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

Where did it come from—that quaint little house with the fanlight over the door and the flower-starred grassplot in front?

From Greenwich Village by Cram, Allan G. (Allan Gilbert)

The garden is for the greater part utilitarian; but in front of the salon windows there is a grassplot, bordered by stiff gravel-walks, and relieved by a couple of flower-beds.

From Charlotte's Inheritance by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

A great gateway opens from the park into a kind of courtyard in front of the house, ornamented with a grassplot, shrubs, and flower-beds.

From The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Irving, Washington

It was early in July, a hot and sunny morning, and Fanny Fitz, seated on the flawless grassplot in front of Craffroe Lodge hall-door, was engaged in =51= washing the dogs.

From All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches by Somerville, E. Oe. (Edith Oenone)