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

A great gateway opens from the park into a kind of courtyard in front of the house, ornamented with a grassplot, shrubs, and flower-beds.

From The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Irving, Washington

Last year the old apple tree by the grassplot bore only one apple, and we kept it in the cupboard till it was quite withered and rotten.

From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)

Embedded at the corner of a grassplot across the street was a whitewashed stone, the size of a small watermelon and serving no purpose whatever save the questionable one of decoration.

From Penrod by Tarkington, Booth

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)