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

From time to time his glance would be directed to the large grassplot where Maia was playing croquet with Count Victor von Eckardstein.

From 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)

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 Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)

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 McGuffey, William Holmes

Historians," she added, "believe that the spring of fresh water whose discovery by Blackstone led Winthrop's party to prefer Boston to Charlestown, was probably not far from the centre of the grassplot in the square.

From Brenda, Her School and Her Club by Reed, Helen Leah