sward
noun
the grassy surface of land; turf.
Example Sentences
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Then, with less than his usual judgment, he put his two chariot horses to the plough, and ran a great risk of spoiling them, in giving his new invention a trial over ground thickly swarded.
From Life of George Washington — Volume 01 by Washington Irving
Spring had advanced until the prairies were swarded with grass and flowers, while water, though scarcer, was to be had at least once daily.
From The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams
Every vestige of the camp save the glowing skeletons of the troop shelters had disappeared, and the swarded savanna was become a blackened chaos-blot on the fair woodland scene.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
Here, in a place where many straight and prosperous chestnuts stood together, making an aisle upon a swarded terrace, I made my morning toilette in the water of the Tarn.
From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
And the intricate ground-plan of the district must be long studied before you can always feel sure whether the low-shelving swarded edges by which you are walking frame salt or fresh water.
From Stories by English Authors: Ireland by Samuel Lover
