Every time I pick up the scythe — whether I'm cutting a corner of orchard grass in the pasture or making my way into the brambles — I realize how effortless it is, especially when the blade is sharp.
Brandt ran back to the deepest corner of the outfield grass; the ball descended beyond his reach and struck in the crotch where the bullpen met the wall, bounced chunkily, and, as far as I could see, vanished.
[Jackie] Brandt ran back to the deepest corner of the outfield grass; the ball descended beyond his reach and struck in the crotch where the bullpen met the wall, bounced chunkily, and, as far as I could see, vanished.
Behind the main home, wild yams grew thick in the grounds … a path climbed a small hill to the plateau at its top where a shrine stood at one corner of a wide expanse of grass.
In a five-run fourth — the Mets' second five-run inning in two games against Pittsburgh — they explored every corner of the crisscross outfield grass from chalk line to chalk line by sending 10 batters to the plate.
Town and gown have had little relations to speak of in recent decades — until two years ago, when the university announced plans to expand the roughly 100-yard-long swath of grass on the corner of Ashland Place and Willoughby Street, the field of play for its Division 1 soccer team, so that the soccer field can grow to N.C.A.A. regulation size.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Villagers are rising up against the Taliban in a remote corner of northern Pakistan, a grass-roots rebellion that underscores the shift in the public mood against the militants and a growing confidence to confront them.
There was a cemetery next to the school grounds, with a well-hidden patch of grass down in one corner where kids went to settle their differences.
Try the British Embassy, where in a secluded corner of the grounds an immaculate grass court beckons.
The corner of our garden where the grass is left rank is a very small step along the way; reintroduction of red kites to England a slightly bigger one; the Knepp estate in Sussex and Ennerdale in Cumbria, where farming activity has been scaled back and the landscape is changing in unpredictable ways, a bigger one still.
