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  • They lingered in the hop-fields on the rich bottoms, where Billy scorned to pick hops alongside of Indians,

    CHAPTER XII 2010

  • Once, as they were making their way through the Kentish hop-fields, he put out his hand feebly, and touched hers.

    He Knew He Was Right 2004

  • Along the upper Sacramento River stretch the great hop-fields full of tall vines covered with light-green tassels.

    Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

  • He supposed it was used to dry some sort of produce on and noted that there were several hop-fields near at hand.

    The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone Richard Bonner

  • Yes, people are good enough to say I've broken quite new ground in making the hop-fields the scene of a novel; the critics say my word-pictures of the hop-poles are 'absolutely luscious'; and they pronounce _Ozias_, the hop-picker, 'a giant of artistic creation. '

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914 Various

  • "She's the belle of the hop-fields," said Athelny.

    Of Human Bondage 1919

  • They lingered in the hop-fields on the rich bottoms, where Billy scorned to pick hops alongside of Indians,

    Chapter 12 1913

  • She was the relict of August, a naturalized American citizen born in Salzburg, and whose estate, a comfortable aggregate of more than two millions, came partly from hop-fields in his native locality.

    The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • "She's the belle of the hop-fields," said Athelny.

    Of Human Bondage 1915

  • Remember the boys that work in the hop-fields and the joyous peasant girls of

    The Auction Block Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

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