Landscapers' concerns

Usage examples of lawns.

I remember their singed lawns and white-pillared porches, and the lone gas stations, the pumps like cylindrical one-armed robots, their glass tops like brimless bowler hats, and the cemeteries that looked as if no one else would ever be buried in them.

He is extremely fond of mowing the lawns, and my maid tells me he is studying French with her.

Broad lawns clumped with shrubbery and trees and twined across with gravel walkways separated the complex from the road.

Even where the houses--ancient structures of brick and stone and wood, newer ones shaped from pumpkins and squash and other gengineered plants--were thickest, there were trees and lawns and parks.

Hundreds upon hundreds of the dead lay prone on the lawns as the rain lashed down on the Chandler Complex.

I would gaze out of my window at night, over the lawns and the moon-silvered beds of ornamentals, and see her trailing wistfully through the grounds in a white lace tea gown.

But every once in a while, on humorless nights like these, I think about how sharp and sure I felt when I was sprinting across those manicured lawns, jumping the finely-trimmed hedges and hitting the running board on that slow-cruising truck.

And any Judge who can safely slide into full pension retirement without having to look back on anything worse in the way of criminal vengeance than a few scorched lawns is a man who got off easy.

The gates and lawns and hedges I walked past were heady with the scents of trumpet honeysuckle and jasmine, the last of the pink and white dogwood blossom.

The flower gardens and lawns were well-tended, the vegetable patch producing long after the first frost.

Hands in the pockets of her wool coat, she watched the odd little vehicle make it up the last of the slope and complete its approach to where she was standing, its apple-green panels standing out sharply against the snow-covered lawns on either side.

Woodforest Gardens north of the city, choking on all of those cookie-cutter houses with their perfect lawns, grotesquely manicured shrubberies, and insipid street names like Shady Lane.

Lighting a cigarette, she let him lead the way around behind the houses where they crunched a path through the crust of snow that covered the lawns in back.