Area to defend

Usage examples of turf.

Granny Aching died, the men had cut and lifted the turf around the hut and stacked it neatly some way away.

On the other side of the ridge fell a wide valley of bare turf, with the Aldern River threading through its center.

Taran crouched on the turf, held the bauble close to the book, and with trembling fingers turned leaf after leaf.

To his surprise, as he was about to emerge from a berceau on to a plot of turf, in the centre of which grew a large cedar, he beheld a lady in a riding-habit standing before the tree, and evidently admiring its beautiful proportions.

One of them is--surprise--based in Milton Keynes, and as of right this minute you have clearance to stamp all over their turf and play the Gestapo officer with our top boffin labs.

On either side rose the thatched cabins of the peasantry, the peat smoke curling from the chimneys, the little boreens running through the bushes, the brown Irish bogs, the heather in blossom, the turf stacks, the laughing colleens.

These they took to Botts, who made a pile of stones and stacked the turf clumsily on wooden frames cut by Harry.

The worthy Consul was smoking his chibouque, and his daughter, as she rose to greet their guest, let her guitar fall upon the turf.

Two miles were cleared in this direction, and then, after they had passed the last curtain of trees, appeared the plateau, carpeted with thick turf, and beyond that the infinite sea.

The lane was a very cloistral one, with a ribbon of gravelly road, bordered on each side with a rich margin of turf and a scramble of blackberry bushes, green turf banks and dwarf oak-trees making a rich and plenteous shade.

I was holding no cards, and I was totally clueless about how these people carved up the turf.

Sir Lucius Grafton rejoin her, and lead her to the cotillon that was forming on the turf.

Zack watched around in search of the direction assistant and saw unemployed it in the turf, with the arms in jars and the head thrown backwards, observing to dequeue to the helicopter that left in a trip from routine to the laboratory of Dallas where the copiones of the day were processed.

No language could give an adequate idea of the marvelous bewitchment and beauty of their united movements, and as they flew over the dark smooth turf, with the flower-laden trees drooping dewily about them, and the yellow moonbeams like melted amber beneath their noiseless feet, .

Singai and Juste, astride their dyre, raced across the turf in the direction of ReiDalgo.