Some of them are planted with vineyards to their summits.
In Palestine as in other Semitic lands the hire of sacred prostitutes was probably dedicated to the deity as one of his regular dues: he took tribute of men and women as of flocks and herds, of fields and vineyards and oliveyards.
Compare his account of the Catanian vineyards (vi.
In antiquity the husbandmen used purposely to lead the water in rills round their lands, and thus in a few years their fields and vineyards were enclosed with walls of solid stone.
German people as long as the Rhine flows through the pleasant courses and by the fruitful vineyards its wandering spirit loves.
Rossi to prepare a work illustrating the cemeteries which underlie the vineyardsof the Via Appia, on each side of which are some of the most extensive and most important.
The mountains rose up a deep blue; the vari-colored fields were partly yellow; the vineyards alone were of a deep green, and when the wind blew through them it wafted with it the pleasant odors of the vine-blossoms.
This is a meeting and we need the best wine that ever came from the vineyards of France.
From where they were the vineyardssloped down to the bank.
The woods on the heights and the meadows assumed the aspect of one continued garden, spreading their rich green vineyards from hill to hill, and in the valley below full-bearing fruit trees without number completed the blooming scene.
Being composed of woods of black pine, it forms a dark background to the beautiful picture produced by a luxuriant country, rich in vineyards and watered by the Neckar, which flows through it.
The ascent is easy at first between walls and the vineyards which produce the celebrated Lachryma Christi.
Now, as they came up to these places, behold the gardener stood in the way, to whom the pilgrims said: Whose goodly vineyards and gardens are these?
It is the nature of the fruit of the grapes of thesevineyards to go down so sweetly, as to cause the lips of them that are asleep to speak.
He eagerly studied out the plan of the vineyards and the fields.
The beautiful vineyards and the high mountains make the scene somewhat romantic.
But it was just before the vintage, and their grapes were hanging in ripe clusters, exposed to the hand of the spoiler; and so, to save their vineyards from ravage, they were at last induced to give him a hearing.
Shall we, then, sell our honour to save a few vineyards and olive-grounds from temporary damage?
The vineyards where the fragrant fruitage hung To cheer the peaceful peasant in his toil Are desolate where Death his shroud has flung Upon the breadth of France's sacred soil.
A grist of carnage clogs the Mill, And shells have razed the quondam homes: Fresh graves the trampled vineyards fill, Whose cellars are but catacombs.
Brandy was made in the eighteenth century from grapes grown in the Beaulieu vineyards in Hampshire, and a bottle of it long kept at the abbey.
Coin is finely situated on the northern slope of the Sierra de Mijas, overlooking the small river Seco and surrounded by vineyards and plantations of oranges and lemons.
Bleaching and brewing are also carried on, and the neighbourhood is rich invineyards and fruit-gardens.
They kneel upon the pavement and the benches, sunburnt faces from the vineyards and the canebrakes of the valley.
And taking out the band, among whom squandered Caccia d' Ascian his vineyards and vast woods, And where his wit the Abbagliato proffered.
Leaving Tirano, and once more passing through the poplars by Madonna, we descended the valley all along the vineyards of Villa and the vast district of Sassella.
But as each of these vineyards yields a marked quality of wine, which is taken as standard-giving, the produce of the whole district may be broadly classified as approaching more or less nearly to one of these accepted types.
For some time after leaving Avignon you jog along the level country between avenues of plane-trees; then comes a hilly ridge, on which the olives, mulberries, and vineyards join their colours and melt subtly into distant purple.
And when the time comes for Italy to develop the resources of her vineyards upon scientific principles, Montepulciano will drive Brolio from the field and take the same place by the side of Chianti which Volnay occupies by common Macon.
On, on we steered till the warm rich scent from the flowering vineyards was left behind and the sound of the trains could not be heard.
The country presented a cheerless aspect; for fields and vineyards once fruitful were desolated by ferocious war.
Half way up the Heiligenberg runs a beautiful walk, dividing the vineyards from the forest above.
As we ascended the hill, the sound of firing was heard in every direction, and from many vineyards arose the smoke of fires where groups of merry children were collecting and burning the rubbish.
The women labor constantly in the fields; from our window we can hear the nut-brown maidens singing their cheerful songs among the vineyards on the mountain side.
The Neckar rushes on below; and the Odenwald, before, me, rejoices with its vineyards in the morning light.
The higher part of it is finely wooded, while on the lower slopes and eastern and southern edges are the famous Champagne vineyards (see Verzenay, pp.
The vineyards extend over the Rheims hills and along the valley of the Marne.
The villages are picturesquely situated at the edge of the forests which crown the hills, while the vineyards which cover the slopes of the latter descend to the chalky plain.
It belongs to the champagne-wine firm of Heidsieck Monopole, which allows tourists to visit it, as also their vineyards in the surrounding country.
The road between Moulins and Varrenes is through a much prettier country than we have seen since we left Paris; there is more wood, with occasional variety of orchards and vineyards and corn fields.
Vineyards stretched along the feet of the mountains, where the elegant villas of the Tuscan nobility frequently adorned the scene, and overlooked slopes clothed with groves of olive, mulberry, orange and lemon.
Groves of orange and lemon perfumed the air, their ripe fruit glowing among the foliage; while, sloping to the plains, extensive vineyards spread their treasures.
But thesevineyards failed, and the dwellings were abandoned.
Vineyards and fields were ravaged, and the inhabitants put to the edge of the sword.
We took the ears at dark, and after riding twenty-two miles found ourselves at Frankfort, having passed through Hochheim, where the vineyards are so costly that the railroad company had to pay well for the passage-way.
The hills in the distance form the boundary on the eastern part of the valley of the Rhine; and the mountain ranges are richly covered with vineyards and castles all the way, parallel with the railroad.
Bingen has, I think, some five or six thousand inhabitants, and has a great trade in wine, which is collected here from all the vineyards around.
If the signore can keep in his dog he can branch off through the vineyards to the left.
Cartouche was left behind, to his great disgust, but too many dogs were employed in the vineyards for it to be safe to take him.
It always seems strange to me that your vineyards should be so undefended," Jack said, determined to speak to Bice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vineyards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
