Dobbin, or another horse very similar to him, was cropping at the scanty grass which grew in ragged bunches in a pole-fenced pasture.
They rounded yet another bend, the headlights sweeping over a bald expanse of stricken scanty grass.
Outside, heat shimmered above hard-baked ground and scanty brown grass, but here was most pleasant.
Cattle especially were stubborn creatures that could not see why they must graze the scanty grass of the uplands when the valley bottoms were more lush.
The hilltop was covered with the same sort of dry scanty grass that they'd seen elsewhere; both Valdien and the mule were grazing meditatively.
The scanty grasses were long ago turned into sun-cured hay by the fierce summer heats.
Indeed, it was easy even from a distance to trace the course of the various roads by the burnt-up appearance of the scanty grass that grew upon them.
Buddy remembered that always, and the funeral they had later in the day, when the herd was again just trail-weary cattle feeding hungrily on the scanty grass.
The two Horses were only a few yards away along the curving corridor, still browsing the scanty grass that endured in spite of magic fire.
Down the slope Daniel and Beauty cropped at a patch of scanty grass.