The garden is for the greater part utilitarian; but in front of the salon windows there is a Grassplot, bordered by stiff gravel-walks, and relieved by a couple of flower-beds.
"Charlotte's Inheritance"
M. E. Braddon
Presently she turned from the sidewalk, crossed a small Grassplot, and stood on the doorstep with her hand on the latch while they went by.
"John March, Southerner"
George W. Cable
The tent of a travelling circus from the South, newly-pitched on a Grassplot near the river, was caught up and whirled in the air and flung in the face of a marching guard of soldiery, whom it swathed and bore sheer to earth, while on them and around them a line of poplars fell flat, the wind whistling over them.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith