The grass grows from a mixture of buffalo and other kinds of grass-seeds--a combination which produces a velvet-like sward about three inches in depth, and apparently incapable of injury.
Close to the rather dilapidated native church we found a beautiful sward of grass shaded by cocoa-nut trees, where we established ourselves to rest and look at the view.
Largest and most beautiful of them all was Paradise Valley, a broad sweep of flower-painted sward dotted with graceful clumps of alpine firs and hemlocks, and nestled at the base of a mighty frowning cliff.
When he gets on to a bit of clovery sward by the wayside it really is a treat to see him.
The horses are out and grazing on the clovery sward by the roadside.
There is clovery sward on each side, and the trees almost meet overhead.
And we were to have a dinner al fresco on the green swardafter the manner of your true Romany Rye.
There is even a greater wealth of them to-day than usual, while the sward at each side of our path still looks like a garden laid out in beds and patches of brightest colours.
Through this belt the actual road meanders; the sward on each side is now bathed in wild flowers, conspicuous among which are patches of the yellow bird's-foot trefoil.
It was kept so closely cropped by the Ryans' goat that its dandelions grew dwarfed and stalkless, and were set flat in the fine sward like mock suns.
Although, dangerously wounded, he found that, unlike the same number of their comrades who lay stretched on the green sward without, his two companions who had been brought to the earth without being killed, were not beyond the reach of hope.
Once a month Mr. Mapleson preaches in the school-house, and in the summer his congregation overflows upon the green sward without.
A fire had been kindled on the green sward in front of the tent, and above it stood a tripod, from which depended a large tin camp-kettle.
From this sward the ground receded in a wide semicircle bordered partly by shops, partly by the tea-gardens of a pretty cottage-like tavern.
The other animals, seeing her act in this manner, rushed after; and the next moment the little cavalcade passed round a point of rocks, where a green sward gladdened the eyes of all.
The shadow of the broad wings fell upon the sunlit swarddirectly before its eyes.
Beautiful birds of many varieties might be seen among the copses, or moving over the grassy sward of the lawn.
Since he had spoken with the Silver Lady Harold had swept through the air; the rush of his foaming horse over the sward had been but a slow physical progress, which mocked the on-sweep of his mind.
And through all her thoughts passed the rider who even now was thundering over the green sward on his way to her.
The green sward lay like a sea, dotted with huge trees, singly, or in clumps as islands.
At the near ends some of them were close to the broad stretch of water from whose edges ran back the great sloping banks of emerald sward dotted here and there with great forest trees.
She pointed out of the window, where Stephen's white horse seemed on the mighty sweep of green swardlike a little dot.
He saw the great high window open, the lines of the covered stone balcony without, the stretch of green sward all vivid in the sunshine, and beyond it the blue quivering sea.
In the Gardens, too, he seemed ever to take the sward rather than the seats, perhaps a wise preference, but he had an unusual way of sitting down.
On the levelsward before the village the three yachtsmen paced back and forth in an ecstasy of apprehension.
A moment of ghastly hush prevailed, then the Grove shook from sward to tree-tops--pandemonium broke loose and all were in turmoil.
Blacks and whites alike, no matter what their inmost thoughts might be, yielded to the spell of the place the moment their feet trod the sward and the congregation settled into the places allotted to them.
I went up in the evening to view the solitary ruins by moonlight, and sat upon the green sward of the old esplanade near the magazine.
Such a spot is like consecrated ground, and the shoes of irreverence should never press the green-sward around it.
Werner meanwhile to the garden Climbed up; to the shady arbour On the soft green sward he's walking, That the pebbly footpath may not By the noise betray his coming.
So here I stand, poor trumpeter, And on the sward am blowing; In words I cannot tell my love, In music it is flowing.
One rose with a sonorous whirr; while another went fluttering along the sward as if both its wings had been broken.
She walked on over the smooth sward through the labyrinths of blossom, and crossed the gardens where her courtiers met her, with outcries of welcome and of homage.
As they entered on the smoother sward of the stately gardens a figure came out of the deep shadow of clipped walls of bay and approached them.
And dear the green-sward to his velvet tread; 1815.
He falls on the sward and is instantly pounced upon by the farmer's dog, who worries him, seizes him by the middle and shakes him, while the snake twists and hisses in vain.
The sward rises and rolls along in undulations like the slow heave of an ocean wave.
The thump-thump of a horse's hoofs cantering on the sward by the roadside, though deadened by the turf, are reproduced or sharpened.
Directly the jack is thrown out upon the sward he must be seized, or he will slip from the noose, and possibly find his way back again into the water.
A strong team is required to break up the prairies, on account of the firm, grassy sward which covers them.
Where the tough sward of the prairie is once formed, timber will not take root.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: field; green; lawn; sod; turf
