Five herds, five bleating flocks, his pastures filled, And with a hundred ploughs his fruitful lands he tilled.
According to Roman law, people who stole an ox or horse from the pastures or from a stable, or ten sheep, or four or five swine, might be punished even with death.
Pastures need varieties maturing at different times, and this is a matter under control when temporary pastures are used.
Much harm results from turning livestock on pastures too early in the spring.
The cost to the country, in indirect effect upon pastures only, due to unrestrained dogs, is incalculable.
The pasturesare blue grass and white clover; bees are humming and buzzing from flower to flower, and, to make the similitude complete, one hears the homely tinkle of cow-bells here and there.
Fields and pastures are fenced in with the same rude corduroy-fences one sees in the Missouri Valley, some well kept and others neglected.
But for all that, in the bright days of midsummer, these green fields sloping down to the water, and pastures high up among the trees on the hillsides, look pleasant from a distance, and give an inhabited air to the landscape.
There might be arid places waiting for her, dreary passes, but there were also cool waters and green pastures along the road.
She nodded, and they parted, he going down the dale, and she, leaping like a deer up the fellside, to the sheep pastures high upon Thundergay.
About the recumbent figure pee-weeps wheeled, making a piteous calling, and the hill-pastures were tremulous with the bleating of sheep, for the flocks had just been shorn.
Harvesting, stacking turf, and bringing sheep from the highest pastures made the "back end" busy for the fell folk.
She ruled the steading and the flocks, and the ploughed lands, and the pastures with regal authority from her bed in the kitchen.
Along the broken and winding way Between the heath and the boulders gray; Through lonely pastures that led him down To oaken woods in their autumn brown; And o'er the stones of a rippling stream, The hermit passed, like one in a dream!
From the pastures the kye ran lowing and bellowing, in a wild stampede.
The crying of the ewes and lambs at the pastures came plaintively against the dawn.
The kye were in the sea-pastures near, and even the dogs slept.
The corn-fields and the pastures of the plain--count them one by one till the hedges and squares close together and cannot be separated.
Legion is a little word for the butterflies; the dry pastures among the woods are brown with meadow-brown; blues and coppers float in endless succession; all the nations of Xerxes' army were but a handful to these.
Then the pastureson the right ended, and they plunged into deep forests, black, almost lightless, where the road wound like the bed of a dry torrent in a vast green canyon.
Alma led the youthful son of science out of the gate, down the road a few rods, and then they passed a stile, and took the winding path that straggled over the pastures to the mill.
Did you smell no hay or cropped herbage, see no summer pastures with circles of cool shade, hear no voice of herds among the hills?
In fact, the early roads were little more than ill-defined paths winding their way across pastures and cultivated fields and whenever a dividing farm was reached, there would be a gate or bars to be opened and closed by the traveler.
Accustomed to the sunny pastures of California, he had been brought to this cold and barren land to herd reindeer.
In the future, as pastures grew scarcer, and as herds increased in numbers, there would be still less opportunity for a sale.
What was more, she was leaving the tundra; the broad-stretching deer pastures of the Arctics.
Thou art my food; on thee I lean, Thou makest my heart sing; And to thy heavenly pastures green All thy dear flock dost bring.
The Women once more appeal to the Sulamite; but she still loyally declares: "My Beloved pastures his flocks among the lilies; lo!
Constable began with the skies of Nature, he went on to study the skies of Claude, Ruysdael, and other masters; but he returned to the skies and pastures of Nature, never to leave them again.
The pastures and grass-fields have not yet a general effect of green; nor have they that cheerless brown tint which they wear in later autumn, when vegetation has entirely ceased.
I have walked up into the pastures this morning, and looked about me a little.
Crumbling walls are at long distances from the towns they used to guard; there are pasturesand waste lands where there were streets of buildings; walls of houses have returned whence they came to the mother earth; others are roofless.
Toward sunset a delicate network of gossamer threads covered the open pastures like a silver mesh in which the earth lay captive.
As for the ironweed, it clothes the pastures with a royal purple, so rich a hue it compels the eye, and is a kind of stimulant.
If the pastures must lose this ancient beauty, let the house gain by it.
In the pastures mullein and thistle grow side by side, two pronounced personalities, as different as it is possible to be, yet nourished by the same soil and under the same conditions.
The descent to the plains of Italy is even more precipitous and dangerous than the ascent from the green pastures of France.
To these mountain pastures they are driven, so soon as the snows have melted off from the heights, and the tender grass begins to appear, and there they are kept till the return of cold compels them to descend.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pastures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
