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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

James Milner and Gareth Barry lead the teams down the stairs and out on to the Anfield sward.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 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

I could catalog them — the plush sward of Sheep Meadow, the boat pond, the elegant bridges — but let me suggest the Mall alone as reason enough.

From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2010

The host passed through the breach and halted on the sloping sward above.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

A boardwalk leads visitors deep into the woods; mown swards direct footsteps up, over and through the Earth Garden; and steppingstone boulders navigate a stream.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2021

And they’re never short of instructors for British made fine weapons, such as princely swards.

From Time ● Mar. 12, 2013

The trees were broad and widely spaced; sheep and pigs grazed on the swards among them, and on my rare free afternoon, I had walked there without fear.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

To this empire of moonlit swards and elfin dances, of jewelled banks, lapsing streams, and enchanting visions, it was thought a few favored mortals might now and then find their way.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger

She saw them playing with their doves like innocent children, she saw them chase the ball down the gravel walks and across the swards.

From Celibates by George (George Augustus) Moore

Its waters are uncommonly pure and limpid, and their banks swarded with the finest verdure.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford

Could I walk leisurely Along our swarded garden, but the grass Tracked me with greenness?

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Every vestige of the camp save the glowing skeletons of the troop shelters had disappeared, and the swarded savanna was become a blackened chaos-blot on the fair woodland scene.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde

I had it, and there seemed to stand before me again the swarded "high place," with torches flaring over upturned faces and mounting walls of green.

From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien

Swiss chalets glitter'd on the dewy slopes, And from some swarded shelf, high up, there came Notes of wild pastoral music—over all Ranged, diamond-bright, the eternal wall of snow.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold