In the strawy warmth of the stall he made no haste.

The huts and houses hold in their strawy palms the dizzy golden smell of kerosene lamps.

A local farm has offered bags of stable manure that is about 15 months old and looks fairly dry, strawy and crumbly.

There was also a rhino who, from the tracks and the kicked-up mound of strawy dung, came there each night.

The idle "riding" horses are usually fed very strawy local grass hay with just enough supplemental alfalfa and grain to maintain a minimal healthy condition.

Martin Luther had questioned the inclusion of the book of James, calling it "a strawy epistle," because of its alleged "works righteousness" theology.

Change was constantly being dug out from under flagstones, from the strawy interiors of mattresses, from hollows in beams, and holes in walls.

His face looked like a lump of dough with tufts of stubble sticking out of it, his eyes were bloodshot and his strawy hair uncombed.

We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then.

Above her black dress her face was pale with an opaque whiteness, her eyes were pale as water in a glass, and her strawy hair was almost colourless.

Miscanthus and other ornamental grasses are beginning to lose their proud magnificence of December, when their strawy seed plumes danced in the wind above their mounds of flowing foliage in tones of parchment.

Loilanun was strawy, her skin sallow; since her husband died so young, there was a falter in her walkand a falter too, perhaps, in her attempt to emulate her mother's regal command of knowledge.

What they did was to make hotbeds from fresh, strawy manure that heated up as they started to rot, then when the temperature fell to 70F they would cover the beds with soil, sow their crops and sit rows of bell-jars over the top.

And in his stable at Ascot the son of Sleeping Dove, from home for the first time, pondered on the mutability of equine affairs, closing and opening his eyes, and breathing without sound in the strawy dark, above the black cat he had brought to bear him company.