lawny
- a word derived from lawn.
Example Sentences
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She sleeps and dreams; one milk-white, lawny arm Pillowing her heavy hair, as might cold Night Meeting her sister Day, with glory warm, Subside in languor on her bosom's white.
From Blooms of the Berry by Cawein, Madison J.
And thereunto, Set over all a woof of lawny air, From her head wavering to her sea-shod feet, Which shall her lovely beauty well complete, And grace her much to wear.
From Victorian Ode For Jubilee Day, 1897 by Thompson, Francis
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
Among these words, leafy, balmy, lawny, patting, nest, tiptoe, and variations of “taste” were special favorites with Hunt.
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette
At our feet, winding round a "lawny islet" and through a valley luxuriant in corn-fields and meadows, flowed the broad river, bluer than the sky.
From In the Days of My Youth by Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford
