How To Use Sward In A Sentence
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The river up which we came after leaving the Helmund, is fully equal to that in size; it is very rapid: the ravine is very narrow, occasionally widening into swardy spots.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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The sward is the original sward, untouched, unploughed, centuries old.
The Open Air
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This five-page factsheet looks at Common nardoo which forms dense swards following flooding, and forms a dominant component of the groundcover layer.
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On the lowest lawn twin rows of classical statues eyed each other across a sward dotted with croquet-hoops.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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Establishment of long-term grass swards has had some success, and planting birch (Betula pubescens) and native willows (Salix lanata and S. phylicifolia) is proving a successful conservation measure, using mycorrhizal inocula, for re-establishing species and habitat diversity of grasslands, shrublands, and woodlands that were lost through overgrazing [22] [23] although non-native species can cause problems.
Human impacts on the biodiversity of the Arctic
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I read, this morning, the 46th chapter of Isaiah, and, from the fact of this being new years day, my mind has been carried to the goodness of God to usward, in granting all the blessings we enjoy: -- His infinite greatness, wisdom and mercy.
A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren
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The monolith brooded gaunt and silent above the sward which waved, green and untrampled, in the morning breeze.
People of the Dark
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The standing sward of rye, clovers, and fescues is increasingly varied with herbs like dock and comfrey, which help pull nutrients up from the subsoil.
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In the second scene the hart is being broken up; its throat is cut, and the venerer, kneeling on the sward, is in the act of disembowelling it.
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Dr Barbara was watching Neil in her kindliest way, as if mentally assigning him some quiet sward where he could convalesce forever.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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And along the sward, the black rope draped, a long, thick line of Tachi's blood.
FLOATING CITY
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On the lowest lawn twin rows of classical statues eyed each other across a sward dotted with croquet-hoops.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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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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A few dwarf birches unfold their leaves amid the rocks; a few sub-arctic willows hang out their catkins beside the swampy runnels; the golden potentilla opens its bright flowers on slopes where the evergreen _Empetrum nigrum_ slowly ripens its glossy crow-berries; and from where the sea-spray dashes at full tide along the beach, to where the snow gleams at midsummer on the mountain-summits, the thin short sward is dotted by the minute cruciform stars of the scurvy-grass, and the crimson blossoms of the sea-pink.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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His own proper dignity, and by the other His grace to usward.
NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
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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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“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity
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A lady in full feather approached the sentinel on the sward.
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Here we are, by God's grace and long-suffering to usward, near the end of another year, another vicious year; and why have we been borne with through so many vicious years but that we should now cease from vice and begin to learn virtue?
Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)
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The moonlight on the lawn was tremulous, as if the sward were a rippling sea.
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
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Cheap seed -- and that means _poor_ seed, _always_ -- does not contain the varieties of grasses necessary to the making of a rich, deep, velvety sward, and it almost always _does_ contain the seeds of noxious weeds which will make your lawn a failure.
Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover
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The treatments involved early turnout of cows to grass for 2 h per day at two residual sward heights and two silage allowances, plus a control treatment, in a randomized block design.
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And Cadfael turned back into the cloister garth, and paced the bleached wintry sward very thoughtfully.
A River So Long
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It may simply be that behind the firmly controlled uninsistence of his lines American ears, grown accustomed to the clamant verse of poets like Robert Sward, who is discussed below, have not yet recognized the concentration of Enright's verse, its nerve, its distilled lack of irrelevancy.
Our Costume Is a Kiss
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Livestock poaching during the incessant wet weather and machinery operations on soft ground has done enormous damage to grass swards.
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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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He also says that the prairie includes ‘waving ground, necessarily of good soil, from the beautiful sward of grass rising from it.’
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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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The grass beneath the trees was evenly cropped, and pelleted with droppings, so some ruminant herd loitered nearby, keeping the sward neat.
Son of a Witch
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-- Halted and encamped eight miles up the Erak ravine on a swardy spot: the road easy, ascent bad in some places, but generally good, particularly for the latter part of the march: the rocks in some places rising in abrupt rugged cliffs, generally rounded, slaty.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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It is curious that no green spots are found above, all the water passing down under the soil, the swardy ravines scarcely extend beyond an elevation of 1,500 feet above the camp on Upper Kaloo.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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In the centre of the sward was a small artificial lake, long since dried up, and adorned then with a profusion of fountains, that seemed to scatter coolness around the glowing air.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 04
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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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On my right the walls of the Cathedral rose in a vast wet cliff from the sodden sward and disappeared into the mist which hid the spire.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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Near me a titlark every few minutes rose from the sward, and spreading his wings came down aslant, singing with all his might.
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The sward was the brilliantly green, luxuriant wild growth that in these islands covers every foot of earth surface.
White Shadows in the South Seas
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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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And along the sward, the black rope draped, a long, thick line of Tachi's blood.
FLOATING CITY
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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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The balcony or ledge was higher than the opposite wall, and he was looking over that wall into another swarded court.
The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian
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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.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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Greensward and mountains fill the bedroom window.
Times, Sunday Times
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There agelong she had dwelt, an evil thing in spider-form, even such as once of old had lived in the Land of the Elves in the West that is now under the Sea, such as Beren fought in the Mountains of Terror in Doriath, and so came to Lúthien upon the green sward amid the hemlocks in the moonlight long ago.
The Lord of the Rings
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Beautiful rose up, in wavy curvature, the slope of thy guardian Hills; of the greenest was their sward, embossed with its dark-brown frets of crag, or spotted by some spreading solitary Tree and its shadow.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
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Then I, whose eyes were keen, saw, blown usward from Margny, a cloud of flying dust, that in Scotland we call stour.
A Monk of Fife
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The Conquering Sword of Conan he dropped to the swarded valley floor.
The Conquering Sword of Conan
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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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Between the slopes lay gentle declivities, likewise swarded.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian
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Thus the potential nutritive value of uncut silage swards is limited, and the emphasis must now be on conserving them as an edible feedstuff.
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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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Establishment of long-term grass swards has had some success, and planting birch ( '' Betula pubescens '') and native willows ( '' Salix lanata '' and '' S. phylicifolia '') is proving a successful conservation measure, using mycorrhizal inocula, for re-establishing species and habitat diversity of grasslands, shrublands, and woodlands that were lost through
Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth
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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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On the sward is the village well, where there seems always to be a group of busy washers; and in the centre is a large school, where every educational advantage may be enjoyed, so that
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
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This is modified by the prevailing high humidity, giving peaty soils and a wide distribution of oceanic plants such as liverwort Frullania teneriffae, by the effect of salt spray even hundreds of meters inland, resulting in Plantago-dominated swards on cliff tops, and by the fertilizing effects of vast numbers of nesting seabirds which create a rich turf.
St Kilda (Hirta) National Nature Reserve, United Kingdom
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On a few hillsides the savory-leaved aster and mouse-ear alone made quite a dense sward, said to be very pretty when the aster is in bloom.
Cape Cod
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Farmers tell him that livestock graze the sward very tightly so there is no wastage.
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Learning that Pemberton and B. had gone on, I hurried on likewise, expecting that the coolies would follow, and continued along the swardy ridge, the path running occasionally between patches of wood, the descent being gradual; the path then struck off into wood, and the descent became rapid.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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His clay feet, swarded in verdigrass, stick up starck where he last fellonem, by the mund of the maga-zine wall, where our maggy seen all, with her sisterin shawl.
Finnegans Wake
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The sward was pocked with wombats' holes!
Times, Sunday Times
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I plunged down off Dun-I, fumbled out gloves and scarf from the backpack, and set out for a serious stride over the machair - grassy sward grown up on a thick bed of shell sand.
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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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The chateau, a modern building in Italian style, with two projecting wings and three flights of steps, lay at the foot of an immense green-sward, on which some cows were grazing among groups of large trees set out at regular intervals, while large beds of arbutus, rhododendron, syringas, and guelder roses bulged out their irregular clusters of green along the curve of the gravel path.
Madame Bovary
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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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The Berteri, who occupy the Gurays Range, south of, and limitrophe to, the Gallas, and thence extend easward to the Jigjiga hills, are estimated at 3000 shields.
First Footsteps in East Africa
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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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Maize, wheat, and clover for two years, usually occupy the ground, in succession, both on upland and lowland, herd's-grass (red-top of New York), sometimes taking the place of the clover, or being grown with it for hay, in which case the ground remains in sward for several years.
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy
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Here, where the sward is smooth and the space yet broad between, two converging lines of peaks are already arrayed before our eyes – one extending nearly due East and West; the other running up from the South-East to meet it.
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
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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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Dr Barbara was watching Neil in her kindliest way, as if mentally assigning him some quiet sward where he could convalesce forever.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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yeah, dude. the grossest is the cersei and jaime. i know they're both hot but they are brother and sister! hotness does not excuse incest. and they have THREE kids. that is seriously back assward.
Casting clues and possible solutions
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This wintergreen plant grows mainly in the vicinity of penguin colonies and the gathering places of large mammals, where it usually forms extensive closed swards in larger or smaller clusters.
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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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The change takes place about the situation of a spacious open sward; here the jungle is thick, the trees consisting principally of Q. glauca, which is a noble tree, with immense lamellated acorns, Pendulous lichens are here common, Hymenopogon parasiticus, Lomaria of Khegumpa!
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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The sward consists of small grasses, Juncus niveus, Gnaphalium, Hypericum of Mollong, suffrutex incertus.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Maize, wheat, and clover for two years, usually occupy the ground, in succession, both on upland and lowland, herd's-grass (red-top of New York), sometimes taking the place of the clover, or being grown with it for hay, in which case the ground remains in sward for several years.
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy
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She stood on a swarded eminence from which the gently molded slopes ran away, soft as velvet under the starlight.
The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian
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The circumciser pull my foreskin as much as he can to top and all extra skin over glan is removed by his sward then he made only sulture over edge.
Farmboyz / Perge Modo
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Similar swardy spots occur on the west of the pass, a large Swertia,
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Farmers tell him that livestock graze the sward very tightly so there is no wastage.
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She opened her eyes just in time to impact roughly among a sward of yellow-green grass into soft turf.
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A man's tongue is his sward. He who stirs another's porridge often burn his own.
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And a dragon of horrible great form lay under the ladder, which made every man to dread and fear to mount up, and she saw Satyra ascending by the same unto above and looking to usward, and said: Doubt ye nothing this dragon, but come up surely that ye may be with me.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7
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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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Grown men and women cried openly as they swarmed on to the green sward of Croke Park.
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a marrer of the sward incoronate, the few fly the farbetween!
Finnegans Wake
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On recommencing the descent, swardy patches commenced, surrounded by fir woods, these increased in frequency.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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We thanked her, entered, and went walking along a smooth road, through open sward, clumps of trees and an occasional piece of artful neglect in the shape of rough hillocks covered with wild shrubs, such as brier and broom.
Wilfrid Cumbermede
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On my right the walls of the Cathedral rose in a vast wet cliff from the sodden sward and disappeared into the mist which hid the spire.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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Though clothed with love and faith to usward plight,
A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI
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At the distance of a few miles from Samarah stood a high mountain, whose sides were swarded with wild thyme and basil, and its summit overspread with so delightful a plain, that it might be taken for the paradise destined for the faithful.
The History of the Caliph Vathek
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Open swards are more liable to poaching so greater care is needed.
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The standing sward of rye, clovers, and fescues is increasingly varied with herbs like dock and comfrey, which help pull nutrients up from the subsoil.
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The vegetation in the snow ravine was rich, and varied in the swardy spots: Ranunculi 2, Swertia 2-3, Gentiana a fine one, Junci, Carices,
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Besides this the ground outside is swardy and prettily wooded.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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In that radiant original universe also all the thoughts of GOD which were to usward from everlasting, all the Divine ideas, patterns, and plans of things, are laid open, displayed, copied out and sealed up for future worlds to see carried out.
Jacob Behmen an appreciation
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Here we waited for the tide, and had the pleasure of surveying the face of the country, the soil of which, at this season, exactly resembles an old brick-kiln, or a field where the green sward is pared up and set a-burning, or rather a smoking, in little heaps to manure the land.
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
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At an early age Wulfgar left the house of de Sward, and he and Sweyn found their sustenance by hiring out as soldiers of war.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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A fresh northerly breeze and a wheen of fresh faces took to the well-grassed sward of Old Anniesland.
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Kirkyards o 'their sward were a' howkit fu 'clean;
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
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It was a spot on which Milton might have placed the lady in "Comus" -- a circle of the smoothest sward, ringed everywhere (except at one opening which left the glassy river in full view) with thick bosks of dark evergreens and shrubs of livelier verdure; oak and chest nut backing and overhanging all.
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 07
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To the left of the sward is the fort, enclosed within which are the post-office and Government offices.
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
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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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This reduces the proportion of grass in the brassica-grass sward, which is not always advantageous.
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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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Organisers of fêtes, horse fairs and similar public functions sometimes set up temporary quoits pitches in this way for decades and such games are often referred to as Sward Quoits.
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We sat with a picnic basket on a green sward and my former employer looked even more like a brigadier in his bulky battledress.
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Is then the confession of the grace wrought by Him to usward a detraction from His glory?
NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
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To-morrow I shall drive to breakfast, seeing Paris continuously unfolding, prospect after prospect, green swards, white buildings, villas engarlanded; to-day I drive to breakfast through the white torridities of Rue Blanche.
Memoirs of My Dead Life
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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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Dr Barbara was watching Neil in her kindliest way, as if mentally assigning him some quiet sward where he could convalesce forever.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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“The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to usward.”
The Silver Lining: Messages of Hope and Cheer
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Top stemmy swards and apply nitrogen to promote tillering.
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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 sheep and cattle all run together on swards, which are predominately white clover mixtures, and Howard told me that the mixed stocking and the highly nutritious clover leys have a big bearing on the way his livestock thrive.
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The march throughout was beautiful, in the more elevated and drier portions, winding over swardy slopes or through woods of fir trees: on the descent from 9,000 feet downwards, passing through beautiful forests, chiefly of oak, and diversified in every possible way.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Hence she called loudly upon her uncle, and he was seen to issue, lantern in hand, from the tower door, and, where the ruins did not intervene, to pick his way over the swarded courtyard, avoiding treacherous cellars and winding among blocks of fallen masonry.
Lay Morals
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The ground flora in the oak woods ranges from areas of bilberry through grassy swards to rich moss carpets and small alder flushes.
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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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The thing that has passed us all by now is that the inspiration for the whole swarded Matthews ‘kidnapping’ has been completely overshadowed.
The Underclass, Knives and Flip Flops! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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From the ridge the view to the south is pretty, the country undulated, either naked and swardy, or clothed with firs.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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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
