What is "champaign"

Usage examples of "champaign".

Linnaeus, which formerly frequented the champaign parts of Great Britain from East Lothian to Dorsetshire, but of which the native race is now extirpated.

A wild longing, the perversion of homesickness, filled him for the smoky brown champaigns and the mossy woodlands which now enshrined the jewel of Claudia.

He could make a phone call and a few hours later a chartered campaign plane would be waiting for him at the airport in Champaign, and suddenly literature and campaign videos would be piled up in heaps all over the United States.

They drove in silence directly back to their apartment in Champaign and went through the same cautious routine of reentry.

At first he had stayed frequently at the BOQ, but increasingly he was able to stay with Angie in Champaign on free weekends and one or two nights a week.

After the aborted weekend at the Oak Grove Resort in the fall of 1967, when he saw a man he feared might recognize him, they had abruptly checked out and returned to their apartment in Champaign a day early.

Box 2782 Champaign, IL 61825 When all other email fails try our Executive Director: Michael S.

Box 2782 Champaign, IL 61825 When all other email fails try our Michael S.

Dad has to go up to Champaign, to Burke Hospital, tomorrow for a routine checkup.

This was Burke Hospital in Champaign, and they were zooming in on her father's private room.

It had taken them several hours to get to Decatur this morning because they'd taken a circuitous route through Champaign and Springfield.

Above Earth's twin vestments of sound and scent, the blue enwrapping scarf of air, that wistful wide champaign, was spanned only by the wings of Freedom.

Torn from the dear fat soil of champaigns hopefully tilled, Torn from the motherly bowl, the homely spoon, To jest at famine, ply The novel scythe, and stand to it on the field.

These rising grounds which command the champaign below, seem to ask for lords, true lords, _land_-lords, who understand the land and its uses, and the applicabilities of men, and whose government would be what it should, namely, mediation between want and supply.

In champaign countries they are kept by herds, and a hogherd appointed to attend and wait upon them, who commonly gathereth them together by his noise and cry, and leadeth them forth to feed abroad in the fields.