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Definition of Greenswards
1. greensward [n] - See also: greensward
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greenswards
Literary usage of Greenswards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1904)
"... when you see men ploughing up heath ground, or sandy ground, or greenswards,
then follow the plough, and you shall find a white worm as big as two ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1886)
"On the hill-sides are numerous tombs, planted on greenswards, surrounded by a
horseshoe bank of earth and protected by groves of fir. ..."
3. Annual Report by Hawaiian Evangelical Association (1895)
"... living in scattered grass huts, and there were a few cocoa- nut trees standing
here and there, but there were no flowers, no- greenswards, no water, ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1876)
"... places and greenswards, the suburban spots and rural spaces of our island,
that its levels are disguised by a variety of belts and coverts ; its uplands ..."
5. The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest; the by Upton Sinclair (1915)
"Your diseases and your evil thoughts are crouching in the woods and on the
greenswards. Everywhere a stink of misery is following you like that of rotting ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1842)
"Therefore is the mere sight of open spaces and greenswards a recreation to the
townsman, and much moro to the town's wife and town-bred children ; and if ..."
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