Toby said, "Guess we're done for a while," and sat down on a hummock sprouting a wiry yellow grass.

From here he crept on his hands and knees through the wiry grass like some stricken animal.

The center ridge was firmer but the wiry grass and sandspurs tore at her ankles.

The hills were deserted except for some rabbits - probably those they had seen - peacefully grazing the tough wiry grass.

The wiry grass clutched at his toes, and he felt too weary to lift his feet above it.

Dry sand was about their feet, and under them thin wiry grass, that just managed to grow out of the poverty-stricken shore.

Joshua pressed his toe into the wiry grass, feeling the solid earth.

What remained was rock; rock, and very thin soil covered with tough, wiry grass.

A little beyond the stump, buried in the white and wiry old grass underlying this June's aggressive new green, was the rest of the post.

I was on my own again with the surface of the dune sand dried now and the wind sifting it through the wiry grass stems.