The herd moved easily and steadily over their feeding places, displaying no symptoms of alarm as they cropped the half-dry grass.
Here and there great patches of slablike rock cropped through the soil and showed nakedly among the vegetation.
Sometimes you could hear the pheasants running before they reached the low-cropped hawthorn hedge at the side of the plantation; sometimes they came so quietly as to appear suddenly out from the ditch, having crept through.
The hedge being low he could see it coming; but guns are sometimes heaved in this way over hedges that have not been cropped for years.
The path now trends somewhat away from the stream and skirts a ploughed field, where the hedges are cropped close and the elms stripped of the lesser boughs about the trunks, that the sparrows may not find shelter.
Perhaps it was the Somersetshire dialect that cropped out at times in his delivery.
Besides the furze bushes, there is only close-cropped turf.
Here and there, moving about, were convicts, with close-cropped heads and shaven faces, and garbed in prison stripes.
Hastily tying both ponies to a fence-post with a scrambling knot of the reins that would have brought down Blue Bonnet's wrath upon her hapless head, Kitty hastened across the close-cropped meadow.
His bullet head had been croppedso that his hair stood up like a short-bristled white brush.
After many years' experiment of a mustache and whiskers, he now wore his grizzled beard full, but cropped close; it gave him a certain grimness, corrected by the gentleness of his eyes.
The Zaslav trial was followed by an uninterrupted succession of ritual murder accusations, which in the course of fifteen years cropped up almost annually.
The question of liquidating these debts cropped up time and again at the sessions of the Polish Diets during the latter half of the eighteenth century.
He had abandoned his cassock and was wearing now a well-cut coat, a soft, round hat, and his hair had been cropped short.
That greasy beast of a skipper poked his big cropped head from under the canvas and screwed his fishy eyes up at me.
Very well; very well indeed--except for certain fantastic and violent outbreaks, on the deplorable occasions when the irrepressible Patna case cropped up.
The fatal operation has been performed," said Dick, uncovering his closely-cropped head for a moment.
She had believed the episode of the china was completely finished with, and here it had cropped up again like some horrible bogey prepared to haunt her.
Mile after mile the open level fields extend on either hand; now brown from the late passage of the plough, now a pale yellow where the short stubble yet remains, divided by black lines; the low-cropped hedges bare of leaves.
By the footpath, higher up under the close-cropped hedge, the yarrow flourished, lifting its white flower beside the trodden soil.
The remainder was ploughed andcropped precisely the same as the fields of larger farms.
It was Marty herself, and she showed her distress by her unconsciousness of a cropped poll.
The next was a girl, with her hair cropped short, in whom the surgeon recognized the daughter of his late patient, the woodman South.
His close-cropped hair was of the undecided colour which fair hair assumes when it is beginning to turn grey, and a heavy moustache of the same uninteresting hue hid his mouth.
Therefore he made his pony come to the mouth of it sideways, and leaned over and peered in around the rocky corner, while the little horse cropped at the briars.
And he took heart in recollecting that while he had been subject to this man's brutalities, with scores of other victims, his head had always been either shaved or cropped close and his mustache absent from his face.
He wore cloth cap on the back of his head, showing in front a thick mass of closely cropped hair.
He took off his cap and scratched his cropped head.
Barney Bill took off his Luke's iron crown of a billycock hat and scratched his cropped and grizzled head.
An old horse, hobbled a few feet away, philosophically cropped the abominable grass.
The blacks and the Chinaman were away behind, gathered in a cluster, skinning the first beast killed, while the pack-horses cropped the grass and bit at the flies.
Susy looked at him doubtfully, but nodded her cropped head with an air of wise acquiescence.
Do you know the child's at the workhouse, and that they've cropped her head as bare as mine?
The brutality of the round skull, emphasized by the cropped blonde hair, seemed at variance with the boyish rotundity of the face and the small, but dominant, nose.
The delicate lips softened in ludicrous contrast to the brutal outline of a cropped skull.
