Слово "turf". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Suddenly he was standing on short springy turf, on a summer evening when the slanting rays of the sun gilded the ground.

Hercule Poirot sat on the turf on the summit of the island.

The engine slowed down and stopped just beyond that point where an angle of the house impinged upon the sharp slope of turf.

Through the midst of these crushing whirlpools the little mermaid was obliged to pass before she could reach the dominions of the sea witch. Then, for a long distance, the road lay across a stretch of warm, bubbling mire, called by the witch her turf moor.

“It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again.

Men who had been ruled off the turf everywhere else were racing in Italy.

Freada had turfed out the stiff furniture and had bought bits and pieces of her own, things she had collected about her from time to time; like the old Normandy dresser in the corner, and the gatelegged table, and of course the pictures, and the rugs, and the piano.