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Definition of Tussucks
1. tussuck [n] - See also: tussuck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tussucks
Literary usage of Tussucks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Narrative of Voyages & Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres by Amasa Delano (1817)
"It goei on upland to make its nest and lay its eggs. It digs holes under tussucks
and in any ground clear of stones, commonly choosing the side of a hill, ..."
2. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1846)
"When crawling, it may be said on four legs, through the tussucks or on the side
of a grassy cliff, it moves so very quickly that it might easily be mistaken ..."
3. Friendship's Offering by John Sartain, Lewis and Sampson, Phillips & Sampson, Phillips, Sampson & Company, E.H. Butler & Co (1850)
"... among the bright green tussucks mantling the fatal quicksands—ah ! little deemed
she that her joy, her pride, an orphan cast unguarded on the world, ..."
4. Instructions to Young Sportsmen: In All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker, William Trotter Porter (1846)
"... the fallen trunks, the mossy tussucks under foot, the tangled vines and thorny
briers, woven in strange inextricable mazes about your knees and thighs, ..."
5. Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor by Wayne E. Burton (1867)
"Between two large bunches, or tussucks, of the gray moss, there peered forth the
good-humored face of a man about thirty, lying flat upon the bog, ..."
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