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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

Having lost five and drawn one of last season’s six Old Firm derbies, Rangers march out on to the Ibrox sward led by Graham Dorrans.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 23, 2017

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

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

Clangt went the armour, like a motor omnibus in collision with a smithy, and the jousters were sitting side by side on the green sward, while their horses cantered off in opposite directions.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

At 8,300 feet, Tussilaginoides of Churra, Primula Stuartii common on swards with Swertiæ, etc. as before, Funaria and Weissia Templetonia common, Sphæropterus!

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by William Griffith

It is hard yet to reconcile the mud in which we lived for months with the velvety swards that first greeted our eyes.

From From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade by Frederic C. Curry

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 Matthew Arnold

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 Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien

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

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 Robert Louis Stevenson

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