feeding-grounds

If the system demands that universities be feeding-grounds for professional sports leagues, let them continue to be, but end the silly requirement that athletes must earn college credits in order to become professional, as if they were preparing for law school or an engineering job.

Robert E. Murphy: Student-Athletes and College Sports: Time to Do Something Robert E. Murphy 2010

Denunciations of the treaty became outspoken, and as the young braves grew more and more insolent every day, it amounted to conviction that, unless by some means the irritation was allayed, hostilities would surely be upon us when the buffalo returned to their summer feeding-grounds between the Arkansas and the Platte.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

If the system demands that universities be feeding-grounds for professional sports leagues, let them continue to be, but end the silly requirement that athletes must earn college credits in order to become professional, as if they were preparing for law school or an engineering job.

Robert E. Murphy: Student-Athletes and College Sports: Time to Do Something Robert E. Murphy 2010

Then, all around would be seen valleys and pasturages that could form the feeding-grounds of thousands of animals; then would appear virgin forests, gigantic trees-birches, beeches, ash-trees, cypresses, tree-ferns — and broad plains overrun by herds of guanacos, vicunas, and ostriches.

Robur the Conqueror 2003

All the ways and habits of fish, and their favourite feeding-grounds, are to him as pages of an open book.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

Rolling and lurching along, gambolling like good-humoured, contented children, the herd moves leisurely to and from favourite feeding-grounds, occasionally splashing mightily with powerful tails to make fountains of illuminated spray — great, unreflecting, sportful water-babes.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

To be successful in the sport the black must be familiar with the life-history of the creature to a certain extent — understanding its peregrinations and the reason for them — the strength and trend of currents and the locality of favourite feeding-grounds.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

And hence not only at substantiated times, upon well known separate feeding-grounds, could Ahab hope to encounter his prey; but in crossing the widest expanses of water between those grounds he could, by his art, so place and time himself on his way, as even then not to be wholly without prospect of a meeting.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

So, too, with some other feeding-grounds, where he had at times revealed himself.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Because, an interval of three hundred and sixty-five days and nights was before him; an interval which, instead of impatiently enduring ashore, he would spend in a miscellaneous hunt; if by chance the White Whale, spending his vacation in seas far remote from his periodical feeding-grounds, should turn up his wrinkled brow off the Persian

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002