1.   A flame leapt out unexpectedly, caught on some dry grass, and raced across a half-dead meadow with frightening speed.

2.   Evening had begun to settle down, and he was walking along a narrow path of dry grass, towards the buildings.

3.   He coaxed a fire out of some dry grass and twigs.

4.   He was magnificent, larger even than I had expected, looking almost red against the pale dry grass.

5.   The concrete highway was edged with tangled dry grass.

6.   The wind scored shivering channels through the ling and bilberries, the growth of fine, dry grass.

7.   A snake rustled through the dry grass.

8.   When I was a child I could remember gatherings of two or three hundred people, but there were less than a hundred out on the dry grass.

9.   There was glittering blue mystery in his eyes, and his voice was lethally soft, like a snake rustling through dry grass.

10.   Fires and camping stoves should, he said, be kept clear of tents and any dry grass and undergrowth, crops, hedges and trees.