Green MEADS and rolling lands of wheat-true fields of the cloth of gold-have never yet inspired those who dwell upon them with songs uprising from the soil.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
In these days Dale took to riding as the easiest means of getting about; and one afternoon when he had gone splashing across to see Mr. Bates, thence to pay a visit of polite canvass at the Kennels, and was now returning homeward by the lanes, he heard a dismal chorus of cries in the Mill MEADS.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
"Simplicity of life," says William Morris, "even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement: a sanded floor and whitewashed walls, and the green trees, and flowery MEADS, and living waters outside.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde