6 examples of rooty in sentences

He seemed to find guidance, but I got none, only the hoot of an owl or the rooty smell of the woodland.

[** Rutty, rooty.

The ripples ran frightened and shivering into the rooty thicknesses of the sedge-grown banks, startling the little birds bathing there into darting to the nearest, highest rush-top, where, without losing their hold on their swaying, balancing perches, they burst into all sorts of incoherent songs, in their excitement to divert attention from the near-hidden nests: bird mothers are so much like women mothers!

And now her senses began feebly to regather within truer limits and to tell her she was lying on the rooty ground of a thicket.

Over-hanging banks of rooty turf, had these creeks, under which the larger and soberer fishes lurked in dignified caution like bank presidents, too wise for any common bait, but eager for the big good things.

" I knew that I should find their horses' hoof-marks at whatever place they had left the stream; and I followed the brook silently, craftily and slowly, like a hunter trailing a wild beast, examining the bank of soft black rooty earth for their tracks.

6 examples of  rooty  in sentences