They have quite a country aspect, and are a series of parks in fact, where the fine roads wind through shady woods, cross green meadows, and skirt transparent lakes.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
He turned away and left her, and it was an hour later when she came upon Violet sitting alone in a shady walk beneath the pines.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Indeed she let her thoughts go far forward to see, and to listen to the happy boys and girls who might run and shout gleefully through the fair large rooms, and the sweet shady gardens her skill and taste had ordered and planted.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr