(1) The snorting of the horse, the plash of hooves in the stream, the light above a dark ridge line, the twitter of birds and insects in the brush, almost (but not quite) transcend the Hollywood platitudes.

(2) The whole picture reverberates with the rustle and ripple and bank-caught plash of water.

(3) You can almost hear the whispers and the plash of water against stone.

(4) I don't remember hearing the tell-tale plash of water today.

(5) Steve heard the rasp of oar-locks and the faint plash of a leisurely moving boat.

(6) The plash of the fountain

(7) Osage orange and some other plants are plashed ; that is, the plants are set at an angle rather than perpendicularly, and they are wired together obliquely in such a way that they make an impenetrable barrier just above the surface of the ground.

(8) When hawthorn, blackthorn or firethorn were plashed in a hedge, they formed a difficult defensive hedge that acted as an obstacle to an attacking force.

(9) I ride fast trying to avoid water and deep muddy plashes .

(10) The plashy fens of the pathogen are a fertile habitat for flat-footed doom-mongers.

(11) On the plashy banks of the Housatonic River in northern Connecticut one morning last week, two fishermen looked up with scowls as a hiker with a rucksack and a brown duffle shaped like an oversized golf bag broke through the woods with a noise loud enough to scare every trout within 50 yd.

(12) As he became more awake, his senses became alert to another sound; that of gurgling, plashing water.

(13) Quietly the boats were launched, plashing outwards towards that blue light that shimmered starlike in the blackness.

(14) Manga's familiar marks - the ramjet speed lines, the plashy globular peepers, the buckets of gore, - are merely the crumbs of an old and highly developed art form.

(15) If livestock containment was the priority, this usually meant that the hedge would be laid or plashed every 5 to 10 (or even 20) years, in order to reduce its overall bulk and increase its density.

(16) Carefully picking his way through the sodden hillocks of grass, rather deep plashes and large stones strewn over the landscape, he soon noticed that his horse had wandered back and was taking an interest in his movements.

(17) Chris plashed the water with his hand.

(18) Questing and plashing , whiskers twitching, he searches vole-like for paths through the confusing cyberswamp.

(19) The gravity of the situation made us look in silence, nothing heard but the plashing of the water against the boat.

(20) It had been strongly plashed in the past February, and was stiff and stout.

(21) This work (which was used without acknowledgement by A. Wood) is the source of many well-known anecdotes, such as that of Ralegh laying his cloak for the queen in u2018a plashy placeu2019.