Example Sentences
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Could one ever again wish more pleasure than to look on swarded fields and wooded hills?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 by Various
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 Stevenson, Robert Louis
Swiss chalets glitter'd on the dewy slopes, And from some swarded shelf, high up, there came Notes of wild pastoral music—over all Ranged, diamond-bright, the eternal wall of snow.
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew
Could I walk leisurely Along our swarded garden, but the grass Tracked me with greenness?
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
I had it, and there seemed to stand before me again the swarded "high place," with torches flaring over upturned faces and mounting walls of green.
From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
