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
We presently found a nice grassplot, at one side of which I took my stand; and all things being prepared, I tossed the kite up just as little John ran off.
From McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
Morton accompanied him to a sequestered grassplot, where their colleagues awaited them.
From Old Mortality, Volume 2. by Sir Walter Scott
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 M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Historians," she added, "believe that the spring of fresh water whose discovery by Blackstone led Winthrop's party to prefer Boston to Charlestown, was probably not far from the centre of the grassplot in the square.
From Brenda, Her School and Her Club by Helen Leah Reed
