Below us the perfect verdure of irrigated land, the patches and masses of greenness everywhere threaded and interspersed by the irrigating ditches and pools and ponds whereby the precious water is impounded and distributed when used.
We were still in wheat land when we awoke yesterday morning, though the now intervening patches of green grass grew larger and larger until the grass covered and dominated everything.
The mountains are more lofty, the snow patches grown into wide fields, and the air has taken on a certain added keenness, telling of distant snow and ice.
It was ten o'clock on a shining May morning, and the clouds that raced over great grimy London were white, and there were patches of blue between.
He bathed with fresh water and reclad in fragrant linen the exquisite body, upon which faint discolouring patchesalready heralded the inevitable end.
Red patches burned in her thin little face, and her round black eyes regained some of their lost brightness.
Family characteristics: color always striking, usually in spots, bars, or patchesof contrasting colors, especially black and white.
Look for the woodpeckers in orchards and along the edges of thickets, among tangles of wild grapes and in patches of low, wild berries, upon which they often feed, among dead trees and in the track of forest fires.
By this time it was fully dark, but a full moon cast its beauty over the trees and flecked the ground with bright patches that added to the torches made the whole grove like a fairyland.
Soon the ground was covered with little patches of black and red ants, and as though by common consent they began to surround the unconscious Shorty.
His nether limbs encased in a pair of dragoon overalls, with vivid green patches on the knees.
His garb consisted of white hempen drawers, with blue patches on the knees, and a dirty shirt of the same material, which kept hitching up his back and arms.
The clay path, here and there dotted with sprouting grass or dry twigs, was lighted by patchesof pale light where the moon sent its rays straight through the thick foliage of the lindens.
Patches of white heat glare from the opened furnace doors like the teeth of some great dark, dingy devil grinning across the smoky vapors of the Pit.
The patches on my best pants were three deep and if laid side by side would have covered more territory than the new blue suit.
She "saved" her carpets by means of patches of linoleum, often stringy at the edges, and in some rooms there was more linoleum than anything else.
A change in the consistency of the mud caused him to look up at the sky, which was clearing and showed patches of faint stars.
Occasional symmetric patches appear on the limbs and trunk, and in extensive cases terminate in gangrene.
Two weeks later she had patches of ephelis over the whole body.
Similar patches were seen on other portions of the face.
Hart dissected the stomach of a woman of thirty which resembled the stomach of a predaceous bird, with patches of tendon on its surface.
The presence of congenital patches of white or gray hair on the scalp, as recorded in No.
As the induration cleared up, outlying patches of the affected skin were left surrounded by normal integument.
The intestines presented a few livid patches on the outside.
Soon after bunches of white hair appeared on the occiput, and in the succeeding years small patches of decolored hairs were observed also on the anterior and lateral portions of the scalp.
True leukodermic patches show no vascular changes, no infiltration, but a partial obliteration of the rete mucosum.
The regions affected were mostly of a dirty-brown color, but in patches of a bluish-gray.
These patches and the eyebrows continued to become darker, until at the time of her death they were quite black, the black tufts on the head presenting a very curious appearance among the silver-white hairs surrounding them.
Although regarded by many as a disease distinct from scleroderma, morphea is best described as a circumscribed scleroderma, and presents itself in two clinical aspects: patches and bands, the patches being the more common.
The Old Woman who Never Dies has very large patches of corn, kept for her by the great stag and the white-tailed stag.
As these corn patches are large, the Old Woman requires many laborers, hence she has the mice, moles, and stags to perform such work for her.
On gleaming sand-patches flocks of pelicans performed their unwieldy gambols, and shoals of fish reflected the sunlight from their myriad glittering scales.
From head to tack down its whole length ran ghastly streaks and patches of gore, a sight that made my flesh creep.
So as to count the patches that you have on your left cheek: I have made out that there are seven on the right cheek, distributed in conformity with the precepts of art.
Patches of colour here and there relieved the green of the trees, for yonder was a bold bluff, covered with scarlet lichens, and closer to the water were patches of crimson and white foxglove.
After an hour's walking, the forest all at once receded a good mile from the river, and the banks were no longer green, but banks of boulders mixed with silver sand and patches of snow.
On breast and arms the eruption is in confluent patches which are nearly continuous--some pustules flat and indented, others smooth, with appearance of radii, and some more elevated forming blebs.
The eruption is pustular, and often exhibits simultaneously new pustules; also scabbing ulcers, the crusts of which fall off, and leave discoloured patches of skin after healing.
On the trunk and extremities, the eruption is either of confluent patches or of pustules dry and flat, with indented centres, the intermediate skin being of a deep red or crimson colour.
The spotted Dachshund, such as black and tan as a ground color showing silver gray patches of irregular sizes throughout the black field is of comparatively recent development.
Should open patches or sandy glades occur among the bush, foxes will be viewed bundling along, to all appearance quite carelessly.
The most enjoyable season for ibex-shooting (and on preserved ground the most favourable) is during August and September, when the snow has practically disappeared, except the permanent glaciers and stray patchesin some northern ravines.
The others, ten minutes later, arrived on the final scene, one minus his nether garments and sundry patches of skin, but in time to take part in the death of as grand a boar as roams the Spanish sierras.
Scarce: a pair and a single bird observed at 8000 feet among snow-patches and junipers.
The marismas and long lagoons are covered here and there with black patches crawling with myriads of waterfowl, to be described after supper by the careful Vazquez as muy pocos, un salpicon--a mere sprinkling.
There is here quite a small proportion of corn-land or tillage, the greater portion consisting of the rough pasturage, interspersed withpatches of scattered brush and palmetto, which is characteristic of southern Spain.
Here the outcropping granite remained in its natural shape--irregular ledges with small patches of earth intervening.
And now, as the light grows stronger, I can see white patches on them.
A few patches have been discovered in the locality, but elsewhere it is not known south of the Cheviots.
The rivers were there wide enough in places, but nothing in the way of a ridge or any signs of those inky patches could I discern.
He began--novel sensation--to look upon himself as a respectable old gentleman; the grey patches on his head were grateful to him from that point of view.
The stair-cases had ceased to be rotten pit-falls; the ceilings showed traces of recent care; the walls no longer dripped with moisture or were foul with patches of filth.
The Pilot followed a path which seemed to lead to the cultivated patches of the natives, and some pigs were seen, which ran into the woods.
Many of these men had migrated from Manitoba to a country where they could follow their occupation of hunting and fishing, and till little patches of ground in that shiftless manner characteristic of the Métis.
They built rude cabins on the banks of the Annapolis, and cultivated patches of ground after a fashion, beside raising a fort of logs and earth near Cape Sable, called indifferently Fort Louis or Lomeron.
They were chiefly hunters and fishermen, although the former cultivated some patchesof ground.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
