unsodded

They sat quietly together, their feet dangling over the side, their eyes staring vacantly at the unsodded lot.

Hi-Ya! Jason Henry McCormick 2010

They sat quietly together, their feet dangling over the side, their eyes staring vacantly at the unsodded lot.

The Beach House Patterson, James, 1947- 2002

At several commanding positions we saw fortifications, with the muzzles of cannon protruding from the ramparts, the slopes of which were made of the yellow earth of that region, and still unsodded; whereas, till these troublous times, there have been no forts but what were grass-grown with the lapse of at least

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

It was unfenced, unsodded, and a wagon trail ran through the middle, bisecting the square.

X. Book Five: “Bidding the Eagles of the West Fly On 1922

It was unfenced, unsodded, and a wagon trail ran through the middle, bisecting the square.

One of Ours Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Piles of lumber and scaffolding and the lime beds the builders had left still lay on the unsodded square, and the bursts of wind drove the shavings across it, as they had done since the first day of building, when the Hon.

The Exiles and Other Stories Richard Harding Davis 1890

At several commanding positions we saw fortifications, with the muzzles of cannon protruding from the ramparts, the slopes of which were made of the yellow earth of that region, and still unsodded; whereas, till these troublous times, there have been no forts but what were grass-grown with the lapse of at least a lifetime of peace.

Sketches and Studies Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 1852

At several commanding positions we saw fortifications, with the muzzles of cannon protruding from the ramparts, the slopes of which were made of the yellow earth of that region, and still unsodded; whereas, till these troublous times, there have been no forts but what were grass-grown with the lapse of at least a lifetime of peace.

Sketches and Studies Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

_peons_ or other servants, and in an enclosure, where lay interred some departed members of the Gomez family, another unsodded mound.

Doctor Therne Henry Rider Haggard 1890