village-green

The great Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee bowled like a village-green novice while Botham made centuries at Leeds and Manchester.

Ian Botham by Simon Wilde - review 2011

In 2000, she and her husband, Toti Gifford, launched Gifford's Circus, a miniature village-green entertainment that is a popular feature of summer in the south-west, especially Gloucestershire.

Graham Greene and the search for that 'Eureka!' moment Robert McCrum 2010

The little village-green of Castlewood slopes down towards the river, which is spanned by an old bridge of a single broad arch, and from this the ground rises gradually towards the house, grey with many gables and buttresses, and backed by a darkling wood.

The Virginians 2006

As objects of beauty they were unrivalled, and improved the look of a village-green as much as that of a busy market.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

James was standing with a group of young men on the village-green, when Isaac Welles, the whilom blackberry-boy, rushed up, breathless, to say that he had been detained in the church and had actually seen Nelly and Mr. Brooke married.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

This fancy led me, in school-vacations, to perch my small self for hours on the cross-beams in the old belfry, and to climb to the very top of the tall pole which still surmounts the little village-green.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

But as some of them were united into extended groups and as the interest of the congregation deepened, the churches began to seem too small and inconvenient, the excited audiences forgot the proper reverence, and the performances were transferred to the churchyard, and then, when the gravestones proved troublesome, to the market place, the village-green, or any convenient field.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

A speech is delivered and then the people return to the village-green or meeting-place, where they smoke the long clay pipes which are distributed at funerals.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

A speech is delivered and then the people return to the village-green or meeting-place, where they smoke the long clay pipes which are distributed at funerals.

Chapter 28. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit. § 2. Burying the Carnival 1922

Through the triangular gaps in the panes the village-green showed untraversed, sunlit, tranquil, garnished.

The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921