What is "parkland"

Usage examples of "parkland".

The parkland had once belonged to the Maleson family but was now owned by people Bianca considered upstarts and commoners.

Cemetery Association the question came up of putting a fence between the parkland now known as the Cemetery of Reconciliation and the Engineering School and Polyclinic, but it was tabled as not urgent.

In Republican times it was not inhabited as a suburb, but was the place where triumphing armies bivouacked, the young were trained in military exercises, horses engaged in chariot racing were stabled and trained, the Centuriate Assembly met, and market gardening vied with public parklands.

Oak trees remained unfelled, parkland was tended because girls like her gritted their teeth.

It sat on the terrace at the back of the campus, five hundred metres above the circumfluous sea, giving it an unsurpassed view of the cycloramic sub-tropical parkland stretching away into misty distance.

By ten they had reached the city of Nurnberg where they turned south on the E6, sometimes passing through vast federal parklands, at other times passing quaint little villages and the matrix of welllaid-out farms, the land beginning to rise up toward the Alps at the foot of which lay the city of Munich, headquarters of the BND-the German Secret Service.

Paris, the Bois is all lush parklands and lakes and ponds and carriage drives and pavilions and monuments.

On Wednesday after lunch at the University Club with a potential client, Wade Rowley started back to the office in his car and then changed direction and went on out to Riverway Homes, halfway to Parklands.

The city was a layered silhouette, an intricate fading chimneyscape, slate roofs bracing each other obliquely below the plaited towers of churches to obscure gods, the huge priapic vents of factories spewing dirty smoke and burning off excess energy, monolithic towerblocks like vast concrete gravestones, the rough down of parkland.

To their left was Todos Santos and its outlying moat of orange groves and green parklands.

Here was another flight of stairs even wider, but without the guardian figures, and it led up and out into such a stretch of parkland that no one born in the swamps encircling Ruwenda might have imagined.

Mistily, wintrily, the group of buildings that comprised the federal parliament, the Bundeshaus, and the residences of the Chancellor and the President appeared white and isolated in their parkland on the far bank.

To either side of the original, central building were more modern wings of glass and concrete and beyond those, clusters of hollowed bioforms, pumpkins and squashes rearing their tumorous hulks against the green backdrop of parkland beyond.

And the wind came rushing across the parklands, straight toward the solitary figure.

He went over to his study window and stood frowning out over the parterres and parklands of Swanholm.