Herbage

All around were herds of beautiful cattle cropping the rich herbage or listlessly lolling under trees - horses, goats and swine seen in every direction attending to the cravings of Nature - on the lochs wild duck abundant and now and then the solitary heron could be seen, standing motionless in shallow water.

I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation.

The dank breath of herbage, sodden with rain, came to her; the mists were barely visible, hovering above the dark ravines.