Careful Words

grass (n.)

grass (v.)

  All flesh is grass.

Old Testament: Isaiah xl. 6.

Go to grass.

Beaumont And Fletcher: The Little French Lawyer. Act iv. Sc. 7.

While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

  As for man his days are as grass; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth.

Old Testament: Psalm ciii. 15.

  He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass.

Old Testament: Psalm lxxii. 6.

Though nothing can bring back the hour

Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 10.

The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Venus and Adonis. Line 1027.

They have measured many a mile

To tread a measure with you on this grass.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.

  And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745): Gulliver's Travels. Part ii. Chap. vii. Voyage to Brobdingnag.