When the tinker saw it he reached of a sudden for Patsy's hand while he pointed excitedly beyond pasture bars ahead to a brownish field that lay some distance from the road.
Her answer was to take the pasture bars at a run as easily as any country-bred urchin.
The one thing necessary to their existence is water, and doubtless many of these toads had crossed this pasture of fifteen acres simply to get a drink.
In a closely cropped pasture near the house, in early June, I found the eggs of the night-hawk.
The lark that broke from the snow at my feet as I crossed the pasture this afternoon-- What comes o' thee?
We can almost say that we have an order of farm-birds, so many species seem to have become entirely dependent upon the pasture and grain-field.
The killdeer always builds in a worn-out, pebbly pasture or in a bare, unused field.
I opened my hands, and she flew across the pasture to the top of a tree, and waited patiently till we went away.
I have often heard the scattered, frightened families called together after a day of hard shooting; and once, in the oldpasture to the north of Cubby Hollow, I saw the bevy assemble.
They landed here first but when they found we charged a percentage on all passengers carried, they pulled out and rented a pasture on the other side of town.
When he reached the pasture he hastily piled some brush at one end of the field and set it afire.
There was no regular landing field at the village but Tim found a pasture a mile back from the river that looked large enough for his purpose.
The pasture was cuppy and there was a slough on one side but Tim killed his speed quickly after he set the Lark down and pulled up less than twenty feet from a fence.
Should appetite her wish achieve, To herd with brutes her joy would bound; Pleased other paradise to leave, Content to pasture on the ground.
When Summer came he could have the room over the dining room, with the kitchen roof sloping away from it where he could dry his hazelnuts--she had thought of the pasture hazelnuts, first thing.
There were a good many things a boy would like about the place: the bird house where the martins always built, the hens, the big hollow tree, the pasture ant hill.
I was reading not long ago," said Harry, "of a cow that came from the pasture one afternoon, and called the attention of some of the men about the place in a way which told very plainly that help was wanted.
Then they went back to to pasture and resumed their grazing.
Spread far below you, and basking in the sunshine, a comparatively flat and wide, open valley; olive and stone pine and mulberry on its slopes; pasture land and flowery vale in its midst.
It thus provides fresh moist fodder in the African summer when the grass is dried up and all other pasture crops have failed entirely.
Instead of a better pasture there is more likely to be a crop of almost worthless weeds.
Many people purposely burn over their pasture lands in the fall, believing that this will make the grass better the following year.
Stud knew it was a bad policy to let a stallion run loose in the pasture but he couldn't find it in his heart to shut the little rascal in the barn.
Swinging along the lane, throwing stones at sparrows and adventurous woodchucks, he came at last to the back pasture covered with hazel bushes, sumac and thorn-apple trees.
Close to the station, that is, within a short ride, were several groups of hills which commanded the pasture lands of the town.
The pasture crossed, a rail fence rose up before us.
From a far-off pasture came the silvery tinkle of a sheep-bell; the unutterably mournful cooing of a dove was borne from the forest.
The birds will increase its value and fertility by ridding pasture and arable land of countless insect pests, and for nine or ten months out of the twelve wage a never-ending war upon the real enemies of his crops.
We can recall a very large flock of these Buntings that frequented some pasture fields at Endcliffe, quite close to grimy Sheffield, but unfortunately they were sadly reduced in numbers by local gunners during the winter of their stay.
In the richer soil they cut deep channels; the denudation thus caused threatens to diminish seriously the area of arable and pasture land.
The wealth of the Bechuana consists principally in their cattle, which they tend with great care, showing a shrewd discrimination in the choice of pasture suited to oxen, sheep and goats.
They found the cows gathered at the pasture bars, with sweet, misty breath, their bells clashing faintly as they moved.
Then one forenoon I heard loud shouts outside, and on going to the door, saw a hatless Italian pursuing Blackamoor across the pasture below the house.
Finally, after a great bombardment, the outcries and racket subsided, and with a vast sense of relief, I saw the Italians retiring across the pasture to their camp.
The pasture bars did not stop a single one of the woodchuck-hunters.
They had raced him across the pasture and along the fence, into the stone-heap, and then Abe had staid to keep watch while Mart went after Julius Davis's dog.
The wood behind the college grounds and Captain Rexford's pasture had appeared to Bates to be a place possessed only by the winds of heaven and by such sunshine and shadow as might fall to its share.
Eliza went back to the village, and Sophia turned toward the pasture and the college.
When he mounted his horse and rode off unmindful of the last pail of milk, for indeed his head was a little turned, Sophia was left standing by the pasture gate feeling unpleasantly conscious of her own handsome face and accomplished manner.
All the cows in the pasture came towards her, for it was milking time, and any one who came suggested to them the luxury of that process.
Further on, the sound of the water came nearer, for there was only the wilderness of half overgrown pasture and sumac trees between them and it.
She walked in that direction, and when she came to Captain Rexford's pasture field, she got through the bars and crossed it to a small wood that lay behind.
A slight difference in climate or pasture sometimes slightly affects the fleece, as has been observed even in different districts in England, and as is well shown by the great softness of the wool brought from Southern Australia.
The several races have become adapted to different kinds of pasture and climate: for instance, no one can rear Leicester sheep on mountainous regions, where Cheviots flourish.
Indeed we did at first take them for solitary herders, watching their cattle in some choice pasture out of sight.
This eight million acres of pasturewould at least feed eight million sheep, yielding twenty-four million pounds of wool, and, at the same price as Ohio wool, six million dollars.
He appealed to them most civilly, but they still went on: now the Communal herdsmen would let the village cows stray into his meadows; then horses from the night pasture would get among his corn.
About a hundred and fifty acres shall be plough-land, and I will pasturecattle on the rest.
A pang of violent hope struck through her, and she pressed her bosom, praying he might have left her, and climbed the clefts and ledges of the mountain to search over the fair expanse of pasture beyond, for a trace of him departing.
They were like pleased flocks whom the shepherd hath led to a pasture freshened with brooks, there to feed indolently; he, the shepherd, in the midst.
If they have, Farmer Green would want you to get them back into the pasture for him.
I'll go up to the pasture and find me a woodchuck to chase," Spot said to himself, for he was in such high spirits that he simply had to have fun of some sort.
In the pasture there were woodchucks to be hunted; and even if he couldn't catch them it was fun to see those fat fellows tumble into their holes.
He didn't stop until he had reached the fence between the pasture and the meadow.
So he began running about thepasture in big circles.
He had been there a long time when Mr. Crow at last flew low over the pasture and alighted in a tree near-by.
To the settlers beginning to locate on the fat pasture land along the Willamette and its tributaries, this was a stage in history of priceless moment.
But as the population of the Columbia had increased, there was a great desire among the settlers to obtain a larger number of cattle to let loose upon the rich pasture lands of the Willamette Valley.
During the last years of the decade of the fifties, stockmen had driven from the Willamette Valley thousands of head of stock to the rich pasture lands of the Walla Walla, Umatilla, and Yakima.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pasture" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
