How To Use Herbage In A Sentence
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Often a season of unusual drought, reducing the existing herbage which is scarcely adequate at best, gives rise to those irregular, temporary expansions which enlarge the geographical horizon of the horde, and eventuate in widespread conquest.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
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Initial and final herbage mass did not differ among grass species.
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When the island of Madeira is first approached from the sea, it has a very beautiful appearance; the sides of the hills being entirely covered with vines almost as high as the eye can distinguish; and the vines are green when every kind of herbage, except where they shade the ground, and here and there by the sides of a rill, is entirely burnt up, which was the case at this time.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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At the sites used in the present experiment, herbage allowance was in excess of 2000 kg/ha.
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It has been suggested that herbivorous dinosaurs swallowed large stones that collected in a birdlike gizzard grinding the poorly masticated herbage.
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The density of building in the old city, too, precluded herbage.
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Therefore, based on forage availability, the performance of heifers grazing pastures on the corn treatment would not have been limited because of standing herbage mass.
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It is the splendour of an invariable region, from which is absent the ephemeral beauty of forest, verdure, or herbage; the splendour of eternal matter, affranchised from all the instability of life; the geological splendour of the world before the creation.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure
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There is evidence, no doubt, in this case of a long-continued practice of letting herbage on the road for the pasturage, not of sheep exclusively, but also of a limited number of horses and cattle.
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Since it's eating natural herbage and is well exercised, it just tastes better.
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Nitrogen manuring is essential to get a good yield of cut herbage.
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Away! ours is the palm of roast; whether of the crisp mutton that crops the thymy herbage of our downs, or the noble ox who revels on lush
The Fitz-Boodle Papers
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Bochart supports Margin, "the multitude of your gardens." palmer worm -- A species of locust is here meant, hurtful to fruits of trees, not to herbage or corn.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Near Wauchop Creek they lost 900 sheep who had eaten poisonous herbage.
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Differences between the cultivars in leaf number, leaf area and petiole length were insignificant and this was reflected in the similar herbage yields measured at the time of defoliation.
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There is evidence, no doubt, in this case of a long-continued practice of letting herbage on the road for the pasturage, not of sheep exclusively, but also of a limited number of horses and cattle.
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And as he walked behind his cattle, they said to him, "Good is the herbage which is in that place;" and he listened to all that they said, and he took them to the good place which they desired.
Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri Second series, XVIIIth to XIXth dynasty
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In the steady retirement climate, almost any herbage can be trained up a wall to obscure a building.
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Blinman had become ‘the garden of the north’ with valleys and hills covered with splendid herbage.
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The more pronounced flavour comes from this maturity and from grazing the wild herbage of the open fells.
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For their food they prefer nuts to herbage, which is natural enough in a region where the latter is scanty and the former exists in plenty; and in eating they "squat" upright on their haunches, and convey the food to their mouth after the manner of squirrels.
Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
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Leasing the herbage and pannage would disturb the deer in their lairs and deprive them of their pasture.
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The fledgling crouched in the center of the strange clearing, on the scruffy herbage that grew amid the dirt and stones.
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Below-normal precipitation in 2002 and the resulting shift in available water and herbage has created some concern among conservationists for migrators such as Sandhill cranes.
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As previously discussed, consumption in April was primarily of vegetative, high moisture herbage, and in May and June, consumed material was of greater maturity and less moisture.
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For this purpose I will preserve my life: to execute this dear revenge, will I again behold the sun, and tread the green herbage of earth, which otherwise should vanish from my eyes for ever.
Chapter 24
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Henry Cornish for farm of a parcel of herbage at the rear of St. John's.
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Australia lie solitary beneath the bright cross of the south, a rank and luxuriant herbage cumbered every footbreadth of the dank and steaming soil; and even to distant planets our earth must have shone through the enveloping cloud with a green and delicate ray.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
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They herded the beasts on to roadside verges and made the most of whatever herbage grew there.
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You can use almost any herbage and leaves in it; wet and turn with a fork regularly.
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Sheep and goats are graminivorous, but sheep browse assiduously and steadily, whereas goats shift their ground rapidly, and browse only on the tips of the herbage.
The History of Animals
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He slowly followed the road away from the town, past the olives, under which purple anemones were drooping in the chill of dawn, and rich-green herbage was pressing thick.
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White clover is an important herbage legume in low input sustainable pastures in temperate regions of the world.
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The sheep battened upon the herbage.
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The digestive system of grass and herbage-eating animals includes a large organ next to the secum, the vermiform appendix, in which cellulose is digested.
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The grass or herbage of these downs is full of the sweetest and the most aromatic plants, such as nourish the sheep to a strange degree; and the sheep's dung, again, nourishes that herbage to a strange degree; so that the valleys are rendered extremely fruitful by the washing of the water in hasty showers from off these hills.
From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman"
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We'd enjoyed about ten days of peace too, with no bloodcurdlin 'sounds floatin' down the light shaft, and I was hopin 'maybe the subtenant had renigged, when one mornin' the front office door opens easy, and in slips this face herbage exhibit.
Shorty McCabe on the Job
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Early spring emergence and rapid growth, high palatability and herbage production make the grasslands ideal for grazing and forage production.
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When moist conditions prevail, the L3 migrate from the faeces on to the herbage.
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The strips of green herbage and forest-land, which have here and there escaped the burning lavas, serve, by contrast, to heighten the desolation of the scene.
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'epiphyte' (_i. e._, a plant growing on other plants,) "forms dense festoons among the branches of the trees, vegetating among the black mould that collects upon the bark of trees in hot damp countries; other species are inhabitants of deep and gloomy forests, and others form, with their spring leaves, an impenetrable herbage in the Pampas of Brazil.
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
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The course was in splendid order, the track having been ploughed and harrowed since last meeting, and when the herbage on it has had time to set racing experts pronounce there will not be a finer or safer course in Ireland.
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The students were preparing and cooking various dishes, but the one that interested me was the _Leipziger Allerlei_, because I compared it with the "herbage" an English plain cook throws into water and sends up half drained, half cold, and often enough half clean.
Home Life in Germany
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As he that selleth land is understood to transfer the herbage and whatsoever grows upon it; nor can he that sells a mill turn away the stream that drives it.
Leviathan
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Below normal precipitation in 2002 and the resulting shift in available water and herbage has created some concern among conservationists for migrators, such as the Sandhill cranes shown here.
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Modern pastures are deficient in many varieties of essential herbage.
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The newly-awakened sheep bleated from the hills, and the umbrageous herbage, dropping dew, seemed glittering with a thousand fairy gems.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Rains fell in March 1936 and Ted thought it safe to travel as there would be herbage for his camels.
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This side of the city was green with small trees, herbage, and bushes.
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Standing herbage mass in the pastures was estimated by measuring the forage height with a rising-plate meter in 25 places along evenly spaced, predetermined paced transects.
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The date of the garden is established by documentary records, which describe gardens, fruit and herbage at the castle by the 1330s.
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There are other birds that live on fruit and herbage, such as the wild pigeon or ringdove, the common pigeon, the rock-dove, and the turtle-dove.
The History of Animals
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The incoming immune adults then graze the lower more fibrous echelons of the herbage which contain the majority of the L3.
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That herbage was found in most deserts in this part of the galaxy, and was known to some people as the Esirinus cactus.
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The surface of the poultry-yard (fig. 13.) should be level; and about one half of it should be laid down with gravel, but the lower part, near the pond, should be grass, as, unless there is some kind of herbage, there will be neither insects nor snails, and poultry require some animal food to keep them in health.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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Five of the 14 orders deal with levies that were voted upon themselves by growers of commodities such as passion fruit, wheat grain, milk solids, satsuma mandarins, and herbage seeds.
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The herbage was allowed to wilt for approximately 48 hours and was then chopped with a forage harvester and conserved.
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And naught to happen in all that time, save that once we did see a great beast to come upward lumbersome out of the sea on to the shore, and there did eat and browse upon the herbage in that part; or so it did seem to us; though, truly, we did be over far off to have surety.
The Night Land
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And as he walked behind his cattle, they said to him, “Good is the herbage which is in that place”; and he listened to all that they said, and he took them to the good place which they desired.
Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings
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All the low leaves were silvered with dew, and the herbage with dew was impearled;
Karma
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Crude protein levels range from 15 to 25 percent in the herbage and 8 to 15 percent in the roots, depending on nitrogen fertilization rate and weather conditions.
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Quite a different kind of herbage, and you know that it is a matter upon which we must take a woman's word.
Moon of Israel
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The Corporation made a most liberal offer, perhaps thought too generous, seeing that the real ownership of the soil of the Strays rested with them, and the Freemen's rights only extended to the herbage or pasturage.
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Evolution of large size was a prerequisite for the exploitation of leaves because of the need for a longer residence time in the gut for bacterial fermentation to obtain sufficient nutrients from foliage and herbage.
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Last summer, under a cooperative research and development agreement with industry, a group of machines was used in the first fieldside demonstration of wet fractionation of soybean herbage.
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He manages to arrest his fall by grabbing ‘the last outlying knot of starved herbage ere the rock appeared in all its bareness’.
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Afterall, one definition of 'graze' is "to feed on herbage in a field".
January 2006
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According to the forest type to classify, both of clustered and regular distribution are 11% in the commurity distribution pattern of herbage—Larix forest, the random distribution is 78%.
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The strips of green herbage and forest-land, which have here and there escaped the burning lavas, serve, by contrast, to heighten the desolation of the scene.
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The face of the hill on the south side of the entrance possesses some good soil; and at the time of our visit* was covered with a profusion of herbage, and studded with groups of banksia, which the colonists call the honeysuckle; the wood of which is useful in ship-building on account of the crooked growth of its stem.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
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The sheep battened upon the herbage.
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Furry, yellow dung flies skirt through the herbage, passing bedstraws and lady's smock; it is mostly in bud, but a few fingernail-sized pink gowns are on show.
Country diary: Northamptonshire
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The Touaricks of Aheer, though not cruel masters, feed their slaves mostly on herbage, which is picked up _en route_.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
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Leasing the herbage and pannage would disturb the deer in their lairs and deprive them of their pasture.
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While the fish sizzled, Wolf and Adriana gathered weeds to make beds for themselves and Lucius, and spread their cloaks over the tangled herbage.
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They are omnivores, and eat bugs and grubs and mixed herbage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alfalfa herbage was wilted, chopped, and conserved as AS by procedures and in a storage structure defined previously for SGS.
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In the meantime there is the best germination of winter herbage that I have seen for the last 20 years.
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I struck it about this point, and followed it down, encamping fifteen miles from its mouth, and found the water perfectly fresh, and the river broader and apparently very deep; the country around most excellent, abundantly supplied with fresh water, running in many flowing streams into the Adelaide River, the grass in many places growing six feet high, and the herbage very close — a thing seldom seen in a new country.
The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
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Bow, wow, _wow_!" exclaimed Cuffy in tones which there could be no mistaking, although the broken twigs and herbage which covered the mouth of the pit muffled them a good deal, and accounted for the strangeness of the creature's howls when heard at a distance.
Jarwin and Cuffy
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At 11 came south-east and by east over rich level land, grassed with herbage and wooded with box and bauhinia.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills
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There are many references to the down on the lips, which is described as greenish (sometimes bluish) and compared to herbage.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
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; _Paler_ of the Park, 4l. 11s. 4d., herbage and pannage, 15l.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831
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Ils devaient l'empêcher de se disperser et le mener vers d'autres herbages.
Archive 2010-06-01
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Since our conference had begun, the dusk of twilight had melted away; and the moon had called into lustre -- living, indeed, but unlike the common and unhallowing life of day -- the wood and herbage, and silent variations of hill and valley, which slept around us; and, as the still and shadowy light fell over the upward face of my brother, it gave to his features an additional, and not wholly earth-born, solemnity of expression.
Devereux — Volume 01
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For, as he reelingly trampled along on the rank herbage between this forest and that sea of sand, just as he was dying of exhaustion, his faint foot trod upon a store of life and health!
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Sedge warblers advertise their presence by a chattering and varied song, but are often invisible due to the dense herbage they haunt.
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Hardly had the peahen done speaking, when the antelope came up to them, thinking to shelter him under the shade of the tree; and, sighting the peahen and the duck, saluted them and said, ‘I came to this island to-day and I have seen none richer in herbage nor pleasanter for habitation.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
