| 单词 | clod |
| 例句 | Not one dirt clod more than necessary had been removed from the earth. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The lip of the grave crumbled beneath her foot as she climbed, sending clods of dirt tumbling into the pit. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Putrid weeds,” Florida snarled, heaving a clod of dirt over her shoulder. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I did not join in, nor did I throw clods of mud as many did, including the bloodthirsty girl next to me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Dallas watched as the clod landed on Mr. Trepid’s back and as the man scuttled over to Florida and whacked her on the head. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z She hefted another clod of mud at him, menacingly, but did not throw it. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z A pale figure rises, little clods of earth from the milpita soundlessly crumbling off the small body. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z I idly kicked a few more clods of dirt into the hole with the toe of my boot. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In addition, those photographs could earn those com-belt clods a fortune in some photographic contest. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “What sort of clods does that newspaper employ on its photographic staff? My features are barely distinguishable.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In reply, a clod of wet earth flew out from under the tree, hitting Tristran on the side of the face. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z They hurled clods of earth at the prone forms in the ditch and stood watching them for a time. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Jethro walked on the warm clods of plowed earth and felt them crumble beneath his feet as he helped his mother carry the tub of potato cuttings they had prepared the night before. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I look at the bushes, the clods of dirt hanging from their roots, and catch my breath as the word rose registers. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z "You clod. If you want to know what I think, I think it's his son that's the cause of it." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z His grin quickly turned into a frown when he discovered the dirt clods. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The thudding sound they made as they fell to the bottom reminded me of clods of dirt raining down on a fresh coffin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here chick,” she called, “here chick, chick, chick, chick, chick, chick—” Ellen slowly reached out with her hoe and broke a clod of dirt into crumbling fragments. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Hofacket flushed and ducked his head, and I swear he would have kicked a clod if there’d been one on his studio floor. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “I am tired of moving every year,” Roberto said, picking up small dirt clods and tossing them.“ The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “What a bunch of hooey,” I said under my breath, tossing a dirt clod over my shoulder against the locked-up garden shed. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Doubletree Mutt came sideways and embarrassed up through the vegetable patch, and Jody, remembering how he had thrown the clod, put his arm about the dog’s neck and kissed him on his wide black nose. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, working over the clods in the fields, he would fall to pondering about her. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Percy plucked a mud clod from his hair. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The earth quakes under feet Behind, among the flying clods, there are hoof-prints stricken in the ground. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z At Shea Stadium, the crowd tore onto the field, ripping up home plate, pulling up fat clods of turf and raising them high over their heads. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When the horse felt the pressure let up on his snout and heard Anya’s encouragement to go, he sprang forward, hooves ripping up the grass and throwing clods of dirt behind him. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He went without reply then to the wall and felt for the roughness which was the mark of the hiding place and he removed the clod of earth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Swedish style, it was made of logs, chinked with decaying clay, and clogged with clods of moss. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z An iron drab and a silver talent, a stone and a piece of fruit, two bricks, a clod of earth and one of the donkeys. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The walls showed cracks, and clods of mud had fallen where people had bumped against them, but these I left for patching in the morning. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Every time Papá tilled the furrows, more mud clods bubbled up, leaving the ground coarse and uneven again. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z One of these paths ended at a clod with a natural hollow underneath it In the hollow—again with the strange appearance of aimless purpose—he found two dead ants. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled up manioc, knocking away clods of dirt and stuffing it into the duffel. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Finally he got them to the side of the road, where they sat and shivered and spit up mud clods. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z While the others broke dirt clods and struggled with roots, picked stones and smoothed out rough rows to plant, Pinch pretended to help. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I wiped it down, making sure to remove clods of dried mud and clumps of grass from the undercarriage and chipping the dried dirt off the pictures of the rabbit and the turtle. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw how Dane looked at me, before he saw me clod my way across the classroom. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He put his hoe down into the ground with a long even movement and with great care, breaking up the tiniest clod in the soft earth already well cultivated. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I turn and see a hardened clod of dirt on the ground. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I didn’t feel the jolt when I tripped forward and slammed into the cornstalks and clods of dirt with my chest and bounced right up and kept going. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They rolled in the dew, they cropped mouthfuls of the sweet summer grass, they kicked up clods of the black earth and snuffed its rich scent. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z But I cannot but think: Only one threw the clod. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Mostly what I did was break up clods of dirt. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z An explosion just over the ridge shook the ground and flung stones and clods of earth high into the air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then a flat, wet clod of dead leaves shot clean through the gap and landed clear of the hedge, close to Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Once we cleared the weeds, we broke mud clods with short hoes and shovels. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Then I remembered Papa saying that we got paid three cents a pound, so I mixed dirt clods in with the cotton to make it weigh more. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He dodged every rubber band, coconut custard pie, mud clod, and wadded-up sock ball they flung his way. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z In a senseless frenzy Tree-ear threw leaves and sticks and clods of dirt—whatever he could get his hands on. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z When it had pulled the three dead ants into several positions, they would fall into line under the clod eventually, and that was its duty. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I smiled a little bit and kicked at a clod of dirt. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Carefully Robin tested each clod of earth, each bit of stone, before trusting his weight to the crutches, praying the while that the fog would hold. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z I passed through the town on my way to the market and somebody threw it — a clod of dung. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “How could you? Adam Trask, a dog wolf with a pair of cubs, a scrubby rooster with sweet paternity for a fertilized egg! A dirty clod!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Chunky clods dislodged from the creek’s bank and toppled into the water, swept into the loop. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Taran shouted at her, but the clods continued flying at a great rate. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z It was winter when I came up, and when the shells exploded the frozen clods of earth were just as dangerous as the fragments. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Saleem saw the old man throw that clod at me, and he did nothing but laugh. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z A hundred geysers shot into the air along with clods of dirt, pieces of pipe, and very heavy sprinkler heads. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z "A clod and a ruffian," declared the prince. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z One of his booted feet toes the clover-covered ground, kicking up a clod. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Will Sánchez be a clod “washed away by the sea,” to borrow from Donne? Review | This visionary artist lives on an island. Does that make her insular? 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z You don’t have to know your way around a beef-cut chart — with its bewildering eyes, rounds, chucks and clods — to buy a good one. Steak That Sizzles on the Stovetop 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z When you play sports on grass fields, it’s inevitable that you’ll bring home clods of dirt stuck to your cleats: Call them shoevenirs. Style Invitational Week 1294: As the word turns — a neologism contest 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z And Arthur establishes himself as a lovable clod who knows that while quotas and deadlines are important, the North Pole operation, like any business, needs to put the customer first. | 'Arthur Christmas': ?Arthur Christmas,? Voiced by James McAvoy and Hugh Laurie 2011-11-22T13:00:00Z He is the ripsnorting bull of American cinema, flanks matted with sweat, hooves kicking up clods; meaning to shock and awe; and possibly impregnate us as well. Darren Aronofsky on Mother! - ‘Jennifer Lawrence was hyperventilating because of the emotion’ 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Boneless and cut from the shoulder clod top blade roast, each steak averages 8 ounces, with a thickness varying from ¾ to 1¼ inch. Best steaks for grilling — we’ve got 9 options 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z The spume leapt up then dropped away in frothy white clods. Wilderness by Sarah Hall 2013-03-18T13:22:56Z “Without liquor I would have married a dull clod, Roger, and had what is called a normal life.” Patricia Highsmith Lived Extravagantly, and Took Copious Notes 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z André Breton, the imperious poet who served as the movement’s leader, purchased a few of Magritte’s works for his own collection, but derided him as a clod who spoke French with a Walloon accent. Magritte, Surrealism and the Pipe That Is Not a Pipe 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Is it a narcissistic compulsion to demonstrate how much more thoughtful and sensitive you are than the ignorant clod who offended you? Django Unchained, Djack Whitehall and Djames Delingpole 2013-01-13T20:00:00Z They were asking my cousin Dennis about the harrow he was pulling, used to break up clods of dirt in the field. Modern Love: The Mixed-Politics Marriage - Modern Love 2012-11-03T03:48:14Z In another, weeds frozen under a dusting of snow wilt into a clod of root-tangled soil. Art Rooted in Nature Blooms at TEFAF 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z His colleague Diego de Pantoia implored the emperor, “As in life we were nourished by your royal bounty, so in death we trust that you will grant us a clod of earth for a shroud.” Missionary to the Forbidden City 2010-09-27T12:02:00Z Like most of Crumbl’s offerings, it was plump, doughy, intensely sweet and topped with a thick clod of frosting. Are Crumbl Cookies the Best or the Worst? It Doesn’t Matter. 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z This contributes to the notion that guys are emotional clods who are incapable of connecting with their partners because, hey, they’re just guys, and guys are only interested in sex. Expert: Guys don’t want casual sex! 2012-11-18T02:00:00Z And he emerged as a self-indulgent clod with no concern for how his actions affected others. Showtime’s ‘The Affair’ Expands Its Points of View 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Even the venal clods burst to complicated life. Guerrilla Gardeners Meet Billionaire Doomsayer. Hurly-Burly Ensues. 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z But in eight weeks, I fear Boorish clods will appear Dressed as pathogens for Halloween. Style Invitational Week 1400: Back on track 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z The van tires spun and spat clods of earth, coating white and brown skin. Muslim Scouts pursue an American tradition — in an America wary of Muslims 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z But on discovering her dad’s victim, she acts like a hysterical entitled clod. ‘Inheritance’ Review: A Rich Kid’s Estate Surprise 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z My dad in his cords, out of the car, pulling clods from tyres. My worst holiday: Guardian writers on breaks that nearly broke them 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Putting the compost through a sifter will not increase its potency, but it will create a fine texture, breaking up moist clods and removing unwelcome items such as stones, bones and chunks of wood. Why compost is the lifeblood of the garden 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z As Teichman looked on, a few farmhands gingerly coaxed the cuttings out of the plastic sleeves, exposing young roots tangled in clods of soil. Jews need the rare etrog fruit for Sukkot. That's where a Presbyterian family comes in 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z To be fair, there is more to Johnson's story than him simply being a clod when it came to dogs. How one infamous presidential photo of animal abuse outraged the animal rights movement 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Digging in soggy conditions can damage a soil’s structure, creating impenetrable clods that hinder roots. Healthy soil is the foundation of a healthy garden; here’s how to test yours 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Tau proteins play an important role in stabilizing neurons, but with age, they can start to clod together, forming tangles that are neurotoxic and can jam themselves into the entire intracellular space of a neuron. Dolphins are beaching themselves. The culprit could be Alzheimer's disease 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z He pulled up a few small weeds, then picked up some stones and clods of dirt, scattering them beneath the tripod. Van Gogh through a pinhole A clod of dirt falls from the bed of a moving truck. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z At the Dearborn city limits, local police launched tear gas at the roughly three thousand protestors, who responded by throwing stones and clods of dirt. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z It might form big clods that damage the crop or cut it into pieces. Drought: Why we need to get used to wonky vegetables 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Tillage of fields does help to break up clods that were previously compacted, so best practices may vary at sites with different soil textures and composition. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z But love doesn’t force you to behave like a violent clod and then wait a day before you publicly apologize to the person that you actually clobbered. Perspective | Will Smith, spit-polished thuggery and disrespect 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z One important step is to reduce plowing, which causes erosion by breaking up large clods and destroying the soil structure that prevents detachment and movement of particles. How Dirt Could Help Save the Planet 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z Prowling in groups of three and four, the glossy birds yanked up clumps of grass and poked through the exposed clods. Move over murder hornets: There’s a new bug in town — and it’s coming for your lawn 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z The one of Rizzo, which was taken down on June 2, makes him look like a misshapen clod in an awkwardly buttoned jacket. Column: Twilight of the hero statues of the Confederacy 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z But shoes also were nicknamed hock-dockers, after hock, “the joint in a quadruped’s hind leg”, and clod-hoppers, because people hop over earthen clods. 'Is that bum trap missing a flesh-bag?': a guide to Australia’s convict slang 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Martin was sawing an AK-47 in half, and preparing to turn it into a mattock—an old-fashioned hoe with prongs on one side, which is used for breaking up clods of earth. God, Guns, and Country: The Evangelical Fight Over Firearms 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z “His tastes, the selves he created, were impeccably suburban … Bowie was youth culture not as collective hedonism but as an individual grace that showed up everyone else as clods.” Teenage Wildlife: inside the song about Bowie's midlife crisis 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z He got up with a clod of dirt in his face mask and began cursing Brady for lousy execution. Perspective | The Patriots’ secret is focusing on the details. Every. Last. Detail. 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Even some of the businessmen around President Trump, the avaricious sword dancers of yesteryear, might hesitate to do deals with such a clod. Opinion | Young leaders aren’t the solution. They’re wreaking havoc on the world. 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z The neon-green blades shot up through the dirt clods two or three days after the first heavy rain and remained through winter. The daughter Steve Jobs denied: ‘Clearly I was not compelling enough for my father' 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z I’ve had plenty of experience trying to fend off these clods for years. Finding a therapist for a loved one suffering from depression 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The island we know as Maui was “the big island” a million years ago, before it began disappearing clod by clod and grain by grain. Opinion | Kilauea sets eternity before our very eyes 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z When it comes to mitigating climate change, soil scientists are most interested in what Silver calls occluded carbon — organic material, often in the form of dead microbes, trapped in clods of dirt. Can Dirt Save the Earth? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were. as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were. Global Warming’s Toll on Coral Reefs: As if They’re ‘Ravaged by War’ 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z They are indeed bound to it, owning it, craving it, their lives encircled by the same few acres of claggy clods. “Mudbound” is an earthy, compelling portrayal of 1940s Mississippi 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z Everything is limbs, flying clods of dirt, horses rearing, riders whipping them deeper into the fray. I’ll get my goat: Kazakhstan's ancient sport for modern times 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Except that the clods in cars are armed with tons of speeding metal. Georgia editorial roundup 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Other parts will be shipped around the globe: shoulder clods and tripe to Mexico, short ribs and chuck roll to South Korea, livers to Egypt, tongues to Japan. What is the future of the Texas cowboy? 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z In fact, what makes Demme such an appealing film maker is his affection for all his characters, even ones like Tony the Tiger who might normally be portrayed as humorless clods. Jonathan Demme on making 'Married to the Mob' and why he's attracted to movies about independent women 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The device led them straight to a field littered with clods of earth and shot through with tractor marks. Laser Scans Unveil a Network of Ancient Cities in Cambodia 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z But don’t forget those 4 hours 32 minutes of roars from 43,936 fans, almost all clad in red — staying until 12:41 a.m., spitting in the eye of some obtuse Metro clod. How Nats fans should process three playoff losses in five years 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z There’s the obvious problem of a wealthy, born-into-privilege clod dehumanizing a group of impoverished, vulnerable people fleeing a war zone. Donald Trump Jr. is wrong on Syrian refugees in every possible way: They’re a vulnerable population — who are likely to do well in America 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Then they use a small hoe to carefully lever up a clod of earth and extract the orange “caterpillar,” still covered in mud — and much more valuable when unbroken. ‘Himalayan Viagra’: Tibet’s gold rush may be coming to an end 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Then, last November, the mine’s X-ray machine found a clod of kimberlite that an underground volcanic eruption had shot to the Earth’s surface, like a hundred-and-fifty-pound soccer ball, some ninety million years ago. The Ungraspable Value of the World’s Largest Diamond 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z At the sight of the candy, everyone started screaming and ran over, scrambling and diving in the grass, clods of dirt flying. “Honey Bunny” 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Residents are crowded into rough-hewn homes built up to the very edge of the rivers, where clods of waste float sluggishly by. Away from Olympics, sewage blights vast swaths of Rio 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z More recently, people have tried cherry-picker cranes to access the canopy, or even floating purple helium balloons or hurling clods of mud into the air to provoke them into the open. Purple Emperor: The butterfly that feeds on rotting flesh - BBC News 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z More here: Greece: a clod of earth worth saving? Greece may need new elections or default, warns Goldman Sachs - live updates 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z She hoes the clods of soil like a peasant in a Millet painting, and plunges up to her waist to join Gabriel for the seasonal washing of sheep. To Save the World or to Trash It? 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z It wasn’t until I placed my ordinarily lovely carrot cupcakes on the rack to cool that I noticed they were dirty-blond and pocked everywhere with huge, wart-like clods. Keep the Breadbasket, Throw Out the Gluten 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z He said the man picked up two “rocks or dirt clods” and threw one, but it didn’t hit anyone. Protest in Pasco after officers kill rock-throwing man 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z "I'd rather break clods behind the plough," he is supposed to have declared, "than rule by the Provisions!" The turning point for democracy that gets overlooked 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z When that didn’t work, he bent down and picked up a dirt clod and pelted him with it. The Ride of Their Lives 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z There were pottery shards several inches wide and a big rounded dirt clod that looked as if it had been molded inside a burial urn. Gas boom in Bolivia brings new wealth — and regrets for a lost opportunity Three months later in the Hollywood Gold Cup, a clod of dirt hit Cigar squarely in the head, making him angry and putting him in a tug-of-war with Bailey. Cigar Won Many Races and Countless Hearts 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Judah Loew, a mystic called the Maharal, whispered spells and commands into a clod of mud and sculpted a monster to crush the vandals and brutes. The future of warfare: Why we should all be very afraid 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Sticking out of a clod was a pale-white object that Owen picked up and gazed at without recognition. Thomas McGuane: “Hubcaps.” 2014-04-14T04:00:00Z Large clods of turf came away with each tackle, creating a surface that was both sloppy and uneven. Marek Hamsik's Napoli loyalty tested as he is robbed at gunpoint ... again 2013-02-18T11:35:53Z "Everybody too hates mud, but we bathe in it, wade in it, sleep in it and clods of it adorn the most secret recesses of one's clothes, books and papers." In pictures: Letters home from the front 2012-11-07T08:42:25Z Lovers are expected to swap sweet nothings many times a day and woe betide the clod who forgets a “100-day anniversary”. Love, Korean-style: Two?s company 2012-05-17T15:05:40Z But now, man, he has ceased to live; the spirit, the soul, has gone; a clod of earth only remains.” The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales 2012-04-27T02:00:33.040Z At the same time as the Mosque was being finished, Mohammad had caused two little hovels to be built with clods of earth—"Hujrah"—leaning against the walls of the temple. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z Drunkenness outlives beauty—the clod burying haycock, bog and girl. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Some of them were not through yet, but were raising great clods of earth, leaving holes which looked for all the world like toad-holes. The Clammer and the Submarine 2012-04-17T02:00:15.727Z It wears not the Franciscan's sheltering gown; The cord that binds it is the strangers chain; Scarce seen for scorn, in fields of old renown It breaks the clod; another reaps the grain. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The clods are passed from man to man to the bank, where other men stand with their backs turned, and their arms crossed behind them, so as to make a sort of primitive hod. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z Picking up a clod, he added: 'By Allah! if I did not fear to strike someone else, I would hurl this earth in thy face.' The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z The eternal Smoutchy was still very much alive, and still an amateur of clods in the town of Edam. The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z These were no longer peasants, dull, patient clods, such as I had known all my life; but maddened beasts; I read it in their gestures and the growl of their voices. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z We might as well spurn the clod under our feet, and call it vulgar. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z In the moon myths the most important personification is first Diana, the horned huntress, “for to the ancients the moon was not a lifeless ball of stones and clods.” Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Verdure lay on field and meadow, peeping up, breaking through every clod, and over earth and sky streamed a sea of golden light. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z With the wrongs, the crimes, the vices of centuries to avenge, they dreamed that the day of requital was come; and the dream had turned clods into devils. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z "Oh!" said he, "that I had been content to remain the clod, the toil-worn slave that I am!" Delusion, or The Witch of New England 2012-03-19T02:00:28.267Z You clod, do you know who I am? Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z I write, of course, for those to whom these things appeal; there are clods alive who see nothing, or next to nothing, in spools of mercerised cotton and endless bands of paper-set pins. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z When it remained unmoved he went to the river-bank on the right, and breaking off some clods of earth, flung them at the slumberous creature, which completely blocked the way. Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z And when our work on earth is ended, when the clods of the valley are sweet to our weary frame, take us home to Thyself. The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z Was it only vanity, when I hoped to rise above the clods of the earth, and aspired to have my lips, as Isaiah's, touched by a coal from the holy altar? Delusion, or The Witch of New England 2012-03-19T02:00:28.267Z "Out of the way, you clods!" he cried, advancing on them with his stick raised. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z The desire of the clod for the cloud was extinguished. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The genius of the time soon shifts the scene: No longer whirled over our kindred clods, We, with as strong an impulse, cleave the waters. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z I would not be in that clod's shoes for his booty ten times told!' My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Am I a useless, passionless clod, that my blood stirs at naught but pleasure? Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Oh, would the dull, insensate clod Give forth its yearly store, If our great Father and our God Had thought not of the poor? Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z She set the squirming lump of mud into one of the wash tubs and let warm water run over him from a faucet for a few minutes to remove the clods. The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door 2012-02-21T03:00:19.740Z My hands now lift the clod of the valley which dares cling to them with brotherly familiarity. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Yet there was a shiver of sympathy as the tiny clods of clay rattled down upon the coffin lid, and as the rector said "earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z He knew that, to the attack which M. de Vlaye meditated, the mob of clods and vagrants must fall an easy prey. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z But a hundred years ago matter was clod, and the passion it engendered smelt of the charnel-house. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z Has earth a clod Its maker meant not should be trod By man, the image of his God, Erect and free, Unscourged by Superstition's rod To bow the knee? The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 2012-02-16T03:00:03.167Z Harry was lowered to his last resting place and each one of his immediate friends picked up a clod and cast it into the open grave, the good-bye salutation for the dead. Unfettered A Novel 2012-02-12T03:00:15.143Z If the clods are left a little while undisturbed in the fields, weeds spring up and wild flowers bloom upon them. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z Hang like any clod or clown a man who had been a constant visitor at his master's house! The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z Much seemed to have gone out of the world when the echoing clods covered that which was "Miss Ellis." Miss Ellis's Mission 2012-02-11T03:04:04.613Z He does not hear the clods as they fall on the coffin. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z Sees them outwit each other and themselves—leads them to every crime, watches the births and deaths—hears lullabies at cradles and the fall of clods on coffins. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z Everywhere in the plain we saw circles of clods of earth, with a small circular ditch, where the tents of many Indians had stood. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z To be afoot while hireling troopers spurned his own clods in his face, and all without leave or license, all where he and his forebears had exercised the low justice and the high for centuries! The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z When the small clods of soil clinging to the roots of the plant had been removed, Harry saw a number of pods which he recognized as peanuts. How We are Fed A Geographical Reader 2012-02-07T03:00:10.237Z Our three young soldiers, each with his personal effects bundled up in an enormous red and yellow handkerchief, were of the rudest peasant type, hardly lifted above animal and clod. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z While earthly things fill earthly minds, Attracted to their native clod, Happy the man who wisdom finds, And holds her in the fear of God! The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z An oblong of shattered clods, almost hidden by the fresh green blades of oats, stretched across the foreground, and beyond it there was the usual vast sweep of grass. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z Against these the Turks who had placed themselves between the river and the little tributary, led a whole mob of villains on foot, who hurled at them clods of turf or whatever came to hand. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z There is some grace, in the action of a farmer, sowing barley; but there is a feeling of embarrassment, in this miserable illustration of casting in the clods upon the dead, which characterizes the performance. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Pah! to think that these affairs should compel one to humiliate and abase one's self before a vulgar clod like that! Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z Break, Spirit, break to boundless things Beyond the molehill and the clod, And catch the glory of the strings That tune the harmonies of God. Cornish Catches and Other Verses 2012-01-15T03:00:13.973Z Long rows of clods out of which rose a tangle of withered grass tussocks stretched across the foreground. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z Starlings and smart wagtails were running briskly over the clods, and many little birds flashed, fluttered, hopped here and there. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Then he raised her aloft—but to shorten our tale, She looked like a clod in the opposite scale— Britannia so small, and Columbia so large— A ship of first rate, and a ferryman's barge! The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z Yes, I who now, with angry tears, Am exiled back to brutish clod, Have borne unquenched for fourscore years A spark of the eternal God; And to what end? Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z And has not such a Story from of Old Down Man's successive generations roll'd Of such a clod of saturated Earth Cast by the maker into Human mould? The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Farther on, they skirted another stretch of more friable and cleaner clods, shattered and mellowed by the frost, and then they came to a space of charred stubble. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z I stepped out and found a group of persons before my cave, looking anxiously for me, and lying all around were freshly-torn rose bushes, arborvitæ trees, large clods of earth, splinters, and pieces of plank. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields 2012-01-07T03:00:15.907Z Then, as I heard the symbolic clod falling from the hand of the officiating minister, I recalled myself to reality—earth to earth, dust to dust. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z Feeding the clods your idlesse drains, You make more green six feet of soil; His fruitful word, like suns and rains, Partakes the seasons' bounteous pains, And toils to lighten human toil. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z Your noble gift of perfect service teach; Your wisdom in the wild storm softly bent Aware 'twill end; your patience that can reach Across the years from clod to firmament. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z They plunged forward at a mad gallop, scattering clods of half-dried mud, and the wagon bounced violently into and out of the ruts. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z Then, bearing upon the handles, they lever up the clod and turn it over. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z I know there is a good deal of spurious Palestine earth in circulation, and that many a dead man who has clods of it thrown into his tomb is nevertheless buried in unholy soil. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Why leave a machine which separates the clods of the earth, and break one which puts seed into it? Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z Wisdom am I When thou art but a fool; My part the man, When thou hast played the clod; Hast lost thy garden? The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z As he sat by a stump or clod in the fading light, some belated fly or early night-bug would light on the ground in front of him. A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories 2011-12-23T03:00:10.057Z The women follow them on their knees, breaking up the clods with short sticks, and finally pulverizing the earth with their hands. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z The ribbed wheels bit the clods, and the engine lurched clumsily across the furrows, with the harrows clattering as they tore through the tangled grass roots and scattered the dry soil. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z When he had done the deed Shere Bahadur moved a few yards further and began to cast clods of earth over himself. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z Under the kindling panoply which God Spreads over tree and clod, I looked far abroad. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z That was his ambition; and we must not blame him; for a man without ambition of some kind is a very humble sort of a clod—a clod of very poor clay. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z The body was rolled in a guanaco robe and laid to rest, the clods were heaped in, and snow put over these. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z As he guided the slowly moving beasts and watched the clods roll back, his brown face was grave; for he had been troubled during the past seven days. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z Once back in the great marketplace she was set on the scaffold, bound to a stake, and the executioner laid before her a bundle of grass and a clod, signifying the pit of the grave. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z I attempted by shouting to attract the attention of the sentinel over me; but though I heard the clod tramping up and down, I received no answer. The Honour of Savelli A Romance 2011-12-10T03:00:15.560Z The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so strange and overwhelming, that an assumed stupidity is his only refuge. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z A slight hollow is dug for the purpose, having clods arranged around, between which the gun can be levelled with murderous accuracy. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z The big oxen steadily plodded on, the dry grass crackled beneath the share as the clods rolled back, and by degrees Harding's mind grew tranquil—as generally happened when he was at work. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z Meanwhile, his mistress was throwing clods of earth at me for want of stones. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z "Poor clod," murmured the Beau to his polite self, as he closed the door of his chamber and double locked it against intrusion. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z We speak contemptuously of stones and clods and lumps of clay. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z The poet concurs with the philosopher when he exclaims: "The loving worm within its clod, Were diviner than a loveless God Amid his worlds." English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z The long furrows traced across it were a rich chocolate-brown, and the turned-back clods had patches of oily brightness on their faces. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z A clod had been newly kicked out of the top of it; I could not evade the conviction that Michael had gone that way. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z There was a nipping air when they started early in the morning, each with a packet of provisions and a blanket upon his shoulder, and the newly turned clods in the clearing were iron-hard. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z She had failed to realize that Brady was an offensive clod. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Darwin tells how he reared eighty seedlings from a single little clod on a bird's foot. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z Rows of pedlers' shacks stretched back from the wooden station, the streets were unpaved, and the churned-up prairie soil lay in sticky clods upon the rude plank sidewalks. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z It was kicking out wildly with its heels, flailing clods out of the steep bank and floundering in vain attempts to rise. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z She wanted to reach the ideal, And at clods unpoetic would rail, And her husband wore fringe on his trousers And fastened them on with a nail! The Coo-ee Reciter 2011-11-20T03:00:16.890Z The one who had touched a belly said: "The Elephants are like a clod of earth." Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z Trees, rocks, clods of earth, everything movable that presented an obstacle to the gale, was carried away like thistledown. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z Behind him Devine stood in the midst of a dust-cloud, regulating the bite of the harrows that tossed about the hard, dry clods. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z I but insist on the thirty pounds to the hundred as my due recompense, and when I demand it they respond not, but let my kindness lie under the clods of ingratitude. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z The shepherd, out of patience, pelted them with clods of earth; but not one of them would move. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z All at once there was a tremendous crash, and the girls started back in alarm, not quickly enough to escape some clods of earth that struck them heavily. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z I knew the hollow sound of the first clod of earth which falls upon the lid of a coffin, and shrunk from its leaden fall upon the uncovered body. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z The rows of clods, with their polished faces, stretched across the foreground; and on their outer edge Devine, dressed in overalls the color of the soil, drove a team of big, red oxen. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z The rattling of clods on a coffin filled me with awe and dread. Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work 2011-11-01T02:00:21.043Z That mouse’s helmet was knocked off and his forehead was plastered with the clod of mud, so that he was well-nigh blinded. The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles 2011-10-31T02:00:27.780Z Gabriel, it was plain, was in earnest; so down the woody slope toward the stream the chase swept headlong; Jacque exerting his utmost speed, and Gabriel hurling stones, clods, and curses after him. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z Jett� is a girl with a great deal of feeling--but he must be a clod with none; he can't care in the least for her, or he would have been here long ere this. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:28.357Z As she spoke, she shook a clod of loose earth from a large dandelion root, and threw the forty-sixth plant into a basket standing beside her. Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp 2011-10-21T02:00:19.027Z Were there no earth-love, there could be no heart-sorrow; were there no craving for loved ones gone, the soul of man would rest forever a brother of the clod. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z Among the Khonds of India, we learn that the body of a human victim was literally torn in pieces and his blood mixed with the new turned clod, in order to insure a plentiful harvest. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z Bravely fling off the cold chain that hath bound thee; Look to yon pure heaven smiling beyond thee; Rest not content in they darkness—a clod! The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z In the course of the sad work, you may cast a few clods over the remains of Mrs. Carr's once prosperous school. The Story of a Life 2011-10-11T02:01:02.723Z An earth-worm that hath crawled Out of the dust—out of a clod of clay 50 Defies thy power. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z It seems, indeed, as if to me were sent A smile from Heaven—as if to-day the clods Were lined with silk—the trees divining rods, And roses gems for some high tournament. Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z And soon will that noble and generous heart, so replete with truth and benevolence, be reduced to "a clod of the valley." Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z Our own solar system, great as it is, in comparison with the celestial universe is but a clod in an acre. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z General Merritt and his staff, coming suddenly upon us during the rites, silently dismounted and uncovered until the clods rattled in upon the soldier's rude coffin, and all was over. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z The next day was given to breaking up the clods of earth and raking out the smaller stones to clear the garden beds. Natalie: A Garden Scout 2011-09-18T02:00:30.203Z But how forlorn the word, how full of woe, When she who bears it lies beneath the clod. Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z And the cloud, and the clod of the earth bending over Baby Worm, are alive with Blake’s peculiar quality of imagination. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z A dog ran and barked furiously at him as he boldly jumped over a low mud boundary wall, but he threw a clod of earth at it and drove it off. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z It has been long and hard for me, This task of slow emergence from the clod. The Piper and the Reed 2011-09-10T02:00:23.967Z I who am a clod Give that much, Torturer, throned in the sky. His Lady of the Sonnets 2011-09-10T02:00:23.740Z Senseless, miserable clod that I was to listen to that demon's whispering till my very belly seemed sick-sore with the pain of it and my heart hurt me under the ribs. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z Every clod of earth was drenched in blood. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z Clings to the clod; his root is in the grave. Samboe; or, The African Boy 2011-09-04T02:00:04.743Z Past many moors of pain I trod Impeded by the clinging clod, Until within one waking morn Love in response to love was born. The Piper and the Reed 2011-09-10T02:00:23.967Z Child of a star, Thine avatar, Drunk from the revel; Who am I, God,— Spirit or clod, Angel or devil? His Lady of the Sonnets 2011-09-10T02:00:23.740Z That sort of people—are they really animals and clods, and beings of another order? Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z Love is to every “gentle” heart—to any one who has not a mere money-bag or clod of clay in his breast—not only an unavoidable fate but a paramount duty. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z But this I know, when thou art fled Where'er they lay these limbs, this head, No clod so valueless shall be As all that then remains of me. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z To one of these they clung by turns, some of the loose chalky clods fell on them, but they hauled themselves up over the projecting edge. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Why didst Thou form me so helpless and frail Out of the clod and allied to the star? His Lady of the Sonnets 2011-09-10T02:00:23.740Z The next day at dawn brought fresh musketry-firing, digging under the ramparts, and a battle till evening with flails, scythes, sabres, stones, and clods of earth. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z Is it any marvel that such clods are despised by the ghosts? Papers from Overlook-House 2011-08-07T02:00:08.643Z We brought the firewood and we buried the dead—picking the frozen clods with infinite toil, that we might lay the bones of our comrades beyond the reach of wolves. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z What an incredible marvel it is that there are human creatures that slumber threescore and ten years, and look down at the clods and then say, “We are old, we have lived seventy years.” Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Jack Beavers fell forward like a clod and disappeared under the swirling flood. The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk 2011-08-05T02:00:44.900Z They never seem to know precisely where they are going to alight—as if, indeed, they were nervously particular and must find a clod that pleases them, picking and choosing with the greatest nicety. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z It had broken the clods and killed the grubs. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z From that strip of light life must come to rescue him and lure fresh germs from the frozen clods. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z I do not know how any can slumber with this over them; how any can look down at the clods. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z We must try the clod ere we test the star; know all our earth elements ere we apply the spectroscope to Mars. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z It is not easy to distinguish a hare when crouching in a ploughed field, his colour harmonises so well with the clods; so that an unpractised eye generally fails to note him. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z A tuft or two of dry grass projecting from a half-turned clod will suffice, and the flame will sometimes creep in and out between and across the ridges, wherever a few withered stalks may lie. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z I felt the silence and the darkness settling like the clods of the ground upon my breast. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z Sleep and clods, with the glory of the earth, and the sun, and the sea, and the endless ether around us! Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z "Ah, why am I a girl?" she sobbed, and sat down upon the hard, sun-baked clods of earth among the brown, dried potato-plants. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z Girl like that to be engaged to such a clod!” Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z Not a blade of wheat up yet, and the seed-beds all clods and dust. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z Down crashed the gable trees, ripping beams and rafters from their beds; frozen clods of earth rattled from the roof and thumped into the snow. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Incredible marvel this sleep and clods and talk of years. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z I shuddered at the sound of clods falling upon the hollow coffin. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z Splinters, broken glass, tiles, clods of earth and leaves flew in all directions, while a pungent cloud of smoke enveloped everything. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z He could drive the long furrow, he could rend the clods, but there was that in the red-gold wheat that did not come from them or him. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z "You are a true clod!" said she, quitting him; "and I am but a fool to spend so much kindness on you." Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z You could never bear to break up the clods, and tear up all the pretty wild flowers. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z Think of that, sir,” casting an ironical glance at his vis-a-vis; “feeing those common clods with the Warburton gold.” Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z Her attendant drugged into a senseless clod beside her, her faculties all benumbed, no eye to watch the tragedy, no hand to seize the villain—why did he not act out his instructions? Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z The man had, she felt, chosen a peculiarly fitting symbolism, for, when the beneficent rain had touched the arid clods, they had put on beauty with sudden life and growth. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z The soul must gradually nibble off all the threads that bind it to the clod. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z The cold clods of earth numb the fingers as they search for the roots and weeds. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z "Is he mad?" whispered a clod of this class to a neighbor. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z The giant threw up his arms, with a fearful cry, quivered from head to foot for a moment, and then fell backward, like a clod, dead. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z His arms were bare to the elbow, corded, hard, and brown, and his face was the deep colour of the clods that rolled away in long waves beneath the three-fold shares. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z "A clod—a piece of orange-peel— An end of a cigar— Once trod on by a princely heel, How beautiful they are!" The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z It was necessary for him to breathe the fresh air of the turf and the fragrance of the newly-turned clods. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z Muscular, shapely, it seemed not adapted to the servile gesture; was most unlike the hand of clod or clown. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z Is there a grave in all the land so new and desolate that Easter time cannot find a violet among its clods and paint a rainbow within the tears that rain above it? Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z All in an instant, down drops the winged mate, as if by magic, with a green gleam, on to a clod of earth. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z E'en at the tables of the gods He set this scoundrel of the clods! The Spawn of Ixion, Or The 'Biter Bit', An Allegory 2011-05-20T02:00:40.170Z "I'll never be such a clod as you," He sputtered as off on the road he flew; And his end the Bicycle never knew. Memorial Day and Other Verse 2011-05-20T02:00:35.647Z Do you think I can maintain my rule over those hundred and fifty clods out there in the stockade as I am ruling them, through the law of strength over weakness? The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z He had picked up a clod of earth, and dashed it in George Ryle's face. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Æolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident; or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod? Life of Robert Burns 2011-05-11T02:00:21.043Z The Quail flew off, feeling as happy now as he was miserable a moment gone; and when he got back to his farm he picked out a big clod and perched on the top. The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India 2011-05-07T02:00:31.307Z A spark disturbs our clod; nearer we hold of God Who gives, than of His tribes that take, I must believe. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z An 55 enlightened man showing a human clod the error of his ways. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z You cuff your enemy at school or make A naso-digital gesture, coming home You fear your enemy, so walk beside The gentle teacher; if your enemy Throws clods at you, he hits the teacher. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z The model of his new machine had arrived, which was to plough, harrow, and break clods, all at the same time, and he must set it at work, for himself and for the world. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z With a hollow sound the clods of earth and pebbles fell into the wide grave. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z Rather I prize the doubt low kinds exist without, Finished and finite clods, untroubled by a spark. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Were they nothing but clods, undeserving of fair and intelligent treatment? The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z All the while Pudge and I was watching, his lady friend didn’t move as much as a clod.” Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z A great clod of soil might at any moment give way above or beneath him, and then he would be plunged once more into the pit. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z A great clod of soil might at any moment give away above or beneath him, and then he would be plunged once more into the pit. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z Well, this cold clay clod Was man’s heart: Crumble it, and what comes next? Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z "Called me a clod hopper!" he growled in a low voice. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z The brown earth, with its tinge of young green here and there, or its newly ploughed clods glistening and steaming in the sun, rolled away like the sea. Her Infinite Variety 2011-04-01T02:00:30.590Z He made a furrow and planted them in it, and scarcely had he covered them with earth than the clods raised themselves. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z As the men ran, all the women flung after them clods of earth, some of them taking very good effect. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India 2011-03-28T02:00:25.937Z It must be fine, fine, without a single clod left to impede the growth of a single precious seed. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z To be addressed by this clod of a boatman as "my good man" quite upset Rose's dignity. Fast as the Wind A Novel 2011-03-22T02:00:19.407Z He said this with a satirical half-laugh, still turning the clods with his foot, the vivid white light illuminating his figure and his face beneath his straw hat. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z He lifted his head high, and his heavy feet left the clods of earth. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z It is advisable immediately to hand-rake it with common hay-rakes, and thus to remove all stones and clods, and to secure a uniform close cover of plants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Not that any one of those millions who cut one another's throats pretends to have the least claim to the smallest particle of that clod. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z The man is a clod, and the woman a nonentity; except when she chooses to make an exhibition of herself by fainting away. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z He even paused, and turned with his foot the clods of the cavity still yawning below the log, where the escaped man had crawled through. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z The clods of earth that covered the teeth of the dragon began to stir, and the bright points of spears thrust their way up through to the surface. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z Then I broke the clods as best I could and planted a few rows of potatoes. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z She seized a clod of earth and hurled it with such force that had it struck the gander, he would have fallen flat in his tracks; but luck was with him, and he dodged. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z That field near the forest is in a wretched condition,--hill and valley, the clods piled up, and wheat sown there. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z The sharp clods would sting not only her feet but her heart. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z What; this clod of earth dare to talk in this manner to our Lani? Six Prize Hawaiian Stories of the Kilohana Art League 2011-03-03T03:00:48.280Z She owned a determined mind, she had indeed cast clods of earth upon the coffin of a first, tender affection, which, as yet, had hardly outgrown the incipient bud. Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:10.707Z A well aimed clod of garden soil, whizzing just past my ear, starred on a tree-trunk behind, spattering me with dirt. Dream Days 2011-02-07T03:00:23.040Z Rest not content in thy darkness a clod. From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography 2011-02-06T03:01:01.497Z This strapping fellow was taking up a kilo of roots—digging out bushes with the clods, and moistening his hands in the branches. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z When the heavy clods rattled upon the hollow sounding coffin, these poor wretches, who had anxiously crowded around the grave, burst into one simultaneous flood of tears, mingled with expressions of regret, sorrow and affection. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z The contadino straightened his shoulders and kicked aside a heavy clod. Vestigia Vol. II. 2011-02-04T03:00:22.950Z The statement said simply that she was satisfied to be her little self, balanced safely on a clod of earth, in a spot of the universe called England. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z After she had gone a little way, she felt how heavily she was walking over the clods by the stubble field and stumbled so that she had to lean on Tom's strong arm. Little Tom 2011-02-02T03:00:21.113Z One of the lads threw a clod of dirt which struck a moored rowboat. Saboteurs on the River 2011-01-28T03:00:23.967Z A man should pray for Mercy even till the last clod is thrown upon his grave.... Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z Colonel, Most worthy President, Our Club’s chief stay and ornament, One man who drives with dust and jar A 40 h.p. motor car, All other mortals counts but clods, Himself a rival of the Gods. Wayside Weeds 2011-01-23T03:00:17.230Z He turned up clods, planted seed and God sent the rain-drops and sun-beams and the grain sprang up and became gold. Boys' and Girls' Biography of Abraham Lincoln 2011-01-21T03:00:11.447Z I know that a well-placed clod may cause a man to fall, and you may be sure that when we found an opportunity we never failed to make a Prussian stumble. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z Burt busied himself cleaning the clod of dirt from the rowboat. Saboteurs on the River 2011-01-28T03:00:23.967Z Spring—and the wild March wind The snow-covered prairies sweep; From North Dakota’s frozen clod The fur-clad Pasque Flowers peep. In the Land of Dakota A Little Book of Dakota Verse 2011-01-18T03:00:12.493Z I own myself a brother of the clod, a child of the Primeval Gloom. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z The service was short, and the man of violence descended to mingle with the clods of the earth, without a common prayer, a verse from Holy Writ, or any religious rite whatever. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z We were mere ciphers, as unimportant to one army as to the other, just like clods of earth in the fields! Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z The man stooped down, and took up a clod of earth and cast it at the cuckoo, which immediately flew away. Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z Fought we with sword and with ploughshare, Wresting our bread from the clod— Virgin and untouched we found it As left by the hand of our God. In the Land of Dakota A Little Book of Dakota Verse 2011-01-18T03:00:12.493Z "Because I have to produce pot-boilers, you innocent angel, you," he replied, and splashed a clod of clay against the leg of the allegoric lady he was working on. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z No. 2 is used immediately afterwards, to cut the clods of turf from their base and turn them up. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z My Flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. Well: The Tans That Bond 2010-12-28T22:35:43Z Our minds, you know, are not clods of earth which you can possess by merely picking up. Mashi and Other Stories 2010-12-28T03:00:16.890Z It occurred to Billy that he might hang out the clothes for her, and he brought down a storm of his father’s wrath by urging the horses over the half-frozen clods almost at a trot. God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z Those clods didn’t realize this was an incentive in New York City. City Room: 'Going Your Way' Is Going Away, for Now 2010-12-20T16:16:14Z “Oh, it’s all straight, lad,” whispered back Bart, chopping away and breaking clods, as his fetters clanked more loudly than ever. Commodore Junk 2010-12-20T17:12:13.450Z Kids would play army, using dirt clods as hand grenades, and build forts — with plastic soldiers and tanks — in the sandbox in the back yard. | A Little Brother Remembers 2010-12-16T20:18:48Z Then let the clod fall softly, and the shroud Not wake him, for he sleeps. Porzia Harrowing ought always to be done with a quick team, as a violent stroke of the teeth breaks the clods and pulverizes the earth much better than when slowly dragged. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. The poor creature was borne out of court, amidst some sympathy even from the hardened and merciless soldiery; and Jamie, now a stupid, passive clod, was handcuffed, and ordered to march. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 A heavy thump with the back of the tool at an obstinate clod, which took several more strokes before it crumbled up; and all the time the fetters clinked and clanked loudly. Commodore Junk 2010-12-20T17:12:13.450Z They breathe fire from their jaws, and the clods of turf they throw up behind them as they race are like a flock of birds that follow in their track. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race A grain of dust, a casual clod Receives the greatest gift of God. Challenge A mound of fresh earth was thrown up on the margin of a wide hole out of which came the sound of rattling clods and fluttering wings. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies He towers over the sunken country, the clods crunch beneath his feet. Woman Some years after he had slumbered under the clods of the valley, Gen. Washington visited his grave. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Around him, Gavin saw only dejected firs with drops of water falling listlessly from them, clods of snow, and grass that rustled as if animals were crawling through it. The Little Minister "I left it as it was--in memory of me," she said apologetically, pointing to the turned-up clods that, now overgrown with grass, had joined and formed a bank. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers We saw him suddenly spring aside, stumble over a clod of earth, and fall, still holding the flowers tightly in his little hand. The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History Climbing from rock to rock, from crest to crest, She threw her weight upon the further bank Into a clod of mud, whose squelching breast Received her greedily. Provocations Tears of sorrow, sympathy, regret and indignation were mingled with the clods as they descended upon the butchered bodies of those victims of tyranny. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution I took a clod and cast it upon the shrouded breast below. Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches Not all magnets can be properly called stones; some rather represent rocks; while others exist rather as metallick lodes; others as clods and lumps of earth. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments He returned to his work, chopping the stubborn clods, the heat growing fiercer with the approach of noon, the wet land steaming. A Yankee from the West A Novel He fired again, and a cow with a calf took alarm and started to charge him, but was driven back with a few clods and a flourished stick. Unexplored! When this cannot be found use any soft clay or earth free from clods or round stones. The Future of Road-making in America I would not give up even my sorrows, for the dull happiness of commonplace wiseacres, who in their limited sphere think all things perfectly natural and cling closely to their clod. The Children of the World The shepherd, out of patience, pelted them with clods of earth, but not one of them would move. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom On she came, her feet faring ill among the clods. A Yankee from the West A Novel "Only a clod," whom she had honored by marrying. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir Everything was possible but that He could become as a clod in the valley of corruption. The Great Discovery “Machine—clod—mountebank”— the bitter words rang through his consciousness again and again. The Master's Violin "My very good clod," said he, "one of these fine, sunny days you shall be drubbed for this—soundly, yes, soundly!" Our Admirable Betty A Romance The boy cried out that he had found a rattlesnake, and proceeded to attack with clods a rusty toad. A Yankee from the West A Novel Now, where is the chemist who with such certainty, such power of discrimination, and knowledge of substances, can select from the inert clod the proper material? The Progressionists, and Angela. Many predaceous ground beetles of the family Carabidae would be found under rocks and clods and on the ground. Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas You, a machine, a clod, a trickster, a thing without a heart—you shall not insult me again!” The Master's Violin "I dreamed," said a man, "that I was dead and in my grave, and that I could hear the clods dropping on my coffin." The Book of Gud George trudged off over the clods, and Milford stood looking after him, a dark scowl on his face. A Yankee from the West A Novel Turf clods and brimstones, Neither of the twain are brothers. Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes The spiders lie under the leaves of plants, and in little dens under the dry little clods. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. And who, among the scattered clods of earth Can say for which of them himself was born, Unless for that on which he was produced? The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise Yet He we worship died years ago Like some poor human clod, And that which wanders to and fro Is only the ghost of God! The Book of Gud The awful agony of the first clod, falling with hollow sound, the tearing rush of memory, the gasp of the heart, missing a beat! A Yankee from the West A Novel If the clod of earth, like the saintliest man, is God, and there is no more to say of the matter, then how is the saint higher than the clod of earth? A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Ever and anon, he crouches close among the little clods as a tiger would crouch for his prey. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. We laid his remains in an empty pit which we had found, and filled it in as well as we could, with clods and stones. Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa Hansell fell for it until he saw all the boys picking up real clods and digging the dirt out of their spikes, and then he made a run for it and never came back. Pitching in a Pinch or, Baseball from the Inside "We are looking for——" began Guy Launay, the son of the ex-provost of the merchants, a dour, dark clod of a lad, with the fingers of a swordsman and the muscles of a wrestler. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion The clod of earth is divine because it is a manifestation of Deity. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy He was bending over, driving a nail in a board on the side and I struck him fairly with a carefully aimed clod of earth. The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure Was it hard for God, Thinkest thou, to choose His graft, to wring from the worst clod His noblest fruiting? Satan Absolved The clod may sleep in dust beneath, The spirit will be free! Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion Made unseen stars my keblahs of devotion; Aspired to knowledge and remained a clod: With heart and soul, led on by blind emotion, The way to failure trod. One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue She saw it quite distinctly, and the clods of earth from the heap that had been dug out. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. III. Canst thou descend from converse with the skies, And seize thy brother’s throat?—For what—a clod, An inch of earth? Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes It made my pulse jump to the fever point to watch them light-foot it along the rail with the groom in front on a clod of a horse. The Garden of Eden Give to earth the earthly clod, For the spirit’s fled to God. Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion The forest trees grow, long after the man who planted them has become a clod of earth. Landolin She had stood beside it, and distinctly seen the little clods of earth rolling down into the pit that had been dug for her. Edelweiss A Story Her ceaseless flight, though devious, speaks her nature Of subtler essence than the trodden clod; 100 Active, aërial, towering, unconfined, Unfetter’d with her gross companion’s fall. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes But if you clutch in your hand a clod of dry earth or a piece of toasted bread, then he is powerless to harm you. The Shoemaker's Apron A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales She soon slumbered with the clods of the valley. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. Never slackening its pace, the boar gored him, and wheeled about, clods flying, to gore again. Quest of the Golden Ape Little clods of earth kept rolling into it, and I tried to hold myself back, but could not; I began falling, falling; some power drew me down. Edelweiss A Story You will be happy and active on the earth whose clods will soon rest on me. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine So he lifted the edge of the hat very carefully, slipped in his hand, and clutched—the dry clod of earth! The Shoemaker's Apron A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales The bullets showered around the fleeing savages, throwing up the earth in clods. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War The stallion pawed the ground, and great clods flew. Quest of the Golden Ape My thoughts are instead of wings; but they have dropped with me now, as a lark among the clods of the valley. Mopsa the Fairy I don’t believe naturally men or women are these dull clods, but custom makes them such, and they see no danger, nor perhaps is there where they are concerned. The Night Side of London The term is thus applied to a harrow for breaking up clods of earth, or for an apparatus, such as a grapnel, net or dredge, used for searching water for drowned bodies or other objects. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" The ruts left by the cart-wheels of the previous year crossed each other distinctly, but no new wheels had ground the dry clods of earth into dust. Peasant Tales of Russia I count this thing to be grandly true, That a noble deed is a step toward God,-- Lifting a soul from the common clod, To a purer air and a broader view. The Bible Story It is caked into great clods which crumble before planting time. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place Over near the old heath-turf was his best field: he had turned the soil so often that he knew every clod in it. Black Forest Village Stories The father, mother, and sisters cast the first clods of earth on the young hero's coffin; the grave was then filled in and covered with flowers. Waldfried A Novel There was an old crow Sat upon a clod: There's an end of my song, That's odd! The Nursery Rhymes of England The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him. The Bible Story This subsoil is heavy, like clay, and it breaks apart into hard clods. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place Gathering the little clod of flesh in her arms and pressing it closely, the dry-eyed mother set out on her journey across the wide-lying plains. Seeds of Pine It is ineffective inasmuch as it does not break the clods, but merely presses them into the ground. Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products His kicking mare sent up at every stride large clods of sand in the teeth of the unfortunate Anthony Whaup, whose presence of mind seemed at last to have forsaken him. Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 But we—oh, we are crushed by the storm-winds of life; our heart is weary, our face is deeply marked with earthly care, and our soul stiffened, still clings to the earthy clod. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors The water in the clods freezes in winter. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place Some neighboring grain-stacks were invaded, and a few sheaves brought, which we unbound and strewed along the clods. Eleven days in the militia during the war of the rebellion A journal of the 'Emergency' campaign of 1862 Didst give me fire To rise above the clod, And soar, aspire! Blooms of the Berry Here I again set my wits to work how to elude the chastisement I was sure to receive from the infuriated man of clods. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment Dynamite would not appall her, but to me it would be the acme of satisfaction, ineffably supreme, to startle such clods of inanition by a cry of mouse, and electrify them into momentary emotion. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 Frost is a very powerful agent in the crumbling of rocks, as well as of stubborn clods of earth. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place They wrapped her in the dust— I heard the dull clod's dole, And then I knew she lived—that death's dark lust Could never touch her soul! Song-Surf But while the three ancient elements are thus wrought into glory and honor, the fourth sister, Earth, remains a clod. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 I turned round to look who was likely to stop me, when my foot came in contact with a large clod, and I tumbled heels over head. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment She tottered into the storm, and a little child handed her the turf clods, which she cast with the prayer. Prisoners of Conscience Next, its fine particles must be separated by the breaking of the hard clods. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place “Bet there's a dozen of you three-eyed clods peeping at me,” he growled. The Wedge They seem to have no more soul than the clods they stand upon. The Travellers A Tale. Designed for Young People. She gave the signal by hurling into the bonfire an image of Venus in jasper and silver which she carried in her arms, and which disappeared in the flames as if it were a clod. Sónnica And, in spite of all precedent, he confessed to the oblivion of "the insensate clod," devoid of dream or premonition, until nine the next morning, when he awoke with a start. Checkers A Hard-luck Story As the weather-beaten man moved, the goldfinch flew, and the golden wings outspread formed a bright contrast with the dull white clods. The Hills and the Vale When the clods fell, they silently exchanged babies long enough for each to suckle her rival’s child. Our Southern Highlanders But it is obvious that the paviour in a field hops the clod; that the clodhopper in a street paces the pavé. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) All that might comfort some people, but it falls on my ears and heart like the sound of the clods on Elsie’s coffin. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part "I don't suppose a clod like her would have brought any more books along," the tree changed the subject. The Venus Trap It is this mystery—of growth and life, of beauty and sweetness and colour, and sun-loved ways starting forth from the clods—that gives the corn its power over me. The Hills and the Vale Let fate be stern—let fortune fly— Their chastening rod Strikes not the soul whose strength is high Above its clod; Thy heart may bleed to breaking nigh— But trust in God! Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 Man is but a clod—too sordid to rise on wings of song into that vast expanse of heaven, a woman's heart. Cupid's Middleman Then, by packing the clods of frosty earth around it, the symbol of warning was soon as firm as could have been desired. Under the Liberty Tree A Story of The 'Boston Massacre' Its odor was not unpleasant but it carried clods of soil at its ends. Youth The grass was pale, its wintry hue not yet gone, and the clods seemed to make it appear paler. The Hills and the Vale We were talking idly now, to hide the heaviness of our sorrow as we thought of Bud down under the clods, whose going had left us two so lonely and homesick. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas Did the substance of God, Spirit, become a clod, in order to create a sick, sinning, dying man? Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 It is too radiant and glorious a thing for a dull clod like me to know. The Kempton-Wace Letters What signify to us your dirt and your clods? Old and New London Volume I It would have been better to have had that one moment, and have died for it, than have been turned out of her presence like a poor cowardly clod. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. The clods were only two days old on Bud Anderson's grave. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas But here was the rub; would not these same clods have laughed at him had they known of the oath he had taken—would not he have laughed himself yesterday? The Deaves Affair This is the English peasant, where there is nobody to breathe a soul into the clod. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 As the huge mass fell backwards it buried the startled men under immense clods—tons of dirt. The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War This winter turns into a rusty brown and green expanse, or into a bog, or a field of frozen upturned clods. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I A blue-clad peasant rides home, with a harrow smoking behind him among the dry clods. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers He knew he was slightly insane; it was not that; he gloried in his state and pitied the dull clods who had not fire in their breasts to drive them mad. The Deaves Affair A few clods of earth alone were removed ere the captain stood by his friend’s side. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 When all was over, he raised his eyes from the icy clods of the new-made grave. Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 The snow, falling then, had not disappeared from the earth when the picks of the grave-diggers cleft through the clods in the secluded little mountain burying-ground. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories Do you expect me to give up my life work, simply because you cannot break away from your clod, on account of a stupid loyalty? The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature I trust they won't think of "pickling, and bringing me home to clod or Blunderbuss Hall." A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing He swung his fist; the fingers felt like clods of wet clay. The Cartels Jungle These Dead be seeds of life, and shall encumber The sad heart of the land until it loose The clammy clods and let out the Spring-growth In beatific green through every bruise. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV Having made the surface perfectly mellow, and free from clods, weeds, and stones, sow in drills, with a machine for the purpose, two feet apart. Soil Culture Today it kept resounding from his open grave, as the clods and lumps of snow rumbled down on his coffin. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature It was hopeless trying to make this clod understand. Miss Cayley's Adventures Bryce brought a handful of clods and flung one after another into the hole in the tree. With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga While my very mourners stamp Closer in the clods on me. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV Plowed in wet weather, they do not make mortar, and in dry weather they will not break in clods. Soil Culture He didn't dare tell anyone—he hardly dared admit it to himself—but he thought those people were better somehow than the common clods of Earth. Thin Edge They heard the thuds as the shovel was dashed against the roof, and listened to clods of earth and debris falling. With Joffre at Verdun A Story of the Western Front They meant to burn the roof off to scare them out, and one man threw burning clods on it. With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga Could such vehement emotions have been excited in the unanimated breast of a clod of literature? Calamities and Quarrels of Authors There's not a cloud whose dews distil Upon the parching clod, And clothe with verdure vale and hill, That is not sent by God. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 Everything became instinct with life: a creature sighed in every tree, a voice spoke from every stone, something gasped for air under every clod of earth, something lurked in every pool. Absolution “We will have these breastworks,” said he, “smoothed down in regular shape, and sow grass-seed upon them, so that in a few weeks there will be a green slope in place of these unsightly clods.” Happy Days for Boys and Girls “He was flinging blazing clods on the roof.” With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga The Sacian took up a hard clod of earth from a bank as he walked along. Cyrus the Great Makers of History If I did not recognize the enormity of my debt to you, Aurora, what a clod I must be! Aurora the Magnificent The Slavs were crying and throwing clods and stones. In the Heart of a Fool He was only a clod of grit caught in the world’s great wheels. The Missourian The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. Australia, its history and present condition containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, with their respective inhabitants The earth told in very visible terms what occasioned its elasticity; upon forcing a stick down and turning up a clod, human bodies in an offensive state of decay immediately presented themselves. Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) The burn, along whose banks Hamish was making his way, was coming down tumultuously, bearing with it bits of stick, clods of earth, and other rubbish. The Adventure League A great clod of earth landed on his head, filling his eyes and mouth with mud. The Royal Book of Oz In which the Scarecrow goes to search for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island And though I think I would rather die elsewhere, yet in my heart of hearts I long to be buried among good Scots clods. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) |
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