clean-cropped

Updated: May 8, 2025

Vandewaters and Gracia Raglan talked more freely than they had ever done before. "Do you really like England?" she said to him; then, waving her hand lightly to the beeches and the clean-cropped grass through the window, "I mean do you like our 'trim parterres, our devotion to mere living, pleasure, sport, squiring, and that sort of thing?"

Gilbert Parker - At the Sign of the Eagle