stubble-land

Larks trilled unseen above the velvety green fields and the ice-covered stubble-land; peewits wailed over the low lands and marshes flooded by the pools; cranes and wild geese flew high across the sky uttering their spring calls.

Anna Karenina 2003

In Mr. James Reese's buckwheat stubble-land, with its beautiful tones of red and brown, a crow parliament was being held, whereat solemn deliberations regarding the welfare of crowland were in progress.

Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud 1919

Larks trilled unseen above the velvety green fields and the ice-covered stubble-land; peewits wailed over the low lands and marshes flooded by the pools; cranes and wild geese flew high across the sky uttering their spring calls.

Chapter XII. Part II 1917

In Mr. James Reese's buckwheat stubble-land, with its beautiful tones of red and brown, a crow parliament was being held, whereat solemn deliberations regarding the welfare of crowland were in progress.

Rainbow Valley 1908

Heavy soils are made much more mellow by the cowpea, and when the crop is removed for hay, the stubble-land is easily prepared for a seeding to grass or small grain.

Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement Alva Agee 1900

Where silage is wanted, the stubble-land can be seeded directly to wheat with good results.

Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement Alva Agee 1900

-- A common practice has been to grow two crops of wheat, seeding first in the corn stubble-land, and plowing the ground for the second wheat crop, making a smooth surface for mowing.

Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement Alva Agee 1900

The seed has been sown, the crop has grown and ripened and been harvested, and now the thing is over: a chill wind pipes over the empty stubble-land where late the yellow corn stood and the labourers laboured: there is nothing more: "ripeness is all" that life offers or means.

Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians John F. Runciman 1891

Larks trilled unseen above the velvety green fields and the ice-covered stubble-land; peewits wailed over the low lands and marshes flooded by the pools; cranes and wild geese flew high across the sky uttering their spring calls.

Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1869

Chin, close-buttoned to the, 422. dimple on his, 31. new-reaped like a stubble-land, 83. some bee had stung, 256.

Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862