Sentences with phrase «tussocks like»

I think of another boy I knew up north, far above the Arctic Circle, where mountains meet the tundra like the ocean at home, with tussocks like waves breaking on our feet.

Not exact matches

Swamp - loving plants, like sedges and tussocks, are the fossil survivors, not delicate leaves from hardwood trees.

Then there's a run of - ocks, the result of human work: tussock, hillock, hummock and the like.

At any rate, you rate them by height from hillock, through hummock which gathers vegetation along the way, down to a mere grassy tussock, which seems to be rather like the famous tuffet (small tuft) on which Little Miss Muffet rested.