During this time, easy ones will mostly be found in the stubbles from which the corn has just been carried.
And now, when the stubbles can only be called covert by courtesy, and to get within fifteen yards of a bird is a rare thing, it is certainly more difficult for us than it was for them to get a fair start at one.
This Goose, although gregarious during winter, seldom or never consorts with other species, although ready enough to mingle with its tame descendants on the stubbles and pastures.
It obtains its food by dipping the fore half of the body under water, and exploring the mud with its bill; but sometimes stubbles and meadows near the sea are visited for the purpose.
During the day the Bean Geese come inland to search for their food, on the stubbles and newly-sown grain lands.
From the stubbles and second crops of sun-baked clover puffs of warm air kept stealing up into the chillier air beneath the willows.
The stubblesgleamed faintly; the dark woods, the clouds teased by the rising wind, sent a moaning voice to greet her.
Why aren't you in thestubbles celebrating St. Partridge?
Gray mists were drifting silently across the woods and the wide stubblesof the now shaven cornfield, where white lines of reapers were at work, as the morning cleared, making and stacking the sheaves.
After the sun has gone down and the shadows are deepening, it is lighter in the open stubbles than in the enclosed meadows--the short white stubbs seem to reflect what little light there is.
The stubbles stretched far away on one side, where the country rose and fell in undulations.
They begin to drive them generally in August, by which time the harvest is almost over, and the geese may feed in the stubbles as they go.
It should be the rule, therefore, not only to refrain from pasturing clover thus, but also to leave the stubbles high when pasturing the grain.
In Western areas, from Canada to Kentucky and Missouri, it is important that the stubbles of the grain shall be cut high, amid which alfalfa grows when it is sown with a nurse crop.
The extent to which the stubbles and the erect young alfalfa plants will hold snow is simply surprising.
Where the snowfall is light and the cold is intense, to leave the stubbles thus high is important, since they aid in holding the snow.
Under such a system weeds could be virtually prevented from maturing seeds at any time, especially if the medium variety of clover were sown, and if the stubbles were mown some time subsequent to the harvesting of the grain crop.
In northerly areas the stubbles of the nurse crop frequently render substantial service to the clover by holding the snow on the crop, and also by protecting it more or less from the effect of the cold winds.
Under certain conditions of soil and climate, this crop may be sown on plowed or disked land in certain of the States, after a crop of grain, and in other instances by sowing amid the stubbles and covering with the harrow.
There may also be locations where much benefit follows in several ways close, or reasonably close, cutting of the stubbles quite soon after the nurse crop has been harvested.
But the lakes, be it remembered, are surrounded by that cultivation afore described--100 mile stubbles and so on.
The bird-catcher, with his bright lantern gleaming before its reflector and the cattle-bell jingling at his wrist, prowls nightly around the stubbles and wastes in search of roosting birds.
For hogs in yard, after the stubbles are gone; and before the tops of the Swedes come in.
But the stubbles are beautifully bright; and the rick-yards tell us that the crops are good, especially of wheat.
I saw several wheat stubbles from 40 rods to 10 rods.
Large tracts of turnips; clean land; stubbles ploughed up early; ploughing with oxen; and a very large and singularly fine flock of sheep.
At the very time this complaint was raised, the stubblesin Surrey, as I can vouch, were crowded with small birds.
The stubbles stretch away, crossed with bands of green roots where the partridges are hiding.
Several covies may be seen on the wing in a few minutes if the stubbles outside are disturbed in the evening, flying to the wood.
At noon they move round to the south, and in the evening are on the stubbles to the west.
In the evening, while he and Catherine were in the footpath after dinner, watching a chilly autumnal moonrise over the stubbles of the cornfield, the answer came.
In winter it sometimes visits the farmyards, and we have noticed it mingled with flocks of Lesser Redpoles on the stubbles and clover fields in late autumn.
Though outwardly affable, both Stubbles and the Squire were very uneasy at the arrival of Jake's hired man in company with the ablest lawyer in the city.
The one great topic of conversation was the punishment Ben Stubbles had received.
There was considerable anxiety as well, for those who had taken part in the affair fully expected that Simon Stubbles would hit back hard.
Douglas then told about the mortgage on Professor Strong's place, and how Stubbleswas about to foreclose as he needed money.
Mrs. Stubbles followed, and stood over her husband, wringing her hands in despair.
Stubbles seized it, and as he did so tears came into his eyes and rolled down his cheeks.
During the intermission which followed the first dance, Ben Stubbles and his sisters, Miss Annabel and Miss Maria, arrived.
With a gurgled groan of abandoned hope, Stubbles sank back and remained huddled in his chair, a pitiable object of misery.
Yes, that's what I want to know," Stubbles questioned.
I saw Ben Stubbles push you off the wharf into the harbour and then leave you to your fate.
But it was only justice he wanted, and the assurance that Simon Stubbles and Squire Hawkins would behave themselves in the future.
But for once in his life Ben Stubbles had reckoned without his cost.
There was no persecution, I assure you," Stubbles hotly defended.
Well, they tuk him clean out across the open, past Andy Joneses, and they skeart up in hisstubbles three bevies, I guess, got into one like!
The day was mild and sunny; the half-ploughed field on which they had been working lay alternatively yellow in the stubbles and a rich brown purple in the new turned furrows under the autumn noon.
She stood now before the glass, a radiant daughter of air and earth; her veins, as it were, still full of the sheer pleasure of her long day among the stubbles and the young stock.
They were a long way from the keeper's cottage, and the old man, depressed by the difference between war and pre-war conditions, found it quite enough to potter round the stubbles and turnips of the home farm when game had to be shot.
The rice-stubbles also, in districts where rice is grown, afford perhaps the finest snipe-shooting, often with abundant covert.
The birdcatcher, with his bright candle gleaming before its reflector and the cattle-bell jingling at his wrist, prowls nightly over the stubbles and wastes in search of roosting birds.
The stubbles are then bare, and even the fallows which during spring bear heavy swathes of weeds, have now lost all their covert.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stubbles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
