| Instead of brick courtyards and side-lit rooms where music is played and good housewifery rules, we have boats, meads, cows, horsemen and horsewomen. |
| A dull change this from the green meads of egham or the slopes of Richmond. |
| As soon as Wenlock could approach the governor, he inquired for his friends, the meads. |
| All the preceding afternoon and night heavy thunderstorms had hissed down upon the meads. |
| All this meant spring, and spring meant hunting for snowdrops in the meads. |
| Hot steaming rains fell frequently, hindering the late haymaking in the other meads. |
