How To Use Greensward In A Sentence
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One fine May morning, William of Ockham was skirting the bosky woods, heading for open country in search of early mushrooms when a dragon alighted on the greensward not half a furling from him.
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The house itself is built upon a lot of greensward which runs down amid some great, beetling rocks.
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He seemed stunned, as it were, and giddy; the earth on which he stood felt as if unsound, and quaking under his feet like the surface of a bog; and he had once or twice nearly fallen, though the path he trode was of firm greensward.
The Abbot
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While some may chose to spend that season lazing beside rivers and quaffing champagne, the more discerning amongst us elect for the greensward and the thrill of clattering wickets.
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Yet her body longed so sore for the springtide freshness of the grass, and was so bewooed of the flowery scent thereof, that though she durst not go unarmed, she did off her footgear and went stealing softly barefoot and with naked legs over the embroidered greensward, saying aloud to herself: If run for the ferry I needs must, lighter shall I run so dight.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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A pretty, greenswarded little valley lay before me, groups of cottonwoods fringed the stream here and there, around the roots of which were both shade and water.
The Outlet
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At this moment there arrived at the same patch of greensward a pedestrian some years older than Percival St. John, -- a tall, muscular, raw-boned, dust-covered, travel-stained pedestrian; one of your pedestrians in good earnest, -- no amateur in neat gambroon manufactured by Inkson, who leaves his carriage behind him and walks on with his fishing-rod by choice, but
Lucretia — Volume 04
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And Shibli Bagarag followed her, clutching at the trailers and tearing them with him, letting loose a torrent of stones and earth, till on a sudden they stood together above a greenswarded basin of the rock opening to the sea; and in the middle of the basin, lo! in stature like a maiden of the mountains, and one that droopeth her head pensively thinking of her absent lover, the Enchanted Lily.
The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete
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As any fan will tell you, the greensward the game is played on, marked with parallel white stripes, is called a gridiron.
Meathead Goldwyn: Lip Smackin' Pigskin Cracklins
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As any fan will tell you, the greensward the game is played on -- marked with parallel white stripes -- is called a gridiron.
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Greensward and mountains fill the bedroom window.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether your backyard is a postage stamp balcony in a city high-rise or a rolling spread of suburban greensward, you can enjoy the fun, fashion and creativity of a container flower garden.
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When she was come on to the greensward she spake to Birdalone in a sweet voice, but thin with eld, and gave her the sele of the day; and Birdalone was somewhat afraid to see a newcomer, but she greeted her, drawing back a little from her shyly.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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Let the lyres of joy be heard across the land, let nymphs cavort on the greensward of happiness, let angels parp their trumpets of glee, let… etc etc etc.
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There were acres upon acres of greensward set about and cut up with gravelled walks, great alleyed rows of trees, groves without number and galleries and colonnades innumerable.
Royal Palaces and Parks of France
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A lovely vale of greensward called Princes Street Gardens separates the two towns, and several bridges span the shallow valley.
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And thus there seems no escape from the admission that what we fondly call our great seats of learning are simply "boarding schools" for bigger boys; that learned men are not more numerous in them than out of them; that the advancement of knowledge is not the object of fellows of colleges; that, in the philosophic calm and meditative stillness of their greenswarded courts, philosophy does not thrive, and meditation bears few fruits.
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
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In the Close of Durdlebury, greenswarded, silent, sentinelled by immemorial elms that guard the dignified Gothic dwellings of the cathedral dignitaries, was James Marmaduke Trevor born.
The Rough Road
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While some may chose to spend that season lazing beside rivers and quaffing champagne, the more discerning amongst us elect for the greensward and the thrill of clattering wickets.
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While some may chose to spend that season lazing beside rivers and quaffing champagne, the more discerning amongst us elect for the greensward and the thrill of clattering wickets.
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That there are not more acres of greensward is regrettable.
Sunday Op/Ed: Don’t Put the Chihuly Museum at Seattle Center « PubliCola
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Laid out in the shape of a cross as part of the original federal plan, the greensward is a splendid place to relax or jog (perhaps past politicos and their retinues).
Lead Stories from AOL
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The greensward is the canvas, the house or some other prominent point is the central figure, the planting completes the composition and adds the color.
Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
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Soon she had covered up the house from her, for on that eastern end, both a tongue of the woodland shoved out west into the meadow, and, withal, the whole body of the wood there drew down to the water, and presently cut off all the greensward save a narrow strip along by the lake, off the narrowest whereof lay the rocky eyot aforesaid, nigher unto the shore than lay Green Eyot.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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Calvert Vaux, who seems acknowledged only incidentally in Mr. Lewis's review, was Olmsted's senior cocreator in the Greensward Plan, which became the great Central Park as we know it.
Vaux Helped Olmsted Get Started
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Each of Ponce de Leon's parks is distinct in its landscaping; the parks range from relatively open greenswards to nearly impenetrable woods.
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The boy returned to the draw-well at the edge of the greensward, where he had left his buckets when he went to help his patron and teacher in the loading.
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A bright sun poured a flood crystal light upon a greensward.
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A hurdy-gurdy furnished the music and the greensward was their ballroom floor.
Molly Brown's Orchard Home
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Very soon one finds himself deeply interested in these random and detached pictures, and almost before he is aware he finds that he has rounded off the corners of the house, made snug little arbors of wild grapes and clematis, covered the rear fence and the outhouse with actinidia and bitter-sweet, and has thrown in dashes of color with hollyhocks, cannas, and lilies, and has tied the foundations of the buildings to the greensward by low strands of vines or deft bits of planting.
Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
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The Brooklyn Paper, perhaps searching for a new obsession now that its fixation of yore-Atlantic Yards-is a fait accompli, is continuing its crusade to rescue the animals of Prospect Park from a recent spate of lakeside violence, one that has prompted the paper to dub the greensward's body of water "The Lake of Death." the paper reports that the decomposed body of a dog was fished from the murky waters of the Prospect Park Lake, just the latest in a series of dead animals that have washed up on the shores of the normally bucolic lake:
All Stories | The New York Observer
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Down below, the hotel grounds feature a pair of tennis courts and some of the loveliest greenswards and gardens in the country.
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On the smooth greensward, which they called Nanna's carpet, beneath the shade of ash-trees and elms, he who played Old
The Story of Siegfried
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Moreover the wildwood toward that side, as it drew toward the water, was dark and dreary and forbidding, running into black thickets standing amidst quagmires, all unlike to the sweet, clean upland ridges, oak begrown and greenswarded, of the parts which lay toward the north, and which she mostly haunted.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
