Every morning he made them go through violent movements with their arms, their legs, their bodies; and they were very tired, for the palay crop had failed and they had little in their stomachs.
The Mexican pesos of his last raid were becoming deplorably few, his store of palay was low, and the contributions of the villagers spoke of failing memories.
The palay crop had failed and there was nothing to eat.
Maestro, blinking; but between blinks he caught the flashing green of the palay fields and knew that he was far from the sawmills of the Golden State.
A large part of the palay employed for local domestic use is husked by pounding it in wooden mortars and winnowed by tossing it in flat baskets.
The palay [181] is usually winnowed in the wind, although crude fanning mills are sometimes employed for this purpose.
The heads of the families could not restrain their joy when they found themselves with palay which could be distributed to each one, although it was, it is true, very little compared to their great necessity.
He who sold the victim also thought himself the gainer, because by handing him over for the sacrifice, he saved the labor and expenses of burial, and had enough palay to eat throughout the year.
Furthermore, after the palay harvest each year the bundles of unthreshed rice or palay are neatly piled into a stack about a tall stake which is set up in the "kaingin.
We were on the coast facing France, and Palay was on our left.
A head has no part in the ceremonies for palay fruitage and harvest, or in any of the numerous agricultural or health ceremonies of the year.
The usual hog is killed, and then the priest ties up a bundle of palay straw the size of his arm, and walks to the south side of the pueblo "as though stalking deer in the tall grass.
When thepalay is in the milk a great many birds which feed upon it are captured by means of a broom-like bundle of runo.
In the transplanting and harvesting of palay the woman is given credit for greater dexterity than the man; men harvest palay only when sufficient women can not be found.
Many kinds of birds that knew how delicious juicy palay is were on hand to get their share, so the boys were sent to stay all day in the sementeras to frighten these little robbers away.
The sementeras of growing palay are visited, and an abundant fruitage asked for.
It is the time when the bulk of the palay is harvested.
The lessee receives one-half of the palay harvested, and his share is delivered to him.
Apad, the principal man of Tinglayan, was confined six years in Spanish jails at Bontoc and Vigan because he repeatedly failed to compel his people to bring in the amount of palay assessed them.
He delivers the lessee's share of the harvest and retains the other half himself, together with the entire camote crop -- which is invariably grown immediately after the palay harvest.
Every day a father sent out his two boys to watch his palay in a narrow gash in the mountain; and every day they carried their small basket full of cooked rice, white and delicious, but their mother put no meat in the basket.
Palay is at all times good money, and it is the thing commonly employed in exchange.
During the period of preparing the soil for transplanting palay the men frequently wear nothing at the middle except the girdle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palay" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
