grain-fields

He said that Ali Hafed owned a very large farm; that he had orchards, grain-fields, and gardens; that he had money at interest and was a wealthy and contented man.

Acres of Diamonds 2008

This hardy annual salad plant is believed to derive its name from the fact that it grows spontaneously in the grain-fields.

The Art of Living in Australia 2004

The land is arable and there were villages, at the center of grain-fields and fit pasturage for sheep and goats.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

Over in the tamer country of the hundred of Hodnet the soil was fat and well-farmed, and the gleaned grain-fields full of plump, contented cattle at graze, at once making good use of what aftermath there was in a dry season, and leaving their droppings to feed the following year's tilth.

An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

Over in the tamer country of the hundred of Hodnet the soil was fat and well-farmed, and the gleaned grain-fields full of plump, contented cattle at graze, at once making good use of what aftermath there was in a dry season, and leaving their droppings to feed the following year's tilth.

An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

We were through the town and out on the smooth road beyond, with the stubble of grain-fields on each side and the mountains off to the right.

The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953

IT WAS A hot afternoon in Wyoming; the mountains were a long way away and you could see snow on their tops, but they made no shadow, and in the valley the grain-fields were yellow, the road was dusty with cars passing, and all the small wooden houses at the edge of town were baking in the sun.

The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953

Now the traveller, riding through Southern Spain, may see in desolate barren valleys remains of the Moorish works which centimes ago brought fertility to grain-fields and orchards, and made the country the garden of Europe.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

Even in the plains of Mexico and Puebla, the grain-fields are irrigated to some small degree.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

We have in America thus far escaped, and as singularly as fortunately, the importation of the wheat-midge which has been the scourge of the grain-fields of Europe: it will, doubtless, some time be a passenger on our Atlantic ships or steamers; it will commence its work; and then man has the task of importing its natural antagonists, of promoting their spread, and so of compensating the evil.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various