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"Brush down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... moist soil beneath is strewn with snowy flakes, for at night flying foxes blunder among the branches, destroying more blooms than they eat. But why grumble? Birds which nip off petals and musty foxes which brush down whole posies in their clumsiness are but positive checks to overproduction. Do they not avert the unthankful task of carting away dozens of barrow loads of superfluous fruit? Last night at dusk there was a sensation of the coming of rain, though the air was still and the ...
— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield |
Words linked to "Brush down" : tell off, chew out, chew up, have words, call on the carpet, trounce, rag, berate, dress down, reproof, jaw, bawl out, chide, call down, rebuke, take to task, scold, lecture, lambast, lambaste, remonstrate, reprimand |
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