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V By lawny slope and lucent strand Are singing flags of every land; On streams of splendour—bays impearled— The keels are here of all the world.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry

In secret moods of mercy and soft dole, Old warpèd wrecks and things of mouldering death That summer scorns and man abandoneth His careful hands console With lawny robes and draperies of snow.

From Among the Millet and Other Poems by Lampman, Archibald

The soul of an epoch lives in that name, evocative as it is of shadowy trees, lawny spaces, brocade, pointed bodices, high heels and guitars.

From Mike Fletcher A Novel by Moore, George (George Augustus)

The passage was very narrow, but 39 lightsome, for a door was open at the end, peeping into a lawny kind of yard.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth

My uncle would have regarded it as little short of an insult for any one to drive wheels over the smooth lawny surface in which our house dwelt like a solitary island in the sea.

From Wilfrid Cumbermede by MacDonald, George