1. Beside a tussock of grass a little way outside the opposite copse, a rabbit was sitting and gazing at them.

2. Then, from between two great tussocks of hair-grass came Fiver, his eyes blazing with a frantic urgency.

3. The insect population of a single large tussock has been estimated at more than 1,000 individuals.

4. Low structure and tussock shape, which gives protection from drying winds, e.g. heather, bilberry.

5. He swung his alpenstock vigorously, teeing off tussocks of grass.

6. He hid inside a tussock of oat grass and watched as the fine thatched house rose up beside the water-hole.

7. The sex attractant pheromone of the tea tussock moth, a serious economic pest of tea plantations in southern China, has been identified as 10,14-dimethylpentadecyl isobutyrate.

8. Wigeon A lone pair of gad wall preened on shrinking tussocks.

9. Now it was leaping and hopping among the grass tussocks, striking at the two rabbits with terrible darts of its head.

10. But smaller creatures can find shelter enough in the unlikely setting of a scruffy grass tussock.

11. Here in the open grass he broke into a headlong run,(http://) lurching and recovering as the tussocks turned under him.

12. "Get ready now, " shouts my tandem paragliding instructor, as we start running full tilt down the steep angle of Coronet Peak, dodging clumps of tussock grass and lichen-covered rocks.

13. The 18-metre high, four-level winery is built into the hillside and blends into the environment with its tussock covered roof.

14. Crystal dewdrops creep in the leaves and bud. They drop into the tussock one after another in the breeze and disappear like playing hide-and-seek.

15. But in the south, the windswept uplands studded with tussock which ascend slowly into the foothills of the Andes, the endless plains of Patagonia, attracted more than their share of English.