Their respective dominance on grass and clay was the impetus for the "Battle of Surfaces", an exhibition match on a half-grass, half-clay court, which Nadal won in May 2007 when both the grass and clay streaks were still active.
We took out half the grass, and it ruined my lawn.
Roxy's wading pool was half full, grass clippings floating in the dirty gray water.
The colt won a six-and-a-half-furlong grass sprint by five and a half lengths in January in his second lifetime start, then followed with a head victory in a mile race on dirt at Santa Anita.
Marc emptied the sheep's pluck, the liver, heart and lungs, into one plastic bag, and stomach into another, after obligingly squeezing out most of the half-fermented grass.
The city bore the physical marks of the impending Inauguration: tall, metallic black gates traced a border around the Capitol; vast panes of white plastic flooring covered the half-bald grass of the National Mall.
Half-dead grass and thick twigs poked out from the jagged rocks, which turned entire parts of the mountain white.
The putrid smell of a stomach-full of half-digested grass that my badly placed bullet had spread throughout the animal's insides is something I'll recall until I die.
Down by the pond, addicts sleep on rocky grass half in water, half out, and there the moon lights them out of tawny silhouettes into the rarest of amphibious flowers I once heard called striders, between, but needing, two worlds.
by Sharon Levy Down by the pond, addicts sleep on rocky grass half in water, half out, and there the moon lights them out of tawny silhouettes into the rarest of amphibious flowers I once heard called striders, between, but needing, two worlds.
