grassplot

Example Sentences

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The court was partly paved with stone, but was roofless, and on a grassplot a fountain played under young trees in the sunlight.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Where did it come from—that quaint little house with the fanlight over the door and the flower-starred grassplot in front?

From Greenwich Village by Cram, Allan G. (Allan Gilbert)

When he was gone, I went across the street to see Butterwick about top-dressing my grassplot.

From Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot by Clark, Charles Heber

The garden is for the greater part utilitarian; but in front of the salon windows there is a grassplot, bordered by stiff gravel-walks, and relieved by a couple of flower-beds.

From Charlotte's Inheritance by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

On the grassplot, in the shade of a great cherry-tree, Laura and Helen were playing at graces.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 by Various