 | Charles Dana Wilber - 1881 - 520 pages
...it withdraws into the impregnable fortress of its subterranean vitality, and emerges upon the flist solicitation of spring. Sown by the winds, by wandering...softens the rude outline of the world. Its tenacious fibres hold the earth in its place, and prevent its soluble components from washing into the wasting... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 454 pages
...sullen hosts of winter, it withdraws into the impregnable fortress of its subterranean vitality, and emerges upon the first solicitation of spring. Sown...softens the rude outline of the world. Its tenacious fibres hold the earth in its place, and prevent its soluble components from washing into the wasting... | |
 | Alvin Howard Sanders - 1900 - 1040 pages
...vitality &cd emerges upon the solicitation of spring. Sown by the winds, by wandering birds, propagauid by the subtle horticulture of the elements which are its ministers and servants, It softens the rude outlines of the world. It evades the solitude of deserts, climbs the Inaccessible slopes and pinnacles... | |
 | 1901 - 446 pages
...sullen hosts of winter, it withdraws into the impregnable fortress of its subterranean vitality, and emerges upon the first solicitation of spring. Sown...servants, it softens the rude outline of the world. lts tenacious fibers hold the earth in its place, and prevent its soluble components from washing into... | |
 | Howard Louis Conard - 1901 - 810 pages
...withdraws into the impregnable fortress of its subterranean vitality and emerges upon the solicitations of spring. Sown by the winds, by wandering birds,...are its ministers and servants, it softens the rude outlines of the world, it invades the solitudes of the deserts, climbs the inaccessible slopes and... | |
 | John James Ingalls - 1902 - 552 pages
...sullen hosts of winter, it withdraws into the impregnable fortress of its subterranean vitality,, and emerges upon the first solicitation of spring. Sown by the winds, by the wandering birds, propagated by the subtle agriculture of the elements which are its ministers and... | |
 | 1915 - 534 pages
...sullen hosts of winter, it withdraws into the impregnable fortress of its subterranean vitality and emerges upon the first solicitation of spring. Sown by the winds, by the wandering birds, propagated by the subtle agriculture of the elements which are its ministers and... | |
 | Robert Love Taylor - 1907 - 410 pages
...sullen hosts of winter, it withdraws into the impregnable fortress of its subterranean vitality, and emerges upon the first solicitation of spring. Sown by the winds, by the wandering birds, propagated by the subtle horticulture of the elements which are its ministers... | |
 | 1907 - 902 pages
...sullen hosts of winter, It withdraws into the impregnable fortress of its subterranean vitality, and emerges upon the first solicitation of spring. Sown by the winds, by the wandering birds, propagated by the subtle horticulture of the elements which are its ministers... | |
 | Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station - 1908 - 884 pages
...seven hosts of winter, it withdraws into the impregnable fortresses of its subterranean vitality and emerges upon the first solicitation of spring. Sown by the winds, by the wandering birds, propagated by the subtle horticulture of the elements, which are its ministers... | |
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Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal. Beleaguered by the sullen hosts of winter, it withdraws into the impregnable fortress of its subterranean vitality, and emerges upon the first solicitation of spring. 
