountains of California are often indebted to foxtail pine for their fuel.

  American Forest Trees

  Henry H. Gibson