So with one arm round her waist and with the other carrying the water, they climbed the steep turfy slope.

Grass, turfy hair - - Aira caespitosa. 742. -, meadow soft - - Holcus lanatus.

The morning air was sweet with the breath of cedar and pine, and we rode on through the woods and over the open turfy glades, in high spirits.

After this correction of his sister, Master Edward did not like the condescension of acknowledging her suggestion to be a good one; so he went silently to the house in search of the requisite ballast; but not being able to find anything suitable, he came back to his turfy hillock, littered round with chips of wood, and tried to insert some pebbles into his vessel; but they stuck fast, and he was obliged to ask again.

" Over the turfy hillside, now moist and sticky with the heavy dew, they stole, half crouching, half crawling, until they were on a level with the prison basement.

He followed it up, wondering much, bewildered indeed; and had got to a little turfy hollow, down the middle of which it came bubbling and gabbling along, when Willie caught sight of him, and bounded to meet him with a radiant countenance and almost inarticulate cries of delight.

This plant grows best in pots of turfy loam and leaf-mould, to which has been added a little old mortar.

These Australian plants delight in rich turfy peat mixed with fibrous loam, leaf-mould, and coarse sand.

Our path at first followed the course of the stream, between turfy banks and through luxuriant orchards.

Soon the road itself quite disappeared and vanished in a complete turfy track; but the continuing marks of cartwheels assured him that it was a thoroughfare, although he was now indeed journeying in the heart of a forest of oaks and he doubted not it would lead to some town or village, or at any rate to some farmhouse.