In the East Indian island of Bali, the mice which ravage the rice-fields are caught in great numbers, and burned in the same way that corpses are burned.
In the island of Nias whole fields are sometimes trampled down by these pests between sunset and sunrise.
Hebrews forbidden to reap corners of fieldsand glean, last grapes, i.
Among the Kai of German New Guinea people who are engaged in the labour of the fields will on no account eat pork.
The horse sacrifice was thus an old autumn custom observed upon the king's corn-fields at the end of the harvest.
In the Himalayan districts of the North-Western provinces of India the fields and boundaries are under the protection of a beneficent local deity named Kshetrpal or Bhumiya.
The ceremony thus performed on the king's fields and at his house on behalf of the whole town and of the neighbouring village presupposes a time when each township performed a similar ceremony on its own fields.
We are not jealous of rivalry in the fields of commerce or of any other peaceful achievement.
We cannot adequately make ready for any trial of our strength unless we wisely and promptly direct the force of our laws into these all-important fields of domestic action.
As soon as Thales espied the chariot waiting at the door, he smilingly discharged it, and we walked through the fields to avoid the press and noise.
For fields that are warm by nature, the air being likewise temperate, bear more mellow fruit than others.
Numbers of cattle and herds of sheep, attended by guards, grazed in the fields beyond the forts.
Vegetables were not dear, for numbers of people went out every morning to the gardens and fields surrounding Paris and returned laden with them.
We will cite the original text: “January exhibits the husbandman in the fields at plough, while his attendant, diligently following, is sowing the grain.
XIV-42] This little mythologic story informs us that the pomegranate tree was known to antiquity, and that the garden of the Elysian fields contained most excellent fruit for the use of its melancholy inhabitants.
In the fields the mice eat and carry off the newly-sown peas or corn, so in the garden, or the ripened garnered corn in stacks; but when the cat is on guard much of this is prevented.
Cratch is the French creche (a rack or manger), and to the present hour the racks which stand in the fields for cattle to eat from are called cratches.
They hunt in the fieldswith me, and my Scotch terriers and they are on the most friendly terms.
Then, striking off the road, they marched through the fields until a mile and a half to the east of it, when they halted in a thick wood.
After they had set out he, too, strolled out of the town, kept along the road for another half mile, and then struck off across the fields towards the river.
The peasants had encamped in the fields round the town and, at the summons, caught up their arms and ran in hastily, feeling sure that the occasion was important, as they had been told that they were not to march until next morning.
Though "the town" had been disagreeable to her while she was in it, it had a certain charm when recollected in the fields at Overbeck, where she never saw any one.
But while he made this vow to himself, once more against the pale background of the willows and the dusk of the damp fields that little figure rose, with its air of fictitious surprise.
I do not suppose he was fortunate enough to be anything but an occasional guest in the very greatest houses of all, which are the Elysian fields of society.
She gave a glance at Pate, who had just entered the room, and stood a little perplexed and doubtful on the threshold in his farmer's dress, as he had hastened from the fields on hearing of this emissary from the Castle.
You know that all your other towns are in my power, and your countrypeople are peacefully tilling their fields while you are uselessly dying of hunger.
It is divided up among them for tillage, but no man can claim the fields he tills as his own, and for thousands of years what is known as communism has prevailed on Russian soil.
Over these broad spaces the invaders swept like an avalanche, finding cultivated fields before them, leaving a desert behind.
A group of Americans own vast oilfields in Mexico.
I have a group mining for me in the Grand Canyon and another group locating oil fields for me in Texas.
Abbott," said Enoch the next day, "do you recall that I have commented to you several times on the fact that some of the southwestern states did not back the Geological Survey in its search for oil fields as we had expected they would?
But a man who will neglect those pictures for the--well, the coal fields of Alaska, should be dealt with severely.
The fields were all carpeted, a beautiful carpet, a costly carpet, more costly than axminster or velvet.
Sometimes the distance was long and across fields and through lonely woods, but the kinky-headed, pigeon-heeled colored man always delivered his charge safely, and would have died in his footsteps to do it if the occasion required.
I hope they are all grazing together on red-headed clover in the green fields of Eden.
I have seen men by the thousands lying in this manner in the fields with their horses grazing about them, yet I never knew a horse to tread on one, or in any way injure him.
And if they could have seen a picture of their homes and fields as they appeared in 1865, would they have rushed on?
As we moved along through the fields we passed a small dwelling; I halted in front of the door and asked the good lady of the house for something to eat.
Long lines of gray moved over the fields like waves over the sea.
Just on his left, and almost on a line with the Sixth, was the Seventh Regiment coming across the fields (for there were no fences then).
He was a hero, for he had been out "where the fields were shot, sown and bladed thick with steel," and was coming back to die.
We three at once struck off across the fields to go as far as we could toward our homes.
Toward sunset I saw him come riding across the fields on his gray horse, "Traveler," accompanied by his staff.
I watched my opportunity, slipping across the pike unobserved, and following the Blue Ridge mountains until nearly opposite my home, took a straight line across the fields and reached home safely.
The moon and the stars come out, and the surgeons with their attendants appear with their knives and saws, and when morning came there were stacks of legs and arms standing in the fields like shocks of corn.
If all, instead of merely a majority of my readers, had seen Weber and Fields that task would vanish.
Fields of corn grew so tall as partially to conceal villages of round, grass-thatched huts with conical roofs; we looked down into deep ravines where grew the broad-leaved bananas; the steep hillsides had all been carefully cultivated.
In '54 the miners in the fieldsof Ballarat and Bendigo were in a state of intense ferment.
Instead, I was soon to make a far wider departure in business fields and methods, and to try my fortune at another end of the earth.
As the day advanced, and the snow piled deeper and ever deeper about the little house, and covered the forests and fields with a thicker blanket of white, we began to grow anxious.
They told me there were no fieldsup there, no monkeys and no sugar, except what the sailors had carried up with them.
I could roam in the forest and over the fields at will.
Fire-arms were also beginning to be introduced, which weapons have diminished rather than increased the carnage of fields of battle.
Men, women and children, wasted and haggard, wandered over the fields seeking green leaves and roots, and dropped dead in their wanderings.
Peter's father, Alexis, had been anxious to open the fields of commerce to his subjects.
A squadron of cavalry will, in a few moments, trample fields of grain which have been slowly growing and ripening for months.
The fields were abandoned to weeds, and ferocious beasts ranged the places but recently occupied by Christians.
In November of 1553, the storm of battle was recommenced on fields of ice, and amidst smothering tempests of snow.
But now, Mstislaf was far away on bloody fields in Hungary, and the princes in the vicinity of Vladimir soon found that Constantin had no spirit to resent any of their encroachments.
The fields and the public places were covered with putrefying corpses which the living had not strength to bury.
A heavy frost early in the autumn destroyed the few fields the locusts had spared, and then commenced the horrors of a universal famine.
Through fields of blood, where the Turks, with the energies of despair, contested every step, the victorious Russians advanced nearly three hundred miles.
The snow then melted suddenly with heavy rains, deluging the fields with water, which slowly retired, converting the country into a wide-spread marsh.
For many days the wretched inhabitants were seen wandering about, in the fields and among the ruins, searching for their children, their friends or any articles of furniture which might, by chance, have escaped the flames.
So the last two months of school were spent in poring over maps and routes, and in studying up on landing fields and flying conditions generally throughout the territory they would have to cover.
It's a list of the lessees out here in the oil fieldswho have joined the independents.
It was just ten o'clock as I drove through the playing fields and on to the gravel sweep in front of the house.
This was a place that had been planted to shelter the cultivated fields behind from the keen marsh winds.
In that perfection of nature the fields unsown by men shall yield their harvests.
The land of flowers is separated from the Elysian fields of those fallen in battle by a river which hurls about in its eddies spears and other weapons.
The heathen lower world, with its fields of bliss and places of torture, became in the Christian mind synonymous with hell.
Broken was the bulwark of the asaburg; Through warlike prudence were the Vans able its fields to tread.
Mary had lived all her life at Hathercourt, and knew its fields and its trees, its cottages and lanes, as accurately as the furniture of her mother's drawing-room.
He could hear more clearly the roar and snarl and rending thunder of the great fields of ice as they swept down with the arctic current into Hudson's Bay.
That night the rumble of the ice fields was clearer because there was no wind to deaden their tumult.
They sleep so calm and stately, Each in his graveyard bed, It scarcely seems that lately They trod the fields blood-red, With fearless tread.
On fields where Strife held riot, And Slaughter fed his hounds, Where came no sense of quiet, Nor any gentle sounds, They made their rounds.
She would go to the porch not to hear it; but to go out and roam about the happy fields she could not, for there she had played when a child.
The gay sun was shining in, and the birds were singing from far and near; away up, Deborah's pet bird the skylark was pouring out his supreme song of freedom in the blue fields of space.
The brother of Chief Baron O'Grady once caught a boy stealing turnips from one of his fields and asked his lordship if the culprit could be prosecuted under the Timber Acts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fields" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
