Here they halted, and as one of the Arabs was releasing the Alfa-grass ropes which bound him to his mount they were surrounded by a mob of men, women, and children.
"The Return of Tarzan"
Edgar Rice Burroughs
The darkest corner was the bedroom, which had a platform of stone on which rugs were spread, and there was a lower mound of dried mud, roughly curtained off from the rest with two or three red and blue foutahs suspended on ropes made of twisted Alfa, or dried grass.
"The Golden Silence"
C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
Running out, she darted across the courtyard, pausing near the Frenchman, Pierre Rostafel, who wandered unsteadily up and down the quadrangle, his torch of Alfa grass ready in his hand.
"The Golden Silence"
C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson