Sward

Examples

• At his feet an opening looked out upon a green sward, and at a little distance beyond was the dense wall of jungle and forest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Together we raced across the scarlet sward, I timing my speed that I might not outdistance my slower companion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The party had landed and was standing on the sward as the awful horde came in sight. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The declining sun lighted brilliantly the eastern banks of Korus, the crimson sward, the gorgeous forest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• They were little birds, which, lighting on the sward at shy distance, hopped as if expectant. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Already the gay dance vanished, the green sward was strewn with corpses, the blue air above became fetid with deathly exhalations. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Directly beneath us upon the scarlet sward a handful of guardsmen were stooping above a still and prostrate form. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• As I walked slowly down the imperceptible slope toward the sea I could not help but note the park-like appearance of the sward and trees. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• As far as the eye could reach gorgeous forest and crimson sward skirted a silent sea, and about all towered the brilliant monster guardian cliffs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I love all that is of Nature, cried Caliphronas, throwing himself on the smooth sward; Nature is my mother—my true mother. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• We were close behind him, and all saw the figure of a man run quickly across a little piece of sward and disappear in the shrubbery beyond. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The cliffs rose perpendicular directly from the almost level sward of the valley. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

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