The grounds were cleared in the front and on the sides of the house; thick, tall trees shot up at random about the close-cropped lawn.

Soft and warm as babies, more naked than jaybirds, two mutant, featherless chickens gamboled on the close-cropped lawn.

Bayta trailed her husband, rushing downwards over the close-cropped lawn.

Better for her surely than some sterile hospital room, or vista of close-cropped lawn with no more variation than a synthetic carpet.

The peaceful, cloud-dappled moonlight drifted over the close-cropped lawn and silvered the ornamental shrubs.

It was the middle of the week; there was little movement along the neat, narrow paths, the close-cropped lawns.

I wonder how many of them now realize just how thin the ground really is, beneath those close-cropped lawns.

The grass near Gracie Mansion will remain uncut, as close-cropped lawns require more water than wild ones.

Wide, smooth, close-cropped lawns, with ancient trees and flowering shrubs stretched away to the horizons.

Beyond the pond the path widened and then debouched onto a close-cropped lawn.