old sod

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Mr Williams said: "I'm just a stubborn old sod and I'm not going to give in. I would appreciate it if anybody said to me 'you were right and we were wrong'."

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2025

In 2006, he purchased 1,800 acres of property to develop as a luxury golf resort in Scotland, the old sod, his mother’s birthplace.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2019

Plans are still in the works to move the old sod house from Oregon Trail Park to the museum.

From Washington Times • Jun. 17, 2018

First, I scraped off the old sod, most of it the color of urine, in hopes of installing a new front yard the gophers could be proud of.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2018

Or was the homing instinct, the homesick longing for the old sod, ever more truly rendered than in Moira O'Neill's song of the Irish laborer in England?

From The Glories of Ireland by Lennox, P. J.