| 单词 | mown |
| 例句 | Where the van’s undercarriage had mown down the brush, spiny branches jutted up like deadly spikes. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Ben and Radar pass me as I run through the mown field. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The home did not have the money to check the growth of the wide stretches of grass by having it mown, so it had to be pulled by hand. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Seth started across the lush, neatly mown lawn toward the nearest gazebo. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z But mostly I just saw endless grass, weedless, freshly mown into a diamond pattern. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Being mown down from a distance by fire hurlers was no hope at all. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The grass under their feet was smooth and short, as if it had been mown or shaven. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Not more than a hundred yards away, through the tall trees in the garden, across the mown lawns and the tidy flower-beds, the massive shape of the Palace itself loomed through the darkness. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Wilfred and the white woman were standing on a patch of freshly mown grass in front of the first of four all-weather tennis courts, whose surface was strewn with Dunlop tennis balls. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The air was thick and moist, freshly mown grass smelling nice. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z With whistles and calls and impossible boasts, the men and boys of First Congregational strolled across to Thayer’s haymeadow—mown just the day before—and marked out the lines. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z His cologne filled my nostrils with the scent of freshly mown grass. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I admired the long expanses of lawns mown in precise lines and the huge, graceful trees. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The gallop turned out to be a good forty yards wide, mown to less than six inches. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Grassy, it stretched away, smooth as the mown gallops on Watership Down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside the air smells summery, of mown grass and warm tar, and from somewhere high in the trees I hear a woodpecker rapping. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The air smells of lilac or mown grass or burning leaves, depending on the season. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the laundry room at the back of the house, the lawns rolled away, so smooth and closely mown, the ground itself seemed green rather than planted with grass. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Once he reached the seclusion of the freshly mown lawn, Ron rounded on Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z No houses had been built, but the lots were marked with surveying stakes, and the grass was freshly mown. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Ms. Lytle reports that rattan sprouts surface hairs that need to be laboriously singed away, and “when it is cropped it smells like mown hay.” 5 Books to Take a Deep Dive Into Design 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Leaves can be mown into shreds and left on the lawn, mown and gathered for mulch growing beds, collected in a pile, or simply left in areas where they aren’t doing any harm. Perspective | The winter garden is full of promise and productivity. Don’t let it go to waste. 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Still, credit to him for trying, because here and there BBDLP1 is like being mown down by squadrons of Valkyrie as they battle the four horsemen of the apocalypse. New band of the day – Big Black Delta (No 1,332) 2012-08-16T15:21:42Z The hay-scented fern is particularly fine-textured, almost feathery, and smells of fresh mown hay when bruised. Fronds with benefits: A guide to ferns 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Delaney: “Did you know the scent of mown grass is a distress signal?” A Beautiful Mind 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Kent and her husband keep the meadow’s edges neatly mown, and cut it down in its entirety, with scythes, to scatter its seeds every September. A Garden Designed to Run Wild 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Up and down the land, local ordinances enshrine the front yard as a place where neatly mown lawns framed with low or no fences could speak of a communal respectability, openness and uniformity. National Arboretum’s “Grass Roots”: A brighter future for the lawn Apparently she demanded the grass was mown before she'd go on stage at T in the Park. B.o.B: 'I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop' 2012-11-08T14:49:00Z More than three miles of mown paths and boardwalk wind through and around an 86-acre field of grasses and wildflowers. At Longwood Gardens, a new meadow for the ages Opposite the lane are mown paths through a meadow to a pretty pond with a rowing boat. The best garden B&Bs, cottages and campsites in the UK 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Who cared about the scorewhen the club swung with the ease of airand I glided from shot to shotover the mown and rolling ground,alone and drowsy with my weightless bag? 'Play up! play up!' 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z Even Ruskin, champion of the medium and no mean practitioner, described watercolour as an art for suburbia, ideal "for the moderate-sized breakfast parlour opening on a nicely mown lawn". Awash with colour 2011-02-20T00:04:07Z I do apologise, not for wanting the golfers mown down, but for being sidetracked by football. TV review: The Forgotten Gunners of WW1 – A Time Team Special; How Britain Worked 2012-11-11T21:00:02Z “It’s something you can drink after you have mown your lawn. It’s refreshing.” Dusseldorf vs. Cologne: A rivalry you can grin and beer 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z A Scottish cycling charity is backing calls for more responsible use of e-bikes after a cyclist claimed he was mown down by a food delivery driver. ‘I’m terrified of e-bikes after food courier smash’ 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z A bunker is to the right, but it’s otherwise closely mown turf that allows for options on a recovery shot. US OPEN ‘23: Hole by hole look at Los Angeles Country Club 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z Some greens have deep rough on one side and closely mown areas on the other that send balls rolling some 20 yards away. PGA Championship promises a strong course for the strongest field 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z The last Russian attack was about a month ago, when some 30 Russian troops were mown down by two machine guns, said the group's commander, Dmytro. Fear recedes for Ukraine's volunteers, for whom war is 'just a job' 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z The ninth hole was particularly tough, playing at 492 yards into the wind, with fairways mown toward the tee so balls lose some of the roll into the grain of the grass. Kirk rides momentum from Honda win to early lead at Bay Hill 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Hughes sent his approach long on the 18th and faced a difficult putt up closely mown grass to a green and raced away from him. Hubbard’s birdie runs takes him to 65 and Mississippi lead 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z The green is large and has a large expanse of closely mown turf to the left. US OPEN ‘23: Hole by hole look at Los Angeles Country Club 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z Over the years, he recorded the date of flowering from the mown field as well as a similar grass field that was not mown. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Opportunities for subtlety, though few and far between, are mown down with theatrical oomph. Review: 'Prom' season is over the top at the Ahmanson Theatre 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z One of those Friday was from 40 feet in the closely mown fairway short of the green on the par-3 fourth hole. McCarthy rides his good putting to early lead at Memorial 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z They found that No Mow May lawns had five times the number of bees and three times the bee species than did mown parks. In Wisconsin: Stowing Mowers, Pleasing Bees 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Because players can lift, clean and place golf balls in closely mown areas, he didn’t have to stand on the wooden frame to attempt his pitch. More delays at Players Championship as Monday finish looms 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z New this year at the Arnold Palmer Invitational is replacing mown areas just off the greens with thick grass. Jason Day’s mother dies after 5-year battle with cancer 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Yards are neatly mown, and the grass smells sweet. The US suburban couple accused of a bungled treason plot 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Because of a high water level, a giant field of sunflowers in Poland could not be mown. The Nature Conservancy announces 2021 photo contest winners 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z A boardwalk leads visitors deep into the woods; mown swards direct footsteps up, over and through the Earth Garden; and steppingstone boulders navigate a stream. ‘Tokachi Millennium Forest’ captures a vast and visionary landscape that’s as much about people as it is about plants 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z A vast open space that sits as a sort of green beehive haircut on top of metropolitan central London, the heath is untamed in parts and otherwise mown and managed like any public park. The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z One child, a friend called “Scott”, was apparently deliberately mown down by the gang in a revenge hit-and-run attack after Beech claimed to have been warned by Hanley not to have any friends. Revealed: how Carl Beech, the serial child abuse accuser, became the accused 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Hundreds of poppies, primroses, meadow buttercups and 100 saplings at Manor Farm Orchard in Kingsway, Gloucester, were mown down. Wildflowers cut down 'by mistake' 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z What is clever here is not the argument against Trump’s many questionable policies and statements, although the words “climate change is real” were mown in another field nearby. Oi Trump: a short history of penis protests 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z He believes that the planet is rightfully theirs, that we are mere undeserving tenants who have trashed the place, and that the sooner we are mown down and composted the better. “Rocketman” and the Art of the Acceptably Outrageous 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z “We are being mown down like animals,” said Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who lost one of his index fingers when he held up his hands in defense as the gunman shot him. Rabbi wounded in synagogue shooting says ‘senseless hate’ killings must stop 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Survivors reported hearing a shattering blast and saw people mown down by gunmen as they sat at a cafe. Kenyan president says Nairobi attack is over after all militants killed 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Club officials insisted early aerial photos confirm the front half of the green was always mown at fairway height, so they continue that tradition today. Camargo Club - Golf Digest 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Among the symmetrically mown lawns and grand homes of suburban New Hampshire, Garrett Muscatel was knocking on doors to talk about a subject that took many by surprise: voter suppression. 'It's a poll tax': how New Hampshire became a battlefield for voting rights 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Cruelly for a nation that had seen the flower of British male youth mown down by German guns, the majority were adults aged 20 to 40. Spanish flu: the killer that still stalks us, 100 years on 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z The greens are generous sizes and approach fairways are mown not just up to their front edges, but also around one side or the other of most greens. New Arcadia Bluffs course offers a fresh take on a familiar idea - Golf Digest 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Above neatly mown lawns and porches of Victorian mansions along North Delaware Street. Independence, Missouri: Truman’s home comes to terms with Trump 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Sometimes, they sent short wedge shots soaring over the closely mown greens. Dustin Johnson among weathered survivors at top of U.S. Open leader board 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z It seemed for a moment that things were as they should be; the scent of mown grass, kids yelling from other yards. Rage and wonder in 1968: The year war came through the TV and I felt pieces of childhood ending 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Jordan Spieth was 11, already honing his putter on a closely mown section of his front yard, when Tiger Woods won the Masters in 2005 for the fourth time. Column: Majors can have impact on others in different ways 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Its character lies in its subtleties of bunkering and green contours surrounded by tightly mown turf. Ranking: World's 100 Greatest Golf Courses - Golf Digest 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z The 32-year-old legal assistant from Virginia was demonstrating peacefully against white supremacists in Charlottesville when she was mown down by one of their alleged sympathizers driving at high speed. America's heroes of 2017: the people who inspired us 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z Thor Braekkan of Bane NOR says Wednesday’s collision occurred south of where some 65 reindeer were mown down Saturday. Norwegian train kills reindeer — again 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z There’s the Par 2 we mentioned, and a 95-yard, straight downhill par 3 that will require only a putter, because a closely mown, banked ramp will extend from green to tee. Prepare to be fascinated by a remote Oregon golf course (Psst: And it's not Bandon Dunes) - Golf Digest 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z The class of 1987 former schoolmates, all between 47 and 49 years old, were riding their rented bikes on West Street when they were mown down by the truck attacker. Argentina mourns New York victims: businessmen, architects and lifelong friends 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z It has spectacular sprawling bunkers and is tightly mown turf everywhere, to help surface drain everything, which gives Blackstone a particular Old School look and playability. Ranking: World's 100 Greatest Golf Courses - Golf Digest 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z And with the tightly mown chipping areas, Johnson’s tendency is to use a little too much leading edge on his pitches. Despite hometown demands, Dustin Johnson poised for Masters run - Golf Digest 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Radosław Sikorski, a former Polish foreign minister, saw at least five people lying on the ground after being “mown down” by a car. Parliament attack: police officer among five dead in 'sick and depraved' incident 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Another picture from a 1933 book shows a church and its clergymen being mown down by a massive tractor adorned with a hammer and sickle. Outdoor discos to kitsch schnitzel ads: Twitter account relives the Soviet era 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z When Trump gropes a woman, that is bad enough; but if misguided extremists like Trump want to force their mown arped version of morality on mentally competent women, that would be much worse. Trump Said Women Get Abortions Days Before Birth. Doctors Say They Don’t. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z —Will all 18 greens be mown each day. Forward Press: Tour Championship TV Times - Golf Digest 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z They are mown once a year, to preserve their varied, multi-coloured summer growth for winter cattle feed. To shave a mountain - BBC News 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z The day after it carried a Press Association account of men being "mown down like grass". Battle of the Somme: How Britain learned the truth - BBC News 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z They too were mown down without taking an inch of enemy trench. Battle of the Somme: Carnage for the Scots battalions - BBC News 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The banks and mounds around the greens were closely mown. Houston no longer has a problem 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Ulster Unionist councillor David Taylor said: "It is disgusting that a man serving the whole community should be mown down in the line of duty." NI police officer hurt in lorry hit-and-run stable in hospital - BBC News 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Many high meadows are not mown, in a short time the forest returns, and the biodiversity, so long in the making, is lost. To shave a mountain - BBC News 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, a country once filled with meadows of diverse, pollen-packed wildflowers is now blanketed by crops, manicured lawns, and mown fields barren of pollen sources. You Asked: Are the Honeybees Still Disappearing? 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z There will be a quiz at the Masters, where tentative chippers don’t last long around tightly mown collection areas and undulating greens. Column: Only thing Tiger proves is he can still draw a crowd 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The fairways were mown from the green to the tee so that the grain is into the player, just like at Augusta. Houston no longer has a problem 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z There’s a chapel 20 meters high, beds of roses and rhododendrons, fountains and precisely mown grass that is cut by hand in the last few inches around each grave marker, Desjardins said. St. Paul woman learns fate of WWII soldier father 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z We spent two nights on the mountain, sleeping on a bed of freshly mown grass in the hay shed, our meals cooked in a huge cauldron hung over an open fire. To shave a mountain - BBC News 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z When the container came to me, I couldn’t detect any honey, but the bouquet did strike me as earthy, with hints of newly mown hay. New Zealand’s Crusade Against Mammals | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z The boundary is a "cop" mound supported by rough and topped by white OB stakes with thin, tightly mown turf to help delineate a painted line. The lone defect at Royal Liverpool Golf Club: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z He urged people to help lobby for change by sending the charity "before" and "after" pictures of mown verges. Councils 'destroying' verge wildlife 2013-05-26T02:17:11Z Ascot 3.20 Having struck the front going well, Carlton House was mown down by So You Think over a mile and a quarter last month. Talking Horses 2012-07-20T23:02:01Z There are plenty of lawns to be mown on Helm's street, where big, comfortable wood-panelled houses sit back from the road, freshly trimmed grass spanning the distance from pavement to property. Karen Klein bullying video shocks residents of Rochester suburb 2012-06-22T14:16:11Z There is also a mass grave for dozens of unnamed infantrymen from the 67th Foot Regiment, mown down by Afghan fire as they tried to storm a strategic hill. Afghanistan's 'graveyard of foreigners' 2012-06-09T11:29:35Z The approach shot, again most likely featuring a hanging lie, is to a green with bunkers and a closely mown collection area. A hole-by-hole look at The Olympic Club 2012-06-09T04:07:09Z Voles were rarely taken in grazed or mown grassland or in fields of alfalfa, stubble or row crops. A Population Study of the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) in Northeastern Kansas 2012-04-08T02:00:23.123Z The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown; aftermath. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The heads of the German columns, the moment they appeared in sight, were met by a concentrated rifle and machine-gun fire and were literally mown down like grass. The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres 2012-03-17T02:01:05.397Z Proceed with the laying down of lawns and gravel-walks, and keep the former regularly mown. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z If I get mown down by a bus tomorrow, political or physical, the bottom line is this. Gillard Seen Prevailing in Australian Labor Leadership Vote 2012-02-26T00:55:43Z And when the mown grass is carried away, he has a right to one cart. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z The Irish Washerwoman promises to wash the muslin curtains as white as a hound’s tooth, and as sweet as “new mown hay;” and she tells the truth. The Irish Penny Journal, No. 1, Vol. 1, July 4, 1840 2012-02-11T03:04:02.107Z The Crown Prince's troops were at some points literally mown down. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z Their early chronicles speak with rapture of the hay that could be mown three times a year, and the amazing fecundity of the corn-land. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Once more they were mown down, and the frenzied survivors took to the water. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z There were only two fields to be mown this year, to provide just enough stuff to last until the spring. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Bees were humming among the flowers, and a whiff of new mown hay drifted in on a vagrant breeze. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z Is there fruit that thou canst pluck therein, Or any harvest to be mown? The Star-Treader and other poems 2011-12-27T03:00:09.977Z In imaginary battle he saw whole squadrons mown down by the discharges of his formidable piece of artillery. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z When the Colonel grew angry, Harding yielded the point and suggested that the sloos be mown turn about. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z "But merely to have mown them is worth having lived for," he said, looking at me. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z It was a perfect June night, the heavens a sable pall studded with innumerable star-clusters, the little vagrant breezes redolent of new mown hay, a nightingale singing in a nearby boscage. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z In these two short years so many of my best friends have been mown down, that I feel uncertainty everywhere, and gasp till the interval is over. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z What meadows I might have mown had I only known the joy of it! Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Ivy, with stems thicker than your wrist, climbs about the front of it, and a lawn mown until it looks like velvet slopes to the sliding water. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z How would he feel if he gave the order to advance and, as soon p. 223as the line was clear of cover, it was mown down like grass? Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z From the freshly mown lawns came a strong fragrance of the little hay heaps, which were warmed by the daily summer heat. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z All that day I slept under a wreath of newly mown hay, until the stars once more shone out that I thought were to guide me on to London. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z And before they knew it he had mown half the meadow. The Swedish Fairy Book 2011-08-26T02:00:23.380Z Nevertheless they advanced, and continued pressing forward, only to be mown down by the withering fire of our Mausers. Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet 2011-08-16T02:00:45.283Z The Muslim community in Birmingham showed incredible dignity after three young men were mown down by a car and killed during the riots. We've been warned: the system is ready to blow 2011-08-14T18:55:01Z But the lissom young men and the giggling girls trooped across the rick-yard to the level meadow, which the sheep had cropped close, and which had been also carefully mown for the purpose. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z All the women were together in a “gaggle,” a semicircle of them sitting round a young girl who lounged on a heap of mown grass, with a huge labourer lying full length at her feet. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z After the grass is mown, the crakes leave the meadows and go to the arable fields, where the crops afford them shelter. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z I saw how mercilessly they were mown down by the bullets of our Mausers and the shells of our Maxim-Nordenfeldts. Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet 2011-08-16T02:00:45.283Z "Crack—crack—crack!!" went our magazine rifles, and the big Pomeranians went down as if an invisible sickle had mown them. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Yes, it is all over!" said the soldier, in a low voice: "the grapeshot has mown them down. The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War 2011-07-27T02:00:38.240Z “I don’t see why they don’t bottle the smell of new ploughed earth just as they have new mown hay,” laughed Billie. Molly Brown's College Friends 2011-07-16T02:00:15.700Z The grass of this great pasture has a different appearance to that in the meadows which are mown for hay. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z They were cut to pieces by the shells of the quick-firing guns, and mown down by the tiny projectiles of the Maxim-Nordenfeldt. Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet 2011-08-16T02:00:45.283Z Men followed behind them heaping the hay in piles, and across the mown strip of sloo more men, almost naked, were flinging the last of the mounds into a waggon. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z By thousands have our brave ones been mown down; wives, mothers are weeping for those they shall not see again; hearths are desolate; dire poverty spreads, anguish increases. Lest We Forget World War Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:28.183Z The merry lark, Calls us to the new mown hay, Piping to our roundelay. The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old; a play in three acts 2011-06-26T02:00:10.547Z When the water is low in autumn these are mown, and, with the aquatic grasses at the edge and the rushes, made into the roughest kind of hay imaginable. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Passing along the garden path amidst autumn flowers mown down by the explosion of shells, several of which had fallen close to the house, the lads arrived at the boat-house. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z Then, when it is grown up and ripe, it is cut and mown down. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z He describes seeing two boys mown down by fire from Syrian tanks. Newspaper review 2011-06-13T04:42:40Z The merry lark, Calls us to the new mown hay, Piping to our roundelay. The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old; a play in three acts 2011-06-26T02:00:10.547Z By the time they have mown the grass or reaped the wheat, as the case may be, in one county, the crops are ripe in another, to which they then wend their way. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z We reclined on a spot of mown grass, on the right side of the house, to the left of a little round garden, which hid itself away in the middle of the meadow. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z The grass would be mown and made into hay in June, and perhaps mown once more towards the end of September. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z The deep lines of infantry, led by young officers, whose undeniable courage did not compensate for their lack of experience, were mown down. Ypres and the Battles of Ypres 2011-05-27T02:00:14.743Z Come into the garden, Maud, Why has not the grass been mown? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 26th 1893 2011-05-21T02:00:09.693Z Just outside the rickyard, where the grass of the meadow has not been mown but fed by cattle, grow the tall buttercups, rising to the knee. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Going a short distance down the road he climbed up and sat down on top of the fence of a late mown clover field. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z The hay is mown here in the same manner as in Upland, and the corn is managed in the same way as in Smoland. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland 2011-05-10T02:01:00.460Z The German columns, mown down by shrapnel and machine-gun fire, were unable to reach the British trenches. Ypres and the Battles of Ypres 2011-05-27T02:00:14.743Z The changing aspect of the scenery is manifest; the grass is less luxuriant than lower down, and but few of the fields are mown. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z Where the ground is often flooded watercress has spread out into the grass, growing so profusely that now the water is low it might be mown by the scythe. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z I am the mower Damon, known Through all the meadows I have mown; On me the morn her dew distils Before her darling daffodils. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z The sword hath mown the corn, And felled the arm that should have reaped the harvest. Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts 2011-04-14T02:00:57.593Z The breeze came up, heavy with meadow sweet and new mown hay—a delicious bath for my hot forehead. Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 2011-04-09T02:00:09.087Z It mattered not that primroses and new mown hay did not harmonise, it was what he felt and saw, jumbled together in a delightful tangle from which he made no effort to extricate himself. The Second String 2011-04-08T02:00:07.383Z This lasted for some weeks: it chanced that the meadow was mown late, so that the birds were undisturbed. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z When they reached a stile, overshadowed by the grateful coolness of a huge beech tree in the corner of a lately mown field, she sat down and begged for a few minutes' rest. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z Our men were mown down as soon as they advanced into the open. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z Ay, like a flower he came up, and as a grass has he been mown down. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z They were mown down by our fire, but they came on again and again till the front was strewn with dead. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z Long before the grass was mown they were gone—doubtless northwards, having only called in passing. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z These were mown down by the heavy batteries of the frigates, who landed their troops and took unmolested possession of the place. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z Then the fire was deadly; the Turks were speedily mown down, and the pontoons, riddled with bullets, were soon at the bottom of the canal. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z Shall our young warriors be mown down like early grass, or be driven into the sea like ashes before the wind? Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z As a rule the crop should be mown 654 when in full flower, and deposited in the silo on the day of its cutting. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Beyond this row of buttresses, and further from the bridge and also further from the water which here suddenly bends, are the pretty oriel windows of Mr. Harding's house, and his well mown lawn. Hospital Sketches 2011-02-16T03:00:37.920Z Our men were mown down in thousands because we had such tender regard for the feelings of the rebels, and there was not the slightest sign that things would ever get any better. Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro 2011-02-11T03:00:26.280Z Even in the first rush many men were mown down by the machine guns which desperate Germans had hidden in deep dug-outs and had brought into play when the bombardment ceased. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z On one, of 1810, now before us, we have the inscription: "Natural Meadow which may be mown." Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z On the northern side of the Baltimore pike were newly mown fields, the grass springing fresh and green since the mower had swept over it. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z The meadows, and even the roads, are mown, as well as fed, and yet both abound with tall grass. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z Against those brave and terrible rebels white soldiers from the North and colored soldiers from Louisiana advanced again and again, but all of them failed, and they were mown down like grass before the scythe. Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro 2011-02-11T03:00:26.280Z These magnificent troopers, men of great physical strength and of the highest courage, advanced only to be mown down. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z A lion and stag carefully mown into the turf wouldn't have gone amiss. Live - Scottish Cup final 2010-05-15T12:31:00Z His troops were mown down, captured, or scattered. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII These fields are all sown in ridges, and the furrow between each couple of ridges is as plainly to be seen as if a swath had been mown along. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams The air was warm and golden still, but a keen nose might detect in it a threatening of frost; and the fallen leaves yielded a delicate fragrance as of damp earth and new mown hay. Dick's Desertion A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests What fun, most glorious of all, to fight the insects with wisps of new mown hay! Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies She is smiling at her thoughts—possibly at the lamentable lack of self-control exhibited by her lover, possibly at the remembrance of the grass still to be mown and neatly gathered. The Gay Adventure A Romance The air grew drowsy with the steadily increasing heat, with the hum and the vibration of the distant ringing, and the strong fragrance that rose from the meadow, which had been mown the day before. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. At some distance up the slopes farms are spread; the buildings are mostly low and unpainted, yet numerous; heaps of mown hay and fields of half ripe grain are dotted about. Magnhild Dust They may die, no longer in units, but in broad swathes, mown down by machine guns, but they are individual hearts still. The Great Discovery From late July into early September crows fed in plowed fields, stubble fields, pastures, and newly mown hay fields. Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas But when he went out, he found that it did not require to be mown. The New Gulliver and Other Stories The trees and telegraph-poles along the road were mown down like corn. The Tremendous Event He was leaping about on the mown sward, and dancing this way and that, with surprising agility. Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation Each woven picture, too, is as soft to tread upon as a closely mown lawn, and caresses the feet that sink into its pile. The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. Alfalfa was being cut for hay in early July and crows were then feeding on plowed fields and the newly mown alfalfa fields. Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas The path when grown should be mown with a machine once a year, in autumn after the blooming time of the heath. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens The melancholy troop, in the silence of despair, were led, firmly fettered, to the sand hills, on the sea-coast, where they were divided into small squares, and mown down by successive discharges of musketry. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 These dropped as though mown down, but with loud yells those behind pressed the foremost on, to be mown down in their turn. Haviland's Chum With effect too, for the front rows went down like mown corn. The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising "He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass, As showers that water the earth." The Bible Story Mealie stalks were snapping off short, one after the other, and a broad, trampled, and broken patch, as if the place had been roughly mown, marked the passage of the horse. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley They were torn to pieces, mown down, bayoneted, and trampled under iron hoofs. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 Like mown grass the whole crowd of the imaginary refugees fell prone on their faces—thus revealing the bulk and flower of the enemy’s fighting line. Haviland's Chum And ever upon their flanks hovered the savage enemy, wiser now in his generation, wasting his strength no more in fierce rushes, to be mown helplessly down with superior weapons. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: As showers that water the earth. The Bible Story A kopje hard by, silent hitherto, is now ringed with flame, and, caught in this terrible crossfire, the intrepid assailants are literally mown down, and for a few moments the slaughter is terrific. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion They fled into the streets only to be hewn down with sabres and mown down with grape-shot. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 When haymaking began on the mountain meadows, Bertha would go out and assist in scattering the newly mown grass. Waldfried A Novel During succeeding summers as the years roll on, the lawn should be perpetually enriched by the leaching of the short leaves as they are often mown. Garden and Forest Weekly, Volume 1 No. 1, February 29, 1888 Turning upon his heel, he indignantly exclaimed, "The wretches! had they mown down four or five hundred with grape-shot, the rest would speedily have taken to flight." Josephine Makers of History In the shade of these trees annual grasses and perennial shrubs shoot up, but are mown down by the hungry cattle of the Bedouin as fast as they grow. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras Only one cutting, however, can be obtained, as it does not shoot again after being mown. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" Haymaking had begun, the cars were filled with the fragrant odor of the newly mown grass. Waldfried A Novel Limbs fell from the trees, and the ground was mown as smoothly of weeds and underbrush as if by a scythe. Uncle Daniel's Story Of "Tom" Anderson And Twenty Great Battles Though the grass has been mown and the ground is dry, it is better to carry a thick rug, and cast it down in the shadow under the tall horse-chestnut-tree. The Hills and the Vale The men were busy with the newly mown hay, and he wished her to take some messages about the stacking of it. A Mad Love As the flowers in the mown field Gaily bloom 'mid dried up stubble, So close by the elder matrons Walked the lovely group of maidens, Clad in snow-white festive garments. The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. The woodchuck was eating second-crop clover in a hayfield that had been mown about three weeks before. Old Plymouth Trails Exultant attackers would rush forward in advance of the programmed speed and be mown by their own barrage. Cavalry of the Clouds Glance for a moment at an adjacent field: it is an old 'leaze' or ground not mown, but used for grazing. The Hills and the Vale Also, I have seen peasant boys—unripe crops of the later levies—mown down by grapeshot—raise themselves on their elbows to cheer for France and the little man in grey. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) Past hill and hollow, whence scents are blown Of dew-wet clover that scythes have mown; To a house that stands with porches wide And gray low roof on the green hill-side. Weeds by the Wall Verses Summer Sun Great is the sun, and wide he goes 46 V. The Dumb Soldier When the grass was closely mown 47 VI. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) The fragrance of new mown hay, which Cowper has so beautifully mentioned, had palled on Joe’s senses; but when would the fragrance of that dish pall on the hungry soul? The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit But since the times of agricultural pressure, a large part of the domain had been fenced off, and was now partly grazed and partly mown, being called the Out-park. The Hills and the Vale The forests spring like mushrooms from the unexhausted soil; and they are mown down yearly by the forest fires. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) The air was sweet with the scent of honeysuckle and musk-roses and mown grass; midges fretted in and out of the open windows. The Camera Fiend Taking the telescope, she turned it upon the scene, beholding the prostrate forms dotting the newly mown fields. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance Brigade after brigade was ordered to take these heights, and though their ranks were mown down like grass before the scythe, in the very mouth of Rebel guns the effort was again and again made. Three Years in the Federal Cavalry They crossed the fields, some of which were new mown and fragrant. Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield Its piteous pageants bring not back, nor waken flesh upon the rack of pain anew to writhe, stretched in Disease's shapes abhorred, or mown in battle by the sword, like grass beneath the scythe! The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems The Russians advanced in sixteen waves and were mown down and defeated. The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War A half company then attacking 'Bald Hill' was immediately mown down by the German machine guns. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War Hundreds of the brave Turkish troops were mown down by the machine guns which the Australians had by this time brought ashore. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources The trees lay about as if a scythe had mown them down. Harper's Young People, September 21, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Is it your daily prayer that He may come down in all the plenitude of His heavenly graces on your soul, even “as rain upon the mown grass, and showers that water the earth?” The Words of Jesus In mow, mowed, mown, sow, sowed, sown; and several other words, we find the participle strong, and the pr�terite weak. A Handbook of the English Language They were literally mown down by the fire from the French machine guns and rifles, but the wave of attackers seemed unending, and by dint of overwhelming numbers it poured into the French trenches. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War The New Zealand troops got well past the Turkish machine guns without discovering them, with the consequence that their supports were mown down by a hail of fire from unexpected quarters. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources Thrice were the enemy enveloped in gas and smoke, and, as they stood-to in expectation of attack, were mown down by a torrent of shells. Attack An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916 And he sank, almost fell, on a chair close by, as though he had been mown down by a scythe. The Brothers Karamazov The section of meadow thus drained became so dry in consequence that the grass growing there can now be cut by a machine in summer, whereas formerly the hay could be mown only in winter. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Between these woods and the British line the attacking force was mown down by combined rifle, machine-gun and artillery fire, not a man getting within forty yards of the trenches. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War Large mansions lying back from the roadway, with gates and paths leading up to their entrances, and a smell of new mown hay, were most home-like and refreshing. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 But what of her future, what of her projected plans, her ideas, her sweet dreams; they were mown down in this huge and single sweep. The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story Hindus are creatures of little or no stamina, and they go down like mown grass before the unhealthy heat of the Frontier. Captain Desmond, V.C. Laurence, unprepared for any such move, found himself standing there—he alone, erect—while around him, as so much mown corn, lay prostrate on their faces this immense company of armed warriors. The Sign of the Spider This was the massacre of Wounded Knee, where about 300 Indians, two thirds of them women and children, were mown down with machine-guns within a few minutes. The Indian To-day The Past and Future of the First American The meadow was, in due course, mown, the mower passing his scythe over her without injuring her, and unaware of her presence, the depression having still enough grass to conceal the nest. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter "Like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth," Frank Nelson poured out his soul, and revealed the grand proportions of human destiny. Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati There was a youthful swain one day Did ted the new mown grass; There came a gay and lovely may From out the nigh morass. The Brother Avenged and Other Ballads I can do that myself, if it's only mown down quick. The Light Shines in Darkness Its moral, aesthetic, and practical wants form too dense a stubble to be mown by any scientific Occam's razor that has yet been forged. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Heads and limbs will fall, mown down like ripe ears at the reaping! The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death A little farther on he came to a newly mown field where the farmers had piled up the weeds in order to burn them. Laboulaye's Fairy Book The attack was immediately returned, but before long the whole party, officers, gunners, and horses, were simply mown down. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 I can almost hear the lazy hum of the bees, and smell the fresh mown grass. When the Birds Begin to Sing When she strolled through an English garden, she might pluck a flower or take pleasure in the smoothness of the lawn, but it was always with the feeling that others had planted and mown. Prescott of Saskatchewan “The oftener we are mown down by you, the more in number we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.” The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan It was a very still evening, the scent of new mown hay and the mysterious sweetness of the starry white tobacco plant haunted the delicate air. The Dark Tower She looked at the sickle-blades and shuddered, knowing that Time had mown her down at last. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg When the grass was closely mown, Walking on the lawn alone, In the turf a hole I found, And hid a soldier underground. A Child's Garden of Verses When the grass was closely mown Walking on the lawn alone, In the turf a hole I found And hid a soldier underground. A Child's Garden of Verses Then, if the vagabonds try to interrupt the Court, I've only to lift my hand—so—and they'll be mown down like grass.' The Manxman A Novel - 1895 The meadows on either hand were brown with grass that had not been mown, though the time for mowing had long since gone by, while the pastures were thick with rushes and thistles. Wood Magic A Fable The horses were mown down, now the blades were descending over her. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg But farther up it is drier and firmer, the lofty tussac giving place to grass of humbler stature; in fact, a sward so short, that the ground appears as though freshly mown. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure It seemed that day as if she could not speak without a figure—as if she revelled in the flowers of imagination, like a child tossing about the new mown grass in a hay-field. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 His men tried again and again—only to be mown down. Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie (commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November 4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915 "My fields will not be mown now, and I shall have no hay to feed my cattle and my horses in the winter." The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths She shuddered; those relentless blades had indeed mown down the little day of her love's triumph. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg They were simply mown down by our artillery and rifle fire. 1914 On the 1st of March last I purposely infected the air of our laboratory with the germinal dust of a sapless kind of hay mown in 1875. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 I looked and saw nothing but the newly mown turf with one spot the size of my two hands where the grass was apparently dead. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers It was the mown part; for I recalled how the brisk man's machine had cut close and left behind short, crisp stems. Greener Than You Think Delight steals through them with the scent of the violet, or the new mown hay. Deerbrook It was a perfect summer’s night, one of those rare nights that England alone can produce; there were glow worms in the hedges and a scent of new mown hay in the air. The Man Who Lost Himself Fabens was enjoying it out on his accustomed seat, beneath a favorite shade-tree, in the green mown meadow before his home; and indulging one of those golden reveries that rise in the autumn time. Summerfield or, Life on a Farm They had been discovered a few days before when the lawn was mown, and one, as it sprang out from the nest, was killed by the mower, who mistook it for a young rat. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers But the mown area was narrow and the machine quickly jerked through it and made the last easy journey along the wall of untouched devilgrass beyond. Greener Than You Think In other places the green wheat crop, choked by tares, has already been mown down. The Day of Wrath The whole surface both of hill and valley was clad in a rich mantle of short buffalo grass, which gave it the aspect of a meadow lately mown, and springing into fresh verdure. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Unable to get within range themselves, they were mown down in lines. Our Soldiers Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign It only makes the mown grass smell more fragrant.” Mary Wollstonecraft After having been mown it shoots up a very thick aftermath, and, on this account, partly, is regarded of nearly equal excellence with the common foxtail. Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure Towards noon, as they rode, they saw the white towers of a fair city, and before its gates was a field newly mown, with many tents therein of divers rich colours. King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls As sunshine to the flowers in May, As wild flowers to the hinny bee, As fragrant scent o' new mown hay, So my true love is sweet to me. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century The application to your hearts of the blood of Jesus by the Holy Spirit is like the dew upon the new mown grass. Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. Warriors were mown like weeds under a sickle. Witch-Doctors Horses reared and fell, dreadfully hurt; men were mown down, falling beside their pieces. The Long Roll Whole streets of houses were mown down by the flaming scythe. Plotting in Pirate Seas "Aim low and fire steadily, men!" was the shout of the officers; and so well were they obeyed that the front ranks of the Arabs were mown down like grass. The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition Weeds that are but mown, come up afterwards only the more vigorously. Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century Avenues, and long walks under the hedges, and pasture-fields, and mown meadows where cattle graze, are her delight, especially if there are trees interspersed; because in such spots insects most abound. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II Somewhat like Skobeleff himself, he stood unhurt, many a time, when balls were whistling round him like hail, and comrades were mown down in ranks and heaps around him. In the Track of the Troops The song of the nightingale ceases about the time that the grass is mown. Gryll Grange At the foot of the Alexander Column, they were mown down like grass without warning, or mercy; their blood still sprinkles the stones. The Black Cross The park or meadow having been newly mown, had an air at once ornamented and natural. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 June had come—a bright sky remained for days with scarce a cloud; the hay-makers were everywhere busy, and the fields were fragrant with the sweet perfume of the mown grass. Frank Oldfield Lost and Found It’s one of my hobbies to keep the lane mown. The Independence of Claire It looks then exactly like a meadow does after it has been fresh mown and the grass is left upon it in long swathes by the scythe at equal distances apart.” The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea A newly mown field, of a thousand acres or so in extent, covered with rows of haycocks, lay right before the huntsmen; and here the really interesting part of the hunt began. A Hungarian Nabob Avenues, and long walks, under hedges, and pasture-fields, and mown meadows where cattle graze, are her delight, especially if there are trees interspersed; because in such spots insects most abound. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 His men were mown down by its guns, and the Earl himself left dead on the field. History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 "Is it new mown hay of the lungs, or too many griddle cakes on the stomach?" says I. But he only gasps and groans some more. Torchy I can catch the fragrance of the new mown hay. Sermons on Biblical Characters There was a corner here that had not been mown for a long time, and in the autumn the wild carrots took possession of it, almost to the exclusion of grass and other plants. Round About a Great Estate Butterflies poised themselves and flickered beside us, and the sun, as it climbed, drew up from the land the fragrance of freshly mown hay and mingled it with the stuffy odour of the coach. The Adventures of Harry Revel These are cunningly contrived to make my No. 4, triple A, look like a 2, and I walked upon air, narrowly missing being mown down by traffic, my eyes upon my feet. Jane Journeys On These were mown down and by 8.15 a.m. every Company Officer was a casualty. The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 Merciful Heaven!" exclaimed the little hunchback, standing with his arms folded and gloomily conjuring up the scene of yesterday; "Jemmy, we must have mown the poor brutes down like swathes of meadow grass. The Blue Pavilions On the day of my narrative, we had the last of the grass in the south field "mown and making" on the ground. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's After the mown clover has been exposed in the swath to the sunlight beyond a certain time, it turns brown, and if exposed thus long enough the aroma will be lost. Clovers and How to Grow Them The infantry advanced over some 3,000 yards of perfectly open plain, until they reached the enemy's uncut wire; here they were mown down by the enemy's machine guns. With the British Army in The Holy Land He was remembering the days when he too had reeled beneath the blow of a terrible fate, and all his hopes and beliefs had been mown down as by a scythe. The Eternal City Up there they had mown down some of my millet which they baked into a loaf and were eating with boiled milk. The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales Not a hundredweight of hay had we put into the barn, and the first hay we had mown had spoiled in the field. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's But there may be instances in which medium red or alsike clover may improve the crop the first year or two that it is mown for hay. Clovers and How to Grow Them There they stopped, mown down by rifle and machine gun fire and they lie there still, little bundles of wasting flesh in the midst of the poppies. The Red Horizon The front ranks of the cavalry were mown down like sheaves of corn by the bullets of the enemy's machine-guns; but that made no difference, on they went, on, ever on! Banzai! by Parabellum Others were mown down by musketry trying to escape across the Tuileries gardens. The French Revolution A Short History From four to seven hours were needed to make the grass into hay, but the time varied according as the grass was dry or green and damp when mown. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's The grass thus mown may be left as a mulch. Clovers and How to Grow Them He first taught me to notice the sweet perfume which a summer shower drives before it from afar, the combined perfume of wild flowers, trees and new mown grass. Confessions of Boyhood Farmers produce it, especially about Essex, under the name of Col, the crops being mown down when ripe, and the fruits being then thrashed out to procure the seeds. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure Then, they were mown down and driven back headlong. Gallipoli Diary, Volume I At that height strong cedar cross poles were laid, six inches apart, so as to form a kind of rack, on which the freshly mown grass could be pitched from a cart. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's If this is done a few days before the removal of the stock, they will eat much of the clover thus mown. Clovers and How to Grow Them It had plunged into two desolating wars of unprecedented magnitude, which have deranged its equilibrium, mown down its youth, and shaken it to its roots. God Passes By On account of the servant difficulty, again, this garden would probably be less laboriously neat than many of our gardens to-day—no "bedding-out," for example, and a certain parsimony of mown lawn.... Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought Friendships sprang up like the grass and were mown down like it. The Emigrant Trail Let your government be refreshing unto them as the rain upon the mown grass. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation A limited number of these will thus form after the crop has been mown for hay. Clovers and How to Grow Them He said the Germans were pouring men in between the forts in solid formation, and that these sheep were being mown down by the Belgians heavily intrenched between the forts. A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium All small feminine social arrangements, dependent for their accomplishment on the use of the horses, were mown down like grass. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron Thrushes and blackbirds have gone to the streams, to splash and bathe, and to the mown meadows, where in the short aftermath they can find their food. Nature Near London The firing is continuous, and very loud, and living men are under this fire at this moment, "mown down," "wiped out," as the horrible terms go. My War Experiences in Two Continents Furrows of mown grass lay like golden green wind-drifts behind the swinging passage of the scythe, and the face of the old negro showed scarred and wistful under the dappled sunshine. The Miller Of Old Church Had a shell fallen on the road or in the ditch, we should have seen those brave fellows knocked over, mown down, cut to pieces, by the hail of bullets. In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry He had mown and sown, and planted, and weeded, and watered it, that Edith might always have something pretty to look at from her window. The Helpmate At the beginning of October a herd of cows and a small flock of sheep were turned into the clover field to eat off the last crop, the preceding crops having been mown. Nature Near London Where can you find as graceful speech?—"He shall come down as rain upon the mown grass; mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other." The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future I was not accustomed to it then, and each crash meant to me rows of men mown down—maimed or killed. Field Hospital and Flying Column Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia We could not hesitate; we had to take cover, or to be mown down by shot or shell. In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry I felt sure that we should be all mown down before we could get under the shelter of the wall. The Queen's Cup Early in July, after the first crop had been mown a short time, there came up a few dull yellowish-looking stalks among it. Nature Near London Her ideal was a freshly mown field in the moonlight, and when she rolled slowly along, she looked like a moving haystack, and exhaled an odor of hay all about her. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 Broad patches of cultivation appeared in every sheltered nook, and tracts of smooth mown grass relieved the eye from the midst of sterile wilds. The Rivals of Acadia An Old Story of the New World How terribly French thought will have been mown down! Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 The country itself was fresh and bright after abundant rains, and as haymaking was in progress in many places along the road, the air was laden with the scent of the newly mown grasses. British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland In perfumery it is known as "new mown hay." Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries We went on a little farther—to a quiet spot, where the sun shone in warmly, where the grass was mown away short, but where it was green and bright. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business A shrunken stream is Lethe's water wan Unsought of any man: Grass Ceres sowed by alien hands is mown, And now she seeks Persephone alone. A Handbook for Latin Clubs Beyond the hedge, in a corner of the kitchen-garden, Johnny Whitelamb lay in his wet clothes with his face buried in a heap of mown grass. Hetty Wesley The weather-beaten walls and arches were overgrown with masses of ivy and the thick, green grass of the newly mown lawn spread beneath like a velvet carpet. British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland I would that we two stood together, a scythe in the hands of each, and a good swath of meadow to be mown—then would I match with thee, fasting from dawn until evening's dark. The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy At the hour she reached Pencoch the mown hay was dry and the people were gathering it together. My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People "The song of the nightingale," remarks Peacock, "ceases about the time the grass is mown." Life of John Milton The first company were mown down by a volley at 700 yards, and in their insane formation every bullet was almost sure to find two billets. Tommy Atkins at War As Told in His Own Letters He further tells us that 'you can well have 3 acres weeded for 1d., and an acre of meadow mown for 4d., and an acre of waste meadow for 31/2d. A Short History of English Agriculture Crossing several fields, newly mown, or filled with lines of tedded hay, she arrived, not without great exertion, at the summit of a hill. Jack Sheppard A Romance That afternoon Abel brought a cow in calf into his close; and that night Ben crossed the mown hayfields to the Vicarage, and he threw a little gravel at Lissi's window. My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People In Babylon the wheat-fields are regularly mown twice, and then fed off with beasts, to keep down the luxuriance of the leaf; otherwise the plant does not run to ear. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. I passed the next night in a wagon, swaddled in a load of fresh mown hay, the driver with rustic friendliness inviting me to keep him company on his dark journey. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Barley, however, should be mown close to the ground, though many reap it; oats too were to be mown. A Short History of English Agriculture In that ditch—filled with flowers—a hundred of our lads were mown down in three minutes. Joy in the Morning The grass was rank, but it had been mown down for this occasion round the tombs of the Ironsydes, though elsewhere darnel rose knee deep and many venerable stones slanted out of it. The Spinners It was early in the morning, and the stubble of the lately mown grass was wet with rain and hindering to old feet. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Army after army of Tartars came to the help of the besieged, but they were mown down mercilessly by Russian sabers, and trampled beneath Russian hoofs. The Empire of Russia He does not approve of the custom of reaping rye and wheat high up and mowing them after, but advises that they be cut clean; barley and oats, however, should be commonly mown. A Short History of English Agriculture And the Guards, such as were not mown down, lost courage at the astounding impetus of the dash, and scrambled and ran from their trench. Joy in the Morning At intervals we heard the tick-tick-tick of a small Maxim, but owing to the dark we were not mown down. On Commando Gradually we climbed, by dusty roads and through hot fields where the grass had just been mown, beneath the fierce light of the morning sun. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series Government House is on the outskirts of the city in the midst of a beautiful park which is kept in excellent order, the green turf being closely mown and dotted with tropical trees and bushes. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months Half a dozen of your men may be mown down by a machine gun. A Student in Arms Second Series The sheaf of the Corn, the rustling Corn, The sheaf of the Corn is mown; When the sheaf is mown on the Cornhill My love will leave his own. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 21, 1917 Outside the air was limpid with sunlight, and the newly mown meadow was golden in the light of evening. Muslin Most of the chiefs perished without the pretence of trial, and the same fate befel thousands of National Guards, who were mown down in swathes and cast into trenches. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) In the level meadow, around a Maypole gay with garlands and with fluttering ribbons, the grass had been closely mown, for there were to be foot-races and wrestling bouts for the amusement of the guests. Audrey They were diminutive and numerous, could take shelter in a forest of pine cones and were admirably suited to be mown down at the cannon's mouth. A Student in Arms Second Series Some of them stood ground and fought, only to be mown down by the enemy; others were surrounded and made captive; but few actually succeeded in evading the troopers. Truxton King A Story of Graustark From the empty field arose an odour like that of a newly mown meadow. Abbe Mouret's Transgression It will spring like mown grass from the roots that need but showers and heat and time to bring them forth. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) The Germans had been mown down in heaps; the British had charged through their cavalry like charging through paper. Mr. Britling Sees It Through Thence he went to the pasture just beyond, carefully mown close and swept for the purpose, where the May-pole stood, wreathed with flowers and green branches. After London Or, Wild England Thus was the second squadron in its turn mown down, annihilated, leaving its task to be accomplished by those who came after. The Downfall Undoubtedly he fled the shores of his native land to escape the barrage of the bonbonniverous sub-deb, who would else have mown him down without ruth. Shandygaff On one hand there was a mown swathe of thistles, on the other they still grew luxuriantly all down the slope to the burnside. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 The roofs of birch bark, covered with turf, which is mown in the autumn, are crowned with natural flowers. Ticket No. "9672" Swathe, the long line of mown corn behind a reaper; cf. "swathes of the sword," i.e. heaps of dead in battle. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung THE party of sportsmen spent the night in a peasant's hut on some newly mown hay. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories Quietly she glided down the aisle, her dress rustling along the seats, and an odor of "new mown hay" exhaling from her clothing. The Evolution of Dodd Colonel Gist, commanding the Fifteenth, and Captain Jennings, commanding the Third Battalion, were dangerously wounded, while many others of the line officers had fallen, and men were being mown down like grain before a sickle. History of Kershaw's Brigade And the sight of these far nobler growths, the beautiful young men, mown down in their stately prime, became too much for me. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II When fairly on it we hear round us, on all sides and quite close, a terrible pit-pat, and the long low hiss of mown grass. Light By this time the hay-work at Fródá was so far advanced that all the home field was mown, and nearly the half of it was quite dry. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts The saplings and bushes were mown down by cannon and rifles and the air was full of bursting shells. The Shades of the Wilderness A Story of Lee's Great Stand They were mown down like grain before the sickle by the fierce artillery fire and the enemy's infantry on the crest of the hill. History of Kershaw's Brigade It is even said that the growth on the mountains, which strictly speaking is only grass, grows taller than wheat within four days after it has been mown. De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera On their exposed strand they were easily mown down. The Long White Cloud It is now often sown in October, and in the month of May or June following it is mown and taken off the land for green fodder. The Botanist's Companion, Volume II Other trees fell too, cut through by cannon balls, and some were actually mown down by sheets of bullets, as if they had been grass. The Shades of the Wilderness A Story of Lee's Great Stand Great gaps were mown out by the bursting of shells while the grape and canister caused the soldiers to drop by ones, twos and sections along the whole line. History of Kershaw's Brigade The mown fields grew yellow under the stare of the brassy sun, and the leaves cracked and curled for the want of moisture. The Morgesons While passing through a grass field recently mown, a lark flew up from almost under my feet. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's It is also well known, that if the crop is mown the plant is the sooner exhausted. The Botanist's Companion, Volume II There's only the patch at the back to be mown, and you could do that yourself. Three Plays Farther away, where a meadow had been lately mown, the swallows glided to and fro, but just above the short grass, round and round, under the shadow of the solitary oaks. Hodge and His Masters In the foreground was a haycock, where the grave grass had been mown. The Three Brontës The fields of clover, and Italian rye-grass, etc., are mown three and even four times in one season, and afterwards fed with sheep. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's It should remain in the field about a week after it is mown, and when sufficiently dry gathered in bundles and stacked as Hemp. The Botanist's Companion, Volume II Another of Mr. White's theories is that moon was pronounced mown. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 All flesh is grass, so do the Scriptures say, And grass, when mown, is shortly turn'd to hay. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 535, February 25, 1832 Let the mown swathes look northward, ye who mow, Or westward—for the ears grow fattest so. Theocritus, translated into English Verse It had been literally mown down by the storm of bullets which had raged across it all night long. On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles "It has mown a swath through history," he said, "like a discharge of grape." Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 He smelt the earth and trees and flowers, the perfume of mown grass, and the bits of open heath-land far away in the heart of the woods. The Man Whom the Trees Loved Here, it was clear, the Angel of Silence had passed, and his scythe mown. The Purple Cloud The trees were mown down, clean to the ground. A Minstrel in France Thousands of gay, brave, high spirited lads like Ted were mown down daily by shrapnel and machine gun or sent twisted and writhing to still more hideous death in the unspeakable horror of noxious gases. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth Two lanes were literally mown through the ranks of the Russian infantry, the shot which flew high doing terrible execution among the artillery behind them. Jack Archer In a neighboring field stood a plot of rye-grass two feet in height, notwithstanding the season was yet so early; and a part of it had been already mown for the food of cattle. Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America In the Spring-time seed is sown: In the Summer grass is mown: In the Autumn you may reap: Winter is the time for sleep. Songs of a Savoyard The field had been newly mown, and there were yet the marks of the scythe on the yellow-green ground, and the track of wheels where the hay had been carried. Our Mutual Friend Both putting spurs to their horses, they rode until they came to a meadow which had been mown. Four Arthurian Romances In the spring-time seed is sown: In the summer grass is mown: In the autumn you may reap: Winter is the time for sleep. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan The drive could not have been beaten in England, and fringes of mown turf on either hand had been pared out of the lush meadows. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies The once neglected lawns had already been mown and rolled, clipped and trimmed, until they spread before the eye huge measures of green velvet; even the beds girdling and adorning them were brilliant with flowers. The Shuttle At some future time the Improvers meant to have the lichened, wayward old board fence replaced by a neat wire railing, the grass mown and the leaning monuments straightened up. Anne of Avonlea The hay had not been mown in the meadow and the horse went for the part where the grass was thickest. Grettir the Strong, Icelandic Saga But ruddy Ceres in mid heat is mown, And in mid heat the parched ears are bruised Upon the floor; to plough strip, strip to sow; Winter's the lazy time for husbandmen. The Georgics A gentle breeze had begun to tickle their summits, and brought the smell of the mown grass across from the elm-dotted river meadows. Roderick Hudson They have conferred on the poor, on widows and orphans, the right to have their meadows mown three days in advance of every one else. Les Misérables Lower came terrace after terrace of smoothly mown grass, each with its little path and borders of shrubs, interspersed with the finest Wellingtonias in the county, tapering gracefully to heaven, copper-beeches and grand oaks. The Four Faces A Mystery I will not have that harvest mown: I'll keep the corn and leave the bread. Georgian Poetry 1920-22 Would I might once more inhale the fresh, bitter fragrance of the wormwood, the sweet scent of the mown buckwheat in the fields of my native place! The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories It may be mown as readily as any other part of the lawn, and it takes care of itself. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) Siegmund sat watching the last morning blowing in across the mown darkness, till the whole field of the world was exposed, till the moon was like a dead mouse which floats on water. The Trespasser The attackers are mown down as corn falls, not before the sickle but the scythe. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places The verdure of the valley is fresh as in May, and sweet scents of newly mown hay, the autumn crop, reach us as we go. The Roof of France Women and children were mown down; the dogs furiously defending their masters' bodies were also slaughtered. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc The weeds need not be pulled, unless such vicious intruders as docks or other perennial plants gain a foothold; but the area should be mown frequently with a lawn-mower. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) The brief pink butterflies of sunrise and sunset rose up from the mown fields of darkness, and fluttered low in a cloud. The Trespasser There the private fields, carefully protected during the spring, from the tread or bite of cattle, and mown yearly in the summer, have all the wealth of flowers peculiar to our hay-meadows. The Naturalist on the Thames The hay was not mountain hay, but distinctly meadow hay, such as is mown in valleys along streams. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire The flowers were faded and the whole plain lay mown flat, like a stricken wilderness; and that fellow with his sickle, who now drew himself up to contemplate his finished work, was … her father! The Path of Life If it is mown frequently--say once or twice a week--in the periods of most vigorous growth, it will not be necessary to rake off the mowings. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) Or like the dew on the mown grass, and the clear shining of the sunlight after April rain? Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Laramie has a seal brown goat, with iron gray chin whiskers and a breath like new mown hay. Remarks The clearing was clothed in soft, late, second-growth grass, and had plainly been mown at haying time and pastured on since. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire A hush fell over the congregation and all heads dropped, as though mown down, in deep reverence: not one dared look up. The Path of Life When sanding is not practicable, the vines may be mown off when they become too luxuriant. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) But the tallest blade of grass gets mown down by the scythe, and withers as quickly as the rest of its green companions, and goes its way into the oven as surely. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Then the full splendor of the bridal skirt trailed across the freshly mown grasses. In and out of Three Normady Inns Grain was cut with a sickle, and grass was mown with a scythe. Early European History The green coverlet looked like a mown lawn, and the little pillows reminded her of two white kittens curled up on the grass. Married A gloom fell over the souls of many, as they read of our serried ranks mown down by the Russian fire, of heroic valour and heroic death. The Englishwoman in America He seemed to feel the joy of rushing them, an automatic in each hand spitting death, just as he had mown down the Lanskaarn in the Battle of the Wall, down below in the Abyss. Darkness and Dawn And this their lamentation ceased not, until we had rendered them like corn which is mown down and utterly extinct. The Koran (Al-Qur'an) Our soldiers were mown down at a fearful rate. An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830 Hiring a skiff, I rowed about a mile down the stream, and landed on a sloping meadow, level with the waters, and newly mown. Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents Poor children," Fran�oise would exclaim, in tears almost before she had reached the railings; "poor boys, to be mown down like grass in a meadow. Swann's Way She felt the soft breath from the mown hay that lay in the moonlight on the lawn. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Sitting down comfortably upon a quantity of mown hay on the shore, we had our lunch, the first man over the portage having made a fire, and rested for an hour. A Trip to Manitoba Attacked thus on all sides, mown down by a heavy fire of artillery, unsupported amid an army of foes, the column could do no more. Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden Her soft light reposed upon the meads, that had been newly mown, and the shadows of tall poplars were cast aslant them. Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents Beyond the belt of wavering shade, the recently mown grass gave out a moist smell in the hot sun. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" The very floors upon which the dancing was to take place were decorated so as to present the appearance of a newly mown lawn. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young The hay in the Broad Pasture was mown and dried. Anne Severn and the Fieldings This door-yard, which had been twice mown that summer, was prettily embellished with flowers, and was shaded by four rows of noble cherry-trees. The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers The fields, lately mown, sloped gently up to a fringe of pines darkly green against the sky. Mother Carey's Chickens So also today, he stood there and looked with surprised eyes across at the freshly mown meadow, where a crowd of Middle Lot children were playing with much noise "Catch me if you can." Erick and Sally The land lay silent, and the new mown hay Rested upon it like a dreamy sleep; And stealing softly o'er each yellow heap, The night-breeze bore sweet incense-breath away. Poems All round the place the air was sweet with the smell of the mown hay, and from the Broad Pasture there came the rattle and throb of the mowing-machines. Anne Severn and the Fieldings The rank grasses had been mown to make a walk, and in a corner flourished a little group of pot-herbs. Salute to Adventurers With cruel vigor he has held His great, impartial sway, And many thousands mown to earth, Who saw last Christmas day. Canada and Other Poems Again and again the British sharpshooters repeated their fire; again and again the heads of the columns were renewed by the men behind, as those in front were mown down by the French. The Passing of New France : a Chronicle of Montcalm When the graves were within reach, it was a practice of some of the tribes to keep them in the neatest order, the grass closely mown, and the weeds and brambles carefully removed. The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation A strong, dry south wind was blowing, and the air was filled with the sweet smell of the newly mown hay. Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3) The fields are cleared of the hay, and the bright green of the newly mown grass increases the darkness of the massive foliage of the bordering elms. More Pages from a Journal From somewhere came a drowsy scent of mown grass. Three Soldiers But the men in front were no sooner mown down than the next behind them swarmed forward. The Passing of New France : a Chronicle of Montcalm The green lawn is pleasant to look at, though it is mown so ruthlessly. The Life of the Fields What a smell of freshly mown grass there was, and how the little heaps into which it had been raked the evening before sparkled with dewdrops as the sun caught them. The Solitary Summer The air was full of the stifling emanations of mown hay, with now and then a whiff from putrefied silkworms in the bushes. Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian But the saddest thing to see was field after field of rich grain mown within a few inches of the ground by those swift, keen sickles which no man's hand had held. The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel The air was sweet with the breath of mown hayfields where swaths of clover had been steeping in the sun. The Story Girl Here a man might have mown acres of cowslips, pale but sweet. The Life of the Fields The grapeshot whined and shrieked, and the ranks of the sepoys wilted, mown down as though a scythe had swept them. Told in the East The old man has mown a good deal of grass. Driven Back to Eden The sun was nearing the western horizon and a deep apricot glow warmed the mown field and the undulating foliage in the far distance. Innocent : her fancy and his fact She thought 'new mown hay' was the best to saturate the skin with. The Ear in the Wall In the darkness it was utterly impossible to distinguish friend from foe, and numbers on both sides were mown down by the volleys of their own party. The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus It had been mown, and the grass was already growing long. Aaron's Rod Such was the heat, that the trees of her nook had looked longingly towards the cool of the water, while the scent of lately mown hay seemed to pervade the world. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl He breathes the scent of green things, of the newly mown lawns, of the warm gravel. The New Book of Martyrs The songs of pale emaciate hours, The fungus-growth of years of peace, Withered before us like mown flowers; We found no pleasure more in these When bullets fell in showers. Essays from 'The Guardian' It is carefully mown in the hay season; if it were not, the horses would come to pasture on these green abodes. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth The toy soldiers stand quite well on closely mown grass, but the long-range gun-fire becomes a little uncertain if there is any breeze. Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books. There was no standing grain; the great field looked as if it had been mown. The Girl from Keller's The highways were not bordered by unsightly weeds but had been mown. See America First It only makes the mown grass smell more fragrant. Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Its smell, I have said, is that of newly mown hay, and is prized like that of the tea-rose. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 The simile is outworn, but it was exactly as though some invisible scythe had mown them down. Now It Can Be Told He skirted the royal gardens, and the smell of newly mown lawns filled the air. The Puppet Crown I may as well here correct an error, which I had been under, and which you may, perhaps, have shared with me—native grass cannot be mown. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement Then arose plantations of firs, abruptly terminating beside meadows cleanly mown, in which high-hipped, rich-coloured cows, with backs horizontal and straight as the ridge of a house, stood motionless or lazily fed. Desperate Remedies But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been,—alone, 'As all must be,' I said within my heart, 'Whether they work together or apart.' A Boy's Will Once more they charged, and once more were mown down. The Ivory Child There was a lawn, with freshly mown grass; flower-beds were laid out, and at the end of an avenue of young acacias stood an arbour covered with wisteria. Villa Rubein, and other stories And further still the summer, When thy fair tree, fully grown, Shall bourgeon, and grow splendid With blossoms of its own, And the fruit begins to gather, But the buttercups are mown. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 What struck him most was the sight of a splendid field of oats in which a camp had been pitched and which was being mown down by the soldiers, evidently for fodder. War and Peace The pastures here are very rich in flowers, the tiger lilies being more abundant before the hay is mown, than perhaps even at Fusio itself. Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino The grass was no longer mown like a lawn, but was long and deep and thick. Robert Falconer |
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