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Updated: June 22, 2025
Entering through the Great Gatehouse where, though the Palace is no longer used as a residence by the royal family, a sentry is always on guard we reach the First Green Court or Base Court a peaceful quadrangle surrounded by low red buildings with the western end of the Great Hall fronting us to the left. This, the only turfed "quad", is the largest of them all.
Cuttings should be widened, if not already wide enough, so as to admit of good ditches along the track. The slopes should be dressed off and turfed. This costs little, and prevents the earth from washing down and choking up the ditches, and much of that terrible nuisance, dust. The secret of all good road-making, whether railways or common roads, lies in thorough drainage.
I believe he was a bit of a pal of Patterson's at the time. Anyhow, they had a row, and Ruthven went to Dexter Patterson was in Dexter's and sneaked. Dexter promised to keep his name out of the business, and went straight to the Old Man, and Patterson got turfed out on the spot.
The whole pack went pelting by, shouting, stumbling, swearing. For two minutes or more the stragglers continued to hurry past by ones and twos. As soon as their shouts died away, I drew freer breath and look'd around. I was in a small, turfed garden, well stock'd with evergreen shrubs, at the back of a tall house that I knew for Master Carter's.
The materials of the new pile may be disposed of, sold, carted away anyhow, anywhere. Those of the old house are sacred not a brick to be carried from the precincts around it. No; from foundation to roof, all to be piously removed to receive formal interment deep in the still bosom of the little lake, and the lake to be filled up and turfed over.
Pao-ch'ai felt a wish to catch them for mere fun's sake, so producing a fan from inside her sleeve, she descended on to the turfed ground to flap them with it. The two butterflies suddenly were seen to rise; suddenly to drop: sometimes to come; at others to go.
A little, green, velvet- turfed mound is in the midst, planted round with all the flowers that she loved snowdrops and violets in the early part of the year, roses and lilies in summer, little daisies always for she used to say she liked them because others generally despised them. I go there twice a day, morning and night. Her mother knows of my visits; but, we never meet, even there!
Cocoanut palms as well as mangoes and other shady trees line its banks, which, turfed with beautifully green grass, slope gently down to the water, and are sprinkled over with sensitive plants in flower.
Wilcox had filled up, had reappeared, and her track through the dew followed the path that he had turfed over, when he improved the garden and made it possible for games. "This is not quite our house yet," said Helen. "When Miss Avery called, I felt we are only a couple of tourists." "We shall be that everywhere, and for ever." "But affectionate tourists."
I should want, of course, to include the levee, under which runs one side of the gardens' fence; also the opposite shore of the Mississippi, with its just discernible plantation houses behind their levee; and the great bend of the river itself, with the sun setting in unutterable gorgeousness behind the distant, low-lying pecan groves of Nine-mile Point, and the bronzed and purpled waters kissing the very crown of the great turfed levee, down under whose land side the gardens blossom and give forth their hundred perfumes and bird songs to the children and lovers that haunt their winding alleys of oleander, jasmine, laurestine, orange, aloe, and rose, the grove of magnolias and oaks, and come out upon the levee's top as the sun sinks, to catch the gentle breeze and see the twilight change to moonlight on the water.
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