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  • noun Plural form of meadow.

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Examples

  • It irrigates a score of mountain meadows before it makes the plunge and is clarified to crystal clearness in the next few rugged miles; and at the plunge from the highlands it generates half the power and all the lighting used on the ranch.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • The view in the Wye meadows is my worst — but it being but the second on the list, and the view of Mitchel Dean the last, I keep up my courage boldly.

    Letter 225 2009

  • Much of Elizabeth's settlement was in meadows, parks, woods, and forests.

    From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

  • And as the bee in the green meadows is ever wont to rob the flowers among the grass, so our Courtier must steal this grace from all who seem to possess it, taking from each that part which shall most be worthy praise. 118 47

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • How to live off the land and what delicacies there are hiding in our own forests and meadows is starting to become a sadly forgotten art, and even though I grew up mostly in a city myself it saddens me when I meet people my age who can barely tell a chestnut tree from a cherry tree and would never eat anything straight from the forest.

    Bento # 89: Fruits of the forest « Were rabbits 2007

  • So he sits in meadows and writes about the flowers.

    And it's a MeMe! nathreee 2007

  • When the long grass in meadows had grown to a foot or more, the men cut it with scythes and left it in swathes overnight.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • Once, however, I made out a string of black figures hurrying across the meadows from the direction of Weybridge.

    The War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells: Part 3 | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2005

  • Though we wander in English meadows mid the scent of English flowers,

    Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

  • In the past, whenever we North Americans have lowered trading restrictions, we have seen our economies bloom like mountain meadows after a spring rain.

    Relationships 1988

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