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)

When he was gone, I went across the street to see Butterwick about top-dressing my grassplot.

From Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot by Clark, Charles Heber

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)