recreation-ground

Brandenburgers; but they seemed to have an inexhaustible supply of hard, competent N.C.O.s. We marched round the wash-houses, the recreation-ground, the kitchens, the hospital — with nobody in it save one chap with the ‘flu.’

Greenmantle 2005

At night this charming recreation-ground was illumined by twenty-six lamps, at a distance of one hundred and seventy feet from each other, stuck on wooden poles.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

Besides this, they have real games in their play-hours aboard and in the recreation-ground at Haslar; and, besides, are allowed ashore once a week at least, to see their friends and relatives, if these live in the neighbourhood, having pocket-money given them to enjoy themselves with -- more than they can say they ever had in their life on land.

Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

Brandenburgers; but they seemed to have an inexhaustible supply of hard, competent N.C.O.s. We marched round the wash-houses, the recreation-ground, the kitchens, the hospital -- with nobody in it save one chap with the 'flu.'

Greenmantle John Buchan 1907

But still, it carried the mind back to those stirring times when the leafy shades of Gray's Inn Lane must have resounded with the clank of weapons and the tramp of armed men; when this bald recreation-ground was a rustic churchyard, standing amidst green fields and hedgerows, and countrymen leading their pack-horses into London through the Lane would stop to look in over the wooden gate.

The Eye of Osiris 1902

Pippin had cleared the place to make a public recreation-ground -- a sort of feather in the company's cap; it was now to be the spot whereon should be decided the question of the company's life or death.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

Pippin had cleared the place to make a public recreation-ground -- a sort of feather in the company's cap; it was now to be the spot whereon should be decided the question of the company's life or death.

Villa Rubein, and other stories John Galsworthy 1900

Except in a dance and in sports at a picnic or recreation-ground no man had ever put his arms around her.

Carnac's Folly, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

Except in a dance and in sports at a picnic or recreation-ground no man had ever put his arms around her.

Carnac's Folly, Volume 2. Gilbert Parker 1897

Except in a dance and in sports at a picnic or recreation-ground no man had ever put his arms around her.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897