Word: meadow
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Most German Faith dedications this Easter were held wherever the sponsors could find an attractive rolling meadow, a bit of what Reichswart called "the primeval German land-the Germanic inheritance. How great and how simple...
...brought the town brief prosperity. Stone City's art school quickly became known as the Ice-Wagon Art Colony. So many pupils enrolled for the course that every bedroom in the village was taken. Inventive pupils found a stable of 14 abandoned ice wagons, dragged them to a meadow, fitted them up as gypsy caravans, painted the sides with gaudy murals. From miles around the farmers went to gape at artists and ice wagons, were charged 10? admission for sightseeing. After two seasons, however, the colony was unable to make expenses, went bankrupt...
...only under the trees in the long grasses wet with the creek that little pockets of coolness were to be found. So, having run down the hill and across the meadow that lay stretched, still and beaten, in the burning gold of the summer afternoon, she flung herself on the bank in a final rush. Gulping and panting, she raised her small body cautiously and listened. But not a sound of pursuit murmured from the far hill...
...hawk's shadow rippled across the tops of the trees and blotted the bars of the sun on the brook. It flickered for a second on the little girl's bare feet and was gone. And again it swerved over and disappeared. Back in the meadow, something swooped down and the thin, quivering squeal of a field mouse hung in the hot, stagnant air and was stifled...
...Close to shore, his shell got better run, led by three lengths at Hammersmith Bridge, half way on the 4¼-mile course. The Oxford coxswain, Bryan, steered smartly toward the Surrey side. For the first time in the race his boat kept up but at Duke's Meadow bend a strong tide-pull stole the gain. At Chiswick, with Oxford nearly four lengths behind, the crews settled down to the hardest rowing of the race. At Barnes Bridge, Oxford made its final challenge. The stroke went up, 32 to Cambridge's 30, and the Dark Blue boat...