grassplot
Example Sentences
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The court was partly paved with stone, but was roofless, and on a grassplot a fountain played under young trees in the sunlight.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Last year the old apple tree by the grassplot bore only one apple, and we kept it in the cupboard till it was quite withered and rotten.
From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
Embedded at the corner of a grassplot across the street was a whitewashed stone, the size of a small watermelon and serving no purpose whatever save the questionable one of decoration.
From Penrod by Booth Tarkington
We presently found a nice grassplot, at one side of which I took my stand; and all things being prepared, I tossed the kite up just as little John ran off.
From McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
On the grassplot, in the shade of a great cherry-tree, Laura and Helen were playing at graces.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 by Various
