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marsh grass EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun cordgrass. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of marsh grass An Americanism dating back to 1875–85 Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for marsh grass Historical Examples of marsh grass
A league and a league of marsh-grass, waist-high, broad in the blade.
William Beebe
When heavy rains fell, the old woman stuffed it with marsh-grass.
Mary Hazelton Wade
Then, alluding to a heifer of Timmins’s which had bloated on marsh-grass the day before, he added, “The beastie didna die?”
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Dallas helped her through a hindering weave of pond-weeds and lilies, and laid her upon some marsh-grass beyond.
Eleanor Gates
Next morning she again traveled the winding path that skirted the marsh-grass and bulrushes, this time on the pinto.
The Biography of a Prairie Girl
Eleanor Gates
