Then the bamboo clumps got thicker and met overhead, and the afternoon sun came through in golden threads and patches on the whitey-grey sand of the path.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
Miss Maitland's was not the only dooryard in the village where grass was still abundant, and whitey knew it.
"The Brass Bound Box"
Evelyn Raymond
In them she seemed to be eternally climbing steep stairs into a chamber of horrors tenanted by one starving boy; or she was watching Madam choke to death over a lump of hot scorched porridge; or she was being tossed on the horns of Squire Pettijohn's black bull,-the terror of all young, and some old, Marsdenites,-and from this last dream she awoke to find the kitchen quite dark, and whitey mooing outside the window.
"The Brass Bound Box"
Evelyn Raymond