Sentences with phrase «by dead grass»

Just like most of the other Mayfield houses, it's a large white house, but this one is neglected — caked with dirt, surrounded by dead grass, plus a peculiar tendency to blow gusts of leaves at whoever steps upon their grounds.

Not exact matches

If these ancient rites hadn't been co-opted by capitalism, hadn't morphed into pastel M&M s, plastic grass and My Little Ponies with bunny ears, I might find it a relief to preach on the fecundity of spring, rather than trying to tell the story of a living, breathing dead man.

Young bushes and trees grow, and grasses spread again in areas that were once dominated by old, dead growth.

Putting on the Baby Einstein DVD for the third time before lunch so you can apply some makeup because that cute landscaping guy is due to come by and cut your grass sometime this afternoon (just because you don't want to have sex doesn't mean you're dead).

In Fig. 11A, the circle is small and still covered with dead grass, whereas in Fig. 11B, dead grass in the center of the (larger) circle has disappeared, presumably through breakage and transport by wind, and the center is bare.

I normally hate first person driving, but the perspective of being in a small rickety buggy while running from Volatiles at night effectively gets the heart pumping in that special Dying Light way... until you're stopped dead by a waist high stone wall that you couldn't see through the forest or tall grass.

If the grass in your relationship is dead, brown, and crumpled — it didn't happen by accident.

Spade by spade, I turned the turf over so the dead grass would decompose into the soil.