garden-plot

Her mind was to be his — attached to his own like a small garden-plot to a deer-park.

The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. commodorified 2008

Every day, when I walk in my own little literary garden-plot, I spy some, and should like to have a spud, and root them out.

Roundabout Papers 2006

Geoffrey and Enoch then went towards the house, leaving Shiner and Fancy standing side by side on the garden-plot.

Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

Old Mr. Clapp, who was in his shirt-sleeves, trimming the garden-plot, shrank back alarmed.

Vanity Fair 2006

The party remaining were now lit up in front by the lantern in their midst, their shadows radiating each way upon the garden-plot like the spokes of

Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

Her mind was to be his — attached to his own like a small garden-plot to a deer-park.

The Portrait of a Lady 2003

Cordelia had stopped by the white picket fence that divided her garden-plot from the road, an expression of sublime relief coming over her face.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

Rarely a front yard or blooming garden-plot relieves the dreary monotony.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

Only traces of the cellar of the mansion-house and of its garden-plot are now visible to mark the home where the Chief

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

We were first shown into a secluded walled garden-plot, covered only with clean sand.

In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton