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“But come now, let us be doing, and begin to quarter this little land as the kestrel doth the water-meadow; and leave we our armour, lest we weary us, for we shall have no need for hard strokes.”
“Well, I had a hundred poods for sale; the women mowed it on the water-meadow.”
“Everything was growing, and daily the picture was fuller and brighter till the desert became like a rank water-meadow.”
“She had been carried off in the water-meadow by a horrible monster, who wanted to make her marry him by force, and had kept her a prisoner all these years because she would not submit to his will.”
“One day the eldest was walking in a water-meadow, when she saw a pink growing in the stream.”
“Hugh's horse, intolerant of most riders except his master, condescended to carry this one along the headland and down into the water-meadow without resentment.”
“Frederickson had taken the last watch and his piquets were set double-strength about the margins of the water-meadow where the small force had bivouacked.”
“And we died out there too — "he pointed towards the water-meadow" — before there ever were any Ironsides in their pretty uniforms.”
“Mostly they were quiet now, engrossed in the final act of the tragedy which was about to take place in the bright sunshine of the water-meadow where the London pikemen and the wreckage of their brother regiments were huddled, waiting for the last great Royalist assault.”
“The answering cry from the water-meadow, God our strength, rang hollow.”
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (M)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
mace, macintosh, madras, magenta, magic 8 ball, magma, mahogany, maiden, mail, mainsail, maize, malachite and 169 more...
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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treeseed A water-meadow (also water meadow or watermeadow) is an area of grassland subject to controlled irrigation to increase agricultural productivity. Water-meadows were common in Italy, Switzerland, and England (from 1523) but working water-meadows have now largely disappeared.
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"Or was it such a salmon stream as I trust you will see among the Hampshire water-meadows before your hairs are gray, under the wise new fishing laws..."
from Water Babies - Charles Kingsley, 1937
Jan 29, 2008