Sward

(n.) Skin; covering.

(n.) The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf.

(v. t. & i.) To produce sward upon; to cover, or be covered, with sward.

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• At his feet an opening looked out upon a green sward, and at a little distance beyond was the dense wall of jungle and forest. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Together we raced across the scarlet sward, I timing my speed that I might not outdistance my slower companion. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The party had landed and was standing on the sward as the awful horde came in sight. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The declining sun lighted brilliantly the eastern banks of Korus, the crimson sward, the gorgeous forest. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• They were little birds, which, lighting on the sward at shy distance, hopped as if expectant. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Already the gay dance vanished, the green sward was strewn with corpses, the blue air above became fetid with deathly exhalations. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Directly beneath us upon the scarlet sward a handful of guardsmen were stooping above a still and prostrate form. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• As I walked slowly down the imperceptible slope toward the sea I could not help but note the park-like appearance of the sward and trees. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• As far as the eye could reach gorgeous forest and crimson sward skirted a silent sea, and about all towered the brilliant monster guardian cliffs. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• I love all that is of Nature, cried Caliphronas, throwing himself on the smooth sward; Nature is my mother—my true mother. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• We were close behind him, and all saw the figure of a man run quickly across a little piece of sward and disappear in the shrubbery beyond. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The cliffs rose perpendicular directly from the almost level sward of the valley. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

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