It stands upon a natural rise of ground, a plateau overlooking the Bridge of Moskva Rekoi, quite by itself, covering seventy-three thousand square feet, surrounded by open grounds, which are planted with flowering shrubs, blooming flowers, and thrifty young trees.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
It was a green, shady place, full of great maple-trees and flowering vines and shrubs, and patches of green grass.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr
At this comfortable rate we had time to look at the field workers in the rice crops, the palms with their skirts of creepers, and flowering thornbrakes, and the "bits" of the yellow corn and hedges and flat fields, that one might have seen on any summer's day in England.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch