1.   Brittle grass lined the ditches and grasshoppers buzzed in the plants.

2.   Like so many other families, my family sometimes took blankets into the yard and laid them on the brittle grass, hoping for some breath of cooler air.

3.   When it was over, we felt as revived as the brittle grass at our feet, able once more to lift our heads against our daily demands.

4.   With biblical intensity, swarms of yellow grasshoppers launch from the brown brittle grass in a field off Double EE Ranch Road.