Plenty of room and an abundance of income are necessary to provide each man, in the heart of the city, with two to ten acres of lawns and gardens around his house, but it is done here with eminent success.
There are peacocks on the lawnsof Lough Cutra they were telling me, having each of them a hundred eyes.
There is many a lady dragging silk skirts through the lawns and the flower knots of Connacht, will get no such grand gathering of people at the last as you are getting on this day.
The winter when the cry was raised that there were no birds, that the blackbirds and thrushes had left the lawns and must be dead, and how wicked it would be to take a nest next year, I had not the least, difficulty in finding plenty of them.
There are oaks on villa lawns near London whose glory of russet foliage in October or November is not to be surpassed in the parks of the country.
But directly the winter gets colder they gather together in the old familiar places, and five or six, or even more, come out at once to feed in the meadows or on the lawns by the water.
At last he got up from his seat and walked to the balustrade of the terrace, looking forth over the white mists that curled and rose from the lawns and the meadows beneath.
Her maid had spied a comfortable chair overlooking the tennis lawns close at hand and the sea in the distance.
The moral influences, too, of lawns and parks around or in the vicinity of our dwellings, are worthy of consideration.
A word may be pardoned, in relation to the too universal practice of permitting swine to prowl along the highways, and in the yards and lawns of the farm house.
Steps led from the terrace to the water, and other steps to the green lawns beside it.
On either hand The lawnsand meadow-ledges midway down Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roars The long brook falling thro' the clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea.
Do you know I used to watch you playing about on the lawns at Willowsmere when I was quite a little girl?
I used to play on the lawnsunder the old oak-trees, and I always gathered the first violets and primroses that came out on the banks of the Avon.
The long drawing-room at the back of the house, overlooking the lawns and a far prospect, was a much inhabited room, cheerful and shabby.
After making the round of the lawns and looking up hard and unseeingly at the stars, she came back to the terrace.
A short, winding avenue of limes led to it, and it stood high among lawns that fell away to lower shrubberies and woods.
Molly flew off across the lawns to her own house, running so swiftly that she was out of sight in a moment.
Across the two wide lawns she could see dimly the outlines of Stella's house, half-hidden by trees, and beyond that she could see the chimneys and gables of Molly's house.
Here be, without duck or nod, Other trippings to be trod Of lighter toes, and such court guise As Mercury did first devise With the mincing Dryades On the lawns and on the leas.
She stood motionless and tense, watching his big form, his strong shoulders and forcefully set head as he crossed the gardens, went down the walk and through the gate, to be hidden by the hedge between the lawns and the street.
The road passed through woods, opening here and there to afford glimpses of emerald lawns backed by large houses, with the slope of awnings above their balconies.
The nursery window was a good look-out, commanding the lawnsand garden and with the tennis court to one side.
Value for planting: The pin oak is an extremely graceful tree and is therefore extensively used for planting on lawns and on certain streets where the tree can find plenty of water and where conditions will permit its branches to droop low.
It is commonly seen in the United States on lawnsand in parks.
Range: The cypress is a southern tree, but is found under cultivation in parks and on lawns in northern United States.
The bed of the northern valley has been converted into a lake, while on the southern slopes are beautiful and extensive lawns and gardens.
Coincidently he dismissed two of the gardeners and commanded the one retained, and Dick, to plant in a part of the lawns that there might be less water used.
The lawns were small, the grounds carelessly kept, but there were many fine old trees and a wilderness of flowers.
They followed the driveway that curved between one of the two larger lawns and the deer park.
Here there was more sense of space, for the lawns were very large; but the trees were close along their edge and massed heavily at the end of the perspective.
In examining the parts of a landscape he would be minute; and he dealt with shrubs, flower-beds, and lawns with the readiness of a practiced landscape-gardener.
The marching of their feet beats solemnly at the meeting of the paths where (like the gardens of the professors) the long walks of the Seminary lawns form the shape of a mighty cross.
When thus sown, lawns require to be promptly weeded.
Form and repair lawns and grass walks by laying turf and sowing perennial grass-seeds; mow the lawns frequently; plant evergreens.
Lawns may be benefited by a good dressing, in addition to the manure, of some reliable commercial fertilizer.
During the growing season established lawns should be mown at least once a week.
Proceed with the laying down of lawns and gravel-walks, and keep the former regularly mown.
In the formation of lawns the ground must be regularly broken up so that it may settle down evenly, any deep excavations that may have to be filled in being very carefully rammed down to prevent subsequent settlement.
At the rate of from 6 to 10 bushels to the acre it may be used on garden lawns to prevent worm casts.
I steal by lawns and grassy plots, I slide by hazel covers, I move the sweet forget-me-nots That grow for happy lovers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lawns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
