herbage

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That’s why I was second-guessing myself, standing in a basement, limbering up an interpretive-gesture adaptation of Walt Whitman’s Scented Herbage Of My Breast.

From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2019

As he that selleth Land, is understood to transferre the Herbage, and whatsoever growes upon it; Nor can he that sells a Mill turn away the Stream that drives it.

From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas

Herbage on the North end of Albemarle Island.

From History of the Buccaneers of America by Burney, James

Herbage abounding in slender rhaphides.—The genuine Araceæ have no floral envelopes, and are almost all monœcious or diœcious; but the genera of the second section, with more highly developed flowers, are not to be separated.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Where-e'r the Sun displays his Light, Or Moon is seen to shine by Night, Where-e'r the noisy Rivers flow Or Trees and Grass and Herbage grow.—Chorus.

From Ponteach The Savages of America by Moses, Montrose Jonas