Even authorship was taking a start; Sir Dinadan the Humorist was first in the field, with a volume of gray-headed jokes which I had been familiar with during thirteen centuries.
You see, I was "bluffing" that last time in the field; it would be natural for them to work around to that conclusion, if I gave them a chance.
This was the same youth who had come to West Point so ignorant that when I asked him, "If a general officer should have a horse shot under him on the field of battle, what ought he to do?
The field near by had been denuded of its crop some time before, and had a skinned look, so exhaustively had it been harvested and gleaned.
His books no longer were his inseparable companions--his thoughts arrayed themselves to encourage him inthe field of victory.
They passed the day in thanksgiving and great rejoicing, and on that evening they visited their uncle, where many of their friends and acquaintances had gathered to congratulate them in the field of untainted bliss.
His books no longer were his inseparable companions--his thoughts arrayed themselves to encourage him to the field of victory.
During the six years which preceded his deposition in 1091, El Motamid behaved with valour on the field, but with much meanness and political folly.
When after an action wounded men come pouring into the field-hospital, the many cannot be kept waiting whilst preparations are being made for the thorough carrying out of a prolonged aseptic abdominal operation upon a solitary case.
The village street, with its double row of unlike houses, breaks off abruptly at the edge of the field in a footpath that goes up the streamside, beyond it, to the source of waters.
At the set time Connor took the law by the forelock and was adjudged possession of the field.
But Edswick died and Roeder became master of the field.
The field is not greatly esteemed of the town, not being put to the plough nor affording firewood, but breeding all manner of wild seeds that go down in the irrigating ditches to come up as weeds in the gardens and grass plots.
It must bide till the morning, for all hands are in the field still.
In a short time nothing was left in the field but a few hurdles, the tents, and the poles.
A number of people had heroically gathered in the field but by three o'clock Henchard discerned that his project was doomed to end in failure.
At moments, in spite of thought, she would reply to their inquiries with a manner of superiority, as if recognizing that her experiences in the field of courtship had, indeed, been slightly enviable.
They, with two others below, formed the revolving Maltese cross of the reaping-machine, which had been brought to the field on the previous evening to be ready for operations this day.
There was nothing inthe field or on the hill except a deformed tree, which writhed and shivered a few paces distant from the wayfarer.
The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars).
Such a point of the field of battle devours more combatants than such another, just as more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which is poured on them.
Damien is dead and already somewhat ungratefully remembered in the field of his labours and sufferings.
Some people urged, in the Council, that the promise of quarter which had been given on the field of battle should protect the lives of the miserable men.
It stood on a low bank; moreover, the level of the orchard was some thirty inches higher than that of the field and the ditch some two foot deeper than the face of the field.
There was much curious and inventive carving about most of them; and though some were old and much worn, there was the same look of deftness and trimness, and even beauty, about every detail in them which I noticed before in the field-work.
And therewith he came up to the hedge, climbed over, slowly because of his armour, and stood some dozen yards out in the field.
But on the field of deed those captives were somewhat fearful as to what should be done with them, and they spake one to the other about it, that they would be willing to serve the new King, since he was so mighty.
Marston buckled his girth and as he sprang on his horse, unconsciously taking his spear with him, the Wild Dog dashed from the trees at the far end of the field.
Viscount Alain, though he scarce guesses it, is no longer in the field.
If your brother and I were to meet in the field, we should meet like tigers; but when he sees me here disarmed and helpless, he forgets his animosity.
I think shame to be dangling here at home and going through with this foolery of education, while others, no older than myself, are in the field.
The most of our meals, however, were taken boldly at hedgerow alehouses, usually at untimely hours of the day, when the clients were in the fieldor the farmyard at labour.
An engagement ensued between the two parties, which ended in the Gypsies being worsted, and their chief left dying on the field.
Yet who possesses a map of Fez and Morocco, or would venture to form a conjecture as to how many fiery horsemen Abderrahman, the mulatto emperor, could lead to the field, were his sandy dominions threatened by the Nazarene?
During the drought of 1917 his work horses got so weak and poor that they became exhausted while plowing in the field.
Cotton picking often went on until spring and sometimes we'd have to lose a few days of schooling in the spring in order to get the last of the cotton out of the field in time for planting.
Joel was just 16 months older than I was, and one spring, when he was too young to go to school, Papa had him planting inthe field with a two-row planter.
You see, one of Papa's big problems was that he had a house full of growing kids who could use a spoon right well at the dining table, but were too little to use a feed-heading knife in the field.
He knows enough to wreck our campaign in the field.
The Boche was getting uppish and with some cause, and I foresaw a rocky time ahead till America could line up with us in the field.
The Boche is blowing up for a big campaign in the field, and a big effort to shake the nerve and confuse the judgement of our civilians.
The battle's in the field, and it's also in every corner of every Allied land.
Let the twain of them find me and fight me In the field, without shelter to shield them, And ewes of the sheep should be surer To shorten the days of the wolf.
Thou shalt not wear it until fighting is forward, and when ye come to the field, sit all alone and then draw it.
For I know, on this woman who weareth The fire of the field of the sea-king The fiends have been riding to revel.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the field" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
