What is "greensward"

Usage examples of "greensward".

Among them, on greenswards or beside reflecting ponds, were set magnificent edifices, some of which were modestly named but nowise modest in execution.

The wagon rolled past the greensward of Arlington Park, the limestone-and-brick Fordyce Bathhouse, the plastered Quapaw Bathhouse with its red tile roof and mosaic dome, and the Hot Springs National Park administrative building before turning left on Reserve and stopping at the magnificent five-story towers of the Army and Navy General Hospital.

When he stopped his rockaway on a wet greensward there, he addressed the company.

Though sick bay is not functional, perhaps in the interim, you could visit the herbal gardens in the Greensward and the stillroom you set up.

When you entered the hallowed landscaping of Nob Hill, life slowed down and became mellow, mosquitoes disappeared, temperatures in summertime were reduced by at least ten degrees, the sidewalks had no cracks, the streets were freshly paved, all lawns sported a uniform cut according to the covenants, and not a single dandelion marred the greensward thanks to the massive applications of Life Erase, the latest domestic herbicide to toxify our exhausted planet.

It was surely Carrots sitting on one of the benches, his eyes gazing moodily across the greensward to the street beyond.

It was another glad awakening to fresh breezes, vast expanses of level greensward, bright sunlight, an impressive solitude utterly without visible human beings or human habitations, and an atmosphere of such amazing magnifying properties that trees that seemed close at hand were more than three mile away.

Flat on my back I was lying, gazing up at what, surprisingly, seemed to be a ceiling festooned with garlands of roses and painted with ladies and cavaliers, idling about a stretch of greensward, decidedly in the Watteau style.

Bright greenswards and paths crisscross the courthouse square, and baskets of trailing geraniums, ivy, and sweet alyssum make it resemble a set forThe Music Man.

The standards and blazons of the high nobles—the Nine Dukes and three or four others—were displayed in a grand arc facing the lists—an open stretch of greensward, bounded only by the lords’ pavilions and, at the far end, the gilded double throne—half porch swing, half howdah—in which King Bohemond and Queen Leonora would sit.

It was cruder, more like a mundane tree, with light bark on the tentacles, and it lacked the pleasant greensward and sweet perfume beneath.

Beyond was a walled-in garden containing flowerbeds crammed with showy annuals, a badminton court, a nice stretch of greensward, and a small tiled pool glittering angrily in the sun.

For, having walked upon the greensward of that land, having been caressed by its winds and breathed the storm's-breath, wild, and Springtime-blossom scent of it, they could not bear to dwell on in an Erith bereft of all access to the Land Beyond the Stars.

He started to pull up and out, and in an eyeblink he transformed into a massive green dragon whose claws effortlessly gouged grave-deep furrows in the greensward.

The grass sweeping away in long greenswards from the riverbank was pristine with aliantha and amaryllis and buttercups.