And smiled as his beloved crossed the velvet lawn toward him.
She had had to help him out of the boat and across the velvet lawn and into the house.
We were looking out across the long velvet lawn in front of the Palace of Established Happiness, and my liver turned ice cold.
He marveled at the change from the squalid huddle of the town to a parkland of velvet lawns and precise beds of flowers, under high, soothing shade trees.
There were several great houses there, with slaves pandering flower beds, polishing velvet lawns with scythes, and dragging watercarts.
Perhaps, when you look at a velvet lawn you actually see the colour which I call 'red'.
At the top of the cliffs lie the velvet lawns of the war cemeteries, with their ranks of creamy-white headstones.
Expanses of gravel drive, expanses of velvet lawn, huge exquisite trees, everything shining and dappled in the blazing sun.
It overlooked an acre of velvet lawn.
The magnolia and dogwood scrub to the left and right was replaced by velvet lawns and ornamental cherries.