sward

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And the pictures are ravishing: a Massachusetts lighthouse on a grassy sward under an azure sky; a winding two-lane road through New Zealand’s Southern Alps that disappears into the snow-dusted hulk of Mt.

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2018

A replica was built in 1989 by the junta, which handed the vast sward of green that surrounds the palace to the military for use as a headquarters.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2016

Soon we learned that the sward circle was actually trampled by local wild hogs; and for our show to be performed ... well, let’s just fast forward another few years.

From The Guardian • May 20, 2016

Picture his bemusement when, out of the blue, he is invited to the du Pont estate, and gently deposited by private chopper on the sward.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 10, 2014

An eastward bend led them hard by the sward of Mirrormere, and there not far from the roadside stood a single column broken at the top.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien