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Land covered with grassy turf.

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  • ...with buried cellar stones, and strawberries, raspberries, thimble-berries, hazel-bushes, and sumacs growing in the sunny sward there....
  • To the left of the sward is the fort, enclosed within which are the post-office and Government offices.
  • The sward is the original sward, untouched, unploughed, centuries old.
  • The moonlight on the lawn was tremulous, as if the sward were a rippling sea.
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