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And the pictures are ravishing: a Massachusetts lighthouse on a grassy sward under an azure sky; a winding two-lane road through New Zealand’s Southern Alps that disappears into the snow-dusted hulk of Mt.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2018

A replica was built in 1989 by the junta, which handed the vast sward of green that surrounds the palace to the military for use as a headquarters.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2016

The teams line up in the tunnel looking very tense indeed, then make their way out on to the Twickenham sward ahead of the pre-match formalities.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 2015

Picture his bemusement when, out of the blue, he is invited to the du Pont estate, and gently deposited by private chopper on the sward.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 10, 2014

And then they were standing on the true path: a swath of green sward running through the grey wood.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

A boardwalk leads visitors deep into the woods; mown swards direct footsteps up, over and through the Earth Garden; and steppingstone boulders navigate a stream.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2021

And they’re never short of instructors for British made fine weapons, such as princely swards.

From Time ● Mar. 12, 2013

The trees were broad and widely spaced; sheep and pigs grazed on the swards among them, and on my rare free afternoon, I had walked there without fear.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

We skirted rushing mountain torrents, through woodland glades and soft green swards; the air was glorious and cool, for though the sun was powerful there was an abundance of shade.

From The Land of the Black Mountain The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro by Reginald Wyon

The swards were interspersed with shrubs in the most modern fashion, and the sumptuous glass-houses could be seen gleaming in the sun.

From Spring Days by George (George Augustus) Moore

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

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 Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We sprang upon our feet, we snatch'd our spears, We bounded down the swarded slope, we plunged Through the dense ilex-thickets to the dogs.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold

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