Houses are few and scattered in the Cotswolds, and these are mostly farmsteads of past days, grey and old, well and strongly built of the native stone that has a pleasant tint.
As we rode past one of the farmsteads we heard cries for help.
The cocks crowed vociferously at all the neighboring farmsteads and we could hear them plainly across the considerable distances from us to each.
In the neighborhood were the most delightful walks and rambles, overgrown with verdure, leading past small farmsteads embosomed in thick forests, in a region filled with myth and legend.
Ceres gave way to Vulcan: Prosperous picturesque farmsteads were displaced by high black and ugly furnaces from which tremendous volumes of pitch black smoke issued the live-long day, and maybe the night as well.
To the south, a strip of green littoral was dotted with white farmsteads and traversed by the curves of a river that flashed where it caught the light.
Midway of it, towards East Linton, are the farmsteads and ricks of Phantassie, at which spot Rennie, the engineer who built London Bridge, and heaven and Dr.
During the whole of the next day we were engaged in receiving and conveying wounded men from the cottages and farmsteads scattered over the plains at Illy and Floing, all of which were crammed with disabled combatants.
Little towns line the alternating bottoms, andfarmsteads are numerous on the slopes.
Emerging from the immediate suburbs of Pittsburg, the fields broaden, farmsteads are occasionally to be seen nestled in the undulations of the hills, woodlands become more dense.
Upon one side a country road closely skirts the shore, and on the other a railway, while for the mile or more we pushed along small farmsteads almost abutted.
Beneath them lay the village of Beechcot, with its farmsteads and cottages casting black shadows upon the moonlit meadow, and here and there a rushlight burning dimly in the windows.
On taking his seat before the twelve wise men, he opened the assize and called for the first charge, whereupon an odaller from one of the farmsteads of Ardbeg accused one of the islanders of having made theft of a young steer.
As I came backward through Glen More I saw a band of men with Sweyn of Colonsay ravaging the farmsteads and setting them in flames.
This, of course, does not apply to farmsteads remote from town or village, where labourers and herdsmen perforce live as in a rural fortress.
Nearly all farmsteadshave awkwardly low ceilings, which in a town would cause a close atmosphere, but are not so injurious in the open country, with doors constantly ajar.
The other plans upon which farmsteads are built are far from affording similar privacy.
Some of the real old English farmsteads possess the crowning delight of a filbert walk, but these are rare now.
At present there are well-nigh six million farmsteads in this country.
In thousands of farmsteads they are helping their mothers wash dishes three times a day three hundred and sixty-five days in the year, not counting the steps as they go back and forth between dining-room and kitchen.
In the widely separated farmsteads most of the houses are of sod.
But the farmsteads and village houses are safe in the shade of their sheltering trees amid the fluctuation of the grass that grows so tall about them that the June roses have to strain upward to get themselves free of it.
Meanwhile the fields flourish in spite of their unwise largesse to the stream, whose shores the comfortable farmsteads keep so constantly that they are never out of sight.
Ditches and fences afforded his marksmen complete cover, farmsteads and copses furnished excellent defensive positions.
In front of the IInd and IIIrd Corps shelter-trenches had been thrown up, battery emplacements and covered ways of communication constructed, and the farmsteads lying out to the front converted into little forts.
The Colberg Fusiliers had meanwhile climbed the heights to the left, followed by the 2nd Battalion of the Regiment and a battalion of the 49th Regiment, which drove the French out of the farmsteads on the rifted upland.
A thick fog prevented the employment of the artillery, and it was at the cost of heavy loss that Villechauve, Pias, and various other farmsteads were captured.
The 47th Regiment at once proceeded to the attack, and stormed the walled farmsteads of Dame Rose and Trivaux.
The vineyards and numerous farmsteads in the neighbourhood of Dijon, and especially the strongly barricaded park south of the city, gave the defence a great advantage.
The farmsteads and churchyards are inclosed with ordinary masonry walls.
By this time the farmsteads of France and western Germany had yielded up all their available horses, a number sufficient to make a brave show of both cavalry and artillery.
We passed by picturesque farmsteads nestling in hollows, elegant shrines, and the grove the Reeves' pheasants particularly love.
The valley was an open space in the woods, with wooded hills all about it except on the east, where it stretched away toward the fields and scatteredfarmsteads of the settlement.
Curiously enough the view to the right is entirely different--the green fields andfarmsteads stretching in this direction from the very edge of the river as far as the eye can see.
And the people who had come in from their farmsteads to hear this trial by jury--all innocent of the traditions and precedents of practice of the law--marveled how it could be.
The valleys are deep and narrow, and farmsteads are few and far between; often some five or six miles of rocky land divides them from each other.
Large farmsteads are here, and well-cultivated land, and an air of prosperity pervades the place.
The houses and farmsteads are larger and more substantial, showing that there is a more prosperous people in these inner parts of the fjord.
But with the tracks that lead to isolated farmsteads it is different; there is not enough traffic to require the removal of the obstruction, and the drifts occasionally accumulate to twenty feet deep.
Then those who live in the farmsteads placed at long intervals begin to prepare for the possibilities of the winter.
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