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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

Then, with a last unanimous melodious clang, they both fell prostrate on the fatal sward.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

Behold the white architecture, the pillars, the balustraded steps, the domes in the blue air, the monumented swards!

From Memoirs of My Dead Life by George (George Augustus) Moore

Here begins a region of mountain, various with glens, fells, screes, scars, swards, becks, passes, villages, river-heads, and dales.

From The Purple Cloud by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

Then, with less than his usual judgment, he put his two chariot horses to the plough, and ran a great risk of spoiling them, in giving his new invention a trial over ground thickly swarded.

From Life of George Washington — Volume 01 by Washington Irving

Here, in a place where many straight and prosperous chestnuts stood together, making an aisle upon a swarded terrace, I made my morning toilette in the water of the Tarn. 

From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Could one ever again wish more pleasure than to look on swarded fields and wooded hills?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 by Various

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

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