We looked up and down the line, and rested our gaze upon a wheat-field on the left of the stone wall (the enemy's right).
And, I am ashamed to say, that, practised as we were in all the tricks of field manoeuvres, we "got mixed.
Then call we this--the field of Agincourt, Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.
Tis positive ’gainst all exceptions, lords, That our superfluous lackeys, are enough To purge this field of such a hilding foe.
O, give us leave, great king, To view the field in safety, and dispose Of their dead bodies!
We are about to enter--if it be that you wish to accompany me--upon a field of contradictions between feeling and reasoning, and we shall have to avail ourselves of the one as well as of the other.
Is the sadness of the field in the fields themselves or in us who look upon them?
And so a freshfield is opened up for the imagination--namely, the consideration of the solidarity and representivity of eternal salvation.
Some sixty Iroquois were wounded in this encounter, and forty-five whom they left dead on the field of battle were eaten by the Ottawas, according to the horrible custom of these cannibals.
It seems that the field of their labour had never been too vast for their desire.
Olier, was desirous also that his pupil, before going to find a field for his apostolic zeal among the people of Auvergne, should prepare himself by earnest meditation in retirement at St. Lazare.
Her ladies-in-waiting and the male butterflies around her openly discounted the political effects of every engagement on the field of battle.
Their offence was that they had been seen loitering in a field very close to the fortifications, with their noses almost to the ground.
He was describing the battle-field of Mentana to Napoleon III.
But the contempt of physical danger on the battle-field does not necessarily constitute heroism in the most elevated sense of the term, although the world in general frequently accepts it as such.
He himself remained at the head of the reserve behind the centre, where he could see all the field and direct operations.
I was carried off the field for interment by the good brethren of Saint John, when, just as they were about to lower me with the dead warriors into one common grave, they perceived that there was life in me.
But his work did not die on the fatal field of Evesham.
And Paul, exulting in his heart, felt that he swayed the souls of those that heard him, as the wind sways a field of wheat, that bends all one way before it.
The man who received or inherited land was expected to appear in the field with his followers at the call of his chief.
The ugly and uninhabitable edifices of Rousseau's genius required for their erection a field from which all possible traces of civilized building had been removed.
Let every man be free to cultivate in his field such crops as his interest, his means, the nature of the ground may suggest as rendering the greatest possible return.
Yet the subversionary writers were not left to occupy the field alone.
With all his relish forfield sports and country usages, he has his house filled with collections of art and with extensive libraries.
The English country gentleman of the present day is anything but a Squire Western, though he does retain all his relish for field sports.
That stabbed me in the field by Tewksbury: Seize on him, Furies, take him to your torments!
His high black plume floats abroad over the throng like a raven over the fieldof the slain.
For a field of the dead rushes red on my sight, And the clans of Culloden are scattered in fight.
The volunteers prick up their ears, An mak a famos rattle; Thay want ta run ta Wimbleton, Or onny field o’ battle.
The Field Marshall declared and his good lady too, They ne’er was attacked wi’ so pleasant a foe; With this all the clansmen gave them three cheers, In return they saluted the bold Bucaneers.
But that we have learned much directly from the old Romans in the field of hospitality is proved by a curious fact.
I know every road and every field and every fence corner around that town.
Yes--like a mower," she added, remembering some men working in a field that had fled past them as they came out in the automobile.
They watched the old miracle in silence until they saw a farmer coming across the field with a team.
He was plowing the brown field at the top of the hill, good soil of the clay; a few yards lower down was nothing but chalk, with shallow flinty soil and steep to plow; so they let briars grow there.
Past all manner of men, past no trees, no hedges, no fields, but only one field from skyline to skyline that has been harrowed by war, one goes with companions that this event in our history has drawn from all parts of the earth.
It seems hard, as poor Guy said; but when he and better men had gone on the battle-field and elsewhere with the sound of victory in their ears, John Redgrave may well go too.
The oat-grass waved its tassels strangely like the familiar hay-field over many a league of plain and meadow.
Now, labor seems to us property quite as legitimate, quite as sacred, as a field or a house, and we do not understand why it should be expropriated without any sort of compensation.
How did you fail to see that, without a guarantee of the invention, you conceded a privilege, not for a real discovery, but for a possible discovery, and that thus the field of industry was given up by you before the plough was found?
By means of this peremptory, but frank and sincere, policy, the economicfield would have been cleared away; it would not have cost utopia more, and M.
Never did such a mass of material offer so fine a field for investigation.
I want you to believe me and forgive me, if you can.
You are very welcome, Monsieur Gervase," said the Princess then, speaking with a measured slowness that was attractive as well as soothing to the ear.
About two hundred yards away at one end of a large level field a small plane was plainly visible in its hangar.
This state of things now changes and the real hero, Rinaldo, who like Achilles has long been absent from the field of action, reappears and brings matters to a climax.
Now the two youths, as they stand on guard at night, lament that their master's body lies unburied and dishonored on the fieldof battle, and resolve to go and find it and bring it back to camp.
And by the rudeness of the shock unbound, Her sex to all the field emblazoning so, Loose to the charmed winds her golden tresses flow.
In this period of awakening the chief gain was in the field of the drama.
Yet the number of men of genius and talent is legion--giants indeed lived in those days--not only in the field of art and scholarship but in literature.
In ceaseless sorrow is my chief delight: My food to poison turns, to grief my joy; The night is torture, dark the clearest sky, And my lone pillow a hard field of fight.
Laufer in his notes to Fay Cole's Chinese pottery in the Philippines (Field Museum Bulletin) suggests another for Calamianes.
The Bisayans, when planting rice, had the singular custom of offering a portion of the seed at each corner of the field as a sacrifice.
Egypt, then, was first in the field in bronze casting, as she was in stone and wood carving.
The same convention is to be found in the ranks of prisoners, workmen, or soldiers, marching over a flat surface; they are arranged in a kind of echelon upon the field of the relief (Fig.
It is the same, as a rule, with the steles; but a few exist upon which the painter has had the field to himself.
Grant called him "the bestfield officer the war had produced," and there has been nothing in history more sweet and beautiful than the friendship between these two great men.
But he never lost heart or hope; he failed cheerfully in one literary enterprise after another, and turned from literature to politics until he found the means and the chance to fail again in the field where his heart was always.
On the other side of the field he found some horses, and making a halter of the buffalo thong that had bound him, and that still hung upon his arm, he leaped upon one of them and dashed through the woods.
His father was a farmer who worked at the trade of blacksmithing when he was not following the plow; and the boy helped him in the field and at the forge.
Even three thousand soldiers in the field voted for him, and this is far more surprising than that forty thousand voted against him.
In the battles of Lalsot and Chaksana Boigne and his two battalions proved their worth by holding the field when the rest of the Mahratta army was defeated by the Rajputs.
By June 1824 the liberating army was completely organized; and taking the field soon after, it routed the vanguard of the enemy.
Bohtlingk was one of the most distinguished scholars of the 19th century, and his works are of pre-eminent value in the field of Indian and comparative philology.
Subsequently he returned to the cause of his order, and fell on the side of Earl Thomas at the field of Boroughbridge (1322).
The devotional treatise De Sacrificio Missae is the classical work in its field (new edition by Ildephonsus Cummins, 1903).
A number of women artists, both in England and in America, have already discovered in bookbinding a fitting and lucrative field for their energies.
The society a few years afterwards widened its field of operations so as to include the whole of the United Kingdom, and its designation then became "The Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland.
The leather strip soon developed, and covered the whole of the boards, "whole" binding as it is called, and it was quickly found that these fine flat pieces of leather offered a splendid field for artistic decoration.
But with this exception the field is open, and the 19th century offers as good a hunting ground as any of its predecessors.
The complete control of the field was too valuable a property to be yielded in deference to that, or any other name without a struggle; and, so to speak, there were altogether too many ins and outs to the conflict.
The Board accordingly now proceeded to narrow down the field of selection by specifying the following as what it considered the essentials of a good continuous brake:-- a.
If such fluctuations reveal themselves in the statistics of Great Britain, those met with in the narrower field of a single state in this country might well seem at first glance to set all computation at defiance.
The lack of all reliable statistics as respects this wide field of inquiry has already been referred to.
The field g a b h comprises the archilithic, the field i g h k, the palaeolithic, the field l i k m the mesolithic, and the field n l o m the cenolithic period.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "field" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
