Stragglers are stray sheep missed in the general muster and found about the outpaddocks and shorn after the general shearing.
The country was dry and pretty close cropped and we'd been "sweating" the paddocks all along there for our horses.
In autumn, the leaves of the English trees turned all tints of yellow and crimson, and the grass in the paddocks went brown; and the big bullock teams worked from dawn till dark, hauling in their loads of hay from the cultivation paddocks.
Hugh walked to the door and gazed out over the garden and homestead, down the long stretch of green paddocks where fat cattle were standing under the trees, too well fed to bother themselves with looking for grass.
Bob bade his wife a hurried adieu, Archie waved his hand, and next minute they were over the paddocks and through the clearings and the woods, in which the trees had been ring-barked, to permit the grass to grow.
And the Cedars was an old place, with grounds and paddocks appertaining; but the ancient solitary gardener could not make much of the grounds, and the grass of the paddocks was always sold.
A few paddocks full of dargoes and black-fellows ready to cut each other's throats if it wasn't for us.
There were paddocks round the Rest and calico enough for a hundred tents in Marmot's store, and with gold in their pockets, the fossickers of Boulder Creek asked for nothing more--in the way of shelter.
It had just attacked the vegetation in the paddocks as Dickson got outside the hut, and which ever way he looked he saw a line of leaping flames sweeping towards him.
It's never been seen in any of the paddocksfor miles round, for everyone is on the watch for it.
Can I turn him into one of your paddocks for the night?
His own work in the paddocks was lessening as the season advanced; he had more time to give to the house, and spent many days ostensibly in the garden, but, in reality, ready to lend a hand at a hundred tasks.
It was half an hour later that Tom Macleod, coming in from the paddocks with Garth at his heels, stopped abruptly at the sight of two figures standing near the window.
Possum and her father nearly always rode; and the children walked two miles across the paddocksto the little Bush school.
Sometimes the cleared paddocks came down to the water's edge, bare of timber: sometimes they passed through belts of forest where shy Bush creatures slipped noiselessly away through the undergrowth as they approached.
She went to the doorway, and stood looking out across the paddocks to the blue glimpse of the lake, where 'Possum, had she known it, was at the moment fighting one of the toughest battles of her life.
These old paddocks with the ruined walls about them, or without, when they were surrounded by palings, that have long ago rotted away, still go by the name of the Chase, and so remind us of the sports of our forefathers.
They were not always very extensive, very often were only small paddocks where the deer were kept; and one was let run occasionally for a grand chase.
Before Candlemas we went be-east Kinloss, and there we yoked a plough ofpaddocks [frogs].
There was a man lost in one of our back paddocks that’s not as big as this,” the boss went on.
The front paddocks is eaten as bare as a city sidewalk, and when these backpaddocks is cleaned.
That got half-way, an’ another should reach the back paddocksinside me.
He was speakin’ o’ shiftin’ the sheep out again tae the back paddocks an’ mebbe up into the hills.
A boundary rider from the back paddocks was the first to show the bite of the drink.
The valley curved sharply, and the road followed and ran over a shoulder of the ridge and down on to a little plateau, where the out-station buildings and horse paddocks were set.
We’ve been drivin’ through one of the paddocks of it since half an hour after we left the township,” said Scottie.
She pointed to whitewashed paddocks at the left some distance beyond the peppers.
The older ladies were kind and the little woman of the foothills enjoyed the short spin through the avenue of peppers to paddocks beyond.
You don't know the paddocks as I know them, nor the mokes either.
It's pretty dry out on the run, but everyone calls the paddocks about the house an oasis.
The paddocks are all surrounded by tall, full-grown trees, and they shut in the place to perfect retirement.
It is a large, old-fashioned house, with pleasant garden, and ample farmyard, with paddocks behind.
The day merited Norah's epithet, as they rode over the paddocks in the afternoon.
The tall rotten looking woman was between us just as Sunstreak was in thepaddocks in the afternoon.
The men from home stayed mostly in the grandstand and betting field, and didn't come out around the places where the horses are kept except to the paddocks just before a race when the horses are saddled.
It was because of what I had seen in his eyes as he stood in the paddocks beside Sunstreak before the race started.
I always am wanting to be a trainer or owner, and at the risk of being seen and caught and sent home I went to the paddocks before every race.
But the grass of those old paddocks grows unkempt like a shock head of hair.
They are amongst a people like their own, living in villages and cottages and paddocks not so different from those of their own childhood.
Most of these paddocks have, I believe, been under cane cultivation at some time or other; and have been thrown into grass during the period of depression dating from 1845.
I am going to put up paddocks there, for the brood-mares.
Well,--I am now owner of Pumpelhagen; send some of your people out there, and let them tear down the paddocks you built yonder.
His way carried him close to the paddocks flanking the ample barns, and he could see that the house windows were ruddy from inner hearth fires, and decked with holly wreaths.
Somewhere outside a band, parading with transparencies, was summoning all horse-lovers and devotees of chance to the track and paddocks of Churchill Downs.
It was many a year since the paddocks on either station had looked so well.
All the paddocks are right and tight, so the sheep will shepherd themselves, and do all the better, too.
The house itself is erected on a rise and surrounded by an extensive garden, vinery and orchard, all well stocked and kept; some beautifully enclosed paddocks reach to the Creek, and give an English park-like appearance to the whole.
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