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Turf, green with grass, usually well-tended.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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In the center of the greensward a young woman sat upon a little mound of earth, and beside her sat a young giant.
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He rose, and paced round and round the strip of greensward under the walnut-tree, like a wild beast in a cage.
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We had broken suddenly into a lovely glade of greensward surrounded by ancient trees.
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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.
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The school holds its annual sports day on the greensward atVictoria Square although sometimes it's cancelled due to rain.
Green used by royalty for jousting is now site of primary's sports day; DIGGING INTO THE PAST with Dr Murray Cook
Their "Greensward Plan" was selected as the winning project from among 33 entries.
BIG CITY PLANS: "[The exhibit] presents the invention of landscape architecture as a response to the social and environmental situation of working-class immigrants in the industrial metropolis and reconsiders the role of artists and cultural producers in addressing the social and environmental challenges of the contemporary city."
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.
Shareholder activist; White House gardener; local broadcaster
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.
The Bard and The Minstrel
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.
Go for green building and abandon greenwashing
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.
Recent fiction by Joan Givner, Lydia Millet, and Amy Plum: cli-fi takes off into a dark future
Air Cadet Flight Sergeant Jamie Gutteridge, from 1869 (Middlesbrough) Squadron, was awarded a bursary from the Greensward Charitable Trust.
Jamie reaches for the skies after bursary award
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.
CHRIS BOURCHIER Yarmouth's gardening leave poised to end

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