The silence bred nerves, till a chorus of jackals howling in an adjacent paddy field would break the spell and come as a welcome relief.
I had been walking along the 'aisles' of the paddy fields till I came to a swampy bit and found I'd have to walk through it if I had any hope of starting a bird.
Soon, the last of the bungalows was left behind and they were cantering side by side along the main road which divided paddy fields still containing stagnant rain water and the decaying stalks of the harvested corn.
Even the flat countryside with its endless fields of paddy and mustard were good to view because Muktiarbad was "home" to her.
On the river we constantly passed shipping of various kinds, sometimes huge rafts of teakwood propelled by natives, mostly devoid of attire; the peculiar Burman paddy boats of old Egyptian style are used for transporting unhulled rice.
The shipping at Rangoon presents a picturesque variety, as ocean steamers, river steamers, paddy boats, and quaint smaller vessels are always in evidence.
Then I saw, among a lot of Egyptian writing, PADDY 4 A.
A boat was hoisted out, and Sergeant Draper as a nurse, Walkley my orderly, my little dog Paddy and I were lowered from the boat deck.
I was invited to go and inspect her, and Paddy accompanied me.
My little dog Paddyenjoyed the swim almost as much as I did.
The night was spent dozing where we stood, Paddy being very disturbed with the noise of the guns.
I took refuge behind my old friends the biscuits, and Paddy ran out to each shell, barking until it exploded.
Sure it's not to hang Paddy Blake you want, but to keep others from following his example.
Paddy Fitzsimons, or Peter O'Shea, was brought up this mornin' for cutting off his wife's head with a trowel.
We reached at length, at the foot of the hills, the "town of nate Clogheen, where Sergeant Snap metPaddy Carey.
In short, "Paddy anywhere but at home is a splendid man, but at home he is worthless.
A vessel full of paddy (unhusked rice), a lighted lamp, and a cocoanut are placed in a conspicuous place therein.
One woman from every house marches to the shrine with her offering of paddy and a chuckram (nearly half an anna).
To see another Pulaya, to encounter a Native Christian, to see an Izhuva with a vessel in the hand, a cow behind, a boat containing rice or paddy sacks, etc.
At the tali-tying ceremony she is decorated with jewels, and made to stand on a heap of paddy (unhusked rice).
Rice and paddyare mixed together and divided into two portions, to one of which eight quarter-annas, and to the other twelve quarter-annas are added.
Three paras of paddy are set apart for the local village deity.
Paddy is soaked in water, and roasted over a fire.
Eravallars do not live as small independent communities, but are mostly attached to farmers, under whom they work for a daily wage of two edangazhis and a half of paddy (unhusked rice).
Standing at a distance assigned to them by the village authorities, where they offer prayers to Kali, they put the paddy grains, which they have brought, on a bamboo mat spread in front of them, after which they return home.
The grain wage consists of rice or paddy (unhusked rice), and the local seer is, on the average, as nearly as possible one of 80 tolas.
This festival consists in putting seeds, or bringing paddy seeds to the temple of the village Bhagavati.
The bride-price usually consists of two bundles of rice and a bundle of paddy (unhusked rice).
Some paddy (rice) and five fanams are given to the family from the temple funds towards the expenses of the ceremony.
Before us was a vast paddy field, into which we plunged up to our knees in mud and water.
The road was interesting, being at one time through tea plantations, and at another through paddy fields.
They had been at work, pounding paddy and digging yams; and they stated that they had not sufficient allowed to eat to support existence, besides being beat about the legs with bamboos.
We passed crowds of Chinamen irrigating the land, and working in the paddy fields.
Crossing the dyke, we continued to wade through the paddy fields, shooting some plover and a red-legged partridge, until we arrived at a Chinese village.
Such men were known then as "Paddy Rolls" by the Negroes and in the Southern states are still referred to by this name.
Run nigger run, the Paddy Roll will get you Run nigger run, it's almost day.
But there was the driver to talk to, and nothing loth was Paddy either to carry on the greater share of the conversation.
Paddy in all his glory is there; you think you can see him dancing on the village green, as he twirls his shilelagh or smokes his dudheen.
It must be that Paddy the Beaver had cut it, and if Paddy had been working in daylight, it was certain that no one had been around that pond for a long time.
Paddy had always been glad to have Lightfoot visit his pond.
One of these days a hunter will lose his temper and shoot you, just to get even with you," warned Paddy the Beaver.
Now the hunter had heard Paddy slap the water with his broad tail.
Paddy the Beaver was tempted to warn them that they were not as safe as they thought, but as long as the hunter did not move Paddy decided to wait.
Paddy the Beaver swam out from his hiding-place and climbed out on the bank near Lightfoot.
He knew it by dainty footprints in the mud along the Laughing Brook and on the edge of the pond of Paddy the Beaver.
He bounded out into a little open place by the pond of Paddy the Beaver and there he waited.
So the hunter watched for Lightfoot, and Lightfoot and Paddy watched the hunter.
And another thing he didn't know was that Paddy the Beaver had come out of his house and, swimming under water, had reached a hiding-place on the opposite shore from which he too had seen the hunter sit down on the log.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paddy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
