What is "lawny"

Usage examples of "lawny".

At last, when prayers for the dead, And rites, were all accomplished, They, weeping, spread a lawny loom, And closed her up as in a tomb.

THE APRON OF FLOWERS To gather flowers, Sappha went, And homeward she did bring Within her lawny continent, The treasure of the Spring.

Issuing from the avenue, I found myself amid open, wide, lawny spaces, in which the flower-beds lay like islands of colour.

Then weave the web of the mystic measure : There is a voice, not understood by all : There is a warm and gentle atmosphere : There late was One within whose subtle being : There was a little lawny islet : There was a youth, who, as with toil and travel : These are two friends whose lives were undivided : They die--the dead return not--Misery : Those whom nor power, nor lying faith, nor toil : Thou art fair, and few are fairer : Thou art the wine whose drunkenness is all : Thou living light that in thy rainbow hues : Thou supreme Goddess!

Licking the dish up, As if he thought to pass from black to white, Like parson into lawny bishop.

My uncle would have regarded it as little short of an insult for any one to drive wheels over the smooth lawny surface in which our house dwelt like a solitary island in the sea.

Villiers and his young wife took their accustomed ride through shady lanes and copses, and through parks, where, though the magnificent features of nature were wanting, the eye was delighted by a various prospect of wood and lawny upland.

It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her, and flying wrack of the most diaphanous and lawny texture.

The forest glades, the ferny dells, and lawny uplands, the cultivated and cheerful country spread around the silver pathway of ancient Thames, all earth, air, and wave, took up one choral voice, inspired by memory, instinct with plaintive regret.

I placed a half-naked shepherd boy under the umbrella top of that scrub oak away up yonder on the lawny slope.