He cut through silent black buildings and crossed courts whose rank grass waved in the night wind.

There hadn't been even a minuscule break in the long rank grass last September twelvemonth.

His foot struck something in the rank grass and he kicked it aside.

Among the buildings were occasional patches of rank grass that had once been parks.

Jim and the girl stopped in the rank grass.

He had already decided the exact position, mentally marking a tuft of rank grass.

Now she was running with him, no longer protesting, and they plunged together through the high rank grass.

On the other side it fell away to a sort of ravine where the rank grass ended only in a rocky stream.

There was short rank grass and no sign of a cairn nor a mound.

The whole country was a wilderness of rank grass that hemmed us in on all sides.