In the center of the
greensward a young woman sat upon a little mound of earth, and beside her sat a young giant.
He rose, and paced round and round the strip of
greensward under the walnut-tree, like a wild beast in a cage.
We had broken suddenly into a lovely glade of
greensward surrounded by ancient trees.
At any rate, our hero succeeded perfectly well in breaking up the
greensward; and, by the time that the moon was a quarter of her journey up the sky, the plowed field lay before him, a large tract of black earth, ready to be sown with the dragon's teeth.
The school holds its annual sports day on the
greensward atVictoria Square although sometimes it's cancelled due to rain.
Their "
Greensward Plan" was selected as the winning project from among 33 entries.
Williams, tall and dapper, with a silver mustache as groomed as his South Lawn
greensward, was averse to publicity during his 46-year tenure but had a pivotal role in maintaining the continuity and integrity of the historic landscape -- and making sure the turf was fixed after the annual Easter Egg Roll.
O bonny are our
greensward hows, Where through the birks the burny rows, And the bee bums, and the ox lows, And saft winds rusle; And shepherd-lads on sunny knows Blaw the blythe fusle.
It is why, when most people amass enough filthy lucre, they move to the suburbs and cultivate a large, useless lawn, as if the
greensward alone could buy them salvation.
In this first novel of the trilogy, Lewis's wardrobe becomes a British Columbian ferry that transports Tenn to another realm, the
Greensward. In this second book, Givner's protagonist returns from her first adventure to discover that "a catastrophe in another part of the world" has changed everything from the weather to the ocean at home.
Air Cadet Flight Sergeant Jamie Gutteridge, from 1869 (Middlesbrough) Squadron, was awarded a bursary from the
Greensward Charitable Trust.
Pictures of mud and puddles after Easter were replaced by a scene of idyllic summer
greensward that sparkled pristine before its trial by pounding hoof, with swallows swooping low across the paddock to signal summer has not yet passed.