There were brighter pictures, of early Mexican-Californian life, a pastel of twilight eucalyptus with a sunset-tipped mountain beyond, by Reimers, a moonlight by Peters, and a Griffin stubble-field across which gleamed and smoldered California summer hills of tawny brown and purple-misted, wooded canyons. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The advance of the former was slow, limited by the sluggish pace of his cattle; the latter left behind him stubble-field and hedgerow, crag and dark heath, all glittering with frost-rime in the broad November moonlight, at the rate of six miles an hour. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He opened a gate, and they entered a path across a stubble-field. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He saw the stubble-field, and a slight girlish figure in the midst of it — up against the sky. ❋ Unknown (2006)
When once they had left behind the stubble-field of their environment and the parish of Welland, they sauntered on comfortably, Lady ❋ Unknown (2006)
She desired also that the copses should be full of pheasants, the stubble-field of partridges, and the gorse covers of foxes; in that way, also, she loved her country. ❋ Unknown (2004)
In a stubble-field shoot, where cripples can't swim away or hide in the cattails, I'll go ahead and shoot doubles. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Just at this side of the gate leading into the stubble-field there was already a concourse of people when Tony arrived near it with the hounds, and immediately there was a holloaing and loud screeching of directions, which was soon understood to mean that the hounds were at once to be taken away! ❋ Unknown (2004)
This urchin being sent for from the stubble-field, was hastily muffled in the buff coat, and girded rather to than with the sword of a full-grown man, his little legs plunged into jack-boots, and a steel cap put upon his head, which seemed, from its size, as if it had been intended to extinguish him. ❋ Unknown (2004)
They rustle, murmur, and give forth delicately mournful sounds, and the traveller, pausing in inexplicable sadness, hears them, and heeds not the fading light, nor the gay songs of the peasants which float in the air as they return from their labours in meadow and stubble-field, nor the distant rumble of the passing waggon. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble-field. ❋ Unknown (2002)
You could hardly know the colour of the cattle, which were standing up to their bellies in a stubble-field. ❋ William M'Combie (N/A)
After much reconnoitring and some firing, on the part of the enemy, from these ditches, at the Highlanders, who they thought had never seen cannon, and would therefore be intimidated, the English army was drawn up on the east side of the village of Tranent, where, on a dry stubble-field, with ❋ Mrs. Thomson (N/A)
Harkye, stranger, when men have been slaving and sweating for four or five months to build houses for their wives and for the poor worms of children, and then a parcel of devils from hell come and burn them down like maize-stalks in a stubble-field, it is no wonder that their teeth should grind together, and their fists clench of themselves. ❋ Various (N/A)
He had been for a good many years taking in a daily landscape of stubble-field, orchard and straight country roads. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
It was a season of mild weather though on the eve of winter; even yet the perfume of the stubble-field and of fruitage in forest and plantation breathed all about the country of Mac-Cailen ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
They walked down the hill on the opposite side, and then commenced crossing, arm in arm, the stubble-field that lay stretched out before them. ❋ F. [Translator] Jordan (N/A)
After examination, a stroll round the island, examining the products, as wheat in sheaves on the stubble-field; oats, somewhat blighted and spoiled; great pumpkins elsewhere; pastures; mowing ground; -- all cultivated by the boys. ❋ Various (N/A)
