rice-paddy

The power is in each bare integer, each fraction of the whole, so that the drunkard who dies in his vomit on 42nd Street, and the senator who dies in his blood on the hotel kitchen floor, and the Viet Cong who dies blown to pieces in a Delta rice-paddy, are no lesser for their deaths than you or I or the Collected Media of the World's designated Human-of-the-Century.

Nancy Chuda: To Invent Fire Nancy Chuda 2011

The power is in each bare integer, each fraction of the whole, so that the drunkard who dies in his vomit on 42nd Street, and the senator who dies in his blood on the hotel kitchen floor, and the Viet Cong who dies blown to pieces in a Delta rice-paddy, are no lesser for their deaths than you or I or the Collected Media of the World's designated Human-of-the-Century.

Nancy Chuda: To Invent Fire Nancy Chuda 2011

Just in time for the new year, the spa introduces a host of transformative services, including the Organic Sunless Tanning Treatment, which uses natural sugar-beet juice to mimic a Caribbean glow, and the Lanna Massage, a muscle-relieving treatment that borrows techniques from Thai rice-paddy workers.

Global Spa Roundup: The Spa at Mandarin Oriental : Roopika Malhotra Malhotra, Roopika 2009

I've witnessed 11 in the Australian outback, I've seen them in Japan in the rice-paddy fields.

Weird Science? 2007

In Japan, golf was performed with almost religious intensity of effort, never mind that the breeze from off the course carried a rice-paddy tang of rotting cuttlefish and human waste.

December 6 Smith, Martin Cruz 2002

They might use rice-paddy dikes or existing paths to help form letters or numbers.

Serex, Henry M. 1990

They had no details just name, rank, serial number, and her EIS designation, but I was lucky to get a records officer who'd done rice-paddy duty same time as me, and I convinced him to call South Carolina and find me someone to talk to.

Devil's Waltz Kellerman, Jonathan 1992

Once on the ground, each Huey became a kind of island in the rice-paddy lake.

Chickenhawk Mason, Robert 1983

Nothing in Nature is more lovely than a valley of green half-ripened rice-paddy, surrounded by verdant hills.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

Hence sugar-cane and rice-paddy are being partially abandoned, whilst all who possess hemp or cocoanut plantations are directing their special attention to these branches of land-produce.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman