Sentence examples for grass bundle from inspiring English sources

What I didn't realise was that it is the Novruz holiday, the first day of spring, and that the grass bundle is a symbol of the event.

Tells how one woman picked up a first edition of Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" among a bundle of old books she picked up for a few cents.

In its simplest form, the haft may have been no more than a grass or leaf bundle whose limited function was to protect the hand when a fractured rock was used as a knife.

The name is Marathi and probably derives from two words, meaning "bundle of grass" and "who takes".

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — On a sultry desert evening, as bats fluttered about this town's riverfront park, a man emerged from a reedy marsh carrying a bundle of grass tied with twine.

A month later, in April 2007, the Afghan Human Rights Commission published a report into the shooting which said the victims included a 16-year-old newlywed girl carrying a bundle of grass and a 75-year-old man walking back from the shops.

According to a report by Carlotta Gall of the New York Times, a "16-year-old newly married girl was cut down while she was carrying a bundle of grass to her family's farmhouse..

"I was picking up a bundle of grass when a shell exploded.

They made figures from mud mixed with grass and molded over bundled branches and reeds.

But the bulk of his time, in every season, was devoted to food: in fact, during the forays that Trachi in the vigor of his youth frequently undertook among the barren cliffs and gorges of his native island, he always, following an instinct for prudence, brought along, tucked under his arms, two big bundles of grass or foliage, gathered in times of rest.

From then on, the elephant child was able to stuff large bundles of grass into its mouth with ease.