grain-field

In the big screen, a cluster of magnesium-lights appeared above where the Skilkan gun had been; in the small screen, there was a stubbled grain-field, pocked with craters, and the bodies of fifteen or twenty natives, all rather badly mangled.

Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952

If new friendships offer the hope of fruit, like the young shoots in the grain-field that give promise of harvest, they are not indeed to be spurned, yet the old are to be kept in their place.

De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream Marcus Tullius Cicero

Toward the west, however, the rainfall is greater, and in central Washington and northern Oregon the plateau becomes one vast grain-field.

The Western United States A Geographical Reader

Note how the feeling of moving air is suggested everywhere: in the skies at the back, in the clouds and the kites, in the trees and the grain-field, in the draperies, and even in the figures themselves that are braced against the wind.

An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition Sheldon Cheney

While in fertile plains, like Esdraelon, the grain-field was the Hebrew husbandman's chief care, on the mountain sides, the vineyards were the most valuable property, and required the greatest amount of labour.

The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot

In the big screen, a cluster of magnesium-lights appeared above where the Skilkan gun had been; in the small screen, there was a stubbled grain-field, pocked with craters, and the bodies of fifteen or twenty natives, all rather badly mangled.

Uller Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934

In the big screen, a cluster of magnesium-lights then appeared above where the Skilkan gun had been; in the small screen, there was a stubbled grain-field, pocked with craters, and the bodies of fifteen or twenty natives, all rather badly mangled.

Ullr Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934

They moved to foreign lands in the winter; in the autumn they travelled from one grain-field to another all over Götaland, and picked grain; during the summer, they spread themselves over the farms in Sonnerbo Parish, and lived upon eggs and berries and birdlings; but every spring, at nesting time, they came back to the heather-heath.

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils 1922

When our seven truants were found that brilliant morning, they had eaten up practically the grain-field and were lying gorged in the center of it.

Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

Wallie was now in the doorway and he could make out innumerable dark shapes browsing contentedly in his grain-field.

The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916