We had now fired the dry stubble of the land--the flame spread--we advanced, and grew stronger and stronger.
Still we struggled on; and when it had been dark about an hour, we came to the skirts of a field, where the strips of the stubble through the snow showed us that some house or clachan could not be far off.
Hushing the still night, and with hands on our revolvers, bending forward toward the dim fields on our left hand, we can hear the footfall of horses crushing their way through stubble and stones.
In this conscience-stricken condition he looked back on the path of his life with Thora, and every step as he now saw it seemed to be thick set with the stubble of sin and rank with the weeds of self-deception.
We then deviated from the road; and having got into a solitary glen, we gathered together some dry stubble and underwood, made a fire, striking a light with a flint and steel, which my companion carried about him.
It is seen in stubble fields and on furze or low bushes, and is formed by small spiders.
Stubble rake, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble.
There is small red flower in the stubble fields, which country people call the wincopipe; which if it opens in the morning, you may be sure a fair day will follow.
A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle.
Out of an orchard into the stubble of a wheat-field broke a panicky mass; a score or more of men who had lost their officer and their heads presumably.
The wheat stubbleswept on up to a knoll in the distance.
Moving cautiously through a cut, Dellarme's company came, about midnight, to a halt among the stubble of a wheat-field behind a knoll.
Now from the stubble poets glean Scant flowers of thought; the Muse would wean Her myriad nurslings, feeding them On petals plucked from a dry stem.
Thus, a good man shall see all his wood, hay, andstubble burnt up in the trial before his face.
What is a sinful man in himself, or in his approach to God, but as stubble fully dry in the presence of a consuming fire, unless he is washed and cleansed by the atoning sacrifice of Jesus.
Ah friends, put a red hot oven and stubble together, and what work will there be!
And what is a sinful man in himself, or in his approach to God, but as stubble fully dry.
If they are not, they belong to Antichrist, and will be consumed with the stubble at the brightness of Christ's coming, when he shall judge the earth.
Leas; rarely used: but I think it always means stubble land, or land similar to stubble land.
As to what was deepest and truest in the man we know not, but we believe there was real good beneath the wood, hay, and stubble of formalism and pedantry.
It was in this spirit the man addressed himself to Rhys the next morning, whilst helping Lewis to transfer the lime from the panniers to the freshly-dug potato ground, and the unturned stubble of oats and barley.
Mountain Billy grazed near me till it occurred to him that stubble was unsatisfactory, when he betook him to my haycock.
Field after field bristling with yellow stubbletold of a harvest gathered in, but the orchards were still heavy with apples, their bright red glowing through a glittering coat of the night's frost.
When the sun had played his part of a flaming Nemesis, a fringe grew upon the horizon like the stubble upon a white man’s chin.
Pale, stubble bearded, and tense eyed with anger, sat Birnier upon a form against the wall; beside him stood Sergeant Schneider, for it is not usual etiquette to put a white prisoner in charge of a black guard.
The rains had continued for five months, yet now all the rice was cut, and dry and dusty stubble covered the country just as when I had first arrived there.
All around extend the flat rice-fields, now bare and dry and forbidding, covered with dusty stubble and weeds.
I have rarely seen game in such abundance and such variety in one spot; the water swarmed with geese, duck, and teal, the marshy ground with herons and snipe, and the stubble with bustards and cranes.
The wrinkles of the brow, the shaggy eyebrows, and the bloated cheeks, with the stubble beard peculiar to beings of his class, were very faithfully represented.
The close clusters of ranch-buildings, the stacks of straw, the yellow and green squares of stubble and the black threads of the dividing fences, with the diminutive dots of men moving to and fro with wagons, recall the prairie states.
Beyond, for miles and miles, the country seems to have been one continuous wheat-field, for the golden stubble stretches in vast unfenced spaces, and we can count dozens of huge yellow stacks that have been reaped.
We got so close in that we could see the stubble fires burning, and I, being then dead beat, fell into a light sleep, for I had never let the rudder out of my own hands, that we might get home the faster.
While we were feasting we kept turning our eyes towards the land of the Cyclopes, which was hard by, and saw the smoke of their stubble fires.
For when the corn was yellow, and he returned from one of his periodical prospects to gather it, he found only the bare stubble field awaiting him.
And for that matter, bread also, and this, too, despite the fact that the stubble sticking up through the snow in the bottom, marked the site of a harvested corn patch.
Plowed down the stubble with same application, and when we saw the crop, should have been willing to insure it at twenty-five bushels.
Peruvian guano to the acre; while the clover upon the stubble of the previous year could not be excelled in point of luxuriousness upon the richest field in the State of New York, where the land was valued at $100 an acre.
Sowed wheat upon oat stubble field; soil thin and gravelly upon part of the field--used some barnyard manure, but not as much as previous year.
Hares and partridges invariably squat on the fallow or in the stubble when alarmed, and remain absolutely still till the danger is passed.
When the bitch was put off into seeds orstubble she would range quietly until she found the birds, then stand as stiffly as though done in marble.
This method is impracticable now, as the modern method of reaping leaves the brittle stubble as bare as the squire's lawn.
The harvest housed the game could begin, and then the sweet clover, which the hares loved, first pushed their shoots between the stubble stalks.
This springs between the corn stalks, and by the time the golden sheaves are carried, has swathed the stubble with mantling green.
When natural scent posts can not be readily found, one may be easily established along the determined trail of a bobcat by dropping scent (of a kind to be described) on a few clusters of weeds, spears of grass, or stubble of low brush.
Bobcats usually have their scent posts slightly off the trail, on stubble of range grasses, on bushes, or even on old bleached-out carcasses.
The long, stout stubble tinkles as the foot brushes over it; the scent of the straw is sweet.
As we walked across the fields the tubes of stubble tinkled like dulcimers.
Now the hips burned red in the tangled thickets and the hews waxed black in the hedgerows, the stubble lay all crisp and naked to the sky, and the green leaves were fast turning russet and brown.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stubble" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
