sward

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

Soon we learned that the sward circle was actually trampled by local wild hogs; and for our show to be performed ... well, let’s just fast forward another few years.

From The Guardian ● May 20, 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

I could catalog them — the plush sward of Sheep Meadow, the boat pond, the elegant bridges — but let me suggest the Mall alone as reason enough.

From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2010

About it lay a smooth sward, shelving down on all sides to its bare unbroken rim.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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

The limit of the grey shrubby Salix may be taken as 1,000 feet above that, the other plants are precisely the same as those of other swards; Abelia extends higher than Salix.

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

Could one ever again wish more pleasure than to look on swarded fields and wooded hills?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 by Various

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

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

Its waters are uncommonly pure and limpid, and their banks swarded with the finest verdure.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford

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