corn-field

Bradley's brigade went in with steadiness, and charging across an open corn-field that lay in front of the Lafayette road, recovered Davis's guns and forced the enemy to retire.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

An old country game, usually played in a corn-field or stack-yard and somewhat resembling Prisoner's Bars, originally played by three couples.

Annotations To The Text of _Wat Tyler_ 2007

So I declined the offer and we drove some miles out of the village and parked the trailer in a peaceful corn-field.

Huitussi, Sinaloa, Mexico 2007

So I declined the offer and we drove some miles out of the village and parked the trailer in a peaceful corn-field.

Huitussi, Sinaloa, Mexico 2007

Nevertheless he suffers from the raids of nimble roes or the wantonness of the wild asses; here the mice convey the corn to their garners underground, there the ants crowd thickly in and ravage the corn-field.

Jerome Against the Luciferians 2006

The chief thing was to hinder these plunderers from reaching the plateau, for the garden and the poultry-yard would then have been at their mercy, and immense, perhaps irreparable mischief, would inevitably be the result, especially with regard to the corn-field.

The Mysterious Island 2005

From this time Pencroft did not let a single day pass without going to visit what he gravely called his “corn-field.”

The Mysterious Island 2005

The third corn-field was very much larger than the two first, and the soil, prepared with extreme care, received the precious seed.

The Mysterious Island 2005

The third corn-field was very much larger than the two first, and the soil, prepared with extreme care, received the precious seed.

The Mysterious Island 2005

“And prepare our second corn-field!” cried the sailor with a triumphant air.

The Mysterious Island 2005