hop-gardens

Aunt Beulah Webbthat was the name she was known by, for an older gypsy woman was always known as aunt to those youngersucked on her pipe and squinted as she surveyed the nearby fields, then cast her eyes to the hop-gardens beyond.

Excerpt: An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear 2008

The hop-gardens turn gracefully towards me, presenting regular avenues of hops in rapid flight, then whirl away.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

The gardens of Frouga are celebrated -- full of vines planted like hop-gardens, of prickly pear, figs, pears, apricots, and corn, in between the fruit-trees.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

Dickens would compress into infinitely few days an enormous amount of sight-seeing and country enjoyment: castles, cathedrals, lunches and picnics among cherry orchards and hop-gardens.

What to See in England Gordon Home 1923

And away we go through Addington, Eynesford, by miles and miles of hop-gardens.

A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools Percy Lubbock 1922

There were no hop-gardens, as on the farms inland, no white-cowled oasts, and scarcely more than twelve acres under the plough.

Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921

Often the sky was blue above the hop-gardens, with fleecy clouds over distant woodlands and the gray old towers of Flemish churches and the windmills on Mont Rouge and Mont Neir, whose sails have turned through centuries of peace and strife.

Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

Africa you might have landed first at Hobart and seen the charms of dear little Tasmania, a land of apple-orchards and hop-gardens, looking like the best parts of Kent.

Peeps At Many Lands: Australia Frank Fox 1917

I stood awhile to listen to its whisper as the gentle wind swept over it, and to look down the long green alleys of the hop-gardens beyond; and at the end of one of these straight arched vistas there shone a solitary, great star.

The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

To walk through the whispering cornfields, or the long, green alleys of the hop-gardens with Simon, who combines innkeeping with farming, to hear him tell of fruit and flower, of bird and beast, is better than to read the Georgics of Virgil.

The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915