o'er-siz'd with coagulate gore

Only where George stood was there left a sward as of yore; the great, level, green lawn that served for both the Major's house and his daughter's.

The wind was blowing almost a storm as we arrived at our first ground -- a good-sized lake, with broad moory flats, sprinkled with bulrushes and sedgy grass stretching down to the water's edge, and looking uncommonly snipy.

The shale bed is uphole from the limestone reservoir.