By the river side, our bullocks were busily engaged picking the scanty herbage.

All this time his horse had been cropping the scanty herbage.

On arriving at Mount field, pulling up with teeth and claws the scanty herbage.

Tall cedars replaced the oak and the beech, the scanty herbage was covered with hoar-frost.

Our road, for the remainder of the day, was over barren hills, covered with scanty herbage.

Here and there is a thin and scanty herbage, insufficient for the pasturage of horse or buffalo.

It is extraordinary, too, how long camels can go without food and water, and on what scanty herbage they manage to subsist.

The schoolmaster looked up towards the mountains, to the goats poised there upon the broken ground, seeking a scanty herbage in the crannies.

In the morning some Bedouin women appeared, with a few starved herds of sheep and goats, which were searching for the scanty herbage.

He removed the saddle from the mustang, and turned him loose to make the best of such scanty herbage as he could find.

Most of the lava is probably very ancient, though some is quite recent; and ferns and guava bushes and other scanty herbage grow through it.

The country round, far as the eye could range, was a kind of downs covered with a scanty herbage, now brown with heat and age.