The feet of adults who work in the water-filled rice paddies are dry, seamed, and cracked on the bottoms.
After a full minute Sweeny caught the idea also and set up a haw-haw of exultant laughter, which brought back echoes from the other side of the cañon, as if a thousand Paddies were holding revel there.
Never see two Paddies together but what they got to fightin' or pokin' fun at each other.
Illustration: Marines of the 1st Provisional Brigade hurl hand grenades at enemy positions on the other side of one of the rice paddies that slowed their advance toward Orote.
Craig, the 9th Marines landed on the right flank near Asan Point, ready to strike inland over paddies to and across lower and more hospitable hills, but all part of the same formidable enemy-held ridgeline.
They came to another Dyak village, where the jungle was cleared off and paddies were near the stream.
I only told you the paddies would not answer you if you spoke to them with a brogue.
But it looks as though there might be some Paddies here, for the houses are very neat and nice, just as you see in old Ireland.
The paddiesare here on both sides of the river," added Achang.
Plenty of paddies on all the streams about here," replied the native.
The train passes through a stretch of heavy vegetation, then an open strip of country, with bright green-colored rice paddies (fields or patches) on both sides of the track.
Down in the valley the pale-green paddies will be found, the rice growing in a foot of water.
Steam paddies coughed and clanked in all directions.
Therefore paddies come into ear at different times.
The men and women in the paddies kept off the rain by means of the usual wide straw hats and loose straw mantles, admirable in their way in their combination of lightness and rainproofness.
The farmer is fortunate who is able to get the water completely out of his paddies by the time harvest arrives, but, as we have seen, two-thirds of the paddies must be harvested in sludge.
Because many unnecessary paths and divisions between paddies were done away with there was brought about a saving of labour and increased efficiency of cultivation.
Fireflies glowed in the paddies and in the garden two stone lanterns had been lighted.
It is because more than half the paddies are always under water that rice cultivation is so laborious.
But there were less pleasing scenes: hills deforested and paddies wrecked by a waste of stones and gravel flung over them in time of flood.
In Shikoku the cow or ox is generally used in the paddies instead of the horse.
Sometimes they play by the ditch round the paddies and are drowned.
Any crop raised in the paddies between the harvesting of one rice crop and the planting out of the next belongs to the farmer.
I saw at a distance in the midst of paddies two tree-covered mounds, a large one and a small one.
But reasonable justice was eventually done all round, and ever afterwards a farmer, now that his holding was in adjoining tracts, might spend his time working in his paddies instead of in walking to and from them.
Through the introduction by the landlord of horse labour and ploughs--implements with which the farmers were formerly unacquainted--second cropping of part of the paddies has become possible.
At this time of the year, when the rice plants are small, the water in the paddies is still conspicuous.
I was in Chiba several times and I remember to have noticed one winter day with what considered roughness the paddies had been dug in order to receive from frost and sun the benefits which are as good as a manuring.
In the paddiessome men wore only a narrow band of red cotton between their legs joined to a waist string, which, though convenient wear in paddies, was comically conspicuous.
And even if we converted all our rice paddies to organic production, causing the yield to drop to one-third, there would be no shortage of rice even under present conditions if everyone ate uncooked brown rice.
If they will not listen, then let them plant their own half early, and when their paddies are overrun with blight and insects, make sure they realize that it is their own fault.
On idle paddies just dump great quantities of such things as straw, grass, chicken manure, garbage from your kitchen, and dregs and lees from starch and tofu, if you can get them free.
The fact that the flat Leyte Valley was interlaced by many streams and flooded with rice paddies indicated that the soil was "most unstable.
Map 7) The region extending ten miles westward from the stretch of coast between Dulag and Tanauan to the foothills of the central range is an alluvial plain, interlaced by many streams, in which swamps and rice paddies predominate.
In many places close to the shore there are swamps and rice paddies which prevent rapid egress from the beach.
At this point LVT's of the 826th Amphibian Tractor Battalion hauled the supplies, through rice paddies churned into waist-deep morasses, to Sugud, three miles south of Carigara.
Eight hundred yards of rice paddies lay between this position and the one opposing the other battalions, though both positions were part of the same defensive system.
Airdromes cannot be built speedily across rice paddies and swamps; bivouac areas, depots and dumps cannot properly be established in swamps and rice paddies.
Although the presence of swamps, jungle, and rice paddies tended to channelize the attack, the Japanese had displayed superior adeptness, and willingness to go into the swamps and stay there until rooted out.
The troops of the 2d Squadron then set out in a northwesterly direction astride the hard-surfaced, narrow San Jose-Tacloban road, but they were slowed down by swamps and flooded rice paddies on either side.
The battalions moved through rice paddies and through Humaybunay and established a night perimeter about one mile southwest of the barrio.
They advanced through swamps and rice paddies but met no Japanese during the day.
The enemy position was on a small elevated plateau, adjacent to Highway 2, overlooking the river to the south and rice paddies to the east and west.
Their gallant commander refused to lie down, but groped about in the darkness amid interminable underbrush, through banana grove and bamboo thicket, over rice-paddies and briery hedges, instructing and reassuring his men.
Off they rode at break-neck rate over rice-paddies and small ditches in the direction of the bamboo thickets beyond the open.
And he listened to discussions and talks covering every phase of the work, from the Credit Mobilier to the Chinese coolies that were advancing from the west to meet the Paddies of his own division.
Then the eastern paddies laid the last rails on one end, while the western coolies laid those on the other.
Then his embryonic hatred for the brown men, who lay masked at the back of these palms and rice paddies a few hundred yards away, passed into total eclipse behind a fiercer emotion.
It was intolerable that the men whom they had left strewn along the rice-paddies should go unavenged.
From the rice-paddies and dykes rose wavering mists of heat.
From the high place on the trail where I was, they looked, in the distance, like nothing so much as columns of centipedes or files of ants all creeping slowly along the dikes of the rice-paddies toward the central place.
We were nearing the provincial capital; some paddies and fields were even fenced.
The rice-planted valleys near Shimonoseki were relatively broad and the paddies had all been recently set in close rows about a foot apart and in hills in the rows.
Large lotus ponds along the way occupied areas not readily drained, and the fringing fields between the rice paddies and the untilled hill lands were bearing squash, maize, beans and Irish potatoes.
At Nakaidzumi we had left the mulberry orchards for those of tea, rice still holding wherever paddies could be formed.
In other cases the green manure had already been spread over the flooded paddies and was being worked beneath the surface, as seen in Fig.
On the borders and pathways between rice paddies many small stacks of straw were in waiting to be laid between the rows of transplanted rice, tramped beneath the water and overspread with mud to enrich the soil.
Between these two paddies was the one seen at the bottom of the illustration, which had matured a crop of rape that had been pulled and was lying in swaths ready to be moved.
This is done in paddies under deep water which cannot be plowed or in second-growth forests between the trees.
Nagmad-as ang pilapilan nga walà na makultibar, The rice paddies are dry after being left uncultivated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paddies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
