The last tufts of grass had disappeared from beneath our feet.
He fired from a window, and some tufts of wool spurted from the marshal's trustworthy bulwark.
Rosemary- tufts, which gain in thickness what they lose in height on the unfostering rock, suit her particularly.
The canopy was ornamented, too, on every side with fringes, ribbons, tufts, tassels, and gold lace, in the richest manner.
The very next day, however, little fish had begun to gather about those tufts; one day more, and there were swarms of them.
About two-thirds of the trunk is commonly free of limbs, but close, fringy tufts of spray occur nearly all the way down to the ground.
He wore as an ornament upon the head, a kind of turban made of the same stuff, all worked in fine gold and enriched with jewels and tufts.
They are more slender than their Silky cousins, and their tails are longer in proportion to their size and have little tufts of hair at the ends.
In the open country and especially in hilly places laid bare by the wood-man's axe, the favourite sites are tufts of bracken, rock-rose, lavender, everlasting and rosemary cropped close by the teeth of the flocks.
When spring comes, the youngsters will emerge from their snug habitation, disperse all over the neighbourhood by the expedient of the floating thread and weave their first attempts at a labyrinth on the tufts of thyme.