lawn
noun
a stretch of open, grass-covered land, especially one closely mowed, as near a house, on an estate, or in a park.
lawny
-
a word derived from
lawn.
Example Sentences
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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 Henry Kendall
We stood where the fields were tawny, Where the redolent woodland was warm, And the summer above us, now lawny, Was alive with the pulse winds of storm.
From Blooms of the Berry by Madison J. Cawein
What dream is this on lawny spaces set?
From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall
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 George MacDonald
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 Madison J. Cawein
