Crossword-Solution: BRIZA 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

For instance, I have found them embracing thin withered blades of grass, the soft young leaves of a maple, and the flower-peduncles of the quaking-grass or Briza.

Even the common word _breeze_, by which we now mean a light wind, first came to us from the Spanish word _briza_, which meant the north-east trade wind.

There is no risk she dares not take; even Horan gets nervous; and when that bull-necked numbskull is scared there's reason for it." We walked out into the main tent, where simultaneous rehearsals were everywhere in progress; and I picked up the ring-master's whip and sent it curling after "Briza," a harmless, fat, white mare on which pretty Mrs.

Grigg, in habit and scarlet jacket, followed on Briza, the white mare; Horan came next, driving more horses; the dens of ferocious beasts creaked after, guarded by a phalanx of stalwart stablemen in plumes and armor; then Miss Crystal, driving zebras to a gilt chariot; then more men in togas, leading monkeys mounted on ponies; and finally Mrs.

These ridges were generally well covered with that family of running trefoil, known by the name of _Melilotos_, intermixed with a species of _Poa_ or meadow grass, _Avena_ or wild oats, and _Briza_ or quaking grass.