With buried cellar stones, and strawberries, raspberries, thimble-berries, hazel-bushes, and sumacs growing in the sunny sward there. From LearnThat.org. [Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist.]
To the left of the sward is the fort, enclosed within which are the post-office and Government offices. From Wordnik.com. [Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago] Reference
The sward is the original sward, untouched, unploughed, centuries old. From Wordnik.com. [The Open Air] Reference
The moonlight on the lawn was tremulous, as if the sward were a rippling sea. From Wordnik.com. [Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories] Reference
The sward was the brilliantly green, luxuriant wild growth that in these islands covers every foot of earth surface. From Wordnik.com. [White Shadows in the South Seas] Reference
"The variety produces an extremely dense sward which is as good, if not better than a diploid perennial ryegrass," he says. From Wordnik.com. [FWi - All News] Reference
Until they fell, overpowered, on the sward at the feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of Bayan and Other Battles] Reference
The farmer's cottage stood upon a level sward of green. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
The sward was heavy all about it save on the river side. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
The figure is represented as fighting on the green sward. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
I wended from tree to tree, describing singular zigzags on the sward. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
When owre the flower-bespangled sward the flocks have ceased to stray. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
She cowered towards the sea-flower-blooming sward as the priestess said. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
David saw below them a huge Faun-like figure pacing majestically across the sward. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
They were to be imparted, to begin with, on the smooth sward of the bowling green. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Isabel sat down on the lovely green sward, and the tired child reclined beside her. From Wordnik.com. [Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma] Reference
"Oh, excuse me," came from the Bold Tin Soldier Captain, with a wave of his shiny sward. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Lamb on Wheels] Reference
Luncheon time came, and we lay stretched on the sward under a spreading tree, on a hot day in. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Lying in a group on the green sward, we watched the movements of our enemies with painful interest. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
Regardless of circumstances, he treads his daily round, avoided by the little child sporting upon the sward. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
The first they knew of the trouble was when they were pitched away from the broken cars on the soft green sward. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History] Reference
"They will have to come a long distance to find them," he continued, and threw the keys far away upon the sward. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
But the past is under the sod; the future is behind the clouds; the present alone has its foot upon the green sward. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
There, in a very secluded and shaded spot, under a spreading white pine, there was yet a clean firm sward to sit on. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
He was alive, for his heart was beating, and once or twice he had moved on the sward where Espérance had placed him. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
He soon returned, and brought with him a variety of things to eat, which he placed on the sward, beside the Nanticoke. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference
Wine was brought, water poured on his face; and, as we laid him on the sward, his right arm fell in an unnatural position. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
The sward which ran down to its clear mirror was yet green, but the maples and sourwoods above it were coloured splendidly. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
Still the firing kept up and more than one dark-skinned foeman could be seen falling, rifle in hand, lifeless on the green sward. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of Bayan and Other Battles] Reference
Belle-bouche, with a delicious little rose-color brightening her cheek, replied, patting her satin-sandalled foot upon the flowery sward. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
A halt was ordered, and the men rested on the sward that bordered the hard pike, and in the immediate neighborhood of the village cemetery. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
He was prostrated, and lay on the green sward motionless, the rain forming a pool about him, which was every moment augmented as the torrents came down upon him. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
Ivy screamed in delight, as her brother set his basket among the great knotted roots of a tree that helped to shade a stretch of green-sward which extended gradually to the river. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
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