In our lawns we are accustomed to a pretty bit of greensward with clumps of shrubbery, and here and there the overhanging branches of some shade tree.
"Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc."
George Francis Atkinson
It divides the greensward of the down from the ploughed land of the plain, which stretches two or three miles wide, across to another range opposite.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
So to it they went; and round and round the green they reeled it, and country-danced it, and shouted it, and flapped it, and jumped it-and "Haverel Jean her hanging stocking ties, And to the dance with maddening fury flies," till nature could hold out no longer, and wearied limbs were stretched out full length on the soft greensward.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton