There's some big
clumps o' columbine in th' garden.
And they didn't give me pills; they gave me
clumps on the side of the head.
The pines, great and small, grew wide apart; and even between the
clumps of nutmeg and azalea, wide open spaces baked in the hot sunshine.
There were rosy bleeding-hearts and great splendid crimson peonies; white, fragrant narcissi and thorny, sweet Scotch roses; pink and blue and white columbines and lilac-tinted Bouncing Bets;
clumps of southernwood and ribbon grass and mint; purple Adam-and-Eve, daffodils, and masses of sweet clover white with its delicate, fragrant, feathery sprays; scarlet lightning that shot its fiery lances over prim white musk-flowers; a garden it was where sunshine lingered and bees hummed, and winds, beguiled into loitering, purred and rustled.
Here there are extensive heaths, with a few
clumps of old Scotch firs on the distant hill-tops: within the last ten years large spaces have been enclosed, and self-sown firs are now springing up in multitudes, so close together that all cannot live.
There were
clumps of thorn trees here and there, gorgeous in their spring radiance.
It was entered by a large iron gate, at which stood the first lodge, and then you trotted along on a smooth road between
clumps of large old trees; then another lodge and another gate, which brought you to the house and the gardens.
Instead of finding the mountain we had ascended sweeping down in the opposite direction into broad and capacious valleys, the land appeared to retain its general elevation, only broken into a series of ridges and inter-vales which so far as the eye could reach stretched away from us, with their precipitous sides covered with the brightest verdure, and waving here and there with the foliage of
clumps of woodland; among which, however, we perceived none of those trees upon whose fruit we had relied with such certainty.
Clump," she said, "no efforts of mine have been wanting to restore our dear invalid, whom the ingratitude of her nephew has laid on the bed of sickness.
He was standing before a goat-skin tent amidst a
clump of date palms within a tiny oasis.
Behind one of these, in a
clump of sage-brush, I made my bed for the day, and soon fell asleep.
Before the ape drank he cautioned the boy to be watchful; but as he drank he raised his head from time to time to cast a quick glance toward a
clump of bushes a hundred yards away upon the opposite side of the water hole.