garden-spot

On the other hand, I've been known to wrap both arms around a scruffy old oak and utter thanks and blessings for what it's meant to the scenery and the air and the critters of this garden-spot of the universe.

Go ahead, hug that tree and give thanks 2009

The Unyamwezy is the country of the Moon — above all the rest, the fertile and magnificent garden-spot of Africa.

Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

Unlike the inland basin of Asia, in which the vast, mountain-girt Desert of Gobi stretches out its seas of sand, stony, sterile and desolate, the inland basin of America is its garden-spot and granary.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various

When he had completed it, and was beginning to enjoy it, the owners of the plots he had confiscated awoke to a sense of their loss and the excellent garden-spot this young Corsican had made for them.

The Boy Life of Napoleon Afterwards Emperor of the French Eugenie Foa

In a still more crowded part of Berlin the Donhof Platz has recently been transformed, from a barren square surrounding the statue of that great Prussian, Baron von Stein, into a lovely garden-spot, with flowers and trees and birds for the cheer of the hurrying multitudes.

In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton

To illustrate this study, each one of the one hundred and fifty boys had a little garden-spot set aside for him to cultivate and keep in order.

The Boy Life of Napoleon Afterwards Emperor of the French Eugenie Foa

She was very careful of her early vegetables, and the garden-spot was paled in, to keep the chickens and rabbits from making depredations on the early lettuce, peas and cabbages.

Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 Various

I wish I might show you but one garden-spot of it -- my

Calvert of Strathore Carter Goodloe

Her sole producible work was a railroad advertisement of some remote garden-spot in California, but it had been enough to confer a halo, as well as to win more substantial reward, for I afterwards found out that, solely for the literary aroma she diffused, the lady had been allowed to remain two years without paying a cent of board.

The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918

And he found it in Tahiti, the garden-spot of garden-spots.

Chapter 11 1913