sheepwalks

Through the sheepwalks, hedgerows and shady thickets

Father Murphy 1997

The reputation of the county as an agricultural district dates from the vast improvements of heaths, wastes, sheepwalks, and warrens, by enclosure and manuring -- the fruit of the zealous exertions of Lord Townshend and a few neighbouring land-owners -- which were, ere long, happily imitated by others.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 Various

_ -- "It has been observed that, after extensive surface-drainage on the sheepwalks in the higher parts of the country, and when the lower lands were enclosed by ditches, and partially drained for the purposes of cultivation, all rivers flowing therefrom, rise more rapidly after heavy rains or falls of snow, and discharge their surplus waters more quickly, than under former circumstances."

Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French

In 1792 his people were evicted from their homes, and their lands were converted into sheepwalks.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Driven from their native braes and glens by the rapacity of the landlords, who turned their ancestral holdings into sheepwalks, they found new homes and free holdings in the wild woods of Nova Scotia.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Transformation of arable land into sheepwalks was therefore its cry, and an expropriation of small peasants was initiated which threatened the ruin of the country.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910

The sun was setting, but its glories were at the other side of the house; for this window looked eastward, where the landscape of sheepwalks and pasture land was sobering at the approach of darkness.

An Unsocial Socialist George Bernard Shaw 1903

Now poor Jack goes in search of his missing castle, over hills, dales, valleys, and mountains, through woolly woods and sheepwalks, further than I can tell you or ever intend to tell you.

English Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

So far Irish ports were open, however, to foreign countries, and when the cattle trade ceased to be profitable, much of the land had been turned by its owners into sheepwalks.

The Story of Ireland Emily Lawless 1879

When the young ploughman resolves to quit the hamlet for the backwoods of America or the sheepwalks of Australia, he comes here to engage his berth.

Hodge and His Masters Richard Jefferies 1867