stubble-fields

Beyond the court stretched the eternal stubble-fields.

Main Street 2004

Thus the house sparrow is more abundant than the redbreast, because its food is more constant and plentiful, — seeds of grasses being preserved during the winter, and our farm-yards and stubble-fields furnishing an almost inexhaustible supply.

On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type 2004

I hailed as a relief the stubble-fields immeasurably spread at times, and I did not always resent the roadside planting of some sort of tall hedges which now and then hid the olives.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

The men had guns in their hands, and were got up with all proper sporting appurtenances, but it so turned out that they did not reach the stubble-fields on the farther side of the road until after luncheon.

The Small House at Allington 2004

One Sunday morning about harvest time, just as the buckwheat was in bloom, the sun was shining brightly in heaven, the east wind was blowing warmly over the stubble-fields, the larks were singing in the air, the bees buzzing among the buckwheat, the people were all going in their Sunday clothes to church, and all creatures were happy, and the hedgehog was happy too.

Household Tales 2003

The summer grains were harvested; the stubble-fields lay dry,

Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" Various

You can imagine what good times the Chickens had in the stubble-fields.

Among the Farmyard People Clara Dillingham Pierson

They had long been too large to cuddle under their mother's feathers at night, and had taken their first lessons in roosting before they went to the stubble-fields.

Among the Farmyard People Clara Dillingham Pierson

The summer grains were harvested; the stubble-fields lay dry, Where

The Elson Readers, Book 5 Christine M. Keck

Thus the house sparrow is more abundant than the redbreast, because its food is more constant and plentiful, -- seeds of grasses being preserved during the winter, and our farm-yards and stubble-fields furnishing an almost inexhaustible supply.

Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various