She found Gribley’s farm in an old book of Delaware County. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or no, he was home on the farm, in his bed, with Phoebe sleeping across the room and Papa sitting by the fire downstairs. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“What? I should go over Jaimito’s head? It’s only fair. He’s the one farming the land, he’s responsible for this place.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only thing was, I was a farm boy and ran to the city, and you’re a city boy running to the woods. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We thank you for all you did on that farm bill. Made a heck of a difference.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He said that the 450 acres of forest were also an important part of the farm operation. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Back at the farm, Captain Cox had to find out whether his friend would actually help Booth and Herold. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One reason is that their type of farming takes a lot of thought and problemsolving. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Her littlest sister, Midge, had fallen in love with a kitten and cried for hours after they’d left the farm. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Now refuse covered the farm and was creeping toward the mountain base. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It all looked exactly the same to me—green farms, thick expanses of trees. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

As a result, farm soils can rapidly become exhausted. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Every caretaker who’d lived on the farm had carved his initials in the top. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of cars have arrived at the farm, parking along the road and in a field. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She looked them over carefully, and then she told Dad that it was true that if we’re going to stay, I ought to learn something about farm life. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Mole was tearing downhill to Mrs. Strawberry’s farm for his daily treat from Alice. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The house was still only half completed when he decided to sell the car repair shop and move his family out to the stump farm. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Before Silicon Valley was Silicon Valley, it was one big farm, the Valley of the Heart’s Delight. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was off the farm, out from under the criticism. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then Loma appeared on the trestle, barring my way, flapping her arms at me like a farm wife trying to keep a goat out of the garden. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Fresh from the farm and very healthy, as you can see.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

An old man in Kabati repeated this sentence often to people who walked past his house on their way to the river to fetch water, to hunt, to tap palm wine; and to their farms. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Your mother joined us at the farm a few days after she sent you and your grandfather on. When she realized you were lost, she went wild.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week later, in the afternoon, a number of dog-carts drove up to the farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

No roads or farms or chimney smoke, just increasingly rough ground, exposed rock, and trees clinging to the bluffs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The car trip, the weird dream-that-wasn’t-a-dream, working on the farm....By the time I went to bed, my eyelids felt like they weighed a ton. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Most of it is processed and sold by the same industrial food chain as the corn from George Naylor’s farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Henceforward the farm was to be known as “The Manor Farm”—which, he believed, was its correct and original name. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I put together a collection of photographs of Middle Eastern farms and farming. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, probably about once a week or so, when food got low, my folks would send me over to the Coals' farm. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even among those big farm kids, he sort of stood out. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And like most factories, the industrial farm is powered with fossil fuels. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When I saw Walter in Pretoria Local just after my sentencing, I urged him to make sure that all my books and notes were removed from the farm. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a bare, bleak pool of black life and I hated it; the people were alike, their homes were alike, and their farms were alike. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

More surprising still, the ceramics in the farm’s terra preta indicate that the soil has retained its nutrients for as much as a millennium. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

How I would send even more back home to the farm so Mama could pay another farmhand. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And what about this farm they were going to, their grandmother’s farm. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But one of the farm workers was already pulling the puppy out of the pen and placing her in my arms. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“There’s a fine-looking horse right there. Did I ever tell you that I spent some time on a horse farm?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“At least you won’t be breaking your back doing farm work.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“We have no means of making sugar on this farm. Besides, you do not need sugar.You will have all the oats and hay you want.” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“You knew Pa had a heart attack; he’s not been himself since. Ma’s tolerable, and Jenny’s fine. We do the work of the farm together, Jenny and me.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

A world could be made in five pages, and one that was more pleasing than a model farm. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

With no means to pay off their “debts,” people in prisons were sold as forced laborers to lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, farms, plantations, and dozens of corporations throughout the South. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“She looks a little like you. Have you ever been on a farm?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, he was picked up by a black foreman who worked on one of the large tomato farms owned by Philip Turner’s father and driven to the nearest house with a phone. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A more drastic search than the previous one was undertaken, house by house, and this time they even took farm implements. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Violet told Dad some of the tricks Great-Uncle Jim used to run the farm by himself. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

All through that summer the work of the farm went like clockwork.The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The soldiers took Herold with them on a ride into a nearby town while Booth spent the night of April 24 at Garrett’s farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, but the farm boy does that.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I need to sleep, but when I try counting sheep, it just makes me miss Lita’s farm. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She let the farm convince her the world is other than what it will always be. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Coming from a farming family where everyone, including the women, worked beside the men in the fields, we were not afraid of mice or frogs. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Wilkes’s way of thinking, ancient Indian farming methods may be the cure for some of modern agriculture’s ailments. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Actually, he was more a young man now, but he had been a farm boy when, orphaned, he had come to work for her father, and Buttercup referred to him that way still. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly no miracle came to save his farm, or for that matter, anything else he had lost in his life. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The dirt is clumpy and dry, drilled through with the paths of insects like an abandoned ant farm. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He needs lots of forest and big trees, and so his presence means that the Gribley farm is a beautiful place indeed.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if in answer to her request, the procession turned and began entering the farm. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Grandfather Harry Tallis was the son of a farm laborer who, for some reason, had changed his name from Cartwright and whose birth and marriage were not recorded. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

However bad the rest of the farm, the barn and the house looked, her grandmother had worked on these fields. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Made by who? Their masters? Perhaps your dancers would sooner build or bake or farm. Have you asked them?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I got a family and a farm,” Elmer senior hollered back. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He managed to round up a few goats and cows, and a donkey to help him carry goods and farm the land. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“But this fellow’s been dead a long while. You said so yourself. And remember the doorframe and the water trough at the farm?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There's even a photo of the farm on which the animal was raised. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Valentine and the farm’s parents paid her to teach their children, and there were always more children. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

If you count all the chickens, pigs, and fish, there are hundreds of millions of food animals raised on factory farms every year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“The sound of a farm without any hens.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The only people in The Coffee Pot were a couple of farm women passing the time of day with Mrs. Ike Cripe. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

If they had taken a deeper route around the farms. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And then, after a few pre-liminary tries, the whole farm burst out into Beasts of England in tremendous unison. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

After some days the farmer’s wife came to the barn and said, “You must not run away. There is a new law. All children must work on the farms.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The evidence gathered at Mudd’s farm, plus alleged sightings of the fugitives southwest of his farm, suggested that the assassins were making for Virginia. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama, she said, “No, you don’t even need to wish it! We ain’t raising you to be no fool. We need you here on this farm all in one piece.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been felt that the existence of a farm owned and operated by pigs was somehow abnormal and was liable to have an unsettling effect in the neighbourhood. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Our family is poor and survives by farming a small plot of land. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon this group from the Thirteenth New York Cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant David Dana, would ride close to Mudd’s farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not a pretty farm near the house—never had been. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lines of vegetation along their banks are like oases, fertile places where people can farm in an otherwise almost lifeless land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The few modern Khoisan speakers survived mainly because of their isolation in areas of southern Africa unsuitable for Bantu farming. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She usually wore the same kinds of aprons and canvas farm coats worn by the rest of the women on Little Hobart Street. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Indian fire had its greatest impact in the middle of the continent, which Native Americans transformed into a prodigious game farm. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now another type of farming was restoring it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then we sat and had some cider doughnuts that we bought at the farm stand. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad didn’t pay the taxes on the farm. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As part of the deal, the growers had to agree to change to organic farming methods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The next time a Jackboot came to her, he said, “You stinking sow! You smell like a pig farm!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The giant oak tree felt ancient, like the Bottle Trees on my grandparents’ farm. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what 4-H was, but I looked it up and it’s for kids to learn about farm things. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

At dawn I thought real hard: Where would I find out about the Gribley farm? My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was busy, and I figured he was, too, working his butt off on that chicken farm after school—plus we had final exams coming up. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“That takes me back. It certainly takes me back. I remember when I took home my first pay. I was a boy at the time...working on a farm in Manhasset, Long Island. Well, sir....” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, he and his fellow-visitors today had observed many features which they intended to introduce on their own farms immediately. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“No. From the farm last spring,” I told her. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In a final twist, when federal agents later raided her family farm, they discovered a huge still, which was producing gallons of illegal whiskey. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Was it to save them from the poor farm that she had gone? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

A woman whose family had farmed the same land since the eighteenth century was carried from her house kicking and bellowing, to the delight of newspaper photographers and film crews. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but in the meantime, Sixer avatars will be farming the Copper Key and then filing their avatars through the First Gate, one after another, in a freakin’ conga line.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And even if they did fail, they would probably not come back to Mr. Fitzgibbon’s farm. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Based on the sixty cents a day he had earned at the pig farm, Shin’s expectation was that he’d be paid at least twice as much. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Engulfing fields in dense mats of root and vine, kudzu swarmed over entire farms, clambered for miles along telephone lines, wrapped up trees, barns, and houses like a green Christo. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Nogtail is exceptionally fast and difficult to catch, though if chased beyond the boundaries of a farm by a pure white dog, it will never return. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents had a farm near Hays and his father was proud of him being an officer in the army. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

More often than not the sacks bore the name of the farm where the corn had been grown. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Kehaar had said that the farm was not far from the foot of the down, on a little hill. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, Mudd and Booth had met on several occasions, in broad daylight, and Booth had slept at Mudd’s farm in the past. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would become the family’s quiet and not-too-bright cousin from Alsace, whose parents have been bombed out and who has come here to be looked after and help with the farm. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Who else will care for us in our old age? Who will run the farm and keep your grandfather’s dream alive?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He assigned him to a permanent job at Camp 14’s pig farm, where two hundred men and women raised about eight hundred pigs, along with goats, rabbits, chickens, and a few cows. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And for the same reason, it’s much easier for Cascadian to buy its produce from large farms like Greenway s. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care for the fancy dress. There’s debts on my farm . “And it’s your farm, now is it?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

And for food, it would have to be near a town or better, a farm. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Valentine himself was in Chicago meeting with the banks, his two sons in tow now that they were old enough to help with the farm’s accounts. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The need for nets, in Haas’s view, gave the inland cities the whip hand—Norte Chico was based on farming, like all other complex societies, although not on farming for food. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After a half hour of mandatory singing, they marched off to their assigned farms. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The majority were acquired from whites who had turned their back on farming. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Her eyes darted between the numerous pieces of farming equipment around the barn, but none of it would make a dent in the Varangian. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I didn't know when I would be back, but as we went over the rise and headed down, I was already missing them and the farm. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farm where he's taken her is crowded, he says, and it has six people hiding there already, sleeping in a barn. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She asked those who’d been on Valentine for years, she asked all the new people, pestered the visitors who came to the farm to see if what they’d heard was true. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Werfel still didn’t say anything, so Spurge said, “I was surprised to see farms. Can’t believe anything would grow here.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

But they asked me if I would go—I suppose because I’ve spent my life on a farm and I know about growing food. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

An old city that was transformed into empty land for the Amity to farm. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

After all, if you already have the tractor and machinery, it doesn’t cost much more to farm another 100 acres, or another 500. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She was safe at the farm with my younger brother and sister, while my older siblings were scattered over Poland. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The wages and working conditions of the farmworkers in an organic field aren’t much different from those on non- organic factory farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Later, he toiled on the prison farm, where he tended pigs and other animals the way he had during his early days on the frontier. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They heaved until the volcano burst into the sky, raining destruction across every forest, every farm, every meadow. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Not once did the Klan visit the small farm where we lived. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“We may end up at the Ludingtons’ farm after all,” he said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father would be tending to the farm. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Carl became a frequent visitor to the Heinz farm on North Palm Street. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Winnie brought me an old air rifle that I had in Orlando and Arthur and I would use it for target practice or hunting doves on the farm. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judge Tate, however, had to be fetched from his farm, where he had gone to feed his horses. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We got ourselves a farm girl, folks. Make no mistake.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The general feeling on the farm was well expressed in a poem entitled Comrade Napoleon, which was composed by Minimus and which ran as follows: Friend of fatherless! Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He felt suddenly anxious to know about the calf, it was some kind of visible link between himself, and Fielding and the farm. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

On the morning of the meeting, Charlotte set off with six friends in a wagon pulled by farm horses. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Noah packed up the rest of the supplies— farm tools, several bags of seed, and some rolls of cloth—and tied them down carefully. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an easy life compared to the farm, and still Rachel would be out of mischief and earning her own way. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Besides she was in a hurry to get to the farm. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Salatins’ son, Daniel, twenty-two, is a full partner in the farm, but most nights he has dinner with his wife and baby son in their house up the hill. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They had also dropped their championship of Jones, who had given up hope of getting his farm back and gone to live in another part of the county. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

At first I’d thought we must be in heaven, but when I looked around, I realized we were still on the farm. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The entire farm was something beyond her imagination. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t think of a single excuse for why I’d be out with seven chickens on a farm that looked—I’m sorry to say this—like it had been abandoned. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He had more children on his farm than he could count on two hands. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, despite the dead light and everything falling apart, the day in the Glade appeared to be proceeding business as usual—farming, gardening, cleaning. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

At the far western end of the shrimp farm, the boys could look through the fence at the channel that had once been as wide as the sea. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I wasn’t at the mill, I knew that I was needed on our farm. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other farm, which was called Pinchfield, was smaller and better kept. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Sealed away on the pig farm, Shin heard nothing about the street trading, corruption, and extralegal intercity travel that would—in less than two years' time—help him escape. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Could recite the date and year of not only Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, but the name of the farm where they found John Wilkes Booth twenty-four hours later. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There’s my father’s soga hanging on the wall, his farm tools, my mother’s broom, the eucalyptus stick she smacked me with when I misbehaved. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the Delhi quadrangle map is Bando’s cabin, my mountain, Mrs. Strawberry’s house and farm, as well as all the buildings in Delhi. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the back with a wicker picnic hamper and also a couple of chickens—laying hens—which were legitimately being taken to another farm. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“If I were her, I would not go down through a farm with a pig on a leash.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Joel knows if he added a lot more chickens to the farm it would throw the system off balance. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“At the Mauthen farm, maybe. But this is just the work of a rabid cow- lizard.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But life was difficult for a farm family without a father. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I open the drawers beside the desk, but there’s nothing unusual, just the normal ledger keeping and invoices you’d expect for a tobacco farm. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Oh mercy, had the woman always hated the farm? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The family built a hut in a small makeshift village with other Moro, avoiding the “peace camps” and farming the surrounding hillsides to produce enough food to survive. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a big hill that overlooked the farm, but at the rise he pulled up on the reins. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farm boy had eyes like the sea before a storm, but who cared about eyes? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Food was in short supply and so was everything else, and we could sell anything we could get our hands on—cloth, farming tools, wheat, sugar, rum, anything at all. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the summer Moses the raven suddenly reappeared on the farm, after an absence of several years. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

They moved down here right at the beginning of the “Big Bail,” which is what they called the mass exodus from the Central Valley’s farming communities. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sam stayed on the farm for three days, pursuing the affections of Georgina to no avail. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Our spoons clinked in the glasses as we mixed up the ice, and Lolo told me about his farming days in the Philippines. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

In addition, the largest domestic mammals interacted with domestic plants to increase food production by pulling plows and thereby making it possible for people to till land that had previously been uneconomical for farming. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had fallen into the routine of the farm willingly, hoping to build up his body for Trinity and football in the fall. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of excuses, involved myself totally in the farm. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were hungry and cold and living in an abandoned shack in the woods not far from the pig farm. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

All he had to do was tell the soldiers that John Wilkes Booth and his accomplice were hiding at his farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just compare the two farms: As I discovered in that first phone call, Polyface is so outside the industrial food chain that Salatin won’t even sell his beef, chicken, or pork by mail. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They worked on white farms and in white businesses, something that was looked down upon by the more established Xhosa tribes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some places, though, she could see evidence of systematic farming. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His work done, Mudd returned, just before Christmas 1864, to his farm and waited for further word from Booth about the kidnapping. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Far as people go, this is the nicest place we ever lived. But Hideo, he’s the man, and he says we can get a better farm in Nebraska. And I’ll tell you something, Bess.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re here on the farm. I feel them near me. So close, so...” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

On it, within the old province of Szechuan, so light and gentle that none could see it, was the little mark placed there by Ching which indicated the location of his ancestral farm. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

"And I was sure of it! Why, a week before you were born, I had the strangest dream. We were all living on a farm, and a bull..." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When we didn’t speak, Aileen hummed so softly and warmly, I thought of the cicadas and the crickets singing at dusk in the dust and hayseed of Uncle Earl’s farm. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And there’s no paper chain either, since that’s been farmed out all over town. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

From the earliest times, rats lived around the edges of human cities and farms, stowed away on men’s ships, gnawed holes in their floors and stole their food. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She contributed to the life of the farm. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They had been credited with attempting to stir up rebellion among the animals on neighbouring farms. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Back at the farm, Dicey took Sammy to the barn to begin patching, while James and Maybeth rode their bikes up and down the driveway. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was need of paraffin oil, nails, string, dog biscuits, and iron for the horses’ shoes, none of which could be produced on the farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I had lived on a farm with some cousins for six months and I helped Uncle Holt with his vegetable garden every year, but that was the extent of my agricultural expertise. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

During the previous few days Blackberry had had to repeat several times the story of the journey to the farm and the finding of Hazel in the drain. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned to Big Ma and said, “Daughter, stir those grits up right. Extra hunk of butter—good butter from McDaniels’s farm,” she felt the need to add. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She found the remnants of a farm and gorged herself on bananas gone wild. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time my father had earned enough on the farm to hire some men to construct two new buildings. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Around a bend, we see a large white farmhouse with Greek pillars, a barn, a silo, and a fenced yard where a dozen or so pickup and farm trucks are parked. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve traveled this far—how can I go back to living the humble life of a farming family? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, around 3000 B.C. the hunter-gatherers of southern Sweden adopted farming based on Southwest Asian crops, but abandoned it around 2700 B.C. and reverted to hunting-gathering for 400 years before resuming farming. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If she had died, if Odenigbo and Baby and Ugwu had died, the bunker would still smell like a freshly tilled farm and the sun would still rise and the crickets would still hop around. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

After the Revolutionary War, Pittsburghers built their opportunities from whiskey and farming, then they broke their backs on coal and the railroad. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When Roe returned to Long Island, instead of delivering the report directly to Abraham Woodhull, he would put it in a box buried on Woodhull’s farm. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly, something about the farm boy interested her. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was a farm worker labor camp owned by Sheehey Strawberry Farms. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I asked the feedlot manager why they didn’t just use the liquid manure as fertilizer on neighboring farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the end everything he raises on his farm comes from grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A miracle has happened and a sign has occurred here on earth, right on our farm, and we have no ordinary pig.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then we stopped at the hardware store to stock up on duct tape, which was just about the most useful thing on earth for a farm commune. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The contamination of milk and of farm produce in the course of the gypsy moth spraying came as an unpleasant surprise to many people. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The fact that iron and intensive farming reached Japan simultaneously is unlikely to be a coincidence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We could look across the plain and see farmhouses and the rich green farms with their irrigation ditches and the mountains to the north. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had, indeed, only been working with the quiet patience of a farm hand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She daydreamed about Crisfield and a farm; but she had learned her lesson about believing in daydreams, learned it from Cousin Eunice and her house that wasn’t a big white house by the ocean. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad says, I thought I might get work on some of the farms. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Made me mad to have her anger raining in on the warmed-up feeling I had with Pa talking to me just like he used to when he had a farming plan in the works. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

And at a terrible time, too, with J.T.’s father in the hospital waiting for a new kidney—and them needing J.T. on the farm. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Though she would still look like what she was, a farm worker, at least she would have a fairly clean face when she tried to talk to Lucky about Salvador. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

But then I realize that means whatever happened at the farm is definitely over with. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Back to Papa and their little farm in upstate New York. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Tracy had grown up on a farm west of Lincoln in a religious family. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Add it all up and you find that every bushel of corn from an industrial farm requires about half a gallon of oil to grow. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He victuals himself and his little army by sending out small sail with landing parties to seize upon such provisions as are necessary—flesh and fowl—from rebel farms and plantations. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He had come back from the farm in the Landrover, with Fielding's mother, and talked and talked, gloating. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes families turn off the main road toward villages and farms. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like the rest of the farm, Cora regarded the man with awe. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

If the rise of farming was thus a bonanza for our microbes, the rise of cities was a greater one, as still more densely packed human populations festered under even worse sanitation conditions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The farm and the adjacent ones operated by colored interests were too big, too prosperous. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung’s grandfather, who had farmed the very fields upon which Wang Lung now spent his life, had built it, hauling the bricks from the town upon his wheelbarrow. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Never had the farm—and with a kind of surprise they remembered that it was their own farm, every inch of it their own property—appeared to the animals so desirable a place. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“It keeps her out of the poor farm, and it gives me a quiet day in the country. That’s a fair swap.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a grim farm and a grim house, unloved and unloving. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Several miles farther south, on an isolated farm near Bryantown, Maryland, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, his wife, and their four young children were also in bed. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are many valleys to the south and west, all with farms, a store, a school. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tender sensibilities didn’t enter into it; life was hard, but life for animals on a working farm was harder. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But as large farms flourished, the small ones struggled. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I started the truck and followed his directions up and down the dirt farm roads until we came to our fishing spot. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Two women at a U-Pick farm stand offer her a bottle of water and a huge organic peach. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As slave workers, they produced low-cost vegetables and fruit, farmed fish and pork, and made uniforms, cement, pottery, and glassware for the crumbling economy outside the fence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Young John Garrett, back from an errand at a neighboring farm, reported that the U.S. government was offering a $140,000 reward for Abraham Lincoln’s assassin. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Growing up on his parents’ farm, Vince had birthed plenty of calves and lambs. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

We've already filled up the farm equipment warehouse and the Chokecherry Municipal Garage. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

When they could, they stopped at small farms, where Tristran would put in an afternoon's work in exchange for food and some straw in the barn to sleep upon. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that conditions are even worse for the chickens in egg farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We could buy a valley farm with your promises.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But they are essential—without them, there would be inefficient farming, insufficient medical treatments, and no technological advance. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I knew this part of our farm by memory; I could likely run from home to the marsh with my eyes closed. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Hilly chats, throwing things our way like, “Stuart, Skeeter here lives on a plantation just north of town. Didn’t the Senator grow up on a peanut farm?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The first day we came to the farm, there was someone in the woods spying on us. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Just before the 1620 landing of the Mayflower, smallpox had spread from English trading ships to the Pequot fishing and farming communities. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Only someone fresh from the farm or one of the Irish would wear a pair of homemade gloves in Lowell. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I guess you don’t have streetlights in the middle of farms, but maybe I should save up for a bigger flashlight. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Outside of White Sulphur Springs, the land is all hilly green, and she passes farms and tractors trundling up dirt roads. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Until then, the farm’s nitrogen had been recycled in a natural loop. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When the fields yielded little game, they worked the barnyards and farm gardens. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Huge tapestries depicting landscapes hung on three walls: green farming valleys, the wild coast of the sea, and the Wood. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they filed back to the farm buildings and halted in silence outside the door of the farmhouse. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She talked right over Carlton, telling me about their relatives who’d farmed the Lacks Plantation, and their relation to Ben and Albert Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Adults and children alike worked on the farms and in the factories. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It must buy fertilizer from someone else instead of getting it from animals on the farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Thula was educated and artistic and determined to seek finer things than a wheat farm had to offer. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Cora slapped her hands on the cushions of the parlor car and said the farm suited her just fine. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Fielding and the farm and everything there had been his, he had found them. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

After surveying the ground, Snowball declared that this was just the place for a windmill, which could be made to operate a dynamo and supply the farm with electrical power. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

What Shin did not do on the farm was think, talk, or dream about the outside world. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She expected Minerva to make an impassioned pitch for using the family farm for a munitions storage. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This astonished me; I was tremendously encouraged by these few brave souls from a conservative farming area who expressed their solidarity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her brother had gone out to Montana himself and assured her this was the text any homesteader must have for farming in eastern prairie country. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Many had lost their houses and farms because they couldn’t pay their debts. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Back at our farm, I was most often the first one up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had been living in a farm labor camp in Santa Rosa. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

There’s another one with him and a whole bunch of kids on a farm. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, he’s twenty-seven. A lot older than me. He works on the farm with my dad and grandpa.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

After Adam joined the army and Cyrus moved to Washington, Charles lived alone on the farm. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The most distressing change here at Rose Hill is that, due to the undead plague, most of the people in the valley have abandoned their farms for easier living out west. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

At the edges of town, ancient-looking cottages stood abandoned and roofless, evidence of a shrinking population, children lured away from centuries-old fishing and farming traditions by more glamorous opportunities elsewhere. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Dozens of families had simply walked away from their homes and farms in Sequim that fall, many leaving dogs behind to fend for themselves. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“The more you learn how to leave your backward ways behind, the easier things will be for you. Your days of being an idle farm girl are over.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She sent Charles along to make sure her mother and the babies arrived safely at Uncle Judah’s farm. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Every islet is thick with farms and fishermen’s houses, and these are gathered into townships each of ten or twenty islets. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, if one is not permitted to grow such a crop on private premises by law, such pharmaceutical farming initiatives are forbidden. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

And Adam kept the house clean and started a set of books on the farm. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Think, for example, of the way most farm animals are treated today. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We never realized that there could not possibly be enough farms standing empty for all those who had been expelled.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I was in the attic, looking down at the farm,” I’d tell her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She knew that Doctor thought of her as a proper farm girl—a country girl. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every subject was given its own binder: dogs, cats, horses, farm animals, woodland animals, flowers, fruits and vegetables, rural landscapes, urban landscapes, men’s faces, women’s faces, men’s bodies, women’s bodies, and hands-feet- bottoms-and-other-miscellaneous body parts. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Soldiers had visited his farm several times and searched his house once. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Europe’s many silk farms, silkworms were raised for their cocoons, which were unraveled onto spools. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Minnijean, a Canadian citizen, is a writer and raises her six children on a farm. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the farm’s walk-in cooler I picked out two of the chick-ens we had slaughtered on Wednesday. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Imagine if every single man, woman, and child in Texas owned a farm—and then imagine that every single one of those farms was suddenly taken away by the government. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There were orchards and farms and groups of other, much smaller houses as well. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

All I said to her was that I wanted to find the old Gribley farm, and that the Gribleys hadn’t lived on it for maybe a hundred years, and she was off. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tells a story of a turkey farm where the turkeys all died because they were too stupid to go into their shed during a thunderstorm. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Charles had never before had a letter delivered at the farm in his life. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On an industrial farm, the trees would have been thought of as a waste of valuable crop land. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She approached the farm as cautiously and as quietly as she had left the island, a prayer on her lips. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout this part of the country the farms lay tranquil under the winter snow, waiting for spring and the plow and the stir of new life. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

A green frog pipes, a star shoots, and a light comes on in Mrs. Strawberry’s farm kitchen. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took a big family to run a farm. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a farm policy that is not designed to help farmers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But at Polyface, it was understood that the trees helped the grass to grow and the forest fed the farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Highways, farms, and housing developments have destroyed most of them, and scientists have investigated only a small fraction of the survivors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mixed in with all the college students and farm boys and out- of-work loggers, there were grizzled hard-rock miners from all over the West. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was the son who was scheduled to inherit the farm because Luke was scheduled for greater things. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

His parents had wanted him to become a priest, and thereby a source of pride for a simple farm family. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had walked by the last farms that I recognized. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On our way to her farm I saw my first giraffe close up. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

There, I would sit on the clear sandy bottom of the river and let the current take me downstream, where I would resurface, put on my dirty clothes, and return to the farm. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Even if animals can’t suffer like human beings, there is no excuse for the cruelty that goes on in our factory farms and feedlots. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Some “dropped out” to join communes, groups of people living and working on farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

To hear her tell it you would think that colored farm was the very White House itself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the pig farm, that passive blankness returned. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I can’t rightly say that I’m not peeved bout ye blowing up my bridge. Heard the boom all the way back at the farm, oh, yeah.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Now the farm boy was staring back at the Countess. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of roasting pork on the farm would alert guards, leading to beatings and weeks of half rations, so they ate purloined pork raw. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Charles did not reply until he had received four anxious letters, and then he replied coolly, “I didn’t hardly expect you anyway,” and he went on with a detailed account of farm and animals. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Gosswald’s method has been adopted in Italy and other countries, where ant farms have been established to supply colonies for distribution in the forests. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew that something bad had happened out on his farm last Cendling night, but since they were good friends they knew better than to press him for the details. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After that, the fields and farms grew fewer and farther between. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I guess they was sharecroppers on the farm. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end they settled down for the night in a far-flung field belonging to a lonely farm, from which they had managed to obtain eggs and bread. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The rest of the picture was divided neatly into little farm plots, each with its mud hut, each with its creaking well. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But farming takes too long. I’ve gotten so used to the trading. How can I start something new?” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

This industry doesn’t look much like farming the way most people imagine it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

With water siphoned off from the Los Angeles-bound aqueduct, a large farm was under cultivation just outside the camp, providing the mess halls with lettuce, corn, tomatoes, eggplant, string beans, horseradish, and cucumbers. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom’s parents had retired to a farm in Abb’s Valley, Virginia, and they had a privy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t go to the tree farm this year. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Some of them decided to stay. Later, more came to stay. They farmed and raised cattle and sheep. They forced our people off their own lands.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Dinners are simple: boiled corn from a farm stand, cold chicken, pasta with pesto, tomatoes from the garden sliced and salted on a plate. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pointing out that he could always go and return to the farm after the fact, that four years is not a terribly long time. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They had thought they would start a farm, as soon as they came to the end of the trees. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see what knowing numbers had to do with farming, so I said, “You can do all that, Pa.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He made a vague report to Lieutenant Dana: Two suspicious strangers visited his cousin’s farm seeking medical attention. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the opposite side of the coffee farm was a small banana farm, and there we came across a man cutting down hands of ripe bananas. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But Cora asked everyone on the farm sooner or later, the farm being its own kind of depot, attracting people who were between places. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The government owed the tribe annuity payments for the sale of its Kansas land but refused to distribute them until able-bodied men like Ne-kah-e-se-y took up farming. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We had fun pretending to run our own farms. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little Willy lived with his grandfather on a small potato farm in Wyoming. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got back to our farm, Dad helped me cut the padlock off the door and screw the hinges back on so Henrietta could be safe in her house again. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

In the warm enclosed waters of farm ponds, conditions are very likely to be lethal for fish when insecticides are applied in the vicinity. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

By the autumn almost every animal on the farm was literate in some degree. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Must we either take part in the crime of factory farms or give up meat? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He’d studied the farming techniques, the day-to-day problems of water purification and food distribution. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I grew up on a farm,’ he said, ‘but I never knew you could teach a pig tricks. Help yourself to more bread?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Herold would spend what few hours remained of this night at the farm, rest there all day, and then ride south at nightfall. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the South, many black children were allowed to attend school only a few months each year; from planting time to harvest, they worked long days on the farm. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

That night they reached the next stop—a farm that belonged to a German. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out his aunt was a widow woman with ten children, living in a nasty, rundown old cabin on a turkey farm where you couldn’t get to the privy without stepping in turkey mess. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He was educated in a one-room schoolhouse and raised on a farm in Henrico County, near Richmond, Virginia, and his family, the Jordans, were easygoing folks. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew my father was a good man, they knew I did not want to leave the farm, they knew my father felt we had to leave. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“In that group of houses across the highway from the farm gates?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

To Adam who was an instrument, who saw not the future farms but only the torn bellies of fine humans, it was revolting and useless. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only neither the villein nor the farm labourer starved, when the master was a man like Sir Ector. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d heard Momma and the other farm hands talk about how the dead worked, how they came out of the brush, overwhelming the unwary and wary alike. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He stayed for an hour and explained to the minister that a miracle had happened on the farm. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Built his home and farmed his land, then dug for coal when the farming wasn't enough. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He had farm animals to take care of, and books to read, and a wife he loved. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I said, “August went out to the Satterfield farm to check on some hives. She said I should help you in here. What do you want me to do?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A nobody, a boy on a southern Illinois farm—would he dare? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glancing round, I saw I had just passed on the roadside a farm cottage - from which a young woman in an apron, her attention no doubt aroused by the hom, had come running. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But organic fertilizers have not come close to replacing the chemicals that state farms depended on for decades. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And the animals heard, from the direction of the farm buildings, the solemn booming of a gun. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Shin, on the few days when he did not have to work on the farm or in the factory, had rarely taken advantage of camp rules that allowed him to visit. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Uncle Lorne arranged with one of the Silsbees of Lexington to smuggle out the papers in his farm wagon when he came in every week to market. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam, you can make a dash for Cotton’s farm, if you like. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But when he caught sight of her below the McCullys’ farm it occurred to him to slow to a walking pace and follow along at fifty yards. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Fill then, he and his family lived in the next village over and worked their own farm, tending crops and livestock. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed the triangular farm on our left and the path widened to allow us to walk together. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking up agriculture, the Finger Lakes people, by now consolidated into five main groups, lined the region’s hills with farms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After the girls handed it back to me, I looked at the map more closely and I saw once again that there were no houses or farms between us and Hacienda Dorada. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Your husband was offered his freedom and his farm back—” My heart leapt! “—if he proved his loyalty to El Jefe by divorcing his Mirabal wife.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat had lived a long and happy life on the farm, but had died some ten years before. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farm kids on the bus are super tough and don’t talk much and don’t care about school at all. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many Amazonian Indians, the Yanomamo among them, abandoned their farm villages, which had made them sitting ducks for European diseases and slave trading. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The farm and the family was a self-contained world, in the way I imagine all American farm life once was. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was living on a slightly tumbledown horse farm in northern Missouri, sitting on the back porch in jeans and a cutoff T- shirt. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

They looked like ordinary farmers with overalls and farm work boots. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His farm might feed 140 people, but it doesn’t support the four who live on it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I can stay by myself. I went to the farm by myself every day. Only...nobody ever came back again.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He’s been taking care of his own farm and ours. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel and Bigwig had decided that the raid should be carried out as soon after dark as the farm was quiet. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then in Denmark I saw that farm or its brother, and it was true, just as it had been in the looking-egg. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

More slaves led to more cotton, which led to more money to buy more land to farm more cotton. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Corn became king of the farm and the supermarket because it adapted itself easily to the needs of farmers and food makers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Heading inland, it is a short walk out of the city into a landscape that is reminiscent of his childhood in Zundert: fields and farms, windmills. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We set out, retracing our route like Gram said, until I spotted something shiny in a muddy puddle in the middle of the bumpy farm road. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The farm wasn’t that far away from the rest of the world. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She's so lucky she gets to spend it at the farm. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Even among herbivores and omnivores, many species, like koalas, are too finicky in their plant preferences to recommend themselves as farm animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The irrigation waters on these farms were derived from shallow wells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Without waiting for orders from the pig, the animals broke off work and raced back to the farm buildings. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

On a farm, manure would be a source of fertility. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And so the story of the Colorado farms and their damaged crops assumes a significance that transcends its local importance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Was this farm just a lone holdout against industrial food? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Jute farms and dairy farms have something in common. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And not an animal on the farm had stolen so much as a mouthful. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Still, most of the roads in town were unpaved, and in the dry season, the dust kicked up by cattle being herded through town or by farm carts loaded with vegetables swirled through the air. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he thought back to his father’s house, to the farm, the town, to his brother’s face, there was a blackness over all of it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He loved the farm because he could be out in the real air, and he wouldn’t wear work gloves be-cause he liked to touch the earth and the wood and the animals. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The economy was based on farming, but in most countries, Jews were not allowed to own land. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“This is my mountain, too. The farm belongs to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gribley, who happen to be my parents as well as yours.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cringed at her feet all the way back to the Van Sandtford farm. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

‘Of course. All except Grandsire. He wouldn’t hide with the women and farm animals and he couldn’t go fight. He was sot on sitting it out under his own roof.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think you live right here on the farm,” she said. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

We turned to see the men from the pub running toward us, armed with wooden clubs and farm implements. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I think he was kind of broken from losing the farm. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And maybe I could start getting things set up like they used to be, just in case we could make this into a farm with animals again. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Jeffrey told us that James had certain things he was really into, and one of them was farms. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The first place was a farm where there was a gate with big white posts and round knobs on top of them. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the fanners had quit farming and were cutting railroad ties so they could feed their families. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

To speed things up, Mr. Caton farmed some of the work out to other machinists. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“So it’s back to the farm, is it?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

On a farm near the sea, a woman who tended her appearance reaped a reputation for eccentricity. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had called to the witness box the county sheriff and the county coroner, the murdered man’s mother and the bent-over Swede from whom the murdered man had planned to buy his father’s old farm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

One group sat by a farm gate, trying on new shoes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

So I fell asleep; but I woke up very early and set off for Thessicher’s farm before breakfast, having spent an uneasy night full of dreams and wakenings. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Go back to the farm, the two of them. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Barack had already built goodwill with a diverse range of constituents throughout Illinois, including in the rural white farm areas in the southern part of the state. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Adam drove exuberantly from farm to farm, picked up dirt and crumbled it in his fingers, talked and planned and dreamed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I really would like to manage Mrs. Strawberry’s farm for her.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

When he opened the door that morning Mackenzie had seen a flight of mallards going down in the direction of the small lake fed by the creek running through the farm. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘There one thing I haven’t told you yet. A surprise. Buddy going to be here as well as Hamilton. Buddy just come back from Mobile. He helping out on the farm now.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

All of it comes from 13’s underground farms. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And he wasn’t that much taller than the Count either, although his stomach was flatter, but that was because the farm boy was younger. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Polly continued, “My father worked like an ordinary slave on a tobacco farm.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three were scientists checking the efficacy of sprays; 8 worked in greenhouses; 5 were farm workers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

For example, some organic milk comes from cows on small farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Once the slain had been avenged—and more important, the insult to white order repaid with interest—the civilians returned to their farms and factories and stores, and the patrollers resumed their rounds. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

People always need food—many tried to turn to farming, and in the shattered suburbs, people grew their lawns into paddocks, chicken yards, and plots. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The arrests also included Arthur Goldreich, who had 'driven into the farm as the police raid was in progress. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the group entered the man’s property, a horn was sounded, signaling neighboring black and white abolitionists to converge on the farm armed with guns, pitchforks, and other weapons. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Somehow he knew that these were the smells of a farm. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The window creaked as I eased it up, and the smell of horses and other farm odors hit me, right before the wind issued a warning. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

"Hard to lose a big jute farm that's been in the family for generations. And to get nothing for it! Happened to my family, too, but at least they sold it for something." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even old stallions, decades away from the track, still duel with one another up and down the fences of breeding farms. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d spend the second night with friends of Father’s at their farm near Golden’s Bridge. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They are wanted in the farm much oftener than I can get them.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“He’s been up once or twice to look at the farm. The house is fine.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was born last year, a month early, after his long, bumpy upside-down ride in the Land Rover that moved our family from Kinshasa to the farm in Kimvula District. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s an old fence back there, so you can figure out which part is our farm and which part isn’t. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I grew up on a little farm in Kentucky. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Tucker, at the Home farm,” he added, to Lady Crowan. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The miniature farms extended for hundreds of yards in all directions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Poppy had several litters for my mother’s business, but the puppies and the other breeding dogs live with Mummy’s partner at a farm outside Burlington. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Hardly anybody around the farm had a good word to say for a fly. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

This was a kind of farming, too, he told me later, one that he could share with his Nelson. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But with the Strawberry farm you can also have barbecued spareribs, and bread from the wheat crop.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Should I mention that the farm was owned by Father’s friends, the Kleists? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Slaves were disappearing all the time from the nearby farms and plantations. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the year 700, Indians as far away as New England and Canada farmed maize. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Where we live used to be a farm, but it’s not anymore. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You can’t lay in bed and run a farm,” said Charles. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We lived on a farm. Pardon me, ma’am, Miss Becky, but can you tell me where my sister is?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slant answered that he wanted to have many children, and a farm, and a plump, good wife. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Sixteen years later he had one of the best farms in Montour County. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole farm was deeply divided on the subject of the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The factory farms take the raw material, corn, and turn it into another product—meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Her father is some sort of math professor and sent her to East Prussia where she might be safer. She ended up working on a farm.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She kept 48 hives strewn through the woods around the pink house, and another 280 were parceled out on various farms, in river yards and upland swamps. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Huge surpluses of wheat, corn, milk, pork, and beef produced in the Midwest had caused the price of farm commodities to crash. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The cows on these “farms” spend their time in a fenced lot eating organic grain except for the three times a day they are hooked up to milking machines. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was not that these creatures did not work, after their fashion.There was, as Squealer was never tired of explaining, endless work in the supervision and organisation of the farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He sings about a young man who decides to leave his family’s farm and go to the city to make his fortune. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at him because J.T.’s family hardly ever went anywhere, on account of their chicken farm. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Central Maryland stretched away to the horizon in folds and hollows, in bands of trees and rumpled fields, studded by silos that marked the presence of family farms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drove into a large collective farming area. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Like the farm boy who grew up to be a billionaire or the paperboy who now has a dozen satellites in space. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It mostly said the farm was fine and she surely missed him. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jones saddled up and accompanied young Cox to his father’s farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing I had to throw away was the rotten ham, which smelled enough like the awful smell at the farm to make me start retching again. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The absence of wind today means we’re spared the smell of manure from the Roth’s farm across the valley. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

As soon as he could get the money together, he planned to build a pipeline to bring water down from the mountain, and after that he’d install solar panels all over the farm. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I already mentioned that early Korean farming was relatively unproductive and resulted only in poor farmers outclassed by rich hunters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s no law making them farm in the hills,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once you are a fence guard, there is some potential for advancement, but not much. You may be able to go on patrols beyond Amity’s farms, but—” “Patrols for what purpose?” asks Will. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The landscape was a tableau of farm fields, barns, horses, cows, chickens, and the occasional house. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Alter, this farm wouldn’t happen to have belonged to a Mrs. O’Leary, would it?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

During the early days of the Civil War, Susan B. Anthony lived on her family’s farm in Rochester, New York. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Since yer pa passed, our close friends Ben and Cillian have been helping me out since theirs is the next farm over. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ten days later, Cilia told him the farm clothes he had hidden in the hay were gone. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lived in a farming and cattle-raising village in the countryside. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we stood there on the corner of our old farm under the oak trees, wishing we never had to come home. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“First, we sign that we agree to join this collective farm.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I’m standing atop the scaffolding at the abandoned silo at the Beaverton farm, feeding an endless chain of paper links through the intake window. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The stranger was not fond of other cats at the best of times, even his own breed, and farm cats were beyond the pale altogether. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, Squealer easily convinced them that the veterinary surgeon in Willingdon could treat Boxer’s case more satisfactorily than could be done on the farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Joel insists on slaughtering chickens on the farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

No roadside stands selling squash juice, no antique stores, no farm products or factory outlets. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apart from the disputes over the windmill, there was the question of the defence of the farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“Good. Well, I hear that your farm is bigger now. People say that you been working to improve yourself.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apart from the regular work of the farm, and the rebuilding of the windmill, there was the schoolhouse for the young pigs, which was started in March. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

If that’s how she says good-bye, no wonder my dad wanted his own farm. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“They had little farms along the river. When the railroaders came and the white people began to build their town, the Navajos had to move.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But almond trees use more water than almost everything—and with rationing set so low, the almond farms failed first. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mostly, I just liked seeing all the folks from the big ranches and the little farms like ours that was out on the boardwalk. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After washing his face in the farm spring, he and Mole resumed their trek into the dense forests of the Catskill Mountains. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“We had a farm in Connecticut,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the humans’ farm, there were eggs in the chicken coop. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then she called out: “You!” and pointed at the farm boy. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“They said they have nothing and that our emphasis now is self-sufficiency and farming.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My family has a farm with an orchard,” Bailey explains. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The national press regularly reported on his campaign speeches, calling his farm Lawnfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

One good bale of tobacco would pay for seventeen more bags of fertilizer, enabling his farm to stay strong, given the good weather. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, as Silver guided them southward along higher ground to the west of the farm, almost all, now that they were actually committed to the adventure, felt dread and apprehension. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet despite the monotony of farm life, the longer we live in Krang Truop, the more fearful and anxious I become. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually he eliminated himself from every farm duty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Back on the farm, her life stretches ahead to the flat horizon line, already populated with the only characters she’ll ever know. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Not one of them, not even the youngest, not even the newcomers who had been brought from farms ten or twenty miles away, ever ceased to marvel at that. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“He leased ten acres of virgin woods and cleared it all,” said the men describing the beginning of Old Macon Dead’s farm. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monomatapa’s people went on in their timeless way, farming, hunting and thatching their round huts when the season of long grass was upon them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Women with children walked back and forth to the farm from family housing, but most of the farmworkers stayed in a dormitory on the farm. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When the farm money is gone he rolls home singing and crying over Ireland and his dead children, mostly about Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She must earn all the money to pay what they owed, so she could gather her family together back on the farm while she still had family left to gather. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I do. From the sale of my father’s farm.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then he walked into the farm kitchen, and kissed his mother on the cheek, and helped himself to a cottage loaf and a large pat of fresh-churned butter. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps as far as the Livingston spread, the mayhem encompassing the neighboring farms. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I would say by the second spring since the farm got bigger, we traded some ribbon syrup for a couple ol milk cows. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My farm’s up Druggers End. Would you have a minute or two?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I led Denna to a little stand of trees that blocked the wind and the sight of the farm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’d gone to other farms at night, down to the marsh, even along the main road to the houses of a few neighbors. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I know because I heard María say it in the car on the way to the farm. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He had a farm up the road a piece. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bullets followed us out of the coffee farm and into the forest. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

How could I arrive at Uaaxee’s farm with eight ogres in tow? Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I detached twenty-eight panels from the solar farm and dragged them to the rover. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because terraces soak up more sunlight than steep slopes, maize can be grown at higher than usual altitudes on them; irrigation similarly increases the area available for maize farming. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On his second day back at school, Shin walked with his class to a camp farm to gather corn straw and haul it to a threshing floor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then she ran off, disappearing into the thick stalks of corn bordering one of the farms that led around the opposite side of the marsh. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Smoke rose from thatched-roof kitchens, and people would start arriving from farms carrying lamps and sometimes lit firewood. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I began to think about the times when I visited my grandmother and I would sleep in the hammock at the farm. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

With long winters and high mountains, the country lacks arable land, denies incentives to farmers, and cannot afford fuel or modern farm equipment. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When a restaurant across the street from the Heinz farm went on sale, Carl decided to buy it. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

“It must seem imposing to a farm girl,” Mrs. Bedlow said. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now farm policy was aimed at one thing: keeping corn prices as low as possible. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Against the right wall sat a single bed, a messy desk, and an open wardrobe filled with extra denim clothes and a stack of farm implements, like pitchforks and rakes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You can come out to my farm. I’ve got more there.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Mother would hear of a widow whose husband had died or been killed in the war, and couldn’t manage the farm anymore. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His farm, like about two-thirds of the farms in the state, occupied less than ten acres—unviably small by the standards of developed nations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Contrary to all the boasts of the land’s fertility, it was virtually impossible to farm anything because of the difficulty of getting water. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He motioned for us to follow him into the banana farm. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

How many solar cells will I have to pilfer from the Hab's farm? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Washington’s retirement hymn featured the “vine and fig tree,” Jefferson’s idolized “my family, my farm, and my books.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Before coming down here, she was a realtor up in Modesto, the same town where Uncle Basil had his almond farm. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The farm offered omelets made from ostrich eggs, though in fact the eggs came from domestic chickens. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Only that she’d been born on a farm, raised on a farm, married to a farmer somewhere far from the sea, and that she had lost it all. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

We need public information about what is happening every day to our farm animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the long pasture, not far from the farm buildings, there was a small knoll which was the highest point on the farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He described Harriet as “a woman of no pretensions, indeed, a more ordinary specimen of humanity could hardly be found among the most unfortunate-looking farm hands of the South. “Her success was wonderful. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be sure, the Pilgrims had intended to make most of their livelihood not by farming but by catching fish for export to Britain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Peering in a little porthole at the end, I saw a lovely little farm, a kind of dream farm, and on the farmhouse chimney a stork sitting on a nest. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, we went and climbed up an observation tower over the farm. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would leave early enough so as to reach their farm when the sun was coming up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

During a break before going to grad school, they started a roadside organic farm on a few rented acres, growing raspberries and baby salad greens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

At Nitta’s farm the Canadian Indians were already busy when they arrived. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Luke stared back at his family’s farm as long as he could. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just a piece down the railroad tracks near Mr. Son Black’s farm. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“It goes through a village, with a church and farms and orchards, and then on to the town.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“They lived a different lifestyle, Mama—you know that. They worked on farms and walked everywhere, so they got plenty of exercise.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

With Miss Turner’s map, I found the first stone wall that marked the farm. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks like you had a blerry square dance up here. You certainly live up to your name, Disaster. You’ve disabled half the farm crew.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

These animals once were raised on family farms and ranches. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He also thought about the family that had built up that farm. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

If we had more skilled farmers and hunters, and if we all worked at farming and hunting, we might be able to produce enough food to get us through the winter. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“And for me to come back again,” he said, as a promise that she would not be left alone on the mountain farm. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Before we chose this cave and this farm, however, we found the Toy Tinker. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had a smaller farm for he was a maker of blankets. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have I not come from the farm?” she asked. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The first full day! And up to now you thought yourself a strapping country farm girl who could do anything, didn’t you?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

At Silsbee’s Cove there were no women, children, or farm animals about, except a couple of weaned calves in the calf pasture. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many horsemen were forced to abandon the sport and sell off their farms and horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Were they once free-living in the wild and then induced to adopt a less strenuous life on the farm? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t anything around except hills, grassland, and some scattered farm buildings. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Some were still too young to leave the farm, so Adria and I picked out a brown one that was old enough to go home with us right away. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He worked on his father's farm and owned nothing save a small cottage in a far field given to him by his parents. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

There are at least four more batteries of nine-inch guns to the right of the farm, and behind the poplars they have put in trench mortars. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could do anything that we needed on the farm. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead factory farms clip the beaks off their laying hens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A careful pattern of colored stones decorated the station beneath Lumbly’s farm, and wooden slabs covered the walls of Sam’s station. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1945, as Europeans picked through the rubble of their ruined cities and burned-out farms, Soviet and American soldiers eyed each other warily. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“In just six weeks, you can get your bachelor’s degree in the exciting and vibrant career of the future—farming!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

From here until Fletcher’s farm the most direct route was through people’s land, but it was too dangerous. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I think the Cartwright farm was as decent as anywhere else, but it was like that for a lot of people then. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as he said it, I could tell he didn’t want me, didn’t want me back on the farm, didn’t want to be reminded of her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few, like Joe, were farm boys or lumberjacks or fishermen, the products of foggy coastal villages, damp dairy farms, and smoky lumber towns all over the state. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He decided not to tell anyone what he had done, and promised himself that Tres Marias would again become the model farm it had once been. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was also agreed upon that the demon beast had been responsible for the destruction of the Mauthen farm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“But this ain’t the farm I knew. This is wrong. I got to go...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was off in the Ford for his afternoon review of the farm. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even back on the farm, surrounded by friends from school and neighbors from town, he felt like he was still drifting on the dark ocean. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

A farm only a few hours away rented out ponies dressed as unicorns for birthday parties and other events. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He spent most of his time in the farmhouse, squaring the farm’s accounts. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It’s in his blood from his days on the farm. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Doña Veronica was the first restaurant who picked our humble farm over the larger chains. The gratitude we have for her can never be repaid.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Because Cox has forty former slaves living on his farm, it is too dangerous for Booth and Herold to stay on the property. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Other than the menial wages sent home from the cities, families scraped by with little beyond subsistence-level farming. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Like most of the farm’s work buildings, the older log cabins bunched on the eastern edge, put up in a hurry before they knew how big the community would become. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“You inherited the farm and all its contents, right?” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Art had a system that he had worked out over the many years he had been farming, and while it was relatively simple, it still demanded a staggering amount of stamina. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She says she'd never sleep if she lived on the farm. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then they’d move outward, sweeping the farm, crawling up trees and into the barn attic. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He lives next door on his family’s chicken farm. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

These little, shifting farms look like unchanged remnants of the past. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He picked a team full of allies, heedless of representing the breadth of farm society. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And what he did for the farm implements, his wife, O-lan, did for the house implements. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Just because a farm is big doesn’t mean it isn’t organic. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They’re all landscapes—of the river and meadows mostly, one of Old Joe’s farm at sunset, and one of a garden with a lily pond. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

True, they were ill fed and ill equipped, suffering from low morale and yearning to return home to their families and farms in time for spring planting. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The river of corn would flow from the farms to buyers anywhere in the world. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The soldiers searched the barn and other buildings on the farm but found nothing. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the chain was snapped around the bull’s neck, the farm hands pulled it over the crossbar of the chute posts and hooked it. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was educated in a one-room schoolhouse and raised on a farm in Henrico County, near Richmond, Virginia, and his family, the Jordans, were easygoing folks. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today he and his friends had visited Animal farm and inspected every inch of it with their own eyes, and what did they find? Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

My nose pressed against the window, breath fogging the glass, I spotted a stand of trees at the far corner of the farm. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the spring, it was dried in the open air before being transported to state farms. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The number of small farms merged into collectives was a number about equal to the current population of Texas. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

One year it had been “Yes, he was in the quarry, but he was sick in the winter and was moved to the bean farm in Bartow County.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it is. I’m kind of ashamed to admit it. I’ve let it go badly. I haven’t farmed it at all. Maybe I got too much farming as a child.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No good! Ever since I lost my right python, I haven’t been able to spread the word about farming—at least not in person. Now I have to resort to giving online courses.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Your house stinks like a lice farm,” the older of the strange girls said. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

There’s fog in the morning now and the farm stands are pushing pumpkins. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the old-fashioned farm, there is really no such thing as waste. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I had this nice soup called el bisqué at that new farm restaurant. Go get me that el bisqué, Zuri! It was so delicious,” she says. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Wheat, milo seed, certified grass seed—these were the crops the farm’s prosperity depended upon. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

How come they allow them to play on the farm? The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

In my dream I was back on the peach farm, sitting out behind the tractor shed, and even though it was broad daylight, I could see a huge, round moon in the sky. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What had happened was that there had been a farm truck accident that injured five inmates and killed one. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We were on a kolkhoz, a collective farm, and I was to become a beet farmer. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It happened everywhere now, farms raided at night, raided of corn so tender they had not yet formed kernels and yams so young they were barely the size of a cocoyam. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Pigeons destroyed farm fields so often that the bishop of Quebec formally excommunicated the species in 1703. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the snarling farm dogs, he found his way along a track to a grassy rise to watch the flashes in the southern sky. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She led the strongest of her new kits—my sister—and me to the humans’ farm. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know my exact age. See, I was bom ... on a farm.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young pigs were piebald, and as Napoleon was the only boar on the farm, it was possible to guess at their parentage. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“Don’t it beat all how a man that good-lookin’ would marry a wife that plain?” said one of the farm women, who’d have known a thing or two about plainness. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

All I’ve heard about is how much he loved farming and the outdoors. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They thought about farms and cities and factories. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“A brand-new blue mountain bike, too expensive to replace, unfortunately. The police thought teenagers from your neighborhood might have taken it. Apparently theft is a problem on the farm.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps he thought of Hatsue and of his children and the strawberry farm he would one day pass to them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Too many farmers had assumed, without due enquiry, that on such a farm a spirit of licence and indiscipline would prevail. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“The grief counselor said it would be good to get a change of scenery. Some fresh air, work around the farm. Who knows, maybe you’ll find out you were meant to work the land.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He looked around her tidy farm, listened to her ragged, wet cough, and moved in. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

No single step separated the woman gathering wild wheat from the woman farming domesticated wheat, so it’s hard to say exactly when the decisive transition to agriculture took place. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you have real eggs on the farm?” he asked. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was such a long time ago, when we visited my uncle’s and aunt’s farm in the countryside and I played with their neighbor’s daughter. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He expected it to be a manual about farming, but it was something quite different and exciting. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if Mum and I had wanted to be kicked out of our cottage on our farm. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It’s based on small family farms like Salatin’s, which practice true sustainable farming. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother wants me to go to Harvard, but my father wants me to take over the farm.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Me too! I was bom on a farm. And now I work in the fields with my family.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would not leave our farm, our maple tree, our swimming hole, our pigs, our chickens, our hayloft. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The river tore the edges of the farm lands and washed whole acres down; it toppled barns and houses into itself, to go floating and bobbing away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They left everything they knew to take hard jobs in factories and farms for ten cents an hour, ten hours a day, even though signs around town greeted them with three words: No Filipinos Allowed. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The farmer put up quite a stink over having to bring the machine over to our place, but Pa said he could only work on it when he had the time away from farming. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

So far I’ve told you about how chickens and cows are raised on factory farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In his thoughts were vestiges of old skid roads and forgotten farm paths that bled into vales of ghost fern and hollows filled with skunk cabbage. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And Victoria laughed at him, then, and took back her hand, and began to walk down the hill toward her father's farm. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

We farmed for three months at Kamator and I never got used to it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The women in our culture are known for working incredibly hard, juggling so many things—raising the children, working on the farm, harvesting, fetching and chopping firewood, and then cooking dinner for the men. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

So far this year, our venison has been only road kill from in front of Mrs. Strawberry’s farm. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In most farming societies people focused on plant cultivation; raising animals was a secondary activity. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they made a tour of inspection of the whole farm and surveyed with speechless admiration the ploughland, the hayfield, the orchard, the pool, the spinney. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Church had inspected Smith’s farm home and seen there, hanging from a barn rafter, a length of rope tied with the same kind of knot that was used to bind the four Clutters. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

After briefly occupying the cold northern tip of Honshu, Yayoi farmers abandoned that area, presumably because rice farming just could not compete there with the Jomon hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The final addition to the regular group at the farm was Mr. Jelliman, an amiable white pensioner and old friend of the movement who became the farm foreman. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other matters they were, as a rule, generous and not greedy, but contented and moderate, so that estates, farms, workshops, and small trades tended to remain unchanged for generations. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There were some farm trucks on the roads now and she had to weave through them and watch traffic. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farm was more prosperous now, and better organised; it had even been enlarged by two fields which had been bought from Mr. Pilkington. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The first was Sam’s appearance on the farm. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Most of the men had returned to work the farms. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He'd grown up on a farm in Kentucky and ended up in Washington, D.C., after finishing law school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And there were plenty of examples to prove that learning made a boy leave the farm to live in the city—to consider himself better than his father. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Except in the towns there was evidence of a population which had once lived here and farmed and had its being and had then been driven out. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had their farm about an hour’s ride from us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To rebuild the windmill, with walls twice as thick as before, and to finish it by the appointed date, together with the regular work of the farm, was a tremendous labour. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

About half the animals on the farm rushed out to the knoll where the windmill stood. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“This ain’t money; it’s gold. It’ll keep us for life, Pilate. We can get us another farm. We can—” “Leave it, Macon! Leave it! Let them find it just where it was!” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

First of all, there is a clear relationship in rice farming between effort and reward. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

If radioactive fallout started spreading through the sky, it would be Hall’s job to help evacuate people from local farms and villages. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were supposed to go to a farm in the country today. But since it’s raining so hard, were taking you to a tumbling gym instead.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Native American farming served for a long time just as a small supplement to food acquisition by hunting-gathering, and supported only a sparse population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Prescriptions for his medicines, a bill for a Panama hat he’d been weanng around the farm, a new, important look for him. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced around, expecting one of our neighbors from a nearby farm to be fishing on the water’s edge. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The residents immediately became squatters, scrambling up the steep hillsides to remake their homes and farms on land they didn’t own. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Gramps and I listened to classical music and farm reports on the radio when we could pick up a station. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had grown up on farms in Kansas, twenty miles apart as the crow flies, but had not known each other as children. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Farmers don’t make any money. It’s the man who buys from him and sells. You’ll never make any money farming.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, we can always live on the farm. I guess we won’t starve.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were to be hostels and inns and seasonal study centers, and eventually permanent woodland villages—“self-owning” communities whose inhabitants would support themselves with cooperative “non-industrial activity” based on forestry, farming, and crafts. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A sergeant apologized for marching through her farm. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only Ben,” said Maxim; “he’s quite harmless, poor devil. His old father used to be one of the keepers, they live near the home farm. Where did you get that piece of twine?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see as how the farm had really changed, but somehow I didn't feel the same there. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first cereal was probably millet—not the millet eaten today, which originated in Africa, but a cousin species, knotweed bristle- grass, which is no longer farmed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One whole morning, as Leslie had related it at recess, she had spent imagining Mrs. Myers on one of those fat farms down in Arizona. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was probably talking his ear off about going to the farm in the morning. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Dad threatened me with taking over the family farm, so I decided I’d try some of that college stuff,” explains Baird. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mudd solved his problem by sending his cousin George, a loyal Unionist and therefore above suspicion by the federal authorities, to town to report Booth’s visit to Mudd’s farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Israel Thomas and his son-in-law had volunteered a day’s work in Matt’s fields the day George Lawrence brought his boy over to the farm. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad got disgusted every time we drove past one of those farm fields with their irrigation ditches wide as moats. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

This was fitting because grass, not petroleum, is the foundation of his farm’s success. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When it was too cold to bathe in the river or stand outside in the rain, Shin and his mother and his classmates smelled like farm animals. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Well, for the same reason that a pretty Wisconsin farm girl moves to Hollywood. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

"Look, you'll be up front soon enough, and then all you gon' do is wish you were in the back. So chill, and enjoy your limo ride to the farm, Waffle." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

After a number of weeks I was joined at the farm by Raymond Mhlaba, who had journeyed up from Port Elizabeth. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day, they drove to a farm stand where you could pick your own flowers. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After the revolution, they’d claimed land and formed small shared farms. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She rose out the dirt, pulled up her shift, and started running barefoot down the road toward the Foster farm. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

There are the usual farms and country roads, and numbered streets. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Afterwards Squealer made a round of the farm and set the animals’ minds at rest. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

We live on Great-Uncle Jim’s farm now, far from LA, so I couldn’t go see you even if you were still alive. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

They had never bothered much with clarifying at the farm as there had hardly been enough syrup or sugar for the family, but the mistress was very particular and stood over Lyddie directing her. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I soon realize how early everyone gets up when they are already busy about the farm before the sun rises and long before I awake the next morning. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I remember are the long avenues in the frost, the farms and houses braced against the winter, the flat, laconic Maine speech in crossroads stores where I stopped to buy supplies. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were holdfasts and farming villages along the road south where he might be able to trade the mare for a fresh mount when he needed one, but not if she were injured or blown. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They had worked the farm, settled down, made friends. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A farm vet comes by once every few hours to check on them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Seriously, it isn’t half as nice as the house Minerva showed me where Papa kept that woman on the farm. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asks farmers if they need any help, that he grew up on a farm and can do anything. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It's like an ant farm with a world of movement hidden underground. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Right. When you were here a few days ago, everything was in order and locked up tight. You thought that Mother had gone to the Ludingtons’ farm.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Organic” factory farm chickens live only slightly better lives than non-organic factory chickens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The landing site was at the near edge of the great desolate region, a peat-marsh too boggy to be farmed or settled, and now in mid-Irrem a flat frozen waste many feet deep in snow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was the farm she ached to know about. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to search the route back toward the farm, or circle out from here?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She hopes he might bring home something from the farm, potatoes, cabbage, turnips, carrots, but he’ll never bring home anything because he’d never stoop so low as to ask a farmer for anything. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Southwest, past desert farms and cliff dwellings, to the Mississippian societies in the Midwest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The farm’s dreams are worthy and true, but require a gradual approach. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“The two of them together would make one of the best farms in this section. Say! You thinking of getting married?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not only were Russian farms run on unfree labor, but they used very simple, old-fashioned methods of farming. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

American soldiers found Germany’s entire supply of uranium at a nearby farm, freshly plowed under the soil. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push the window open and breathe in the soil and farm smells and woodsmoke. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By diverting snowmelt from the ever-present Andes icecaps to high farm terraces, Wari was able literally to rise above the drought and flooding of lower elevations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

You, with your quiet farming ways, would be quite agog over all the activity here. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Shin and several other classmates picked her up and carried her home to a pig farm not far from the school. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Alexandra was a farm originally named for the wife of the white man who owned it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Except for Mollie and Snowball, no other animal had ever left the farm, and they did not like to think of their sick comrade in the hands of human beings. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Vermont’s mountains are comparatively soft and rolling, and its profusion of dairy farms gives it a more welcoming and inhabited feel. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond their farm were monsters and giants and wolves, and many times Thialfi walked into trouble and had to outrun it. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Neither Bantu nor white farmers, heirs to thousands of years of farming experience, were subsequently able to develop southern African native plants into food crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

To work the colonists’ farms, slaves were soon imported from different corners of the Dutch empire, from West Africa, Madagascar, and the East Indies. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“He’s on a special farm,” JimmyTrotter said fast and plain, like when he “Yes’m-ed” Miss Trotter about the cool in the air. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Irrigation agriculture and fish farming provide ideal living conditions for the snails carrying schistosomiasis and for flukes that burrow through our skin as we wade through the feces-laden water. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’d still earn ten rubles per day as she “helped,” and if she could drag that out long enough, she could make enough money to save her farm. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I feel like this has to be connected to the farm.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Henek says he doesn’t know how much longer they will stay on the farm.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I hit the top of Half-Blood Hill in time to see the camp’s van disappearing down the farm road, probably Argus taking the quest group into the city. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Finally there came a night when the gale was so violent that the farm buildings rocked on their foundations and several tiles were blown off the roof of the barn. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Hatfield was also known for its dairy farms, which I much preferred. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In farming, a man can lose everything so quickly. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered: the big dairy farm a mile north of Buck’s Peak, that was Jim’s. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The edge of the sky began to lighten as morning crept up on the Strong family farm, just enough to do a bit of reading. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Corn from hundreds of different farms was now mixed all together in a great golden river. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

All the other male pigs on the farm were porkers. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Even on a tiny farm like ours, you had to get an education. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I remembered that three or four of the Amish farms did, for example. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

From my place in the cart I could see a long string of dark coats, farm carts, animals, and sleds behind us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Baird had been groomed to take over the family dairy farm, located in Lewiston, a small farming town on the border of Utah and Idaho. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The only reason they need the drugs is because they are being raised on factory farms and fed corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Not yet,” she said, and when she saw his consternation she explained that farm kids drove early—they had to. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them worked as day laborers in the giant factory farms that surrounded the city. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They all lived in a brick house that Elizebeth’s grandfather had built, on the Smith family farm in Union Township, a few miles east of Huntington, Indiana. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Ask the farm boy; he tends them,” Buttercup said. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We talked with the children, about the cats and the farm animals. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farm was so large that a leased, battered school bus carried workers to its dusty gate at the height of picking season. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My buyer is going there in the morning to purchase red raspberries from a farm. He can give you a ride.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They carried electricity from a wind farm to one of the old cities.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But they also destroyed Indigenous farms, gardens, and towns, killing men, women, and children and taking over stores of food in addition to their lands. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

We would eat the food within a short drive of the farm where it had been grown. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The farm boy did as he was told. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In England, farm breeders had refined the creation of novel breeds and variants to a highly sophisticated science. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In summer she’d sorted berries, cut runners, pulled weeds, and kept one eye on the Indians and Japanese who yearly picked on the Heine farm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

That kind of sums up the way he looks at himself, his farm, and his customers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I could always get hired back later, but it was nice to just be back on the farm. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older children worked on nearby farms, so they were still together, as a family. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often he would tell me about his sisters and brother and their life on a farm. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Well-wishers to the farm had to be welcomed. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I remember that farm,” my mom suddenly says. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

More were still coming in from outlying farms. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

At its height, I had a small farm with nearly nine hundred plants; a garden far grander than the one I had on Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father is trading at a giant’s farm, where a wedding will take place soon. He wrote that giants’ weddings are interesting. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kwon said that farm managers pay off soldiers, who then turn a blind eye to large-scale theft of food that is later sold in private markets. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Most of the organic food sold in America comes from farms like Greenways. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There was a good quarry of limestone on the farm, and plenty of sand and cement had been found in one of the outhouses, so that all the materials for building were at hand. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The wild turkeys may have suffered the same fate as their domestic brethren, for turkeys on farms in the area treated with chemicals also produced few young. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Drifting arsenic dusts from blueberry lands have spread over neighboring farms, contaminating streams, fatally poisoning bees and cows, and causing human illness. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

On Saturday evenings the farm got together for a common meal and diversions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes my father would seek advice from Granddaddy about some aspect or other of the farm or the cotton gin. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Some families of powhitetrash lived on Momma’s farm land behind the school. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Personally, I would have been pleased to be walking now through hamlets and past farms rather than through some silent “protected corridor.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

At first, she walked to the small Antioch School near the family farm. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As a prisoner, Shin was not allowed to eat pork or the meat of any livestock raised on the farm. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

‘Never hear another sergeant yelling at me as long as I live. A farm. Cows.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bunch of them from the farm below him got loose this spring and made a mud hole of his garden. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sentinels were placed at all the approaches to the farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He had made a raid one night on the Puttenham poultry farm, and now had feathers enough to equip a whole armoury. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen in Redemption’s house was yellow and enormous, with a long farm table on one end and a large stove system along another wall, green-tiled counters stretching everywhere. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It’s the word we used on the farm. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The city had grown around them over four centuries, cascading down the slopes and then sprawling out over the flat landscape of farms and meadowlands below. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Piercy grew ill on the ride out of Camden, and the other passengers—including those from his household—put him out of the coach at Isaac Eldridge’s farm. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Once, they visited his aunt, Claire, in Vermont, a woman who had an organic farm and walked around barefoot and talked about how connected to the earth it made her feel. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, there was an air of the health farm about her, and an indoor tan. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Instead of fleeing the farm immediately, they waited for the doctor’s return. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning she flew southward to Mole’s farm and brought back strange but nourishing foods, which she dropped to the youngsters. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Slept more than 24 hours, flat out, which is just as well because that was the day when the farm was simply crawling with German soldiers. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“I need to see if my things are out at the Mauthen farm,” she said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Uncle Katsuhisa said that it might seem sad to kill them, but eventually, we would learn to be kind of like farm kids—farm kids understood the meaning of death. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The pig farm was as good as it got for Shin at Camp 14. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In her mind, there is a big difference between them and us, between living on a farm and living in The Farm. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fallen horses were well behind us when the soldiers ordered us to turn off the main road and down a narrow farm lane. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They stood in the rain like farm animals. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The mosque is about thirty minutes away, closer to the mall, where buildings are taller and farms are fewer. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Keeping local farms in business keeps the countryside from being overrun by cities and suburbs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Gilmanton was a small farming village in New Hampshire’s lake country, sufficiently remote that its residents did not have access to a daily newspaper and rarely heard the shriek of train whistles. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They were big boys; I knew they were from the farms of Delia. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when the driver dropped us off at the farm stand, he gave us his own version of a lecture. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bellowing, distressed cows lumbered among the stumps until they were exhausted and stopped giving the milk that was the farm’s principal cash product. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The rise of farming was a very gradual affair spread over centuries and millennia. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lancelot stopped at once, as if he were a farm labourer who had been given permission to knock off for his dinner. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me that Cambodia is fighting a civil war, and that most Cambodians do not live in cities but in rural villages, farming their small plot of land. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for a few farm horses over at Dede’s and the old mule at Mama’s, it was the only transportation left us, now that all the cars had been confiscated. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the first narrow road that branched off toward the east, sure that it would lead to a farm. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were at the high point of the orchard and looked out across the farm. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The public school has to farm them out to Lelia because it doesn’t have enough staff. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farm would still belong to us and one day we could return to it. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“But, my dear, your father cannot spare the horses, I am sure. They are wanted in the farm, Mr. Bennet, are not they?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

But only to a farm, to work the fields until the harvest. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I open up to the map again and I follow Ben’s arrows from our farm down the river and thru the swamp and then outta the swamp as it turns back into river. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I was pretty sure I knew everything about Constantine—she had one sister and grew up on a share- cropping farm in Corinth, Mississippi. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But once Yedsha paid her the money, she’d pay the magistrate, save her farm, and life could go back to normal. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“The girl who was out at the Mauthen farm. Is she here too?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And twenty-five kilometers and one short wagon ride later, I was walking down the lane to our farm. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The rules kept us where we were, as much a part of the farm now as the trees, more firmly rooted to its earth than the deer and foxes. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Instead of trying to keep corn prices low, gov-ernment farm policy was aimed at keeping food prices—and farmers’ income—stable. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When news spread of the gold of the Aztecs in nearby Mexico, farming could not hold the interest of Spaniards. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“And it incapacitated you? So that you felt you could no longer run your farm?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Except for the steady swish of the wind, the farm was very quiet. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early farming villages worldwide were much less authoritarian places than later societies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Garner passed, Caesar and his family mourned and tended to the farm, awaiting official word of their manumission. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And now, out of the blue, she invited me to go and visit her in Kenya, where her parents had just bought a farm. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

One night I returned to the farm late after a meeting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to talk about buying a farm and drove her up and down island roads where property was for sale. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I came here with my family as a child, we rode in a bus on that road and beyond, to Amity’s farms, where we spent the day picking tomatoes and sweating through our shirts. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Dad feels really bad about that too, especially since you left us your farm. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The loveliest times at the farm were when I was visited by my wife and family. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We finish our pit stop and hop back in the car, making our way down to the farm. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

There were a bunch of them up the river, north a little ways, so she followed the sound of the water away from her farm. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Put his suitcase down and ask the man: Where is the cave near the farm where my father lived fifty-eight years ago? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was when I learned about factory farming that I stopped eating meat. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

With more farm work, I couldn’t help them so much. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bakers were already at work, and carts rolled quietly toward the market square, bringing their daily burdens of produce from the valley farms. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We drove out to the farm, his parents’ place. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The State of Alabama agreed to help white landowners in the region transition to timber farming and forest products by providing extraordinary tax incentives for pulp and paper mills. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you try to take a nap, dear. Only another hour or so and then we’ll be at the farm, and you and Granddad have some work to do before supper.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He raged at his farm, forced it, added to it, drilled and trimmed, and his boundaries extended. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yet as I looked at the photos of Mo helping out at the refugee camps, rebuilding bombed-out villages, and replanting farms, I couldn't help but think of how that birthplace had suffered over the centuries. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The only means to pay off their debts was through labor on plantations and farms—known as convict leasing—or in prisons that had been converted to work farms. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Far from being dependent on big-game hunting, most Indians lived on farms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In January 1915, the Defender warned, “The only wise thing to do is to stick to the farm.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Most of the land was being used for farms, interspersed with patches of loblollies and other trees. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“During World War II, when many American men had either gone to war or were working in industries that produced equipment for the war, there was a shortage of farm labor,” Mom said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Their camp spilled across the farm road that meandered around Camp Half-Blood’s southeast perimeter. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Imagine them fighting, burning, looting, and bombing every city and farm in their path until they reached the Great Plains. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Some drove farm wagons or bumped along in the back of ox carts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

So the farms have gotten bigger, but fewer people live on them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

One of them, which was named Foxwood, was a large, neglected, old-fashioned farm, much overgrown by woodland, with all its pastures worn out and its hedges in a disgraceful condition. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

With the development of interstate highways in the 1950s, meatpacking and shipping could take place in plants located closer to the farms where livestock was raised. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Life on the farm is boring and dull, but at least there is enough to eat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took refuge in the farm buildings and peeped cautiously out from chinks and knot-holes. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I was going to help Papa with the farm. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next month after the shucking bee, the farm would host the most important gathering yet, to address the recent debates about picking up stakes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A child growing up on a farm surrounded by animals would naturally befriend some of them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Usually I loved going to Sunday Mass. That, along with our Tuesday visits to Grand Island to run errands, was the only time we left the farm. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

There was a lake a mile from his uncle’s farm where he and his uncle used to go in the fall for firewood. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

If you live on some rocky mountainside, the explanation goes, you can’t farm. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I dressed and went with him to his farm to deliver what I thought was a baby. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was off the beaten path, halfway between a mining town and a farming town. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I wanted to cover my ears and run away, so I'd never have to see the farm again. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

With a finger he traced a direction northwest from the little farm. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now they are thinking to sell the farm. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

In 1992, after years of growing protests that spread far beyond the Delaware Valley, the dam plan was finally put on hold, but by this time whole villages and farms had been bulldozed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Every morning she awoke, if possible by dawn, and got the farm chores finished immediately. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was a predator, all right: a red-tailed hawk, right here on my farm, just a short ways from my chicken. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

While we did that, Father began to tell me about his life as a boy on our farm, his first years with Mother, and his first years over here in the demon land. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some farming populations make it even easier for their own fecal bacteria and worms to infect new victims, by gathering their feces and urine and spreading them as fertilizer on the fields where people work. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As we already noted, the first farmers on each continent could not have chosen farming consciously, because there were no other nearby farmers for them to observe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He then mentioned a farm named Heidelberg where they raised German shepherds. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At a factory egg farm, the laying hen spends her brief life jammed into a wire cage with six other hens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Tortoise was sympathetic and made suggestions about how Snail might improve his farming. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I bet you’d have taken down all your Broadway posters and put up a bunch of farm animal posters instead. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Lee Grant settled into the car that would take him away from the farm where he’d found refuge, after running away from home. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What if they bailed, like they bailed from his farm up north?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think there’s any farm without something wrong with it. Out in the Middle West it’s locusts, someplace else it’s tornadoes. What’s a few stones?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of course you have burned a man’s property—barn, farm implements, hay, and grain; you have polluted his well with coal oil and terrified his family. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora had come to cherish the impossible treasures of the Valentine farm so completely that she’d forgotten how impossible they were. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, Elizabeth listened to a widow named Flora Campbell tearfully explain that, without her consent, her husband had mortgaged the farm that had been in her family for years. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile our farm dances: the heavy conifer trees sway slowly, while the sagebrush and thistles quiver, bowing before every puff and pocket of air. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“And,” Maddie finished with a triumphant flourish, “the farm woman drew her a map.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

If he went into town to buy supplies for the farm, he would come back with something for my mother and something for me. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Sonny and Lawrence told their father to get Joe to Clover, back to the tobacco farms, where he could hide from the law and be safe. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Before I made it a potato farm, its original purpose was to be a lifeboat for the rover. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I envision the future day when this campaign is finished, and we grown older and commenced men of means—with wives of our own, and children, and farms, perhaps, laid about with barns. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The “punishment” Mama had mentioned wasn’t too severe—I had to help her out on the farm early in the mornings for the next week. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Everything we ate had been grown on the farm, with the exception of the cream of mushroom soup that was the sauce in the chicken and broccoli casserole. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“He’s at work with Jasper, and then he has to go by the house later. The farm. The old place.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The city man looked faint, but Honor and Hunter had not only watched the common and counted-on birthings farm people see, but had tugged and twisted newborns from all sorts of canals. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dusk Raji would appear, tired and cross and half starved, for he was counting every rupee until he had enough to return to his farm. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Also, this sort of farming annihilates the soil. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the shed where he slept were the tools of the farm and the tools for their repair and maintenance. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In his village, people farmed the tiniest plots outside their homes and planted useful vegetables and herbs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had been bom in America on a farm in Georgia. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Born on a farm in Utah, Linton came from a family without much education. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You seem to know a lot about the farm. Do you live near here?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Do you think their farm will get better off with more children out working in the fields?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look forward to tending my potato farm in the wide open space of the Hab. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one cassava farm that we ravaged didn’t last long. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mechanics and food prep and clothes repair and farming basics and things like that. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Turning twenty on the farm, he believed he had found the place where he would grow old and die. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Without access to coral reefs or productive shallow waters, and with their terrestrial birds quickly exterminated, Easter Islanders turned to constructing chicken houses for intensive poultry farming. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If she were going to be a farmer, she would at least want the chance to buy her farm. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She even came over to my house once that spring, but her feather boas weren’t a good match for my farm, so she hasn’t ever been back. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The original organic food movement thought organic farming should be sustainable. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I’m not taking you back to the farm, Hela.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The poor guy got hauled off to the freak farm before he even had a chance to party, get wild, actually dance with a girl. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Van Sandtford steps out on the porch to join me, and his eyes sweep over his farm as he checks bam, silo, and fields in the manner of a farmer. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Running a farm is terrible hard work—plowing and hoeing and milking cows and such and being out in the fields all by yourself with nobody to talk to all day long. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leaders of the High Command had had this very document before them on the table when the police stormed the farm. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It should be yours. You’ve brought her prosperity with your Crystal and her Poland piglet offspring. And I have my own farm—my wilderness.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

And some of the trees are made into woodchips that go into the farm compost. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Mingo had lived on the farm for a long time, and when it came to addressing Lander’s appeals, it was good to have a native voice. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Beyond that, Luna knew, were farms and more forests and more mountains, and eventually an ocean. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

This farm was hard work; I was whittled down at least two sizes what with all the chores and hauling and carrying. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Once at the front gate of the Garrett farm, a charge was ordered. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He shouldn’t have called me no farm boy. If he calls me a farm boy, I’m gonna call him a cootie again.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of this grain is headed for factory farms and processing plants, so no one worries much about keeping it clean. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

News of Booth’s death traveled across the nation by telegraph, and newspapers rushed to print stories filled with the details of the manhunt’s climax at Garrett’s farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began giving money to support causes like labor unions and striking farm workers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A long time ago some Indians lived here and farmed these fields,” he said. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He often passed small farms and cabins or found graziers tending herds on sunny balds. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Food is rationed. She said the guards oversee the farm and the workers,” said Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The manor house was way out in the country, with a big farm next door. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, the sloop-of-war upon which they sailed returned, and reported the melancholy news that they had met with resistance at a rebel farm, and that eight men were lost. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“The times are critical and dangerous and I must have you here to assist me....You must leave the farm to the mercy of the winds. I can do nothing without you.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In gratitude, the king presented the entire village with gifts of seeds and farming equipment that brought more prosperity than any reward of gold and jade. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

But I did talk about my week on the farm, about the Salatins and their animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Mingo would never be more than an opportunist, harassing the farm with his own notions about colored advancement. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Piatra Neamț was nestled in the shadow of the Carpathian Mountains, with an economy built on logging and cattle raising, not the farming of sunflowers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The soldier had been stealing from the farm. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Only big industrial farms that could act as distributors for vuvv foodstuffs stayed viable. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“They don’t have farms, and they don’t work the fields.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He worked the farm mightily because he was lonely. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Elmer had already registered; would he be drafted, leaving her all alone with those six kids and that big farm? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They farmed and built a house and brought a series of older and older children from the audience into the imaginary home, and then more babies for grandchildren. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s in our garage working on his car with Uncle Basil—who’s been living with us on and off since his almond farm up in Modesto failed. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There were also prison farms and stone quarries. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Neolithic Revolution is the invention of farming, an event whose significance can hardly be overstated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, besides trampling the grass, some of them vandalized Garfield's farm. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It shows the river rolling lazily between meadowy fields dotted with trees and farms, against a distant backdrop of sere hills, notched with a V where the river passes through. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

When soldiers had not come by his farm by that evening, Dr. Mudd relaxed. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did farm labor between revivals, and in the autumn of ’41 it was our first enterprise as newlyweds to bend our backs together in the dusty fields. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which makes me very happy, even though the farm doesn't seem so scary now that Miss Willis is gone. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Before that he’d been living on his family’s farm in northern Connecticut. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

In terms of energy, the modern farm is a losing proposition. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He prospered from his farming so much that he was able to purchase the manor of Woolsthorpe in 1623, gaining the title of Lord of the Manor. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Aboriginal Australians who never reached the stage of farming yams and seed plants nonetheless anticipated several elements of farming. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s only the biggest chicken farm in the county with flocks of fifty thousand birds at a time. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Kid still raced at the bridge, Samuel nodded and walked on, Horse and Bones kicked at each other, and the yellow buses still came in with their loads of solemn farm kids. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the execution, it may have been the reason his secondary school teacher made sure he had food, put a stop to the hazing, and assigned him to an easy job on the pig farm. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Peale couldn’t spare the boys on the farm for any schoolwork. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The combination of good soil, successful agriculture, and evidence of past Indian inhabitation was what had brought the scientists to the farm. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

That's what I was doing on the Cartwright farm up on the Panhandle. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After their father died, crushed beneath a plow with his insides strewn across a field like a trail of damp red blossoms, Jordie had sold the farm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She hailed from a small farm where she was often left to her own devices, save on those nights when the master needed company and she was forced to drink the cup of vice. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She spoke about one of the hives she kept over on the Haney farm, how it had up and swarmed. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is now. Mr. Reilly”—she points to a farm down the road—“who owns Crystal, or who did own her, gave Crystal to her.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can kill him the first thing tomorrow morning when he drives back from his farm. I’ve got the gun right here.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Such studies have concentrated especially on the world’s few surviving hunting-gathering peoples, and on farming peoples who still depend heavily on wild foods and natural products. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Being stuck on the farm—my brother and I knew a lot more about that than Lissa did. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She’d get money to save her farm, sure, but it would be blood money. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“No. It’s bad this time. I borrowed money from the wrong people. You know my father has a farm?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The meager harvests may be enough for subsistence but can rarely be brought to market because farm villages are often hours away on dirt roads from the nearest large town. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Competition for grazing land among tribes of herdsmen or for arable soil among farming communities? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

His farm lay in the river plain and was already alive with shoots of new corn. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

With his father temporarily away from the farm on business, it fell to son John to decide whether to take in not one but two men. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the rest of the day sweeping off the solar cell farm. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said it just as we came around the last stand of trees and stepped into the empty parking lot of the shuttered up farm stand, closed for the season. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

So we wanted to find a farm, preferably a big one, with a big barn and silos full of grain, near the mountains. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t head to our farm but went straight off to Uncle Henry and Aunt Mary’s place. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the farm hands finally got the chain unhooked from the crossbar, the bull’s head fell in the dirt, and blood oozed out of its mouth and nostrils.... Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tells me about the sustainable farms that are beginning to pop up in parts of the countryside. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

We watched her walk out to the farm truck with the dented door. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“I tell her to go to school here and work on the farm with me, but she has her own dreams,” he says. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

On the coffee farms, chickens were always busy hiding their young from hawks. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Anaheim was a small town in those days, surrounded by ranches and farms. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

When not concerning himself with railroad matters, he said, he led a quiet life on his farm. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She let herself in boldly at the kitchen door of the strange farm. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The white farms nearby grow some of the most amazing fruit—mangoes, lychees, the most beautiful bananas you’ve ever seen in your life. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

These Sabbath-day dances are the long custom among the plantations and farms of this Colony; but I have never seen the like. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Much of the land was scrappy dirt, too uneven and rocky to farm. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Other bones and fossilized footprints were found in the Connecticut River Valley of New England after a farm boy named Plinus Moody spied ancient tracks on a rock ledge at South Hadley, Massachusetts. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Across the river where lonely farms dotted the hills, whirlwinds and dust devils darkened the horizon. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve built the image in my mind of Cathy, sitting quietly waiting for her pregnancy to be over, living on a farm she did not like, with a man she did not love. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Aboriginal Australian substitute for food production has been termed “firestick farming.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The biggest was a drawing of the giant farm implement shed that Deere & Company was proposing to put up on the block where the old brickyard had been. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kahn sent me to visit a large organic farm operation called Greenways, in California’s Central Valley. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I was also about to find out how different an organic farm could be. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was fetching water from a brook near the farm when he met two other North Korean defectors. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The companies that run the farms expect this death rate and figure it into the cost of production. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I’d handled plenty of chicken guts on Joel’s farm, but this was different and more disturbing. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Some people speak of animal liberation, but what would liberation mean to the millions of cows and chickens on our farms? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The way Lola tells it, they had relatives who found them farm jobs out in the Central Valley; then during off-seasons they worked in restaurants and hotels and department stores—cleaning, fixing, serving. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Hendrik and Hanni named him General, but their aunt and uncle said the people they bought the farm from called him Mole. He lived in a culvert. I like the name Mole.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Corn feeds the catfish raised in a fish farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

That was a good thing for it seemed there was getting to be more work to be done on our farm too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Supermarket chains like Whole Foods or Wal- Mart are not set up to do business with dozens of small family-owned farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The farm owner knocked on my door and I invited him in. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she don’t care to stay out there on the farm with Son’s mama and raise chi’ren. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I point to our farm north of Prentisstown on the map. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In those days, the ironbam did not work mines; that was labor for the captives brought back from the hostings, and so too the sorry business of farming and tending goats and sheep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Delia and Juanita closed the gap in front of me and stood wielding their farming tools before them, ready for the next attack. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When I saw how crowded they were I realized that I was lucky not to have been raised on a farm: there was usually plenty of room in the tavern for me and Sam. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad would give me a corner of the farm, and my husband would put a house on it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Three hundred acres—there must be a ton of hiding places on this farm. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I had gone with Gram to read while she painted a landscape of Old Joe’s farm, and we’d been walking home through the fields. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He could not take all the others back into the farm, and he could not leave them alone. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's critical to the potato farm, and I'm the only source on Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me his story, a South African story that was all too familiar to me: The man grows up under apartheid, working on a farm, part of what’s essentially a slave labor force. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It has pushed other plants and animals off the American farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Matter of fact, if you asked me if it was a good thing having a bigger farm, I wouldn’t have known which way to answer. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Grandpa got older he ranched less and farmed more, until one day he stopped farming. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mudd, thirty-two years old, was a doctor living on a farm with his wife and family. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A village in China of fifteen hundred people might support itself entirely with 450 acres of land, which in the American Midwest would be the size of a typical family farm. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Good. And everything going all right on your farm?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had grown up together on a farm in Kansas and had both gone to college at Kansas State. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The author writes about the little singing frogs that I heard on Darma’s farm. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She was deep i n conversation with the farm women, but when I started to put my nickel on the counter, her palm was outstretched to take it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The farm flourished, and the widow Richardson gained a reputation as a hard bargainer, but one whose crop was always good, and who never sold shoddy for better merchandise. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Brooklyn girls. Act like you all never been off the farm.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

A second daughter, Polly, was born that year, and as his business took root Harry bought a stump farm—160 acres of recently logged land southwest of town. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

So I decided to go see some industrial organic farms for myself. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

At the farm, Dr. Mudd’s wife, Frances, rose early, called for her servants to prepare breakfast, and woke her husband. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to help my brother skin the minks at his mink farm this afternoon and I may fall behind a bit.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We used to raise them on our farm when Papa was alive. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the preacher helped with reading the papers, he showed Papa where to put his X. Our little farm had gotten bigger. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They also sent me on errands about the farm, or ordered me to sweep the floor or pick up trash. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

True, Rab had got the musket he craved, but Pumpkin wasn’t going to get his farm. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother had been looking for love, and instead she’d found T. Ray and the farm, and then me, and I had not been enough for her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now beet sugar set an example of modern farming that helped convince Russian nobles that it was time to free their millions of serfs. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Up on the farm, there was a little church for all the people that lived there. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another unlikely gift from the Valentine farm after all her prisons. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I really didn’t want to go anywhere near Ms. Griegson’s farm. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Settlers who came to what is currently known as North America wanted land for homes, farms, and businesses that they could not have in their home countries. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was Monday, the first day of the week I would spend on the farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Mudgett gouged his initials into an old elm tree at his grandfather’s farm, where the family marked his growth with notches in a doorjamb. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They were in sight now of Quaker Stevens’s farm. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Plans were already under way for a second wind farm in the county. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was Russell Dieter, an ex-Marine aircraft mechanic who had been working as a production welder and, since his divorce, living on the family farm, midstate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The forests were marching back, and where farm wagons once had been only the big logging trucks rumbled along. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would end up working on the farm as well. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And drives it around to other people’s farms? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

And I don’t know what questions to ask him about his world of farming and pasturing animals. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Valentine farm had taken glorious steps into the future, he said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The ones that can adapt use our farms and cities to spread and multiply. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And all because of the mushroom farms over in Pennsylvania. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

His house and farm he organized on a military basis. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Later, the grass had been cut to make hay that would feed the farm’s animals through the winter. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We went to every local farm and vendor and ordered all kinds of fresh ingredients. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Now, four months later, Booth was here at the farm again, though the doctor, standing in the darkness of his front yard, did not know it yet. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was an army of individuals! They walked off their farms and walked to the War!” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He told them the visitor was a relative from an outlying farm. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

While the initial construction of those “fish farms” must have involved a lot of work, they then fed many people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Where did you think I was going to go after? To a farm in Montana?” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Getting cows to eat a corn diet takes a heroic effort on the part of the factory farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

On a regular farm there may be cows, pigs, and chickens; fields of grain; orchards filled with fruit—many different kinds of foods to eat or sell. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Caesar and his family rode in the widow’s buggy to the farms of freemen, they visited relatives on estates for the Lord’s holidays and New Year’s Day. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Our people had lived off the land and counted on cotton-picking and hoeing and chopping seasons to bring in the cash needed to buy shoes, clothes, books and light farm equipment. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The magistrate followed, perfectly clean and looking incredibly irritated that he’d been disturbed and dragged to the farm. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

A Mr. Whymper, a solicitor living in Willingdon, had agreed to act as intermediary between Animal Farm and the outside world, and would visit the farm every Monday morning to receive his instructions. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

All these considerations make it clear that we should not suppose that the decision to adopt farming was made in a vacuum, as if the people had previously had no means to feed themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Initiated in the United States, the program was intended to stop the Viet Cong who infiltrated farming villages at night and forced villagers to side with the Communists. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At first I worried that they might belong to somebody, but then I remembered that the farm is ours, so these flowers must belong to us too. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Flayrah? But isn’t it rather late in the morning to raid a garden?” said Hazel, glancing at the distant roofs of the farm behind the trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I approach the farm, I slow down to study the situation I’m walking into. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought we were moving to a real farm, but it’s more like a big, boring garden. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

We was sent out on nights to catch some poultry from farms. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

We were in Cornish, a farming town twenty miles south of Buck’s Peak, when the station wagon drifted over the center line into the other lane, then left the highway. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They pass farms, spotted cows grazing in fields, red silos, white wooden churches, barns with rusted tin roofs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At first they pretended to laugh to scorn the idea of animals managing a farm for themselves. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

As they approached the farm Squealer, who had unaccountably been absent during the fighting, came skipping towards them, whisking his tail and beaming with satisfaction. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I would probably have dropped out for good, but it was just about this time that Papa decided to go back into farming and finally moved us out of Cabrillo Homes. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of what we eat is frozen or canned, because farms these days are far away. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

With the assassin’s trail in Maryland growing cold, the soldiers would soon leave and shift the action to other places far from Bryantown and his farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I were running a big house like the CIA,” Hoagland said to me once, “I’d breed agents by raising white kids in your standard Asian household. Discipline farms.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Maggots, and the Puddifoots of Stock, and most of the inhabitants of the Marish, were house-dwellers; and this farm was stoutly built of brick and had a high wall all round it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Earning big money in the crack gang wasn’t much more likely than the Wisconsin farm girl becoming a movie star or the high-school quarterback playing in the NFL. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t tasted an orange since the Christmas we moved to the farm in Goshen. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Many Iowa farms also grew wheat, plums, grapes, and pears. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was supposed to be Papa’s hunting dog, but from the moment I stepped out, he would follow me over the farm wherever I went. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my poor parish, most of what we used came from the farms roundabout. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

As he walked me over the farm, I started feeling better, i here wasn’t any work here that we didn’t have on our own farm. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Rit and Ben were now living forty miles to the north of Bucktown, in another county, but on a farm that belonged to Dr. Thompson. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, we are going back to the farm tomorrow morning. Would you like to see it? You are all welcome!” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Frightful circled the farm again but did not find the yellow hound. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Talking about farming is one of his greatest pleasures. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The direction of the nation was one matter; the future of the farm, another. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He visited her, offering some stories about his home on the horse farm, about Gladiola and Sweetheart and, later, Thunder. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

An important part of that last step took place right here on the farm, in an open-air shed out behind the Salatins’ house. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Charles was spending most of his money and all of his energy on the farm. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A little white chicken came out of the blackberry bushes out behind the barn on Great-Uncle Jim’s farm the other day. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The rising sun nudged above the horizon and colored the eastern sky, flooding the Garrett farm with light, which shone on Booth’s face. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning after our arrival at Thessicher’s farm, I took the stove and skied into town. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was twenty years old and six-foot-four, a big strong farm boy. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

His nephew, called Nephew since he was their only one, was assigned to drive Milkman out to the farm—as close as they could get. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

George told Marco about their farm and their trip and explained that any decent person living in New York had to be a Giants fan. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Tuesday, April 18, acting on what was now a stale tip, a cavalry officer decided to follow up on the information about the mysterious strangers who stopped by Mudd’s farm on assassination night. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much as the Industrial Revolution changed the environment for moths, farming changed the environment for plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But it was better farming methods I counted on to turn a profit. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

After this they went back to the farm buildings, where Snowball and Napoleon sent for a ladder which they caused to be set against the end wall of the big barn. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

To the young people who founded those first co-ops, the word organic meant more than a method of farming. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Whenever any creature broke loose on Zuckerman’s farm, the event was of great interest to the others. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

But on the hill, you could see beautiful things, like the peach orchards of the nearby farms, and the terra-cotta roofs of the town center in the distance. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Thanks to their wet-climate crops inherited from their West African homeland, the Bantu were able to farm in wet areas of East Africa unsuitable for all those previous occupants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had to get her attention away from that farm. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And of course, they might just enjoy spending a little time on a farm, chatting on the porch with the Salatins, and taking a beautiful drive in the country to get here. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They also noticed the roofs of a farm, but some distance off. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But from what he could tell, naps were frowned upon in the giant working farm of the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe if she told them about the bear—about how close her family’d come to moving to the poor farm. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

"It's all just fields and farms and holdfasts." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He also teaches mathematics up to geometry, which he says he never learned because that year was locusts and he was needed on the farm. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They were still the only farm in the whole county—in all England!—owned and operated by animals. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“I can’t just let it run wild. Trebon’s only about five miles from here. And there’s smaller farms closer than that. Think of the damage it would do.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Someday I’m go’n farm this land,” I bragged, gesturing in every direction. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, you’re doing whatever chores you do at a fake farm. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then why didn’t humans abandon farming when the plan backfired? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And though Finn was tall, his arms and legs ropey with farm muscle, the Rudes were wider and stronger, and there were about four and a half too many of them. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Should I explain that my father had sent me from Poland to work on a farm in East Prussia? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She was a welder, schoolteacher, riveter, farm worker, toxicologist’s assistant, and stenographer, all throughout the early and mid-1940s. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Back in my room on the peach farm, when the bees had first come out at night, I had imagined they were sent as a special plague for T. Ray. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They owned a farm up north and were never home. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

As for myself, I was treated as a man and not a boy; and the long hours I worked were really no worse than the hours I had worked on our farm. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Born in Switzerland, Fred had come to southwestern Montana as a teenager in the 1890s and proceeded to develop one of the first farms in the area. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t tell me she wants to come back to this farm. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She gave me a startled look like the hoot owl at the Amish farm, then backed off toward a shelf of Beanie Babies. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had lost a fight for a female Labrador on a farm down the mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

And the place they are fed is the American factory farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He never brings home the money he earns on farms.That money seems to be different from the dole, which is supposed to be brought home. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Well, certainly, I must have smelled like a tequila farm, since Dad had been breathing out the liquor in noisy respirations and I had kept the windows closed against the cold night air. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Corn has even pushed most of the people off the farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There was a slaughterhouse on the farm where fifty or so pigs were butchered twice a year, exclusively for guards and their families. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

At that time, a lot of colored were leaving the farms and moving to cities in the North. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Rantz farm, like countless others across the country, had so far barely managed to remain profitable. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I had heard tell that the sheriff ran with t he Klan at night when they would come through the colored section or out to the colored farms. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll ask him,” I said, “but you know how Papa is. The farm comes first with him.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She brought her family and the cow to start a farm, arriving in the spring. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Gruesome reports reached the farm concerning a posse that had strung up some colored troublemakers the previous night. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Only from farms and gardens were they ordered to keep clear. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin’s mother again fell to her knees at the meeting, as forty of her fellow farm workers followed the bowijidoworis lead and berated her for failing to fill her work quota. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

While Frightful was watching the young peregrines learn to hunt, Mole’s run-down farm had been sold. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The windows were dark, the Clutters asleep, and as for Teddy, the farm’s watchdog—well, Teddy was famously gun- shy. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bangladesh—not India—is where Baba was born, on that jute farm the Das family lost during the war. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Seemed to hit worse in town than out on the farms. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I shook my head, Julian said: “Are you talking about the baby chicks in science? Those get donated to a farm at the end of every school year.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer—except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Ophie had no idea what a farm had to do with moving the rocking chair across the floor, but she did as she was told. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Let’s see, there’s grain, the biggest export—a thrasher goes from farm to farm, and neighbors get together to bundle the shocks. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The talk was more likely to be about becoming a postman or working on a farm. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The rest of this land used to be farms or grazing pasture,” he continued, gesturing back at the expanse of white behind them. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The track to the Foresters' farm was bare mud, trodden into mire by the feet of horses and cows and sheep and dogs. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You told me you would be working at a mushroom farm, but I didn’t think you’d be doing this.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He looked over the farm buildings and across at the round hills, rich and yellow with grain. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I thought about it, finding the picture was not surprising; a great many farms, especially big ones, have their own gas pumps. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I had thought of the farm as just the hundred acres of pasture. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Most of the kids are from farms themselves and other rural homes and are learning to read and write at all ages. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

What did he do to get kicked out of this farm in the clouds? Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I wish he knew enough about farms to work at the feedstore. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Thus unburdened we made our way, asking directions a couple of times, not into the town but to an outlying farm. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

His grandma had been, raised on a farm in Virginia and had come to New York when she married his grandfather. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You went to a farm yesterday and escaped from a cat. And whatever you were up to, it was so much on your mind that you forgot to ask about Holly last night.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dense collections of villages thronged the bluffs that line the shore, with their people fishing in the river and farming the floodplains and sections of the uplands. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Free-range farming, as it is called, will make life much better for millions of animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then the countryside started and there were fields and cows and horses and a bridge and a farm and more houses and lots of little roads with cars on them. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to get back up to the farm and look at things again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One month later, on August 24, 1941, they arrived in Japan and went to the monastery, which was run by German monks, to start their jobs on the farm. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

A group were going Thursday night to a farm for a party, Elizabeth wrote. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Second, the trees keep the farm cooler in the summer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

On the Cascadian package there’s a picture of a pretty little farm—the original commune. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He became agitated when he saw riders moving past the farm’s front gate. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land of the llano was not good for farming, the good land was along the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

People on these farms and in the cities received the stories coming up from Georgia with mixed reactions. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The company was started in the 1980s by Drew and Myra Goodman, two farmers who started with exactly no farming experience. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

What can archaeology can tell us about actual dates and places for the rise of farming and herding in Africa? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A cultivator, a stripped tractor, a horsetrailer with no side panels and no tires, and other inoperative farm machinery lay about. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This farm was living and thriving today just 150 miles from Washington, D.C. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Khrushchev toured Washington, visited a farm in Iowa, and even watched a movie being filmed in Hollywood. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the last few years, Papa had made a lot of money from his farm. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In October Dad won a contract to build industrial granaries in Malad City, the dusty farm town on the other side of Buck’s Peak. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mealtime portions in the farm’s cafeteria were no larger than at the cement factory, the textile mill, or the mines. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The success of these hortatory campaigns has been mixed, at best, especially when it comes to the government’s highly unpopular efforts to lure city-bred people into back-breaking farm labor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Only later did domesticates derived from indigenous species of the Indian subcontinent, such as humped cattle and sesame, appear in Indus Valley farming communities. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the dairy farming, you know,” said Charlie over his shoulder. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It turns out there’s another food chain in America, one that looks very different from the industrial farms I had been visiting. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They cleared forests and drained swamps, creating land for farming and other useful purposes. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the farms the hens brooded, but no chicks hatched. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

None of Ob’s whirligigs were farm animals or cartoon characters. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

She said he was doing okay, that her dad was still waiting for a new kidney, but that her mom had hired some help at the farm. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Zuckermans were so busy with visitors they forgot about other things on the farm. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was absolutely necessary, he said, that the pigs, who were the brains of the farm, should have a quiet place to work in. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the road, all I could see were more farm fields; a line of telegraph poles led my eye over them into the far distance. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The clearest memories he had were of his time spent on a horse farm. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Paul and I came back to the Thibauts’ farm before the Nazi visitors left, and we waited—waited—waited for them to come out. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Some of us were busy surviving and couldn’t learn about subdivided farming.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Sean and Finn were raised in a farm town; they were no strangers to growing food. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We used to ride around on the dirt roads on their farm. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She could say they lived back in the hills with their momma and their momma couldn’t come in because she was working the farm. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw on the shores all of the farms where slumbered slave and master alike. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Because things were built to last back in the time when the Buttle farm was new. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“We have no chance. There is no money. My parent farm here, and we take over, but we have no chance to buy.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

All of our lives we have farmed—we can grow our own food. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This just didn’t fit my picture of what an organic farm should look like. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Johnny Abbes and his SIM were dragging young men off the streets, and farms, and from offices, like Herod the boy babies in all of Judea. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They live in a development just across the highway from the farm. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was a filet mignon farm, all of it, and the tissue spread for miles around the paths where we were walking. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most look young and all are thin and dark-skinned, like the peasant workers at our uncle’s farm, with greasy long hair flowing past their shoulders. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes teenagers come to the farm late at night. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The result was again the start of farming dependent on crops from elsewhere, a failure to domesticate local species, and a massive modern replacement of human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In Louisiana, farmers complained of loss in farm ponds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And in the same moment he remembered what Kehaar had said about a box full of rabbits at the farm. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps in that moment he remembered how his father had buried everything Japanese beneath the soil of his farm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But as corn took over the family farm, cows and other animals were pushed out. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I saw myself holding an AK-47 and walking through a coffee farm with a squad that consisted of many boys and a few adults. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Ugwu began to sing an old song he had learned on his father’s farm. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was younger than me, but on that farm everyone was my boss. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eastern U.S. farming became greatly intensified, and densely populated chiefdoms developed along the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It sometimes seems like grass farmers need to know personally every single blade of grass on their farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The soils in industrial farms are often lifeless. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I had to mail her letters to the farm since the post didn’t deliver to Hotstack and I had to trust that Mother wouldn’t open them. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I have property that does not have enough meadow to feed a horse, but I call it a horse farm.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In her view, monumental buildings implied a large resident population, but again there were plenty of anchovy bones and little evidence that locals farmed anything but cotton. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She would walk to Skid Row and stand in line with the hobos, the winos, the junkies, and the Mexicans until the farm buses came and the farmers picked out the workers they wanted. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The parade of famous visitors spreading the farm’s renown made the place into a symbol of colored uplift—and a target. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We were taken to a nearby banana farm, where we practiced stabbing the banana trees with bayonets. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was not as accomplished a speaker, but as a former slave spoke for a large segment of the farm. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The work of the farm had to go on. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the war young men from tenant farms all over the county flocked to Maycomb and erected matchbox wooden houses and started families. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There were still some farms here and there, but less and less of them, even as he watched. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bedlow walked straight through the room and out the door on the opposite side into a courtyard large enough, it seemed to Lyddie, for the whole of their mountain farm to fit inside. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Muslims worked out a new form of farming to handle sugar, which came to be called the sugar plantation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

On top of working every day, running a farm, and raising me and Jay all on her own, Mama had so much to do. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

No doubt they talked of nothing else, out in the kitchen, and on the estate too, in the lodge, on the farms. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“And so another farm would be perfect for you.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

If anyone on the farm knew what was to come, they gave no sign. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We ran out into the road, free at last from the farm and its rules. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Those kernels could come from dozens of different farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

How could the people who owned such rich farms, such beautiful furniture and gardens, modern bathrooms, and electricity to run refrigerators have ever needed to come take over the Soviet Union’s peasant huts? A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She flew up the river valley, spotted a rat moving along the side of a farm silo, and took it. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Of the thousands of species that our ancestors hunted and gathered, only a few were suitable candidates for farming and herding. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man realized that the animals on Salatin’s farm were not being treated like unfeeling raw material, but like living creatures. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I gradually adjust to life on the farm and let go of my dream of returning home. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the list were horses, because every farm needed working animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Every Saturday Mrs. E.C.B. walked three miles to town from her farm, which was called Cape Jessamine Copse. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I remember a story Joel told me about a man who showed up at the farm one morning. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Never before in human history had farms been run this way, as machines designed to satisfy just one craving of buyers who could be thousands of miles away. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He had meant—or so word at church had it—to build an elaborate bungalow of the sort his father had built years before on the family farm at Island Center. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Last spring, two catchers appeared with a warrant to search every house on the farm. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Even in the huge forest that stretched out behind their farm. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

That gave me a chance to compare the two types of farming side by side. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She also knew that her mother’s name did not appear on the deed for the family farm, even though she had provided the money for the down payment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They could best understand her, too, who was worshiped, not like other gods by the bloody sacrifices men liked, but in every humble act that made the farm fruitful. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In it lives a certain woman who works in the chicken farm. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Luna walked with her grandmother in the opposite direction, eventually the trees thinned and gave way to farms, and the farms gave way to towns, which gave way to more farms. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Back in California, when Papa wanted something really fresh for the restaurant, he sometimes took them with him to a farm, where he bought butter, milk, or meat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I begged at other jurtas as Mother had done on the beet farm. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Gold, for example, is too soft to be made into tools for farming or building. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hayward lived on a farm, always wore black rubber boots to class, often smelled of manure and probably wasn’t the most popular teacher in the staff room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He would spend the night with them and rejoin Booth tomorrow, April 25, at Garrett’s farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sign beside a stream offered fresh eggs for sale, and I drove up a farm road and bought some eggs and asked permission to camp beside the stream and offered to pay. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Accustomed to farming the Thanagost badlands, they weren’t the sort to sit idle, but helped out however they could. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Arthur was a flamboyant person and he gave the farm a buoyant atmosphere. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will join your father at the giant’s farm?” he asked. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the school year, Mott left the faculty to move to a farm in Maryland with her husband to raise chickens, and Volpe applied to be assistant drama director. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The earliest farming communities there in the seventh millennium B.C. utilized wheat, barley, and other crops that had been previously domesticated in the Fertile Crescent and that evidently spread to the Indus Valley through Iran. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My father only went up to the second grade because his father, my grandfather, needed help farming and taking care of the cattle. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There had been other places, remote villages like this one, houses, abandoned farms, even a fortified castle once. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

For instance, neither farming nor herding developed in prehistoric times in North America’s Arctic, while the sole element of food production to arise in Eurasia’s Arctic was reindeer herding. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Jones looked out of the bedroom window, saw what was happening, hurriedly flung a few possessions into a carpet bag, and slipped out of the farm by another way. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Not to the farm, but to the next best thing, sprinting over the bridge across the river, thinking halfway what a good target a bridge would be for a bomb. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

By the time he reaches the farm, he is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been the day before. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, Herb. The farm here, the people we’re working for— Hideo thinks we could do better. Maybe in Nebraska. But nothing’s settled. It’s just talk so far.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those are the fields behind the farm stand,” he added. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the twentieth century, because of football, the real smart people use these blacks just like they would on the farm. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about when Junior and I had visited Kabati and would take walks with our grandfather on paths around the coffee farms by the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine. I told Papa that we’re living on a farm. It’s actually very nice here.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

They had all the more reason for doing so because the news of their defeat had spread across the countryside and made the animals on the neighbouring farms more restive than ever. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I never knew green could be so beautiful—but then I’ve never had a farm of my own before. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’d heard that he was having trouble at our place—I will never call that farm anything else. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Carl Heine was a . . . successful fisherman. He owned a fine place on Mill Run Road. What did he want with your farm?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Papa Thibaut has got a delivery van of his own for the farm, but it and his driver are so carefully regulated that they don’t dare use them for Resistance activity. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Ged asked after they had gone some miles, seeing no sight of village or farm in any direction, and thinking that they had no food with them. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I waved and the farm kids waved back. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many modern dairy farms a milk cow usually lives for about five years before being slaughtered. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But most organic milk comes from factory farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“The bank forecloses on people’s farms and throws them off their land, and they don’t even appreciate it.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a rare farm in the Sheldon area that was blessed by the presence of a cat after the war on beetles was begun. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was a windless day in May when the Russians arrived at the farm. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ugwu felt stained and unworthy as he went about his new duties after the priests left—distributing garri, breaking up fights, supervising the scorched and failing farms. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ross Milton had driven up to the farm the day the letter came. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

We picked crab apples and wild blackberries and pawpaws during the summer and fall, and we swiped ears of corn from Old Man Wilson’s farm. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyhow, it’ll suit us. You stay outside the farm in a safe place and we’ll bring the rabbits out to you: then you can take over and get us all away.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Good Friends, the Buddhist aid group with informants in the North, reported in 2009 that one soldier on a state farm was stabbed with a sickle during a fight over corn. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

That was all, there was nothing more than that, they wanted their farm and the closeness at hand of the people they loved and the scent of strawberries outside their window. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

With the farm dead, that plan is history. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also had to watch our three chickens, who loved to wander away from our farm. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When court was over, they would take his father to a road camp or a quarry or a state farm. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing as strange, however, as the day that two visitors from Asgard, Loki and Thor, arrived at their farm in a chariot pulled by two huge goats, whom Thor called Snarler and Grinder. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The Africans who had worked in sugar quickly left the plantations and tried to farm or moved to nearby towns. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Jeremiah lived at home with Geoffrey and their mother and often helped on the farm, but it was well agreed that he didn’t like hard work. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the foreground is an open barn shed with a farm wagon inside. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Imagine an Iowa farm with corn, corn, corn as far as the eye can see, ten- foot stalks in perfect thirty-inch rows to the horizon. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

For their wanderings, Amanda and Roamer are planning to focus on the James Whitcomb Riley Museum and our local farm and history museum, which is right here in Bartlett and features an actual Egyptian mummy. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Once at the farm, I did not have time for rest and reflection because the following night we held a secret meeting for me to brief the Working Committee on my trip. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second hour was spent actually working with the farm animals— feeding, cleaning, fixing a fence, scraping up klunk. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Without him there would be no termites, no farms of the fungi that are cultivated by termites and will grow nowhere else, and no conversion of dead trees to loam. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, of course, we didn’t realize about the spring while we was still on the farm,” said Miles. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was another rise, and they came to a farm gate set between field boundaries, and Maddie leaned the motorbike against the stone wall so they could eat their sandwiches. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A farm of corn and soybeans doesn’t require nearly as much human labor as the old-fashioned farm full of different kinds of crops. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Since Jones had left the farm, until today, no animal had killed another animal. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She’d be willing to sell us the old farming tools, and we could easily resell them at a good price. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad lay on the kitchen floor cracking jokes about an ordinance that had recently passed in our little farming village. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Stop calling me Kate. I detest that nickname. And don’t lie to me. You’re going to sneak out tonight with that boy to visit the Spencers’ farm, and I’m going with you.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I watched him and said, “You must have lived on a farm or something.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

These may hamper the operation of farm machinery. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He went everywhere in the truck because he had so much to do from one end of the farm to the other. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I just moved to a farm, and I wanted to have chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Jenna’s father actually farms his land; he grows soybeans and the sweetest corn for miles around. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A painting of Grandmother hung over his bed, with a picture of the farm where he grew up beside it. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord, what was he to do if the farm got sold? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the mud, down the hill, away from this farm, away from my mom, away from everything and everyone. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

And when there was no planting, weeding, or harvesting to be done on the nearby farms, the number swelled to 260, bodies cramming the benches and overloaded desks. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got some new books on agriculture—farming, gardening, fertilizing, things like that—and we’re studying them. It’s part of the Plan.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

When the fever reached full fire, Kaz dreamed he had returned to the farm, and when he knocked on the door, he saw Dream Jordie and Dream Kaz already there, sitting at the kitchen table. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“It was so fast,” Ivy said, as her little farm disappeared behind a hill. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It’s the first thing I say to her after what happened at the farm. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“And when we arrive to Sagan,” she continues, “we’ll start over, like on a farm. There will be others around your age.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

With his dogs in attendance he set out and made a careful tour of inspection of the farm buildings, the other animals following at a respectful distance. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

"Look," I said, "I don't know what you're talking about. I've never lived on a farm and I didn't study agriculture, but I do know why I made that speech." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I figured Roger was going to run me over with a farm tractor or combine or grain truck or runaway pig. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

We found a shovel and pickax at an abandoned farm and spent just about every free minute digging a hole. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The farm that once stood there had burned long ago, but the vegetable pit remained. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

If my dad was opening a restaurant near Darma’s farm, maybe he’s there, running his business. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

As the cold settled over the llano and there was less to do on the farms and ranches, more and more of those kids came into school. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Joel, sustainable organic farming means using this free solar energy instead of fossil fuel energy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We could grow almost everything that we needed right on our farm. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After twenty years of hard work and ruthless manipulation of small farmers, Marshall Turner had become the emperor of truck farming in one of the most fertile agricultural areas of the state. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Danielle lives on a farm, so she had a big advantage. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

In front of the Littles, it didn’t seem that there was much else for us to say I was glad that Papa and I had already talked before we reached the farm. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she’d be on a farm, with other girls like her, protected by the sisters. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“But you must not run away. If you do, the Nazis will burn down the farm and feed us to the pigs.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Scattered throughout the ranch were old, rusty pieces of farm machinery. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Turned out that I never got back to the Coal farm too much more. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others reached his farm by horse and carriage along the road out front. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Abandoned, that was the word this farm said to her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

God told Dad to share the revelation with the people who lived and farmed in the shadow of Buck’s Peak. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As plantation farming expanded, particularly tobacco and cotton farming, demand increased greatly for both labor and land. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mudd then attempted to send the manhunters on a wild goose chase, claiming the strangers asked for directions to a farm to the west. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We climbed through a hole in the chain-link fence he had discovered that morning and ran into the iceberg- lettuce farm next to the apartment building. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

To stand in the farm equipment warehouse, surrounded by a million links of paper chain, piled to the ceiling, is an emotional experience that’s hard to describe. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

My Grass-Fed Meal A WEEK’S PAY Before I left the farm Friday, I gathered together the makings for that evening’s dinner. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

One of my greatest faults was that of letting his horse run away, and go down to his father-in-law’s farm, which was about five miles from St. Michael’s. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

The farm being worked by the Jews of the Przemyśl ghetto once belonged to a Jew. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

From now onwards Animal Farm would engage in trade with the neighbouring farms: not, of course, for any commercial purpose, but simply in order to obtain certain materials which were urgently necessary. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

When she was old enough she stopped working on the farm and got a job at a factory in a nearby town, She worked on a sewing machine making school uniforms. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, it looks like that, too. Florida’s a huge place. We’ll be living in an area that’s more like this one. There are still a lot of farms around.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember? We buy butter from friend who have farm. But sugar I have no memory of. I may have tasted sugar, but I have no memory of.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They sold the farm and picked up stakes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He ate his supper in silence as if his review of the farm had not gone well. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But work on the farm had to go on although armies faltered and leaders fell in disgrace. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pontellier himself had no particular leaning toward horse racing, and was even rather inclined to discourage it as a pastime, especially when he considered the fate of that bluegrass farm in Kentucky. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crossed the rolling hills of Norvos, past terraced farms and small villages where the townsfolk watched anxiously from atop white stucco walls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine, child. I can wait until we get to the farm. I seem to have contracted a summer grippe.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the towns erupted into being, quickened by the relentless American thirst, the black farm was there as a natural feature of the landscape, a mountain or a creek. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In particular he spoke of the backbreaking work he had to do on various white farms, and on chain gangs digging trenches and roads in the white people’s world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He takes the farm money to the pub and drinks it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“This is a respectable tavern, not the township poor farm.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Your dad got upset and left the farm life behind forever. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The man sold provisions, dry goods, and farming tools. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but I mean . . . past the farms. What are we guarding the city from?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

My playmates and I carved them and played war games in the coffee farms and unfinished buildings at my grandmother’s village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She was sixteen then, but the last time I was at the farm must have been years earlier. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tramped two miles to the next farm and, chastened by my unsuccessful first effort, tried a different approach. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had started working for the McCready farm in the summer, though. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained that he wasn’t their main milk supplier, but the bakery used only family-farmed milk and the grocery store still had a few customers like Ma Charles, who didn’t trust big dairy farms. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But my mom loved the walk along the narrow lanes of the farms. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

This just may be the grossest job on the farm—or anywhere else for that matter. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And some big ones as well: Would the farm boys be able to keep up with the intellectual side of the sport? The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

So the Sixers gave up on their barricade, but they continued to send avatars into the Tomb of Horrors to farm copies of the Copper Key. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She knew they'd spent most of their lives working on farms and ranches and hadn't had much schooling. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

But the quiet, the dull beiges and greens, the familiar farm chores, the complete lack of other people—this used to be my life; it used to be enough. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Annie looked up and down the empty road, to the patch of trees that had somehow survived the farms that bordered it on both sides. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

First, she had already told me about cycles, and second, we do live on a farm, and it’s not like the bulls are exactly private about what they do. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The farm,” said Hazel, “where’s the farm—near here, on a little hill?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Jones’s farm, the Cox boy told Jones his father wished to see him at once. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My brother can’t make you go. I own half of this farm. I have my own money.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The resulting western European farming societies domesticated the poppy, which subsequently spread eastward as a crop. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to the edge of the marsh near our farm, where Susie usually stopped, she kept walking with me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The most conspicuous such examples are the failure of both farming and herding to reach Native American California from the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He sees his farm as part of a local food economy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

For a farm boy, he was not a very good gardener. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Two children disappeared from the farm, a boy and a girl. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was one of the many small riverside farms operated by the descendants of Japanese immigrants. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The defendant had seen the sign on the barn and wanted to buy Ole’s farm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

From where we stood, we could see farms on the lower slopes of the mountain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a farm at the bottom of the gorge,” Bando says as I brush the dirt off my hands and sit down beside him. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had agreed to sponsor his nephew, giving him his own parcel to farm. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For now, it was too dangerous for Booth and Herold to remain at Cox’s farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they did not kill him on the spot at Mudd’s farm, then they would escort their captured prey back to Washington for a hanging. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We didn’t know how to farm on that scale,” Drew told me, “and we needed a lot more land—fast.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He studied medicine, but found it not to his liking and turned instead to farming, which he followed in a relaxed and scientific way on the family estate in Berwickshire. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’ve been listening out for Ben’s Noise over the farm and I’ve tracked him down to one corner of one of the wheat fields. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Soldiers came, dragged them off. A labor camp in Germany. Working for Hitler now, and the farm going to the devil.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I had fun at the Coal farm, but I remember many a day when we would be following behind Papa Coal’s plow putting kernels of corn in the rows. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has lots of woods but also castles and farms and steepled villages and winding river valleys—the whole, as it were, European package. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There Day admired old farm equipment and insisted that he wanted to see his wife’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“But Ma Charles, store milk comes from cows. At the dairy farm.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The daughters of Samuel Hamilton were not destined to become work-destroyed farm wives. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly afterwards the truck rattled down the farm road, then all was quiet again. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men of the farms along the river were men of the moon. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Calloway had escaped a provisional farm in upstate New York long before Magdalys was born, and she tried to be as nice to him as she could. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Since farming created the conditions for swift demographic growth, farmers could usually overcome foragers by sheer weight of numbers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a red, green, and yellow parrot that had been smuggled from Mexico by Don Pancho, an undocumented farm worker who was my father’s friend. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But we live on his farm now, and if I have to live on a farm, I think it ought to be an interesting one, with chickens and ducks and maybe some peacocks or something. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Then they’d all walked to the bank that held the funds from the sale of the farm and Jordie signed them over. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“He wasn’t ready to own a farm,” she continues. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Mom, I’m sorry about, you know, about saying that stuff at the farm.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Perhaps vegetarians and concerned meat eaters can at least agree on this: We have to work much harder to make sure that animals on farms are treated with respect. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

This grand Indian irrigation system near Pisco, a coastal town south of Lima, fell to developers’ bulldozers—the photograph dates from 1931. back from the coasts, which were now lined with farms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There’s a nasty stone raccoon statue at Chris Smith’s farm now, and I don’t have a good feeling about it. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

In the moonlight, the farms didn’t look so broken and worn out. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put miles behind her, put behind her the counterfeit sanctuaries and endless chains, the murder of Valentine farm. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As punishment, the Soviets wanted Germany to pay high reparations and to be forbidden to rebuild their factories and farms. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then Ellen’s voice was heard, timid and a little tremulous; farm women didn’t enter often into man-talk of politics or national affairs. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one had even suggested that Hazel might have been reckless in going to the farm. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The metal farm instruments hanging on the walls quaked. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

After the poetry the musicians were set to perform, some players who had just joined the farm. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Done that with lambs on me da’s farm,” he said, handing the boy back to Celia. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there are lots of small hills between our farm and town, so my legs were pretty tired when I got there. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Today he rode In my father’s car, His paws on the dash As he looked around At the road giving way To farms and countryside. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asra liked best to tell long meandering tales about his young days on a Commensal farm in the Kunderer Valley, that broad splendid plain I had driven through coming from the border to Mishnory. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

You could follow a sack from a farm in Iowa to the mill in Manhattan, where it was ground into meal, or to the dairy in Brooklyn, where it was fed to a cow. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Some farm that would give thirteen-year-old black boys space to sleep and food in return for clearing brush. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother would welcome her help around the manse and with the tutoring of the farm children in the parish Sunday School. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Also, some growers’ associations, threatened by the return of interned farmers, had been using the war as a way to foment hostile feelings in the major farming areas. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came from the fields and farms in the very clothes they used for plowing. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I was born, she actually picked cotton for a week at Longleaf, my own family’s farm. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Although she was assured that no farms would be sprayed, her property received two direct sprayings and, in addition, was twice subjected to drifting spray. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

On the road ahead, he can make out several acres of uncut hay and the gentle profiles of unlit farm buildings—a house and barn. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In addition to the collectivization of farms, the Five-Year Plans also aimed to industrialize the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The College owned farms and estates all over England. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

At gunpoint, Honeyman was brought to the farm that was Washington’s headquarters. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made a sketch of the farm on my road map, and put x’s where the hickories were. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look here,” answered Hazel, “have you got one of your bad turns about the farm? If you have, why not say so straight out? Then we’d all know where we were.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no hugs or smiles on the farm he sent me to in East Prussia. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The farm rabbits can’t be expected to go; and I’m not asking anyone who went the first time to go back again.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Adam thought of his stepmother—as unloved as the farm, adequate, clean in her way, but no more wife than the farm was a home. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Adam’s mother ran the farm, bore Adam, and still had time to embrace a primitive theosophy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After church, Booth rode home with the doctor and spent the night at his farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

More birds on a farm mean fewer insects. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

England was the first country in the world to shift from making most of its money in traditional places, such as farms, mines, or small shops, to factories. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But this war took place between people who were neighbors, whose homes adjoined, whose farms had common boundaries. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

This is what Joel means when he says the animals do the real work on his farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then people began abandoning farming communities in California’s Central Valley, when it became the Pacific Dust Bowl, overcrowding the already overcrowded cities, like the big cats abandoning the dry hills. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They had always kept more to the back part of the farm, away from the cabin and the barn, where people were. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then his dad tried to get him to come back to the farm. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Everyone who lived and worked on the farm was in attendance, as well as the families from the neighboring colored farms. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I had a sudden, terror-stricken thought he might that second drag me out to his truck and hightail it straight back to the peach farm, where I would never be heard from again. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people say we farm people get used to animals being hurt or killed, but that's just not true. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jang was also given a coveted job on a nearby farm, where there were opportunities to steal corn, rice, and green vegetables. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“They need some way of getting food from the farms at the bottom of the mountain to the city at the top. So they built these trams. They even carry passengers.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I lingered on in my office at my parents’ Mansfield, Texas, farm. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Corcorans have delusions of grandeur. The problem is, they lack the money to back them up. No doubt they think it very aristocratic and grand, farming their sons off on other people.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I had been on the farm for three years. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Shirls Avenue, my grandparents’ street, apparently turned into a dirt road just before plunging down a steep hill to their house and farm. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people--his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Booth had sent liquor and supplies to Mudd’s farm for hiding until the day came for Booth and his kidnap victim to flee the city, but it never did. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man is Polish, smoking cigarettes, with a pink nose and his collar turned up around his ears, his gun leaning against the farm gate. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

To meet the demands of their customers, Greenways has to farm on an industrial scale. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Dad kinda laughing cause whatever, farm life, you know? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The footpaths we followed spent a lot of time in the woods but also emerged at obliging intervals to take us along sunny back roads and over stiles and through farm fields and hamlets. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Others found themselves at the mercy of Nazi officials, farm owners, and farm superintendents. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had talked of August and the farm. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She and Royal were about to return to the farm when a gust swept out of the tunnel’s murky depths. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The first time Mama ran away with him, her brothers came looking for her, brought her back to the family farm, and locked her in a second-story room. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was to be the name of the farm from now onwards. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

With no more to say between a devout farm girl and a mine sweeper, we folded our sheets and our different-colored habits. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police searched the entire farm and confiscated hundreds of documents and papers, though they found no weapons. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were many mango, orange, and guava trees in the village, and it looked as if it had been a farm. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I’m telling her what every boy in Prentisstown knows, the history even the dumbest farm boy like yours truly knows by heart. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The silence is broken when I push myself out of the car, past Darma, and stomp down the hill through the mud toward the farm gate. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He told Nate about his life on the farm, how he’d loved being with his parents but had nearly gone crazy with boredom. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Do you laugh at my little farm reports? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ray Veech ran the garage when his dad was farming, and I thought I had some business with him. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Almost bought a farm there. Would have been a stupid mistake. Then a friend in Boston forwarded me Weylin’s letter. Home at last, I thought, and you...” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had just brought his latest cargo to the Valentine farm, a family of three who’d been hiding out in New Jersey. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The set was styled after a New England farmhouse, with mock Shaker furniture and antique farm equipment, pitchforks and so forth, hanging from the clapboard backdrop. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They sprayed truck gardens and dairy farms, fish ponds and salt marshes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Its swaths of deep brush and arable land made it great for farming but less appealing for honeymoons and hedonism. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In the back was a little landfill—a skirt of garbage that flowed down halfway to the nearest farm. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You have city hands and a weak back. You wouldn’t last a week on the farm.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sacks, and the names of the farms, had to go. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

At two o’clock in the morning, at a handsome whitewashed farm three hundred yards off the main road, they finally come to a halt. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

All the fourth- and fifth- grade classes got to go to the Amish farm for a field trip. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are told that the enormous and expanding use of pesticides is necessary to maintain farm production. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was a lousy job, but twice a day, someone at the farm had to do the culling. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He told her that the Poles were sent to other farms or resettled in the southeastern portion of Poland. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps some thieves were stealing livestock from the nearby farm, they said, explaining away the distant sound of gunshots. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The land smelled of fertilizer and livestock from a nearby farm. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I never thought about the farms and businesses the restaurant bought supplies from and the people who owned those businesses. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t the tough sort, just a farm girl who needed a job. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

People on farm horses and mules; babies riding astride of brothers’ and sisters’ backs. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Wherever we went on that farm, their dog, Roof, would follow us around. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They settled in the rich farm country around Spokane, in eastern Washington. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I already stressed the difficulties posed by Australia’s climate and soils, its most productive or fertile areas can nevertheless support European farming. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And he said suddenly, seeing Wang Lung near him, “And I had one woman and my father had one woman and we farmed the land.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“In the meantime, let’s find your mysterious Master Ash. I’d love to ask him a few questions about what he saw back at the Mauthen farm.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He ordered Booth and Herold to leave his farm at once. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Native peoples had created town sites, farms, monumental earthworks, and networks of roads, and they had devised a wide variety of governments, some as complex as any in the modern world. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even back on the farm, long before she knew her heart, it was good to watch him run. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The $1.60 a day I was paying for my steer’s meal may seem cheap—but it doesn’t include all the costs of the industrial farm, not by a long shot. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

My father spent two months doing hard labour on a white man’s potato farm for his pass crimes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a suburban prairie, an expanse of flat terrain once farmed for potatoes before it was planted with house upon house and little else. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Beyond the farms, palm trees waved their fronds with the moving wind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“First it was a farm. And then a warehouse for goods being shipped down the river. A school wasn’t built until the early nineteen hundreds.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He and the missus live on a large farm way out in the Indiana countryside. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I saw a few sheep on one farm, but they weren’t doing anything interesting, just chewing grass. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Cripe didn’t ring up a stilt after the farm women left, so they may have come in just for the toothpicks. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The farm was nowhere near as gruesome as it could have been. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, I didn’t even ask if you were a neighbor—but of course you must be. Which farm is yours?” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

There were many acres of farm and woodland, and a number of cottages for the staff. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

From Dr. Mel I learned more than any beef eater might want to know about the life of the factory farm steer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Dr. Xuma had a surgery at his home in addition to a small farm. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farm wagon stood outside; the patient oxen, oblivious to how comically out of place they looked on a city street, chewed their cuds contentedly. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The police car rumbled off down the lane, away from our farm, and toward the rest of town. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plantation is an outdated term she likes to use to gloss up the farm, while the “orchard” is a barren apple tree. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The farm was located up in the hills, away from the river, about a half hour’s walk from Shin’s former school and the house where he had lived with his mother. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

As Z drove Sairy and Dallas away from the farm and down the bumpy road, he felt jittery. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

More intensive farming might produce the requisite surplus, but cannot be sustained; the plowed land, exposed to the elements, is destroyed in as little as a decade. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

So even if it was better than farming, it wasn’t all that much fun. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not all agricultural societies were this cruel to their farm animals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s cold and it’s long dead and here’s another place on New World that never made it to subdivided farming. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A quiet, remote, very beautiful farming valley that had not changed a great deal in 200 years was lost forever. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A second theory, unappealing to those Japanese who prefer the first theory, argues instead that the Yayoi transition represents a massive influx of immigrants from Korea, carrying Korean farming practices, culture, and genes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fiona led them to the barn, which held two wagons, three horses, and numerous pieces of farm equipment. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cop grabbed the farm boy by the shirt collar and marched him from the yard. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Our family continues to live as before, with the men working on the farm and the girls selling food in the market. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would either solve the argument of Harvard versus farm or make it much, much worse. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She was the wife of a tenant farmer; the farm, an especially windswept and lonesome one, was halfway between Garden City and Holcomb. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Maya, packed by the millions into land poorly suited to intensive farming, were dangerously close to surpassing the capacity of their ecosystems. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We ran and didn’t stop until we got back to the edge of our farm. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was thinking of a farm, to make money. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Meggie had only the ginger cat who sometimes came visiting when it couldn't be bothered to compete with the dogs on the farm next door. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Is he feeling out of sorts? Is he anxious? Does he want to be the main course at the crocodile farm? Find my children if you want to see the sun rise!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were careful about her movements, and she would be picked up by one driver, dropped off at another place, and then picked up by a second driver before finally being delivered to the farm. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we come to the bend in the road where the church is, we break into a run, sprinting past the orchard and the farm fields until we come to Briar Hollow Lane. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

This would discourage him, and he would go about the farm doing something else. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Or they might be showing someone how to get to a farm where a fellow had a mule for sale or some such thing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only spent one night of Hanukkah with the Diamants, since usually I’d gone back to the farm for Advent and Christmas by then. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

That summer the farm outside the fence gradually shut down. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In place of petrochemical fertilizers, Greenways’s organic acres are fed with compost from a nearby horse farm and by poultry manure. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“No, no, she’s not dead. Don’t think that for a minute. Last I saw her, she was recovered from the fever and bent on following you to the farm.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That warm-in-the-heart feeling I hadn’t known since we left the farm and I had to say good-bye to Benny Saddler who lived down the road. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Royal took her to the ghost tunnel after a month on the farm. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone fled to his own sleeping-place.The birds jumped on to their perches, the animals settled down in the straw, and the whole farm was asleep in a moment. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The chefs had high praise for the quality of Polyface products, and clearly felt good about supporting a local farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And of course it means that billions of animals are doomed to live out their lives on factory farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And he said, “‘He’s a rural guy and grew up on a farm. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There's always a temp agency or consulting firm that can farm out someone, but it's hit or miss with temp hires, who typically don't really care. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The farm had had a fairly successful year, but was still short of money. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He invented and built a threshing machine and moved through the bottom farms in harvest time, threshing the grain his own farm would not raise. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Cartwright farm grew a lot of cotton: hundreds, maybe a thousand acres. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farm as Cora discovered it originated one winter night after a blur of slow, heavy snow. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Every human being held it as an article of faith that the farm would go bankrupt sooner or later, and, above all, that the windmill would be a failure. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

On the industrial farm, it takes about ten calories of fossil fuel energy to produce one calorie of food energy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I remember his Noise from back on the farm, about my birthday, about how a boy becomes a man. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

We parked among a motley collection of farm wagons and gigs and dogcarts pulled up higgledy-piggledy on the grassy field adjoining the many tents. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We passed farms and villages, lone dogs crying out at our vast column. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z