Here and there in the meadows stands a cluster of red-roofed hovels--each a diminutive village.
All over these meadows stand huge oak trees and elms, amongst whose branches the vessels seem to glide.
To pursue my subject: April, having thus balanced the affairs of the bird and the worm, proceeds to lay over the meadows a tablecloth for the bees.
The next curve in the road shows us the meadowsof the Shell Pot and the Brandywine, with Wilmington in the distance.
Confusion and a most ignominious defeat ensued, the peasants fleeing across the meadows and fields, some being killed and others taken prisoners.
In the natural meadows and forest clearings there were red and white currants, gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, a vetch which produced edible peas, and a grass with a grain like rye.
When shadows of evening are lengthening slowly, Ere the night dews lie damp on the meadows again; As light breezes sweep o'er the soft grass so lowly, What is it he says?
Who's whistling so cheerfully down in the clover, When the meadows are wet with the sweet morning dew?
After the chicks were hatched the cock shook himself free of any and all responsibility, and betook himself to the meadows to enjoy the more liberal forage.
Day after day he came to the bank and begged the lovely naiad to come out of the water, and roam with him through the flowery meadows of earth.
The still meadows that lie around this landlocked haven are green with the growth of centuries; and over the golden corn waving freely on the upland slopes, or above the lavender fields of Broadstone, the lark in summer air is singing.
It is found almost everywhere, though most abundant along streams where grow the high sycamores, whose natural cavities furnish suitable nesting places, but meadows and fields are its retreats when in search of food.
The nest of the Black Duck is placed on the ground, in grass or rushes in the neighborhood of ponds, pools, and streams, in meadows and sometimes in swamps.
No breath of wind stirs in the painted leaves, The meadows are as stirless as the sky, Like a Saint's halo golden vapours lie Above the restful valley's garnered sheaves.
Along the road to school there ran a succession of meadows--the path was really a footway through fields--and how not to stray into these meadows was a problem demanding the entire of one's attention.
Did the German troop which overran the town during the night, and of which only a portion got away to the meadows with the prisoners, consist of a battalion or a half-battalion?
A running fire of poppies swept the fields between which we travelled, while distant meadows were paved with gold, or with forget-me-not blue like squares of the sky’s mosaic fallen out.
On one side, our windows looked upon the patio; on the other, we gazed through iron bars over olives and meadows where grain was green.
When he walked in the garth the pigeons circled round him crooning their peace-note; and it was told that the kine in the meadows ceased browsing when he passed, and needs must company with him a little way.
It was all passing fair: the fields of pale young corn trembling in the gentle breeze; the orchards and vineyards with fast maturing fruit; the meadows where the sleek kine browsed languidly in the warm summer sunshine.
At the western end of Lake Erie are found submerged caves containing stalactites, and old meadows and forest grounds are now under water.
Such fossil lakes are marked by swamps or level meadows underlain with muck.
Meadows and old forest grounds, with the stumps still standing, are now overflowed by the sea, and fragments of their turf and wood are brought to shore by waves.
The presence in the midst of forests and meadows and cultivated fields of these tongues of ice, ever melting and yet from year to year losing none of their bulk, proves that their loss is made good in the only possible way.
Then shall the lingering boat to the beckoning meadows convey thee, Which to the wandering foot peace and a home will afford?
She took the path to the left that led through the sycamore wood, and crossing the narrow brook by a little plank and hand rail, passed into the meadows where, in Spring, she and Augustine used to pick cowslips.
Beyond the nearest meadows it was like a grey sheet drawn down, confusing earth and sky and shutting vision into an islet.
Those meadows over there, beyond our lawn, are full of cowslips in Spring and ever since I can remember we have picked them there together.
That summer and winter passed away, and when spring came again, lettering her footsteps with violets in the meadows and waking all the sleeping loveliness of old homestead gardens, Uncle Dick's long deferred happiness came with her.
Before me was a long valley filled with purple dusk, and beyond it meadows of sunset and great lakes of saffron and rose where a soul might lose itself in colour.
Doubtless it would be very lovely down there in those dewy meadows at such a primitive hour; he decided to get up and see what the world looked like in the young daylight.
The long, low-lying meadowsbetween "The Evergreens" and the shore were dewy and fresh in that first light, that was as fine and purely tinted as the heart of one of my white roses.
The meadows roll and swell in billowy waves, bearing like a white-speckled foam upon their crests a sea of daisies, with here and there a floating patch of crimson clover, or a golden haze of butter-cups.
The whiteness of the hills and meadows melts into broad contracting strips and patches.
Nearer and nearer the gleam creeps across the landscape, chasing the shower away, and in a moment more the meadows glow with a freshened green, and the trees stand transfigured in glistening beads flashing in the sunbeams.
Farmer Nathan's barn had gone, and his flat meadows were like a whirling sea, strewn with floating rails and driftwood.
Dear, dear, I quite forgot,' he ejaculated rather impatiently; evidently he wanted his supper.
Suddenly we heard the sound of stealthy footsteps creeping under the wall.
Now its song was loud and clear; and when at last she reached the lower level of the meadows she found that her path was under water.
In her remembrance of the way, the woods ended after about two miles, and you crossed open meadows to the farm.
Flowers in July and August in wet meadows or swamps, from Newfoundland to Manitoba and southward.
Marsh Marigold is abundant in swamps or wet meadows from Newfoundland to Alaska and southward through the United States, flowering in April and May.
The warm-hearted old general had as fond memories of the school-topped, wind-swept hill above the rocks of Deal, as he had of the meadows and hills about Kingsbridge.
Instead of going back to the school, he struck across the meadows to the beach.
He followed them at a safe distance across the meadows and the campus, and watched them as they rang the bell of the Head Master’s house.
Without further ado, they cut across the field, climbed the stone wall and started across the meadowsfor the town.
Richborough, that frowns so grim down upon the Stour meadows and the flat Sandwich and Ramsgate road, is a favourite haunt of archaeologists.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meadows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
