paddy-fields

It was originally steppe, paddy-fields, marshes and lagoons subject to annual flooding from September.

Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary, Senegal 2008

The experience was of some years ago in China, far up-country, towards the head-waters of the Yang-tze-kiang, where the smaller tributaries spread out in a sort of natural irrigation scheme to supply the wilderness of paddy-fields.

The Lair of the White Worm 2003

The lower jungle paths turned into morasses, and the paddy-fields were wastes of stagnant water with a stale, mousy smell.

Burmese Days 2002

Naked Burmans in yard-wide hats of palm-leaf ploughed the paddy-fields, driving their buffaloes through knee-deep water.

Burmese Days 2002

The six beaters, plunged into the scrub; they would make a detour and beat back towards the paddy-fields.

Burmese Days 2002

That ivory gleam was only three days 'march away - one along the royal road, through forests and paddy-fields, two more up the winding stairway which he could never climb again, because at its end was the only enemy he feared, and could not conquer.

The Fountains of Paradise Clarke, Arthur C. 1979

Far below lay the chequer-board of paddy-fields stretching from horizon to horizon, the dark lines of irrigation channels, the blue gleam of the Paravana Samudra-and, beyond that inland sea, the sacred domes of Ranapura floating like ghostly bubbles, impossibly huge when one realised their true distance.

The Fountains of Paradise Clarke, Arthur C. 1979

Seriot reached the ground uninjured, landing in some paddy-fields on the edge of the forest.

ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

In the country, the women share equally with their husbands and children in agricultural labours; early and late whole families may be seen in the paddy-fields transplanting rice, or superintending its irrigation, for which the undulating nature of the country affords great facility.

Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs Jacob Mortimer Wier Silver

Notwithstanding the laborious nature of their tasks they have always a cheerful greeting for the passer-by, even under extremely irritating circumstances, as they are greatly plagued by leeches, which swarm in the paddy-fields.

Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs Jacob Mortimer Wier Silver