The smell of newly mown hay. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : to mow the lawn. From Dictionary.com.
And grass, when mown, is shortly turn'd to hay. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 535, February 25, 1832] Reference
"mown" and will be a family pet for years before ending up in the freezer. From Wordnik.com. [Mirabilis.ca] Reference
All the "extract of new-mown hay" now comes from it. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891] Reference
And like corn by the red scythe of fire we were mown. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
If the piece of land infested with it is closely mown. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
No trees are felled, no meadows mown and no animals hunted. From Wordnik.com. [Not In Our Park, Mister] Reference
Grain was cut with a sickle, and grass was mown with a scythe. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
I felt them once more in the clover-smells and the new-mown hay. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference
I can almost hear the lazy hum of the bees, and smell the fresh mown grass. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
These were mown down and by 8.15 a.m. every Company Officer was a casualty. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918] Reference
Then the full splendor of the bridal skirt trailed across the freshly mown grasses. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
The park or meadow having been newly mown, had an air at once ornamented and natural. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
The apples thus received a fine flavour, no doubt from the aroma of the new-mown hay. From Wordnik.com. [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference
The child became a young man who was mown down in the first minutes of the 1941 blitzkrieg. From Wordnik.com. [A Mountain of Crumbs by Elena Gorokhova] Reference
Ben crossed the mown hayfields to the Vicarage, and he threw a little gravel at Lissi's window. From Wordnik.com. [My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People] Reference
At the hour she reached Pencoch the mown hay was dry and the people were gathering it together. From Wordnik.com. [My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People] Reference
For quite half an hour there were regular alternations of the fragrance of pine and new-mown hay. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
A tangle of wind-mown reeds tripped him and pitched him to his knees among the high marsh growth. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
It was autumn and the air was cold early in the mornings and sweet with the smell of new-mown hay. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
The sedge was wind-mown, and there were numberless prints of bird claws, but no mark of boat-keel or human foot. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
The air was filled with the fragrance of wild flowers and the smell of the new-mown hay from the adjacent meadows. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 1] Reference
On land, a delicious perfume of new-mown hay greets us, and the road across the mountains is bathed in glorious moonlight. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The air was full of the stifling emanations of mown hay, with now and then a whiff from putrefied silkworms in the bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian] Reference
Prefab houses — complete with freshly mown lawns and tire swings hanging from elm trees — overlook golden desert vistas. From Wordnik.com. [The King Versus The Radicals] Reference
As the window falls to pieces a flood of light invades my cell, and I feel the warm air, and smell a perfume as of new-mown hay. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
But what of her future, what of her projected plans, her ideas, her sweet dreams; they were mown down in this huge and single sweep. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
The breath that came in the early dawn savored of new-mown hay, and the bird songs thrilled Marcia as if it were the day of her dreams. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
That if you bought Lingborough turnips, you might feed your cows on them all the winter and the milk would be as sweet as new-mown hay. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
He is down on his belly, pulling himself, with his elbows, across the dirt and downed leafs and the clover and the freshly mown grass. From Wordnik.com. [What the Father Said] Reference
And because they can't be fired -- thank you, Founding Fathers -- they can render opinions without watching the voters the way a hawk watches a newly mown field. From Wordnik.com. [Justice Rip Van Winkle] Reference
Claudet pressed his hand; they separated, and Julien descended the newly mown meadow, along which he walked under the shade of trees scattered along the border line of the forest. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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