Then the boat jostled against a high wall, whose ancient stones were greasy and coated with brown weed.

Jon had reached down into a clump of ugly brown weeds, and now held something that filled her cupped palms.

The flashlight beam shone through thick clumps of brown weed that hung down from the tower bulwark, and he could smell the sea in them.

It was filled with brown weeds, clogged with fast food wrappers, old newspapers, beer and soda cans.

Yet she detected a meandering path amid the snowy brown weeds, broken bottles and litter.

Half an hour later, he saw something that caught his attention: a great mass of brown weed, in broad strips, floating near the surface.

When each pannier was full, it was covered over with a thick layer of the brown weed.

There were only bunches of brown weed that stood up leafless and sharp, with a silver circle of wake around each stem.

We found him lying in a pool of water, among brown weeds in the dark shadow of the timberings.

The call of a blue jay came from the hills beyond the meadow as the wind stirred the tall brown weeds.