turfy

Historical Examples of turfy

• Bits of turfy green, cropped close by hippo, which favours this fine reach of river, distinguish the banks near this locality.

  In Darkest Africa, Vol. 2; or, The quest, rescue and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria

  Henry Morton Stanley

• Anon you found yourself in a turfy wilderness, girt in apparently by dark woods.

  Coningsby

  Benjamin Disraeli

• They thrive best in a compost of turfy loam and peat, with a fair quantity of sand.

  Gardening for the Million

  Alfred Pink

• Walther then springs lightly up the turfy throne, and, inspired by love, he sings with all his heart.

  Stories of the Wagner Opera

  H. A. Guerber

• The soil best adapted for Begonias is turfy loam, leaf-mold, sand, and old well-rotted manure in equal parts.

  Talks about Flowers.

  M. D. Wellcome