| 单词 | farmer |
| 例句 | Chamberlain knew one to speak to: a silent roundheaded man with a white wife, a farmer, living far out of town, without fhends. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It has even managed to push a lot of farmers off the farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Mabel was fourteen when Grayson arrived on the southern half, sold down south by a drunken indigo farmer in North Carolina. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z After he killed the farmer’s daughter, said the monster, the prince lay down next to her and returned to sleep. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Then she cried out with spirit, “A farmer’s wife am I not, be you what you like!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The farmers then waged war against the foxes. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z They grew quickly and could be harvested within a few months of sowing, a big advantage for incipient farmers still on the borderline between nomadic hunters and settled villagers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The average farmer grew enough food to feed twelve other Americans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z 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 There was a coastal farmer, he tells us, whose islands suffered under a nuisance of foxes—so he set up a fox-trap on one of them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face first got mad but then when the farmer put me down on my feet and I fell over to one side because of the pain in my ankle she got all worried again. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z White and his men tried to track down some of the witnesses outside the hotel, including an elderly farmer who had been questioned earlier by an agent. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The farmer can take any surplus to market and sell or trade it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When police visited the farm, the farmer told Shin to pretend to be a mute. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The train passes through green leafy forests filled with oaks, past farmers’ fields of wheat and oats. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A farmer would just appear in the doorway and yell, “I need two boys to help with the cows,” and they’d be out the door in a flash. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Ten days later, the poor farmer noticed a strange white flower growing from her grave. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Not just geologists, paleontologists, and ornithologists, but also farmers, breeders, and his hairdresser. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She was the daughter of two farmers; she was an older sister to Suri. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Every farmer I knew was dosing liberally with bicarbonate of soda to ease the same pain in their own stomachs. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Out in the Midwest the railroads were intact and carried the farmers’ grain and stock to market; trade was good, and prices high. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z They wanted to make sure there would never again be more people than the farmers could feed. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The survival of a farmer depends on the cooperation of others in the community. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z A lot of his accounting clients were farmers too. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The sheriff asked that as an act of goodwill these farmers turn in such dangerous items to his office in Amity Harbor. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z In East Africa they still had to compete against numerous Nilo-Saharan and Afroasiatic Iron Age farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He is a skilled carpenter, builder, and farmer. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Before World War II, the Japanese who occupied the Korean Peninsula and northeast China pushed tens of thousands of Korean farmers across the border to weaken China’s hold on the region. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z One of the bloodsuckers who exploited the farmers! Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Who were these common resentful farmers to dispute his royal right? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Early farmers would have discovered by trial and error that they could obtain higher yields by tilling and watering the soil and then sowing seeds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And it’s a hick town, I suppose, filled with farmers and rednecks and racist cops who stop eveiy Indian that drives through. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z To continue a supply of animal milk, a farmer needs to have calves, kids or lambs for suckling, but must prevent them from monopolising the milk. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He could impersonate anybody—from a British general to a drunken farmer. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z This is how it worked: In times when prices were low, the government gave farmers loans so they could store, rather than have to sell, their crops. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It is blasphemy to scatter a man’s blood on unholy ground, the farmers chanted. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Out in the corridor, Flatnose was just boasting of the way he had poisoned a farmer’s stocks of olive oil. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Instead of a lush pasture, the farmer soon has a field full of brown bald spots and plants that cows won’t touch. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She wanted a priest to watch over the farmers of the valley; he wanted a son to travel with him to the vineyards of California. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z After driving on mountain roads for two hours, the farmer dropped Shin off at a friend’s cattle ranch. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The Overlord of The Castle of Forest Sauvage was more than a farmer. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The commission asked farmers for ten thousand sandbag sacks—gunny, feed, or flour. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z This farmer, a widower named Karl Maynard whose son and daughter were grown, gave him chores to do, but also sent him to school. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The forest clearings made by African farmers also provide ideal breeding habitats for malaria-transmitting mosquitoes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I am told that you spend your days in the country with a common boy, that you dress like some farmer's daughter.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z How did the farmers win out over the famous warriors? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The peril of irrigation for farmers is evaporation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He was a farmer of small means in a modest house. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The farmer in Wang Lung was diverted for an instant and he stooped to examine the budding heads. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Soon, the only way for a farmer to compete was to buy hybrid seed every year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Villages filled with children and old people, midday meals to break up the workday, churches, graveyards, farmers selling crops, town halls with birth records, death notices. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The farmer who saw him from time to time called him Mole. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A teacher had donated his bicycle to the soldiers, cobblers were making soldiers’ boots for free, and farmers were giving away yams. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A farmer from down the way was out and gave me a ride in his wagon. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Like all depot agents, Mr. Tuttle was cow coroner for the railroad, so I guessed right off that this was the farmer whose cow and mule got killed yesterday. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The man who had pinched her was a plump middle-aged farmer called Arnold Hemsley, whose dæmon was a ferret. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I offered my services to farmers for food and a bed of straw in the barn. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z ‘Let’s sew our droppings into the skin and prop it up outside the farmer’s hut.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In Europe and Asia, farmers try to avoid stressing the soil by rotating crops; they may plant wheat one year, legumes the next, and let the field lie fallow in the year following. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The free Negroes, the Quakers, the Methodists, the German farmers, who helped runaway slaves in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, started using phrases and words suited to the idea of a railroad. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “If a lot of refugees come, we won’t be able to feed everyone this winter,” another farmer was saying. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Hence if a productive crop is already available, incipient farmers will surely proceed to grow it rather than start all over again by gathering its not yet so useful wild relative and redomesticating it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His only hand was soft and smooth, not like the rough, red, calloused hands of farmers. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The prince and the farmer's daughter held each other close in the growing dawn. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z In a one-on-one fight, a naked farmer would have no advantage over a naked hunter-gatherer. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If Shin worked hard, the farmer told him, he would be generously compensated. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Through the window, I could see Kilvin waving his arms like a farmer shooing crows. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z With little soil wealth to extract, she said, Amazonian farmers face inherent ecological limitations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Ah, yes, I forgot for the moment—a small affair—you have come for the slave called O-lan. I remember we promised her to some farmer in marriage. You are that farmer?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z They had ordered a fresh turkey in advance from the farmers’ market, planned the menu out of Food & Wine, bought folding chairs so that everyone would have a place to sit. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The farmer himself opened his door to us, a stocky soft-spoken man of about Estraven’s age. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Its owner, Mr. Pilkington, was an easy-going gentleman farmer who spent most of his time in fishing or hunting according to the season. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z So it was natural that farmers would need to know how to repair them. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “Thought you said the old man was coming,” the farmer said as he tied down the valise. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some trucks carried hay bales which farmers dumped into dusty corrals or into minuscule overgrazed plots for horses and sheep. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, farming spread mainly through farmers’ outbreeding hunters, developing more potent technology, and then killing the hunters or driving them off of all lands suitable for agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As a result, one acre can feed many more herders and farmers—typically, 10 to 100 times more—than hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In November, he paid eighteen pence to a Uruguayan farmer for a piece of a colossal skull of yet another extinct mammal—the rhinolike Toxodon, with giant squirrel teeth—that had once roamed the plains. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Instead of completely burning organic matter to ash, ancient farmers burned it incompletely to make charcoal, then stirred the charcoal into the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Furthermore, only about one-third of its area falls within the sub-Saharan zone north of the equator that was occupied by farmers and herders before 1000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Don’t you ever worry that kids might not grow up to be farmers anymore, or that even if they do, they won’t buy your special chickens because you won’t even write back? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z They say he rode his horse in top hat and tails—he was a gentleman farmer. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Economic specialization is more extreme, to the point where today not even farmers remain self-sufficient. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But curious or hungry children of early farmers, nibbling wild plants around them, would eventually have sampled and noticed those nonbitter almond trees. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z 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 There is a growing trend toward aerial applications of such deadly poisons as parathion to “control” concentrations of birds distasteful to farmers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was here the men had stood; here upon this Green they had formed a thin pathetic fine, a handful of farmers to resist the march of seven hundred British regulars. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It is important to remember that the vast majority of people in the Middle Ages were farmers with a limited amount of land. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z To bring up all those differences isn’t to claim that widely distributed crops are admirable, or that they testify to the superior ingenuity of early Eurasian farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I took a few more photographs, waved at the farmers, then turned and moved back to the jeep. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama looked like a farmer seeing his barn burst into flames. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps he was vegan and distrusted large corporations and shopped only at farmers’ markets and brought his own organic juice from home. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z A favorite farmer expression in these parts is “Next year it will be better. ” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z In the social hierarchy of California’s farmers, orange growers stood at the very top; their homes were set amid fragrant evergreen trees that produced a lucrative income. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z As farmers produce more corn, the price falls even more! The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z After the farmer shot them, Shin lugged their carcasses out of the woods for slaughter and commercial sale. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z To be exact— instead of the government buying all the extra corn, or loaning farmers money so they could store it, it just paid farmers part of the cost of growing it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z T then teaches Verse 2, “Here’s the farmer…,” line by line. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Of course the apples are there—a farmer planted them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A windmill swung its giant arms in slow obedience to the wind and a farmer passed them carrying a sack of grain to be ground. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “Fool farmers think they can make a go of it out here.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z They had sheep in Oklahoma and sheep farmers. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z White tented booths for a farmers’ market lined the sidewalk in front and wrapped around the corner. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Salt tears rose from the wells of longing in both men, and cries burst from both as keen and fluttering as those of the great taloned hawk, whose nestlings farmers take before they fly. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There were cattle ranchers and dairy farmers, too. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Were those first Jordan Valley farmers botanical ignoramuses who didn’t know what they were doing? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If the farmer scrupulously follows the instructions on the labels, his use of agricultural chemicals will produce no residues larger than are permitted by the Food and Drug Administration. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z So far, we have been discussing transformations of wild plants into crops as a result of selection by farmers, consciously or unconsciously. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Like Old Charlie Valentine, Finn wished he could turn back the days as easily as a farmer turning a page in an almanac. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z When the slave completed the work, he asked the farmer to keep his end of the bargain. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Despite a traumatic childhood and a mother who wanted him to become a farmer, Newton enrolled in Cambridge in the 1660s—and flourished. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And if there was very much anger in him he cursed my mother because she was the daughter of farmers, and it was she who kept him shackled to one piece of land. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A freakish, freestanding, 115-foot-high stalagmite-type rock that, according to the literature, sat in an otherwise completely flat farmer’s field not far from the Red Carpet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “My mother wants me to become a farmer, or a priest,” I said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She worked in a large house—a mansion—outside Danville, for a family of what was then called gentlemen farmers. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The much heavier consequence was that the Dutch settlers in 1652 had to contend only with a sparse population of Khoisan herders, not with a dense population of steel-equipped Bantu farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For example, chickpeas are widely grown by traditional farmers from the Mediterranean and Ethiopia east to India, with the latter country accounting for 80 percent of the world’s chickpea production today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Bigger tractors and machines, chemical weed killers, and artificial fertilizer made it easier for one farmer to handle more acres. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He was just trying to get them away from the prying eyes of guards and farmers. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I had always thought farmers were sober men. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We left the farmer to ponder his slain sheep and went back to town, plodding across wet hills in the slate-gray dusk. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He wore the same kind of brown shirt and trousers any farmer around Redding wore, and he spoke pretty good English. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A small farmer before the war, and twice a widower, Duke was always on the edge of ruin, scratching a living from the lean soil of the northern Piedmont. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Catholic farmers. From Bircza. Not too high, and not too low.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The news of the wonderful pig spread clear up into the hills, and farmers came rattling down in buggies and buckboards, to stand hour after hour at Wilbur’s pen admiring the miraculous animal. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Then farmers use artificial fertilizer, which at best is expensive, and at worst may inflict longterm damage on the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Huge furrows of exposed earth and rock were dug everywhere, as if some giant farmer had gone raving mad while plowing his field. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The farmers loved her bees, thanks to all the pollinating they did, how they made the watermelons redder and the cucumbers bigger. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In retrospect, it is odd how little power the dead farmer exercised over an imagination as morbid and hysterical as my own. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z In the old country, they had toiled as tenant farmers under the oppressive control of their English landlords. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z His father, a farmer, had died two months earlier. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The rest of Sumner isn’t much more than a few streets lined with the small houses of townspeople and retired farmers. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z What was unique about Alex is that this farmer sold plots of land to some of the black tenants in the time before it was illegal for blacks to own property. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The farmer snapped his fingers and the dog returned to his side. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Now the farmers began to hand out free food; Chamberlain smelled fresh bread baking. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “It creates an awful stench, yes, but no one dies from a bad smell. If they did, every farmer spreading manure would be long dead and us city-dwellers all hungry!” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Manny, the farmer we bought our fruits and vegetables from, held my mom for, like, ten minutes. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z After letting freezing night temperatures break down the tubers’ cell walls, Andean farmers stomped out the water content to make dried chuho, a nigh-indestructible foodstuff that could be stored for years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Yet at so fearful a risk the farmers, with none to hinder them, waged their needless war on blackbirds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Europeans had been farmers before; they would be farmers again. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But potato farmers aren't in a desperate race for survival like I am. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I had read so much about the loneliness of the farmer, the trapper, the woodsman during the bleakness of winter that I had come to believe it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just like the farmer who trained his horse to eat less and less,” said Gitl. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Not one shot had been fired and it was all too late when the alarm had been spread and thousands of armed farmers had arrived. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But most farmers, completely baffled by the complexity of a conservancy district, did not know what to do. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides the farm store, Joel sells Polyface meat and eggs at farmers markets in the Washington, D.C., area. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z My father told my mom that Bijan was a great Persian knight tasked with helping farmers whose crops were being attacked by wild boars. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z 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 They were either farmers who were secretly Viet Cong, or they were members of one of the small mountain tribes fighting alongside the Communists. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z What use can would-be farmers make of a ton of wheat grains on the stalk, if they have not first figured out how to harvest, husk, and store them? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They were custom made and there beside the cheap tan brogues of the farmer they had the elegantly slender well-bred appearance of fine gloves. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Few Karhiders, even the fishermen and farmers with whom I had spent my first months, had been willing to satisfy their curiosity—which was often intense—by simply asking. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z One of my stays had been with a second cousin dairy farmer. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Papa said, “Your granddaddy’s just fresh out of hope, son, like most farmers in Georgia these days.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They were content to be farmers and cattle raisers. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But the staff was probably dead or gone, and the village farmers were definitely dead or gone, so there would be no more food My hunger was getting sharp. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z All the farmers far and near knew it and protected it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, Mom and I headed to the farmers market, which we did most weekends during the summer. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “Few farmers dare come into town. They charge exorbitant prices for their wares, and get whatever they ask,” he said bitterly. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Was the fever really keeping the farmers away? Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a farmer’s wagon in the door- yard. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you take my harvest so that my children had to eat grass ?” a weeping farmer asked. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z George Naylor finds himself in the same trap as all the other corn and soybean farmers in America. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The failure of the Khoisan and Pygmies to develop agriculture was due not to any inadequacy of theirs as farmers but merely to the accident that southern Africa’s wild plants were mostly unsuitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All over the country, farmers were leaving behind their parched lands, selling off their goods, roaming from village to village looking for water. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The village inhabitants were all farmers, so I had no way to escape this fate. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z And of course, one thing the successful farmers did was plant more corn, helping maize to build its kingdom. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z As the farmer gazed at her face, it was as if a glamour slowly fell away from it, and he recognized her as his sweetheart, Grace, who was believed to be dead. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Frisby, the head of a family of field mice, lived in an underground house in the vegetable garden of a farmer named Mr. Fitzgibbon. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z On Sunday the farmer and his wife went to church and Quentin went upstairs, found a set of car keys, and took off in a pickup truck. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Finally I found the good sense to ask an old farmer to point me in the right direction. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Peasants thus had to work periodically for the empire as farmers, herders, weavers, masons, artisans, miners, or soldiers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “It weren’t the American,” said the farmer who had Worm. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Nothing stirs: no farmer materializes in a window with a rifle. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Sam stirred in his chair, and looked at the farmer with an unfriendly eye. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z To understand the answer to this paradox, we have to remember that, until 400 B.C., the frontier of Tsushima Strait separated not rich farmers from poor hunter-gatherers but poor farmers from rich hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Declaring the pig nearly done, Schiem brought out a round farmer’s loaf and shared it three ways. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z However, prehistoric South American farmers instead grew the related cotton Gossypium barbadense. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In southern Indiana, for example, a group of farmers went together in the summer of 1959 to engage a spray plane to treat an area of river bottomland with parathion. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As soon as this happened, they cheerfully abandoned the gruelling, dangerous, and often spartan life of hunter-gatherers, settling down to enjoy the pleasant, satiated life of farmers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Bailey played mumbledypeg with the older boys around the chinaberry tree, and Momma and Uncle Willie listened to the farmers’ latest news of the country. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In their subsistence modes, Polynesians ranged from the hunter-gatherers of the Chathams, through slash-and-burn farmers, to practitioners of intensive food production living at some of the highest population densities of any human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “But there may be pretty good guessing. He will be a completely gross, vulgar farmer, totally inattentive to appearances, and thinking of nothing but profit and loss.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z At first the poor farmer was afraid that his wife had turned into some poisonous flower. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Early human beings emerged from caves to become herdsmen and farmers, and, with a now secure food supply, they began crafting the first monumental “sculpture.” The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z The farmer, along with his wife and children, lived in a one-story stone house on the farm. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z When farmers or loggers clear the tree cover, droplets shoot at the ground with more than twice as much force. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z "An' ain't a farmer's wife in the house," the voice called through the titters of bitter laughter. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z People can’t eat grass, and he doesn’t sell any of his hay to other farmers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He gets the orders from customers, tells the farmers what he needs, and they arrive with their trucks at Polyface at dawn on Thursday. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Two farmers, whose landholdings were small when compared to the great areas controlled by some of the Virginia slaveholders, were outspoken in their criticism of the institution of slavery. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Kuboyama, the farmer had been a healthy man, gleaning his living from the land as Kuboyama had taken his from the sea. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Conor watched as the young prince rose and looked down at the sleeping farmer’s daughter, who even Conor could see was a beauty. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z In a dream, he sees a bright crystalline night with the canals all frozen and the lanterns of the miners’ houses burning and the farmers skating between the fields. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z That alone would kill the enthusiasm of any would-be acorn farmer who had defeated the squirrels and remained patient. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All the men were farmers or fishermen; there were no other jobs. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z Another farmer “raises hogs and for fully nine months after the broadcast of poisons, he could raise no young pigs. The litters were born dead or they died after birth.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The farmer gestured to the back of the wagon. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Archaeologists have demonstrated that the first farmers in many areas were smaller and less well nourished, suffered from more serious diseases, and died on the average at a younger age than the hunter-gatherers they replaced. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Your father and I, we used to be very close. He was a great farmer,” Sergio says. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z A poor farmer who tills the nuns’ field, his three hollow-eyed children, and a guest, a traveling scholar, round out the company. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Or farmers leading mules hauling peanut crops on a wagon. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Early farmers surely didn’t use molecular genetic techniques to arrive at their results. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He could be talking to a farmer or an emperor, Pinmei thought, remembering Yishan’s unbowed head the night the hut burned, and it wouldn’t matter. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I trust this farmer will do likewise when I ask if he’s seen Alice. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If the farmer had come in for a specific book, he left empty-handed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z After two hundred years without being permitted to own the land they had opened and worked, the tenant farmers rebelled. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt that she never wanted to leave her parents and grandparents, and she felt that she did not want to be a tenant farmer her whole life. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Camped up there in the Blue Ridge for a week or more, gittin’ maybe two-three cows from one farmer and six or seven from another. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z In modern times, European farmers thereby replaced western North American Indian hunters, Aboriginal Australians, and the San people of South Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon a local farmer raced into town providing breathless word that almost all the rebels had left Mbandaka. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z For example, Stone Age farmers did not proceed directly to extracting and working iron, which requires high-temperature furnaces. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z How could those Austronesian-speaking farmers from South China via Taiwan replace the original hunter-gatherer population of the Philippines and western Indonesia so completely that little genetic and no linguistic evidence of that original population survived? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘No, I caught ’em trespassing,’ said the farmer, ‘and nearly set my dogs on ’em; but they’ll tell you all the story, I’ve no doubt. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A farmer, actually a moon shiner, by the name of Norris staggered and went down as blood spurted out of his mouth and onto his overalls. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Until the Chinese-style plow was imported in the seventeenth century, farmers in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and other states labored to shove what amounted to a narrow slab of metal through the earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Though hybrids were introduced in the thirties, it wasn’t until farmers started using chemical fertilizers in the 1950s that corn yields really exploded. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Switching from field to field to field, swidden farmers live in the forest without destroying the ecosystems they depend on: a supple, balanced harmony. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It wasn’t the knife of a farmer, or even of a butcher. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A farmer cannot think too much evil of a good farmer. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Neither did the early farmers understand that feeding children with more porridge and less breast milk would weaken their immune system, and that permanent settlements would be hotbeds for infectious diseases. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z One hundred souls was a sturdy number to stop at—a fantastic figure by any measure—and that didn’t account for the colored farmers who’d purchased adjacent land and got their own operations going. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Different wild plants are native to these disparate environments and would thus have been variously available to incipient farmers in various parts of China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “The next morning the farmer noticed the unusual egg. He picked it up and placed it in the nest of his favorite chicken—the Rhode Island Red that took such good care of her chicks.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Sleep in? What are you guys, a bunch of farmers?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The farmer’s wife who sells me milk asks how two girls could possibly drink so much, and I get almost the same question from the grocer who sells me the eggs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The demand for carpenters and bricklayers soared, and farmers from as far away as 150 miles came to get jobs. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “I was just telling Epler here that your people would be already gone. All the farmers talk, talk, talk of this fever.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But until the middle of the nineteenth century, farmers survived in New England because they had proximity to the coastal cities like Boston and Portland and because, I suppose, they didn’t know any better. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Clear-thinking and self- taught, Kotane was the son of peasant farmers in the Transvaal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The first farmers were heirs to that knowledge, accumulated through tens of thousands of years of nature observation by biologically modern humans living in intimate dependence on the natural world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To farmers, manioc has a wonderful advantage: it can grow practically anywhere, in any conditions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Grandpa read in the paper that in 1906 there were at least a thousand automobiles in Georgia, mostly owned by farmers, doctors, and residents of small towns. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z In so doing they had constantly played the state’s southern agribusinessmen off against the small northern farmers, and somehow they had come through. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My bigger pranks had been all in fun: moving outhouses to trick farmers and things like that. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She crash-landed her Yak in one piece but was already dead when local farmers found her and buried her. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z To encounter ‘simple’ people—a tradesman, a housewife, a farmer—describing their spiritual lives in detail amazed me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But it also makes it hard for the average farmer to stay in business, even with government payments. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z This farmer took the goose home alive, pinioned it, bound up its leg, and turned it out with his own ducks and poultry in the farmyard. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The farmers would put out scraps for the animals, and she’d jump for it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Most history textbooks about the colonial period refer to the militias, which were organized groups of armed farmers or townspeople, not trained professional soldiers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Church was practically the only time we ever saw some of the farmers from farther out in the parish—places like Umpawaug. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “This dam, this conservancy district has the farmers down there on pins and needles. Arresting Joe Mondragon for a symbolic act like this could start something nasty.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Snail knew that this was not a satisfaction that would last forever, and so he went to Tortoise and spoke to him about his dream of becoming a farmer. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z During that initial interview, the farmer had seemed to be suffering from dementia: he had stared at the agent blankly. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z This was the beginning of a major change in the way farmers operated and the way we get our food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Before they called out, the farmer had seen them. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Did he smell like a farmer or a shepherd? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Great Plains, and when farmers stemming ultimately from China emigrated to the Chatham Islands, the rain forests of Borneo, or the volcanic soils of Java or Hawaii. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead, highly productive agriculture enabled a modest number of immigrant rice farmers to reproduce much faster than Jomon hunter-gatherers and eventually to outnumber them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We must return to our valley, the old man who led the farmers spoke. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Tortoise had become a farmer, and had done nothing but grow crops; Snail, by contrast, had become a trader, and had many trading posts in all parts of the country. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “Maiwee! The stitches flew apart. The goatskin exploded and sent baboon droppings all over the hut. The farmer was furious. ‘ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But the farmer we buy our bacon from? Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z As late as AD 1400, the vast majority of farmers, along with their plants and animals, clustered together in an area of just 4.25 million square miles—2 per cent of the planet’s surface. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z On Saturday, my parents and I went down to the farmers’ market in Broad Ripple. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Only when the farmer drove away did Shin discover that no one on the ranch spoke Korean. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Before World War II the factory made heavy cotton pants and shirts for farmers and coal miners. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z ‘Now then!’ said the farmer, throwing the reins to Sam and striding forward. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Well, and Wang Lung, the farmer, what?” retorted the gateman, who was polite to none except the rich friends of his master and mistress. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z With five gold pieces he bought an ox from a farmer ploughing in the field, and this before ever he reached his own land. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Of course, I had no way of knowing if it was George or some other farmer who grows the corn that feeds the steer that becomes my steak. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “No, not a farmer. A storekeeper buys it all from the farmers, and sells it to the city people.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “We don’t have any money,” said the farmer’s wife. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This diversity, with many different types of crops, allowed the farmer to get by if prices fell for any one crop. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Trading and marriage relationships were undoubtedly established between those Khoisan and the Bantu farmers, each occupying different adjacent habitats, just as Pygmy hunter-gatherers and Bantu farmers still do today in equatorial Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even the farmer himself seldom understands the value of wild bees and often participates in the very measures that rob him of their services. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Neighbors would get together once a week and order organic vegetables from farmers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The North Carolina government—half of which crowded into Garrison’s dining room that night—purchased existing slaves from farmers at favorable rates, just as Great Britain had done when it abolished slavery decades ago. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z And he went to the farmer and said, “I will give you enough to buy another ox and more, but this ox I will have.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z They made their way back to Matthew, stopping a couple of times for James to pick up some produce and other items from the farmers’ market for his mom and grandmother. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z So rice farmers improved their yields by becoming smarter, by being better managers of their own time, and by making better choices. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Conversely, it also befell the stubborn, conservative Greenland Norse farmers, replaced by Eskimo hunter-gatherers whose subsistence methods and technology were far superior to those of the Norse under Greenland conditions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The eldest of seven sons of a yeoman farmer, William was educated at King’s School, Canterbury, and Caius College in Cambridge, where he obtained his BA in 1597 and probably began to study medicine. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Every farmer with half a brain had planted beans. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Several farmers had only parts of their land bought, so that they ended up with farmland but no house or a farmhouse but no land. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z As yields grew and farmers grew more corn, prices dropped. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Landowners and farmers whose property was being seized for this purpose objected. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z PS I may not be an exceptional poultry farmer just yet. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Daniel Handler in a bunny costume, Amy Tan as a farmer, and Allen Ginsberg as a clown. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The older children were “hired out” by the master, Edward Brodas, to farmers who needed slave labor but who could not afford to buy slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The old farmer handed the reins to his son and brought a large brown loaf of bread out of a sack that sat between the two of them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z On weekends he cut hay again with Harry Secor and dug irrigation ditches for local farmers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Like the ladies in the shoe shop, the farmer did not seem aware of the convoy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Some he got from farmers who paid their bills to him with cattle every year. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The farmer was a spare man, with what we think of as a Yankee face and the flat vowels we consider Yankee pronunciation. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Village life certainly brought the first farmers some immediate benefits, such as better protection against wild animals, rain and cold. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And there was the piper whose flute had called to the farmer; she was a young woman wearing a relatively plain gown in comparison to the dancing ladies. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “An agricultural society with a handful of large landowners, multitudes of dirt farmers, and slaves.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She had been borrowed that morning from a farmer. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Dozens of Japanese farmers, he speculated, had stores of dynamite in their sheds and barns which could be used for sabotage. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Archaeologists have discovered on even the tiniest islands evidence of the existence of birds, insects and snails that lived there for countless generations, only to vanish when the first human farmers arrived. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Three miles over the Pennsylvania border they risked a visit to the cottage of a colored farmer. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z If you were a peasant farmer in Southern China, by contrast, you didn’t sleep through the winter. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z 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 “By order of county director Frank L. Houston, each farmer’s share is to be one hundred dollars.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in America now convert their harvest into fuel. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The farmer’s wife, who had been with him in Ralston that night, was also certain that the woman in the car was Anna, though she didn’t talk to her. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “What a farmer’s wife you might have made.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those of foragers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In the dense fog, the nervous red glow of a guard’s cigarette as he sits dreaming, cursing the cold but probably rejoicing in the rain—most likely he’d be the son of farmers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Frankie paid the farmer to take a detour through the wharfs, down a street lined with old but attractive gray-stone houses. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Carl worked there seventy-six hours a week, selling goods to local farmers for their chickens, cattle, and hogs. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Apparently there are a lot of confused Muslim farmers out there. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z We were one of the last families to leave because Papa felt obligated to stay until the rancher’s cotton had been all picked, even though other farmers had better crops. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to spend the rest of his life turning the wheel of a farmer’s chariot, but if it meant saving Hazel... The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There, round the long table, sat half a dozen farmers and half a dozen of the more eminent pigs, Napoleon himself occupying the seat of honour at the head of the table. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z In our explorations on mud roads around Mount Elgon, we saw signs of the recent trouble: burned, empty huts that had once belonged to Bukusu farmers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A bone weary farmer eyed us suspiciously from where he sat, hunched over the reins. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers’ daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z I was the one who insisted on trying to find his grave, questioning the farmer about it because Rufus, like his father, like old Mary and Alice, had probably been buried on the plantation. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Papa had barely earned money as a farmer. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z ‘Given to me by Mrs. Maggot, a queen among farmers’ wives. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Despite living in town a full ten years she retained the look of a farmer’s wife: stout, faded, and wind worn. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The grumpy old farmer who lived there was their only neighbor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Here they encountered a melting pot of Afroasiatic and Nilo-Saharan farmers and herders growing millet and sorghum and raising livestock in drier areas, along with Khoisan hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then they see the angel, played by a farmer’s son in a tunic covered with goosefeathers. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He had read through his prisoner’s papers and hailed a farmer. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “I am a farmer of wild foods—wild rabbits and pheasants, wild cattails and hickory nuts and walnuts.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z That was the mentality among peasant farmers, Farmer said. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I get lucky and catch a ride on a farmer’s wagon for more than twenty kilometers. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He’d left Hazel inside, dying and defenseless, at the mercy of a crazy farmer god. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He was the captain of a Kerch trader, and it seemed he had crossed paths with a sugar farmer in a Zemeni port. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Ulster Scots settlers were primarily farmers who cleared forests and built log cabins. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z But he had been successful in lobbying for federal aid for farmers so that they could buy spring seed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z A dark lantern was uncovered, and its light fell on the astonished face of the farmer. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Some farmers used as much as 200 pounds per acre; one, in an extraordinary excess of zeal, applied more than a quarter of a ton to the acre. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The farmer didn’t answer, but pointed up the road. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Charlotte Woodward, a nineteen-year-old farmer’s daughter, wanted to work as a typesetter in a print shop. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She says I don’t have to be a farmer either. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “Botany? As in plants? What are you going to be, a potato farmer?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Her mannerisms are what you’d imagine in a pioneering farmer’s wife. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Something the old-time farmers really did use, I guess. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z A farmer was not likely to be trouble, I decided, so I figured I would try to track him or her down and find out what I could about the war’s progress. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It was “haying season,” the busiest part of the year, and farmers would have very little free time. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Still, the first murder—the farmer—seemed to have been so simple, a dropped stone falling to the lakebed with scarcely a ripple. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z A crowd of young people waits near me to board the ferry, joking and jostling each other about school and movies and some farmer they must have passed on their outing. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z By enabling farmers to generate food surpluses, food production permitted farming societies to support full-time craft specialists who did not grow their own food and who developed technologies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He lived with them for three months, finally running away when the farmer woke him with a beating one morning because a raccoon got into the chicken coop. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z A farmer that religious might be offended if he saw you breaking the Sixth Commandment forninst his field. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Still other hunter-gatherers in contact with farmers did eventually become farmers, but only after what may seem to us like an inordinately long delay. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Daniel Handler in a bunny costume, Amy Tan as a farmer, and Allen Ginsberg as a clown. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The old farmer gave me a smile over his shoulder. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Farmers like Joel Salatin, his customers, and all the people who buy from farmers markets and food clubs are trying to make another change. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I could go to the farmer’s market on the Broad; I could buy venison and pancetta and spend the day cooking. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Government officials in Port-au-Prince told the peasants that their pigs would be replaced with pigs purchased in the United States, from Iowa farmers. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In the fields of Veracruz, among farmers and their donkeys piled with sugarcane, rises a mountain. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He seemed so out of place in the room of neatly dressed, chattering factory girls, this short man, very thin, with a weathered face and the homespun clothes of a hill farmer. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z In the end, El-ahrairah decided that probably Prince Rainbow was passing on Hufsa’s information to a farmer or a gamekeeper and not bothering himself about what happened as a result. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But every reader addicted to coffee can thank ancient Ethiopian farmers for domesticating the coffee plant. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A younger woman who couldn’t have been a few years older than them had said that without a proper permit, they couldn’t be associated with the farmer’s market. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Selfers were also convenient for early farmers in that they occasionally did become cross-pollinated, thereby generating new varieties among which to select. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Simple farmers, looking for a simpler way of life. That was the whole point in flying all this ridiculous way to get here. Setting down the things that caused such strife for people of old.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z In the Pacific Ocean, the main wave of extinction began in about 1500 BC, when Polynesian farmers settled the Solomon Islands, Fiji and New Caledonia. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The farmers spoke of much illness among their families. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The farmers’ market at the Civic Center parking lot is a great spot because they give you samples, things like honey in a straw or peanut brittle. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Local farmers wanted to hang dead crows around the town on public buildings to frighten the others away; ornithologists said that it wouldn’t work, that the living crows would simply eat the dead ones. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z There are a few trucks, freely loaned about in good weather to any valley farmer who must take his pigs or calves to market. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There have been farmers and educators on both sides of my family ever since there have been tractors and blackboards, and there have been strong women on my mother's side for just as long. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z “They were tenant farmers. Your papa didn’t want his children to have that life. That’s why he worked so hard at the restaurant. And now he has brought you back here, so...” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z As you’ve seen, the industrial food chain has been an economic disaster for the farmers who grow the food in it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z There were farmers growing peanuts, hauling peanuts, making peanut oil, peanut butter, even peanut soap. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I grabbed one of the million apples we’d brought back from our farmers’ market trip and stomped off to my room to call Dad before going to Calaca to meet up with the band. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z ‘Well, don’t stand there blocking the door. Get out of the way,’ said the farmer, but the goat didn’t answer. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z First, do hunter-gatherers and incipient farmers really know well all locally available wild species and their uses, or might they have overlooked potential ancestors of valuable crops? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z You and I think of corn as corn, but farmers like Naylor know there are dozens of varieties, most created by large agribusiness companies. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I think he started off as a farmer and then wanted to open a restaurant. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z They could easily be caught; one farmer picked up several and took them to a spring-fed pool. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Major Clark, as director of the most important Philadelphia spy network, gave many of his agents the cover of farmer or merchant. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z All her life she wanted to be a farmer. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z All that they would have had to do to meet the definition of farmers was to carry the stems and remaining attached tubers home and similarly replace them in soil at their camp. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Often they bought whatever the local farmers had to offer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I thought the farmers would never leave, but finally the store was empty. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It also paid some farmers not to grow grain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And out to the very edges of the roads that led from the town to general stores where farmers came on Saturday nights and sat around the stove. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Both were bad news for ancient farmers, who would thereby have promptly lost any favorable mutants without understanding why. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He was a farmer’s son, and Anya liked to imagine that if Ilya could go from being a peasant to a knight, maybe she could too. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z 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 In its wake it leaves the sort of rich volcanic plains that are ideal for growing potatoes, as Idaho’s farmers long ago discovered. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Being born Malawian automatically made you a farmer. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The same bitter lesson was learned by Illinois farmers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If it was the only way to save Hazel, then sure, he could agree to Trip’s demands and become a farmer. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was sunny, a rarity for Indiana in April, and everyone at the farmers’ market was wearing short sleeves even though the temperature didn’t quite justify it. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z He says this is a story told by farmers and probably not true, although the stupidity of the bird is legendary. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Hell, if it hadn’t been for me and my grandfather, those farmers would have had to migrate out of there long ago.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z With prices like that, how can Naylor and the other corn farmers stay in business? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z For instance, the stone sickles, underground storage pits, and other technology that hunter-gatherers of the Fertile Crescent had been evolving to utilize wild cereals were available to the first cereal farmers of the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Although, Martin qualified, there was the case of a white farmer who had sheltered a gang of colored refugees. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z And the hunters who went there sometimes wondered in private if maybe the white farmer was right after all. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The farmer turned around in his seat and glared at them. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Pippin introduced the other two to the farmer. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He both looked and smelled like a drunken farmer. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The movement includes farmers in Europe who try to preserve local food products and eating habits. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We were maids and farmers, handymen and washer-women, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I accused the National Party of fanning race hatred between Coloureds and Africans in the Cape by distributing an inflammatory comic book that said the ANC’s slogan was “Kill a Coloured, kill a farmer.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They tell us Pol Pot makes us work hard because he wants to purify our spirit and help us achieve beyond our potential as farmers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “And think of the poor farmer when it doesn’t rain all year: if there wasn’t an average yearly rainfall of 37 inches in this part of the country, all his crops would wither and die.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z With the help of the Hitler Youth and BDM, farmers planted more crops and reaped bountiful harvests. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z West, the cattlemen, sheepmen, and farmers all despised each other. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So little evidence has emerged of Indians fertilizing with fish that some archaeologists believe that Tisquantum actually picked up the idea from European farmers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z According to her, John Henry was a farmer, a former slave turned sharecropper, who got arrested for something ridiculous. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Luckily, I landed in a farmer’s soft plowed field and was not hurt. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The New England farmers couldn’t compete, and so they became Midwestern farmers, too. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Staring out to sea, tobacco farmers imagined themselves as race car drivers, silk dyers as Wall Street tycoons, millinery girls as fan dancers in the Ziegftid Follies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Walter never was much of a farmer, but he was a good doctor. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Throughout history, not surprisingly, the people who grow rice have always worked harder than almost any other kind of farmer. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Land’s so wet and nasty,” said Mrs. Bill Ramsey, the wife of a farmer. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the 1970s, government policy was designed to support small farmers, not agribusiness. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The farmer brought the whip down with all his strength, and the wagon lurched forward. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And what kind of farmer keeps a chicken that turns into a hawk? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z New Guineans tamed sugar cane and bananas, while the first West African farmers made African millet, African rice, sorghum and wheat conform to their needs. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I’m no soldier. I’m a farmer. I hate the smell of gunpowder. What I like is manure.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He is paying farmers near Cancale to butcher lambs and rabbits; Claude buckles the meat into his wife’s matching vinyl suitcases and carries them himself by train to Paris. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Some of the brilliant Ionian thinkers were the sons of sailors and farmers and weavers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The farmer sat in the driving-seat, and whipped up his two stout ponies. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Once they started processing food, they discovered they could make more money by buying produce from other farmers than by growing it themselves. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z There’s a market down in Irishtown where the farmers come on Saturdays with their vegetables, hens, eggs, butter. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z One of the most widely known and respected wildlife biologists in the country, Dr. Clarence Cottam, called on some of the farmers whose property had been treated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z ‘If you were in a hurry, the road would have served you better,’ said the farmer. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The farmer regarded us with his bright gaze. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Bulldozers went in the next day, and now the place looks like a farmer’s field ready for planting. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z The butcher, the stonemason, the sheep farmer, and the schoolmarm: it's as though these figures came in a box along with pint-size storefronts and little stone houses. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z An old ruddy-faced farmer was at my door in the middle of the night. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Slowly I convinced the farmers to destroy their poppy plants and start growing food for the hungry people,” said Habib. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Because of this damage, industrial organic farmers have to add a lot of nitrogen fertilizer to their fields. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We thanked the farmer and hopped off the back of the cart. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Children, grandchildren, brothers and sisters, parents, dogs, cats, canary birds...There are no exceptions: farmers, shopkeepers, even policemen have families or at least keep a dog. You have only to look at her father!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z This “next year country” makes for many sleepless nights for this particular farmer. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I approached an iron block as big as a farmer’s cottage and broke off a single flake of rust large as a dinner plate. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Friendly and helpful, the farmer was a relation of Prime Minister Strydom. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The farmers didn’t believe in Wood fairies, but they listened for the tread of field dwellers and hobgoblins, who could bless a crop or eat it all. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In the old days, the winds swept through the irrigated plains around Jalalabad where farmers grew sugarcane, and impregnated the city's air with a sweet scent. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Titid has gone to the north, to speak to a farmers’ group. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the other farmers would have to wait for another planting cycle. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s go there and ask the farmer if she’s been by for corn.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They made their way back to Matthew, stopping a couple of times for James to pick up some produce and other items from the farmers’ market for his mom and grandmother. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z But there are still some farmers who treat their animals decently, in the “old-fashioned” way. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Consider the farmer who sprays his fields with insecticide to kill the bugs that are damaging his crops. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The farmer let his hand drop to the knife handle rising up from his boot. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A community of farmers ruled over by a priest, she firmly believed, was the true way of life. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z That was valuable knowledge, because while it is not hard to grow sugar cane, farmers who plan on making sugar itself face a special challenge. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It was at Berea that Justice met the man who became her husband, Troy Price, the son of a tobacco farmer with a sixth-grade education. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Face grim, the farmer stepped close behind the mercenary and stabbed down hard, driving the whole of the short blade deep into the mercenary’s body where the shoulder meets the neck. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Just as well for sheep they can't work out why the farmer's being so nice to them. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z We went down past the farmers’ market that most towns had back then. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The man said he was on his way to visit his sister in Columbia, that he was taking the cantaloupes to the state farmers’ market. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Tendrils of cigarette smoke rise from clumps of farmers in overalls and dusty feed caps, their tired faces as grimy as coal miners’. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Cahokia, however, was a huge collection of farmers packed cheek by jowl. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The men—two truck farmers, a retired crabber, a bookkeeper, a carpenter, a boat builder, a grocer, and a halibut schooner deckhand—were all dressed in coats and neckties. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Similarly, throughout human history farmers have tended to despise hunter-gatherers as primitive, hunter-gatherers have despised farmers as ignorant, and herders have despised both. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The farmer said he had once employed two North Korean defectors and that they had been useful workers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They were both of them going to work for Mr. Nitta—he paid better than any berry farmer on the island—for thirty-five cents a flat. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z From the bus I saw a farmer walking his field, waiting for the mud to tell him when to plant. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z 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 After the devastating bath of dieldrin recently administered to the farmlands in eastern Illinois for the control of the Japanese beetle, farmers discovered that corn borers had increased enormously in the treated area. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z How, then, did early farmers domesticate plants unwittingly? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He told Hamilton that his Farewell Address was aimed especially at “the Yeomanry of the country,” which meant ordinary farmers working small plots of land and living in households. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He wanted to be different from Banda in every possible way, and this included stopping all subsidies and making the farmers fend for themselves. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The year before, farmers in the Midwest had had a bumper corn crop. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Later I heard the farmer shouting in the house. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z If that doesn’t kill your enthusiasm for becoming a sumpweed farmer, be aware that it has a strong odor objectionable to some people and that handling it can cause skin irritation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With their valley and crops flooded, the farmers instantly became “the water refugees,” forced to give up their land with little or no compensation from the government. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But then economic chaos in Mexico sent a flood of immigrants northward, many of them poorly educated farmers from the impoverished countryside. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The man stepped into the light and the farmers’ excitement was smothered by the sight of the piecemeal leather armor and heavy sword that marked a mercenary. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Snail left Tortoise’s house, happy that his plan to be a farmer seemed to be going so well. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z That means the average American farmer today grows enough food to feed 140 other people. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A 1926 photograph shows him dressed in the same style as Hale, with a sharp suit and a hat—an itinerant farmer’s son transformed into a respectable businessman. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “I don’t have no fever,” the farmer continued. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Minneapolis was small, somnolent, and full of Swedish and Norwegian farmers as charming as cornstalks. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In these and other areas where food production depended on the arrival of founder crops from elsewhere, did local hunter-gatherers themselves adopt those founder crops from neighboring farming peoples and thereby become farmers themselves? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘She has every right to hurt me,’ the poor farmer said, ‘for I have been a mean, spiteful man.’ Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The farmer waited on rain like an imbecile, the shopkeeper arranged row after row of necessary but dull merchandise. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z So all the corn the farmers grew was put on the market, driving the price down. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Freedom was easy—the farmer had no objection to that. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z You longtime farmers may laugh at my enthusiasm, but I ask you to think back to your first harvest. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He commented upon Wang Lung as he shaved his upper forehead, “This would not be a bad-looking farmer if he would cut off his hair. The new fashion is to take off the braid.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The farmer doesn’t cry over slaughtering a hog. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He and his wife had dressed him for the part he would play—a drunken farmer. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z This example from the Jordan Valley, like that from Tell Abu Hureyra, illustrates that the first farmers used their detailed knowledge of local species to their own benefit. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Southwest gradually became farmers by acquiring Mexican crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z No Yankee farmers could stand up to them. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, Indigenous farmers of the Northeast always carried flints to start fires as needed. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Then there are farmers in India who have protested the sale of patented seeds by agribusiness. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The size of the order makes it worth the farmer’s while to deliver, in Joel’s case sometimes as far as Virginia Beach or Bethesda—half a day’s drive. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Almost immediately DDT was hailed as a means of stamping out insect- borne disease and winning the farmers’ war against crop destroyers overnight. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The government will give payments to farmers for all the corn they can produce, but not for growing vegetables or fruit. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Mitraillette, the farmer’s elder daughter who was the only other girl there besides me, was very jolly about filling the plane with rubbish. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z But it does not, because farmers carefully sort through the seed they will sow in the next season and generally do not choose obvious hybrids. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We can only venture a guess, by analogy with witnessed events in modern times when steel-toting white farmers collided with stone tool-using hunter-gatherers of Aboriginal Australia and Indian California. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some milpa areas have been farmed for thousands of years— time in which farmers in Mesopotamia and North Africa and parts of India ruined their land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z By the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, landlords in central and Southern China had an almost completely hands-off relationship with their tenants: they would collect a fixed rent and let farmers go about their business. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z They were grouped by occupation and wore identifying clothing—doctors, nurses, farmers, pharmacists, housemakers, actresses, librarians, college students in academic gowns. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It was my notion to be a farmer. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The farmer helped Booth dismount, offering support when the fugitive’s body weight bore down on his injured leg. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Furthermore, they are overwhelmingly concentrated in the Fertile Crescent or other parts of western Eurasia’s Mediterranean zone, which offered a huge selection to incipient farmers: about 32 of the world’s 56 prize wild grasses! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The chaise overtook and passed the marching farmers. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then farmers can charge more for their crops. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The markets were crowded with ragged men selling their household goods for any price they could get . . . and conspicuously empty of farmers selling food. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Beijing’s distaste for North Korean defectors, as enforced by police and border soldiers, is well understood by farmers, factory foremen, and other bosses in China’s northeast provinces. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Why you want to be a no-count farmer?” he thundered. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z 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 Still, Shin understood that he was only welcome in the farmer’s house because he was cheap labor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Some of the farmers are even already going out into their fields. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 In response there was a huge outcry from small organic farmers and the public. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Because Raji was a farmer, every letter told of the weather. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “I guess that’s not farming, really. Mama is the farmer. She grows onions.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z In America, farmers have repeatedly traded one insect enemy for a worse one as spraying upsets the population dynamics of the insect world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z These bundles—shocks to us farmers—are left standing on the cut end to dry. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The exact chronology of their evolution remains unknown, but could be resolved by the next object that a farmer discovers in a field. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Those facts of reproductive biology vexed early farmers, because, as soon as they had located a productive mutant plant, its offspring would cross-breed with other plant individuals and thereby lose their inherited advantage. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Urban farmers were experimenting in cities across the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z No wonder farmers talked of rods; it was an easier number to face. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Not a reluctant farmer, not an electrical engineer, not a long-haul trucker. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As though the farmer has fled in the middle of his work. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Two farmers, each leading this year’s cow, passed each other, shouting prices. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In the far north, where food supplies are historically lean and farmers are regarded as politically hostile, the military takes a quarter of total grain production, Kwon said. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Of course, Joe understood immediately that this dynamite had not just fallen from heaven in order to increase the personal wealth and power of Joe Mondragon, all-around handyman and bean farmer par extraordinaire. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Year in, year out, as far back as history is recorded, farmers from across Asia have engaged in the same relentless, intricate pattern of agriculture. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z As a farmer’s daughter, Elizebeth had the skills to be self-reliant, but it was hard to find the time—and the supplies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Alecto took care that the news should spread quickly, and fighting started at once, the furious farmers bent upon killing Ascanius and the Trojans defending him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z To keep blacks “in their place,” Klan tactics ranged from stealing black farmers’ horses, to threats of violence, to floggings, to outright murder. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The farmer knocked me down with a swat of his hand, and I was back in the donkey cart with a rope around my neck. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Most peasant farmers and herders, who constitute the great majority of the world’s actual food producers, aren’t necessarily better off than hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If he’d wanted wide open spaces and silence, he would have stayed on the frontier and become the farmer his father had hoped for. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The audience was mostly town people because the farmers had all gone home to do their chores. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The same businesses that create new seeds provide farmers with the tools and fertilizer they need to grow lots of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Mole, keeping low and out of sight of the farmer’s gun, sneaked up on her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z We lay there together, sweating in the sun, listening to the birds make their rapid calls over the drone of the insects, to the singing coming from the farmers from the nearby village. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The farmer’s wife came and gave me water and a carrot to eat. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Clarkston was originally settled by yeoman farmers and railroad workers in the years after the Civil War. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The next morning when the stars were still visible in the sky, the farmer stopped the wagon. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z No self-respecting farmer got attached to his animals, treated them like pets, let them live in the house. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The other, related question is whether ancient hunter-gatherers and farmers similarly put their ethnobiological knowledge to good use in selecting wild plants to gather and eventually to cultivate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This is reassuring, because these things speak of a hardworking farmer, and hardworking farmers are usually sincere people. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z For a while I watched the two old farmers working under the hot sun. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, farmers in Louisiana showed growing reluctance to sign up for the project as it became evident that use of chemicals against the fire ant was causing an upsurge of insects destructive to sugarcane. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The farmers ended up losing as much, or more, of their crop to rodents as they had lost to the rabbits. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Of course, of course,” says the farmer, retreating to the entry and pulling off his boots. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z In the early 1800s, European traders, missionaries, and whalers began to visit New Zealand, which had been occupied 600 years previously by Polynesian farmers and fishermen known as Maoris. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After all, thought Parliament, the Americans were yokels and farmers—not political thinkers. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If you were going to be a farmer, you could hardly choose a worse place than New England. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In Louisiana, farmers complained of loss in farm ponds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “We were all just regular fellows—farmers, bakers, shopkeepers, shoemakers, sailors. Some of us didn’t even know how to shoot.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Yet one person who is not getting rich from the mountain of corn is the American farmer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “I felt like a farmer at the table.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z To them, a clean-living, hardworking farmer personified the ideal citizen. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The peasants would crown as emperor a farmer who knew the earth or a beggar who understood hunger. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was too busy arguing with a fat old farmer in overalls. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Rice farmers by day, VC by night” became the wary watchword of the Marines. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z That night the woman’s husband, a farmer, loaded a wagon with produce. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 There was a saying that the Evening Star hippies were the only farmers in the Miracle Valley rich enough to turn over their gardens and cut their fields by hand. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The bombings destroyed many villages and killed many people, allowing the Khmer Rouge to gain support from the peasants and farmers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My uncles were farmers, men who took their only truth from the earth, and so by early afternoon we were out in the fields and orchards and the most important thing became the harvest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A farmer walks in and doesn’t even realize it until his muddy boot treads on a bouquet of jasmine made of pearls and he says, “Oh.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “It’s a thing farmers put in fields to scare crows.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Local farmers tend to their olive trees in stony fields. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He was a terrible farmer, and not much of a husband either. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It was deeply ingrained in the culture, and it seemed that everyone—man, woman, and child; farmer, civil servant, or doctor—played chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Mr. and Mrs. Epler were German farmers who brought their eggs and chickens to market three times a week. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Imagine a Canadian farmer foolish enough to plant a race of corn adapted to growing farther south, in Mexico. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He and his mom were at the farmers’ market, the one down by Jack London Square. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He talked to farmers about breeding cattle and sheep. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He vowed to run away with the beautiful farmer's daughter and return on his eighteenth birthday to free his people from the tyranny of the queen. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Now her suggestions and advice resembled maneuvers, the way a farmer tricks a donkey into moving in line with his intentions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The sudden illness or death of farmers, spraymen, pilots, and others exposed to appreciable quantities of pesticides are tragic and should not occur. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Years ago the farmers tried to draw more labor than they needed so that they could lower wages. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z So even her mother's regular trip to the farmer's market presented an opportunity to browse. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z If the American farmer is more productive than ever before, how come so many farmers are going broke? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In some years nearly half the income of America’s corn farmers comes from government checks. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z What is it about those plants that kept their domestication beyond the reach of ancient farmers capable of mastering such difficult techniques as grafting? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The white people in the valley weren’t rich enough then to want maids; they were small farmers and tradesmen and wanted hard-labor help if anything. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “For forty years you were a berry farmer?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z There may have been a hierarchy of importance among the speakers, but everyone was heard, chief and subject, warrior and medicine man, shopkeeper and farmer, landowner and laborer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, most dragons are good creatures who bring rain to the farmers when they soar up from the water and fly through the sky. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z But in Japan or China, farmers didn’t have the money to buy equipment—and, in any case, there certainly wasn’t any extra land that could easily be converted into new fields. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She was only a farmer’s daughter, but she was beautiful, and also smart, as the daughters of farmers need to be, for farms are complicated businesses. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z And then there is the case of a Swedish farmer, strangely reminiscent of that of the Japanese fisherman Kuboyama of the tuna vessel the Lucky Dragon. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I limped wildly from corner to corner of the square, searching madly for the old farmer who had given me a ride. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Not only the most up-to-date methods, but a discipline and an orderliness which should be an example to all farmers everywhere. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Elodin shouted, waving his arms in the air like a farmer trying to startle crows out of a field. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z For example, when the rabbits all over England died of the introduced rabbit disease, myxomatosis, the foxes didn’t have much left to eat, so they began killing the farmers’ chickens. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I ventured to ask how long we might have before the farmer we’d tied beneath his bed was found and released, and might convey an idea of our number and appearance to the slave patrollers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z And if little or none of that money filtered down to the destitute farmers of the Miracle Valley, well—when had it ever? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Sedentary farmers become surrounded not only by their feces but also by disease transmitting rodents, attracted by the farmers’ stored food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Most depended on raised-field agriculture, in which farmers grow crops on flat, artificially constructed surfaces created for the same reason that home gardeners grow vegetables on raised beds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The closest thing had been farmers with sickles and scythes in the fields. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The commissary people always paid for whatever they bought, but it was usually in scrip, and on top of it, the farmer didn’t have much choice about selling or not. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Kyushu would have seemed a paradise to Korean rice farmers, because it is warmer and swampier than Korea and hence a better place to grow rice. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z According to a survey by Perales, 85 percent of the farmers plant the same maize landraces as their fathers, varieties that have been passed on and maintained for generations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z By 1963, the South Vietnamese government had relocated more than five million farmers to heavily fortified villages. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Well, if no one does, we could do some sort of petition thing at the farmer’s market instead,” Esperanza offered. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Mendel was aided in his studies by a long interest in breeding among farmers in and around Brno. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I must have twisted it, and instead of being able to run away I tried to crawl, but by then another old farmer was on me. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As populations rose, “farmers cleared new fields from the remaining forests.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Still unaccustomed to thinking like a pig, we had agreed that raccoons had been at work on some farmer’s crop. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The youth was visiting his uncle, Mose Wright, a tenant farmer. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The remaining major type of change invisible to early farmers involved plant reproduction. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This is where my father became a farmer and my childhood began. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Each farmer has his own plot by the marsh—nothing official with papers or signatures, just a piece of ground you always know is yours. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z In contrast to everything that I just said about Native Australians, most New Guineans, such as Yali’s people, were farmers and swineherds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That rate is much higher than observed for hunter-gatherer populations but is easily attained by farmers: Kenya’s population is now growing at 4.5 percent per year. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They all run after the farmer’s wife, She cut off their tails with a carving knife, Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three... blind... mice? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It was impossible to determine if farmers were Viet Cong or not, and an insistence on a high body count number contributed to innocent civilian deaths. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They walked to a village, borrowed two horses from a farmer and pulled the Renault free. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I’ve gleaned bits and pieces: that babies are the first to be chosen, then older boys, prized by farmers for their strong bones and muscles. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They also joined the frontier-ranging militias that cleared areas for settlement by exterminating Indigenous farmers and destroying their towns. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The early farmers were at least as violent as their forager ancestors, if not more so. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The other farmers sympathised in principle, but they did not at first give him much help. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Six species of cotton insects, along with an assortment of thrips, fruit moths, leaf hoppers, caterpillars, mites, aphids, wireworms, and many others now are able to ignore the farmer’s assault with chemical sprays. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z You can be a fisherman in Maine or a farmer in California. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z So as the crowd began to disperse, a small group of us followed the farmers out to the scene of the crime. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z People of many hunter-gatherer societies move frequently in search of wild foods, but farmers must remain near their fields and orchards. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To take advantage of that, most farmers would buy more chickens to lay more eggs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Lower corn prices drive farmers out of business. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They all run after the farmer’s wife, She cut off their tails with a carving knife, Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three... blind... mice? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Mostly kids, it seemed, and a few farmers in for the day. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Where would you and me be, if it wasn’t for the farmers?” he says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He eventually sold it to a farmer he didn’t like. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z With the rise of the Populist Party in 1892, farmers and laborers formed the first mass multiracial coalition in the country’s history. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z My mother was not a woman of the llano, she was the daughter of a farmer. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At last after bickering and quarrelling and false starts away the farmer yielded for half again the worth of an ox in those parts. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Hence early farmers either had to find mutant trees not requiring cross-pollination, or had consciously to plant genetically different varieties or else male and female individuals nearby in the same orchard. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Pointing, she said, “You wouldn’t go to Seth Clemson for the money he owed us. But you’d take his cattle and turn every farmer in the county against us. This makes us ranchers, Gabriel. Ranchers!” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z There was a man in Village, a farmer, who had stood in the field beside his plow, waiting as dark clouds gathered overhead, hoping the storm would pass by. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z There early every morning the farmers arrived from all over the surrounding countryside, with trucks full of tomatoes, corn, cabbages, potatoes, eggs, chickens, hams, food for the city. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Over time, some stayed on to become farmers, clerks, or shopkeepers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “You’re acting like some farmer who thinks I’m trying to buy his soul. It’s just a little blood so I can keep tabs on you. It’s like collateral.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It’s not only the farmers who cut down trees. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Apparently, the phantom fence cutters had struck all around the territory, stirring up trouble between every farmer and the neighboring ranchers. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Stone-tool-using farmers similarly replaced hunters prehistorically throughout Europe, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In addition, Khoi herders west of the Fish River of South Africa traded with Bantu farmers east of the Fish River, and continued to dispense with farming themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My dad’s dad, the poet farmer, the love of my other grandmother’s life. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I looked at his confident mug; he was going to be a farmer. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z "Yes, you’ll be happy to know that a farmer in the next village wants to adopt her. He and his wife haven’t been able to have children." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z 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 For the next ten months, Shin stayed where the pig farmer had left him, tending cattle in mountain pastures and sleeping on a ranch-house floor with two surly Chinese cowhands. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z What redeemed the life of a rice farmer, however, was the nature of that work. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The Tigris- Euphrates, Nile, Indus, and Huang He Valleys were fertile, sunny, well-watered breadbaskets with long stretches of bottomland that practically invited farmers to stick seeds in the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Oh, I don’t think you got to worry, ma’am,” said the young farmer. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “One of those workers asked me yesterday, ‘Hey, farmer, you got air-conditioning in that house of yours?’” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Van Helsing is laconic; he tells the farmers that he is hurrying to Bistritz, and pays them well to make the exchange of horses. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z She was in Culpeper, Virginia, washing clothes in a hotel, when she learned that there was a colony of Negro farmers on an island off the coast of Virginia. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d been a dairy farmer for years, he said, before switching to corrections thirteen years earlier, succumbing to economic inevitability. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yankee women do work like that, and colored women, and tenant farmers’ wives and daughters. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The rice farmer isn’t simply planting in the spring and harvesting in the fall. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z They washed the chemicals into the streams, and as this happened the farmers applied more. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And we would watch their temper over the course of the day like farmers in Oklahoma watch rain clouds. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “They aren’t my family,” the farmer said as he motioned for his wife to climb aboard. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He spoke without regret about the compromises he’s made along the path from organic farmer to agribusiness executive. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Rather than discussing the Galapagos Island birds that we usually associate with him, Darwin began by discussing—how farmers develop varieties of gooseberries! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those nonbitter almond seeds are the only ones that ancient farmers would have planted, at first unintentionally in their garbage heaps and later intentionally in their orchards. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If those first farmers could have foreseen the consequences of adopting food production, they might not have opted to do so. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It is, and has always been, “gleaning,” named for the way the poor would trail behind farmers in ancient times, taking the stray stalks of grain left behind. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Others in the cafe—Mrs. Clare and Mabel Helm and a husky young farmer who had stopped to buy a plug of Brown’s Mule chewing tobacco—muttered and mumbled. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The old farmer continued to look at me with serious eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z With their fields disappearing beneath their feet and a growing population to feed, Maya farmers were forced to exploit ever more marginal terrain with ever more intensity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He had on the farmer’s usual baseball cap, a yellow shirt, and overalls—the stripy blue kind worn by railroad workers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “The farmer could never relax,” she went on. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As usual, we found a line of truck drivers, market women, farmers, and traders waiting outside under the blue gum trees to share their concerns and grievances. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z 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 He was the son of small farmers, neither rich nor poor, who had lived on one landhold and in one stone house for many hundreds of years. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The farmers may not yet be aware of the biological basis of what has happened, but they need no scientists to tell them they have made a poor bargain. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They gladly paid for what they could get from family farmers like the Trotters. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Ancient farmers might seem to us dirt poor, but a typical family possessed more artefacts than an entire forager tribe. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He climbed out and went to the farmer’s side. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A year after the Quinn Chapel meeting, a posse of slave catchers came up out of Maryland into Christiana, Pennsylvania, acting on information that four slaves were hiding out at a free black farmer’s home. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The older brothers hired themselves out to other farmers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z First, as any modern gardener or farmer still knows by experience, crop yields can be greatly increased by manure applied as fertilizer. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They became outnumbered and were replaced northeast of the Fish River by black African farmers, whose southward spread halted at that river. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Many farmers gave up and pulled out their trees. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In other places, I’d seen kids who followed their leader like blind mice, right into the carving hands of the farmer’s wife. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The lightning had found him there, and though the farmer had survived, he had lost all his memory but for the sensation of raw power that had entered him that afternoon. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z A farmer might plant a dozen or more different varieties at one time, adjusting the mix from season to season in order to manage the risk of a crop failure. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Since there was no need for legumes to fix nitrogen, farmers could plant corn in every field, every year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The woman was wearing what people in the South refer to as "hog washers," the sort of denim overalls favored by farmers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The stone paving was still wet from the washing down after market, and the last of the farmers gathered baskets and gear before going home. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z "He killed a man with a pitchfork," Dad would say, nodding slyly toward some hulking farmer in bib overalls. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Out of 300 million Americans, only 2 million are still farmers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The farmers most knowledgeable about eastern U.S. domesticates, the region’s Native Americans themselves, passed judgment on them by discarding or deemphasizing them when the Mexican trinity arrived. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Many farmers put down extra just to play it safe. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The monster closed its hands and the mist descended again as the prince approached the sleeping farmer’s daughter, his knife at the ready. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z ‘He’s not too well, and not too bad, Sam,’ said the farmer. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z People used to do that, too— have twelve or fifteen kids because they figured some would die, some would turn out rotten, and a couple would be hardworking, honest farmers. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z That’s also why a lot of farmers go out of business or just give up and retire. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z 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 The farmer and his wife sat up front, holding a baby with dried snot across its face. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That landscape testifies to the population densities achieved in the highlands by farmers with stone tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He works so hard and long the farmers have to tell him to stop. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The COs soon learned of the squadron’s prowess; angry farmers came calling after the 372nd’s hundred-pound bombs flattened an outhouse and one unfortunate cow. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Then, moving so quickly it was little more than a twitch, the mercenary brought the piece of metal back around, burying it in the farmer’s chest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And they ate better than they had in years, for no landlord would serve the King anything less than his finest offerings, even if that meant butchering a tenant farmer’s last suckling pig. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Within a few centuries, in one of the swiftest colonizing advances of recent prehistory, Bantu farmers had swept all the way to Natal, on the east coast of what is now South Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Several local farmers heard the Mercury Theatre broadcast. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Poor farmers who gave sacks of potatoes or corn for treatment or medicine. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Chatty and sociable; will often follow farmers around. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Cuttings have the advantage that, once ancient farmers had found or developed a productive tree, they could be sure that all its descendants would remain identical to it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It therefore poisons all life with which it comes in contact: the cat beloved of some family, the farmer’s cattle, the rabbit in the field, and the horned lark out of the sky. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z PPS I asked Gregory if he had any tips on how to be an exceptional poultry farmer. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “But she murdered the farmer’s daughter! How could you possibly save a murderer?” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z The farmer knew of another job: tending livestock up in the mountains. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Easy there, nice and slow now,” the farmer called to his horses and clucked his tongue. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It wasn’t so much a matter of hunting—there wasn’t too much game around, although some farmers occasionally got a deer or a muskrat for the pot. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then give it to the farmers you robbed.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In the traditional Japanese class system, samurai ranked just below nobility; then came farmers and those who worked the land. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is a village school: your scholars will be only poor girls—cottagers’ children—at the best, farmers’ daughters. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Daddy kept saying, “‘Well, Lee, we haven’t even started to be farmers yet, have we?” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z James walked down the hallway to hand over the two bags he’d brought back from the farmers’ market. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I offer to trade them with a farmer and even offer the shoes off my feet. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Nothing for sale in the market except from the farmers, and it’s too early in the season for there to be much of that. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z On Saturday nights they played at a dance hall in nearby Blyn, where a farmer had turned, with the addition of some strings of electric lights, his chicken coop into Sequim’s most popular dance venue. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The wind whistled over the settlements in the afternoon, and the farmers began to set out mile-long windbreaks of eucalyptus to keep the plowed topsoil from blowing away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Then, at the sight of the farmer with his dog still waiting patiently under the tree, it came back to him, he remembered everything and he turned to look back. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z As far as biological prerequisites for apple domestication were concerned, North American Indian farmers were like Eurasian farmers, and North American wild apples were like Eurasian wild apples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I hear fifty . . . sixty-five . . . seventy . . the bidding was laggardly, nobody seemed really to want Babe, and the man who got her, a Mennonite farmer who said he might use her for plowing, paid seventy-five dollars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Any incipient farmers in Aboriginal Australia would have faced similar cycles in their own populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Fukida, a leathery old farmer in overalls and a billed cap, answered in English that was too precise, too perfect. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z His father, too, had been a strawberry farmer before dying of a stroke in ’44. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Kit and Judith met a fair number of farmers and their wives traveling along South Road and ranging along the bank of the river. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z 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 If our minds are those of hunter-gatherers, our cuisine is that of ancient farmers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They forced farmers to move to land that would be more likely to produce. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The Klansmen were the descendants of failed farmers and broken mill hands just like himself. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z That is, farmers initially selected seeds of certain wild plant individuals to bring into their gardens and then chose certain progeny seeds each year to grow in the next year’s garden. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The farmer rose from his bed, walked to the front door, and called “Who’s there?” to the person on the other side. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z No wonder farmers looked grim all the time. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z It will immediately be objected that this will place an intolerable burden on the farmer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z That Indian farmers had greater skill and bounty, and more successful yields, than most Europeans who worked the same land. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It was going to be difficult to find a horse, because most farmers were not interested in overworking their animals—for any price. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can have your own route, selling supplies to farmers in the country. You’ll make a bundle. Or you can get a job in No folk. You can move there.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A third farmer, rail-thin and wearing a knit cap, pointed at me as we approached. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Once upon a time a farmer planted a little seed in his garden, and after a while it sprouted and became a vine and bore many squashes. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Holding the rake, Ronan looks like that famous painting of the farmers standing with a pitchfork. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z His father, Levi, was a farmer, as was Levi’s own father. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I am now buying food from farmers and having Helena resell it in the market while I’m at work. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Even if farmers face hard times, the seed companies continue to make money year after year, selling farmers something they used to grow themselves. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Together they kept the rabbits and groundhogs from eating the farmers’ crops and the rats from eating the corn stored in cribs and bins. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She dyed her hair so that the farmers would hire her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I hummed a stanza of Areida’s favorite song, a sad one, about a farmer whose family is starving. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a cheap publication, aimed at minor gentlemen and farmers, the sort of thing that is used for lighting fires once it becomes obviously outdated. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Early farmers wouldn’t have noticed the difference, in the way that they did notice and selectively harvest big berries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Imagine that a farmer has a pair of baby rabbits. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But the farmer knew nothing—or at least, said nothing. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing wrong with that if you go about it right. Country could use some forward-looking farmers.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z This means bigger and bigger farms, worked by fewer farmers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Is the farmer, the doctor, the Indian, the greatest problem in America today? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 That there is nothing wrong with being a farmer. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Some estimates put the annual workload of a wet-rice farmer in Asia at three thousand hours a year. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Paradoxically, a series of ‘improvements’, each of which was meant to make life easier, added up to a millstone around the necks of these farmers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They were “an army of farmers” too hungry to fight. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z An octoroon woman in Bastrop had passed and married a white farmer. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z When they had finished, the farmer and his sons went out with a lantern and got the waggon ready. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The farmers complained that they were unable to raise any pigs — the litters were small and the young survived only a few days. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Have you heard the one about the tinker, the Tehlin, the farmer’s daughter, and the butter churn yet?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z If I was going to be the census taker, then this was my research paper and I could give Sookie a farmer’s tan if I wanted to. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The farmer’s hands fell to his side and his smile faded. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z All his life in Vietnam my father had been a farmer. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z All the same, he was not doing what he wanted to do; the son of a farmer, he had from the beginning aimed at operating a property of his own. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z But the farmer convinced the authorities that Dutchy was a juvenile delinquent who needed a firm hand, and Dutchy was returned to him. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The other part is that neither farmers nor hunter-gatherers are naked, at least not figuratively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I see. You just might make a good farmer one day.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z When I try to picture the future, I can’t see myself as anything but a missionary or a teacher or a farmer, telling others how the Lord helps those that help themselves. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This morning, I woke up really early, like farmers do in cartoons. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z He talks about American history, If the American farmer, with flintlock and musket, could wrest from the English a continent, surely we, warriors ever, can recover our island. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Unfortunately for the farmers, the death rate then dropped in the second year to 90 percent and eventually to 25 percent, frustrating hopes of eradicating rabbits completely from Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He had asked his male cousin, the young son of his uncle, and his uncle for his father’s sake, and three neighboring farmers who lived in the village with him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z How many farmers were there who needed to buy feed? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Later, China’s imperial government recruited Korean farmers to create a buffer against Russian expansion, and Korea’s Choson Dynasty allowed them to depart legally. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z For all the reasons that we discussed in Chapters 13 and 14, the farmers and the fishing peoples were the ones to develop more-complex technology, societies, and political organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z These chefs, along with the buying clubs and the farmers markets, are all part of a worldwide movement. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The old farmer who lived there now let us walk around and take a look. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z A bull hit my dad and he sued the farmer and my dad wasn’t even dead. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I can see him outside my window in his white wingtips, talking to farmers on the platform. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “That you were sick, but we had to have food and I’m too little to take money to the market, so you got a farmer to give you a ride in his cart.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z According to testimony that the farmer subsequently gave under oath, he remembered that evening well, because he’d often discussed it with friends of his who gathered regularly at the hotel. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Because of what Roza had taught them, Finn and his brother could eat what they grew and still have some to sell at the farmers’ market. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z A sort of mystical fairy tale, it romanticized and celebrated the simple life of German farmers living harmoniously with nature on their German soil. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Pap said as harsh as Cap’n Buck was on the white farmers near the Tanner plantation, he was even worst on the slaves that dared cross him. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z In addition to fieldwork, girls also helped the farmers’ wives with housework and tended babies and young children. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The slaves were still about, stealing a farmer’s chickens in a morning raid, but the hounds had the scent. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The farmer flicked on the radio and the Supremes blared through the truck cab with “Baby, baby, where did our love go?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, several generations of tenant farmers had grown corn and other grains there. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The mutilated corpse of Mr. McRee, a poultry farmer and former member of the Egg Producers Association of Vermont, was found upon his Mechanicsville farm. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Hesitating, the farmer peered through a window, then unlocked the door. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked among farmers and mountain people, among the swamp people and fishermen. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Or was the founder package instead brought by invading farmers, who were thereby enabled to outbreed the local hunters and to kill, displace, or outnumber them? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The farmer allowed her to use his telephone. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But, like all farmers, he had to contend with high taxes, high freight rates, and land so worn out that he might spend more for guano than he could get for his cotton crop. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z In the picture, a ruddyfaced farmer stood at the edge of a broad field, and riding across it was a ghostly host of hunters outlined in silver paint, their horses’ eyes glinting gold. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z All the while, farmers had to check and recheck water levels and make sure the water didn’t get too hot in the summer sun. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Most of them had told him they were planning to become farmers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked like ordinary farmers with overalls and farm work boots. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If he forced them to hold down their costs, he would have to do the same with every merchant, laborer, and farmer doing business in town. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z A Department of Agriculture cares for the farmers’ needs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And as the light faded, perhaps a farmer from the next village would stop by. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z "The good farmer shared his bread and cheese wi' me." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The air was cool and wet and delicious to breathe: a slow, fine, soaking rain, a farmer’s rain, gentle on the roof. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots: between peoples with farmer power and those without it, or between those who acquired it at different times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Shin asked the Chinese farmer to help them out, and he did so, but with a reluctance and a resentment that Shin was slow to notice. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z 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 “I guess you’re right. The farmer catches it coming and going.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z They each do better under those conditions, and a farmer who would mix white and black chickens would be the dumbest man in the world.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z High in his seat, the farmer didn’t see me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z "But is it true . . .?" "Suh?" the farmer said, his brow wrinkling with bewilderment. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom says she has no intention of ever being a farmer, even though she knows how to drive a tractor and prune grapes and everything. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z They were farmers from just across the German border, not far away. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The first farmers didn’t even have any existing crop as a model to inspire them to develop new ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And so one night, the prince and the farmer's daughter raced away on horseback, stopping only at dawn to sleep in the shade of a giant yew tree. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z My family might never have become silk farmers if it hadn’t been for the Emperor Justinian, who, according to Procopius, persuaded two missionaries to risk it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On Saturdays they shop together for food at the farmers’ market in Union Square, with canvas bags over their shoulders. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But such rabbits or raccoons or opossums as may have roamed those bottomlands and perhaps never visited the farmers’ cornfields were doomed by a judge and jury who neither knew of their existence nor cared. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In a land of poor farmers, there were too many troubles for God and man alone. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Many was the young farmer suffocating in credit who came to Randall for advice—advice freely and generously given—and in his time came to master an enviable spread. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z And farmers wished they hadn’t contracted their beans for a lousy two cents a pound above the going price six months ago. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Most of the farmers had used up the trees near their houses and had their woodlots on back land. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She had invited friends, summer people she’d met a couple of days earlier at a farmer’s market. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It's only been three months and I already look the part of farmer in overalls and clodhoppers. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Taisin suddenly felt every inch the farmer’s daughter— clumsy and foolish. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Napoleon was by this time on slightly better terms with the other farmers than before. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “Lexie. Maple syrup comes from trees. I drink soda a lot, and I’m growing—and farmers put animal manure on their fields all the time. So zip it. It’s going to work.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z As the farmer lay gasping and bleeding on the floor, the mercenary’s attention seemed to wander, as if he had forgotten what he was doing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Though, now that you mention it, I did hear a rather crude one recently about a pig, a farmer's wife, and an eloko who walk into a tavern...” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They worked for many years to earn enough to marry the farmers’ daughters. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Nay! It’s not one of them ruffians,’ Sam heard the farmer say. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Instantly these technological contraptions became as precious to me as cattle are to a farmer. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the house was a barn and flanking both was the field where the farmer had been plowing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z My father removes his hat and holds it in his thick, farmer’s hands, the palms caked with grime, soil caught beneath the fingernails. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Some dumb farmer of a reporter saw Seabiscuit with his usual after-exercise bandages on and drew the wrong conclusion,” he said. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That transfer is not at all surprising, considering that many peasant farmers live and sleep close to cows and their feces, urine, breath, sores, and blood. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A farmer in upper New York State painted the word cow in big black letters on both sides of his white bossy, but the hunters shot it anyway. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Anna was a financial burden on her father, so a bishop persuaded her to marry a rich farmer as his second wife. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Rowan had one, too—bright green bands bearing the curved blade of a farmer’s scythe above an unblinking eye—the double symbol of the scythehood. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The oldest corn cobs are barely more than half an inch long, but Mexican Indian farmers of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Generations of settlers, mostly farmers, gained experience as “Indian fighters,” although they were not necessarily in the regular military. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z As Joel puts it, “Most of the time pests and disease are just nature’s way of telling the farmer he’s doing something wrong.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But even when farmers try, it is often little use: modern hybrids are so productive that despite the distances involved U.S. corporations can sell maize for less in Oaxaca than can Diaz Castellano. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “It’s a Quonset hut. They had a lot of them left over after World War II. Some of the citrus farmers bought ’em up cheap, as war surplus.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Having a father who was a tavern-keeper was a lot better than being a farmer’s son, like most boys. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And Uncle Al’s not the only one with that idea—a handful of farmers hang around the edges of the lot, trailing lead ropes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z This is a farm policy that is not designed to help farmers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z 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 In the few years before forest recovers the plot, farmers can eke something out of the land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They made miracles, the tobacco farmer and the coachman’s son. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A deputation of neighbouring farmers had been invited to make a tour of inspection. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The farmer’s wife put me in a wooden tub and scrubbed me until I screamed. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Most, though, were contract farmers or sharecroppers who worked in fields owned by hakujin. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The experience had soured him, but he was widely respected as a veteran and a good farmer. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Some of them were farmers I recognized from when we delivered our cotton. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, one can examine what did happen when European farmers were transplanted to Greenland or the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Folks on Stella’s side of town worked as maids and cooks, janitors and sharecropping farmers. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z This has been going on since the late 1860s, when famine struck North Korea and starving farmers fled across the Tumen and the Yalu rivers into northeast China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z This farmer had taken his outhouse off the hole, and set it just in front of the hole. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Hardly enough for a cash crop, but they were learning, and in another year, after another harvest, they would be experienced old farmers and sugarers, they told each other. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Then the farmers and the ranchers would be filled with disgust for the Salinas Valley. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Growing rice is too complicated and intricate for a system that requires farmers to be coerced and bullied into going out into the fields each morning. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Another solution would be to become farmers, like the people of the Iroquois Confederacy who once lived here. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Only one small community along Dawes’s ride appeared to get the message, a few farmers in a neighborhood called Waltham Farms. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The average farmer worked harder than the average forager, and got a worse diet in return. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She opened the fridge and saw that her mom had been to the farmers’ market—there was a bowl of green apples, Jamie’s favorite. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The strange thing is, after playing this poor fool farmer for a while I can’t help but feel sorry for him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Hesiod was a poor farmer whose life was hard and bitter. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z A farmer from whom I bought eggs and home-smoked bacon told me of the advantages. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Think, for a moment, about what the life of a rice farmer in the Pearl River Delta must have been like. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I had amongst my scholars several farmers’ daughters: young women grown, almost. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Among Africa’s five groups of people—blacks, whites, Pygmies, Khoisan, and Indonesians—only the Pygmies lack any distinct languages: each band of Pygmies speaks the same language as the neighboring group of black farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The son of a New England farmer and shoemaker was being accused of aristocratic allegiances by an owner of slaves with vast estates, much of both inherited from his wife’s side of the family. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Waiting for them were four carnival-sized rented tents, pitched in a black farmer’s field. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The market square inside the Gate of the Gods, which in normal times would have been thronged with farmers selling vegetables, was near deserted when Tyrion crossed it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z White tented booths for a farmers’ market lined the sidewalk in front and wrapped around the corner. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The fourteen men ultimately elected consisted of half a dozen farmers, a pharmacist, a nursery manager, an airport employee, a well driller, two salesmen, a machinist, and the manager of Ray’s Bowling Alley. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Most farmers wear a trucker’s cap marked with the logo of an agribusiness giant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z At once the poor farmer felt sorry for what he had done, but before he could tell her, she died. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, they were farmers enough to do what was best for their only cow. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z If this were a real law, most of the world’s ranchers and dairy farmers would be outlaws, because they let their cows stay in the same pasture without stop. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The day after, I would go back to shopping at the supermarket or farmers market. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z 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 And the farmer called back, “I would sooner sell my wife than this ox which is but three years old and in its prime,” and he ploughed on and would not stop for Wang Lung. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z So she would be a tenant farmer after all? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The farmer grabbed me under the arms, pulled me from the wagon, and threw me onto the road. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d consult some almanacs, which usually disagreed, and he’d ask certain farmers who were supposed to be good judges of weather when they thought the snow would come. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z During all my months of ciphering, I had counted on selling my grain to the miller at grain prices, not to the odd farmer as cattle feed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The farmer turned and saw the trail of rice. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z It took perhaps twenty minutes after the farmer informed Utah Power of the accident for them to switch off the deadly current pulsing through the lines. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The Ainu were conquered, rounded up into reserves, forced to work for trading posts, driven off land desired by Japanese farmers, and killed when they revolted. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Five,” replied the fourth farmer, a short, sour-faced man who hadn’t spoken until then. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z For example, when a farmer sows seeds densely in a garden, there is intense competition among the seeds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “No, Met Bong. We were farmers living in the countryside. I was too young to remember, but I know they died fighting for the Civil War.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The herd boys worked for a nearby farmer who kept many cows. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z She did not want to be a tenant farmer one day. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Called himself a farmer, but you never saw him behind a plow or driving a team. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z That fate befell African pygmies and many other hunter-gatherer populations displaced by farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They probably don’t have outdoor farmers’ markets very often. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Soon the farmer came out. ‘Good morning, my fine nanny goat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "He just talked to a farmer and the heat knocked him out . . . Then we got caught in the mob downstairs." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Denna obviously wasn’t interested in discussing things in front of the farmer, and I was glad to have a moment to think things over. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z If the casualties were limited to their own kind there would be no problem, but the slaughter of cows, pigs, farmers, dogs, and highway signs makes autumn a dangerous season in which to travel. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Animals ate the plants and the farmer recycled the nitrogen by spreading the animals’ manure on the soil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In addition to being too costly for many small farmers, the fertilizer and irrigation can, if used improperly, damage the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Hey,” I called to one of them, a farmer, Mr. Cook. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z First, their slow growth would exhaust the patience of most farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z However, the skeletal differences between the earlier hunter-gatherers and the farmers who replaced them are less marked in Europe than in the Philippines, Indonesia, and subequatorial Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Only a year earlier, Fred and his brother Cliff had been tobacco farmers in Clover too. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Guess I’m lucky the Government outlawed pets. Didn’t farmers always used to keep big guard dogs that would chomp people's heads off in one bite?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The farmers, who lived in quaint stone cottages surrounded by broad fields, grew yellow squash and long green beans and bushels of wheat. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of it, such as the variation in berry size or in nut bitterness, would have been readily noticed by ancient farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her father, a strawberry farmer, had come from Japan, from people who had been pottery makers for as long as anyone in his prefecture could remember. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Ti Jean was a muscular man in his thirties, a local farmer’s son who had witnessed what Farmer had accomplished in the central plateau over the last twenty years. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Dad,” Ji-yong asked suddenly, “did Grandpa whip the farmers if they couldn’t pay their rent?” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Shepherds and farmers throughout history showed affection for their animals and have taken great care of them, just as many slaveholders felt affection and concern for their slaves. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “This guy was a farmer. He and his wife use to carry water up a hill all day. ...” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She was cutting one of the apples we had just gotten at the farmers’ market into teensy-weensy bites so I could eat it. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z According to historian Joel Williamson, the idea that a particularly cruel racism was somehow unique to poor white farmers and laborers was an upper-class myth. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Most of them are illiterate farmers and peasants who supported the revolution. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, the first farmers in the Jordan Valley selected the 2 very best of the 23 best wild grass species available to them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But farmers are sedentary and live amid their own sewage, thus providing microbes with a short path from one person’s body into another’s drinking water. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z How can a fancy car go through the fields and help a farmer plant or pick? Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Henri wore glasses, which Nettle said looked odd on a farmer. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z What chance—what shadow of a chance—had those poor, untrained, half-armed farmers at Concord? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The few times Bernabe had tried to break down the political and social situation in town, talking about how little land and money the farmers really had, Carolina had rather consistently observed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When Monsanto, or some other corporation, invents a new type of corn, it belongs to them and they can charge farmers for the right to grow it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But for every dollar a consumer spends on HFCS, say in a soft drink, farmers get only four cents. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The loud rapping awoke the farmer, who was alarmed at being wakened in the middle of the night. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been walking the tracks for a long time when the farmer stopped me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “He didn’t want to risk the post with it, and since I was coming down Boston way—” She took the parcel from his big, rough farmer fist. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The neighbor found him in his barn the following morning and made a deal with the farmer to trade Dutchy for a pig. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He ran down for them a history of other conservancy districts in the state which had effectively destroyed subsistence farmers by forcing them into cash economies where they could not compete. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Frodo said nothing: the shrewd guesses of the farmer were rather disconcerting. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Nor did the farmers foresee that in good years their bulging granaries would tempt thieves and enemies, compelling them to start building walls and doing guard duty. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Life with the farmer and his wife was as bad as he’d feared. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z During this service period, city boys and girls were sent to the country to help farmers plant crops and bring in the harvest. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z As we saw earlier, farmers in the industrial food chain are often on the edge of going bankrupt. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Instead, one part of the explanation for farmer power lies in the much denser populations that food production could support: ten naked farmers certainly would have an advantage over one naked hunter-gatherer in a fight. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Fetch me a few leaves, boy,” said the farmer. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The farmer jumped down to load my valise and food hamper into the back of the wagon. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The farmer had treated about 60 acres of land with a dust containing DDT and benzene hexachloride. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Back when George’s grandfather started farming, farmers grew their own seed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The clattering stream on the rocks was a good reposeful sound, but the conversation of the farmer stayed with me—a thoughtful, articulate man he was. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z This one will be a Luna, the old man said, he will be a farmer and keep our customs and traditions. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "Isn't it probably just a farmer riding home late?" said Shasta with a yawn. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Here he was in fifth grade, near the end of his very first language arts class with Mrs. Granger, and Nick could feel a homework assignment coming the way a farmer can feel a rainstorm. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For a long time Greta and I were slaves for the farmers. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Born in Missouri in 1874, he was the son of a farmer. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Even prices higher than any in memory couldn’t tempt farmers into the city with fresh food. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After just half a day I knew I would never again complain about any price a farmer wanted to charge me for food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The farmer vouched for his good character, and the police went away. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “You know, Alice,” he said, “I have come to realize that I am a farmer already.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z It also helps the farmer in another important way. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z "Things is pretty good now," the farmer said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z You can find calamansi juice and green beans for stewing at the farmers market, or a ton of Filipino restaurants and shops. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z 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 For normal potato farmers, it's not worth doing because they're working with literally millions of potato plants. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 A bowlegged farmer unloads a crate of country chickens for the butcher. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Gabriel was loaned out to the same farmer. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The modern Maori are descendants of Polynesian farmers who colonized New Zealand around A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even most farmers have nothing to do with it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The peasant farmers had watched the dam being built, but even when it began blocking the Artibonite River, forming a reservoir that flooded their farms, they felt stunned disbelief. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z On market days, traveling merchants and local farmers came from miles around, selling everything from bolts of cloth to scented soaps and balls of twine. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She was thin without the taut look of wiry people, and her printed voile dresses and flowered hats were as right for her as denim overalls for a farmer. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Wilbur was what farmers call a spring pig, which simply means that he was born in springtime. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z We were hidden by the backrest, by the wall of hair, and who was the farmer to tell anyway? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It should also be noted that the Aché were hunted and killed without mercy by Paraguayan farmers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, farmers selected from among individual plants on the basis not only of perceptible qualities like size and taste, but also of invisible features like seed dispersal mechanisms, germination inhibition, and reproductive biology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Obviously, crowd diseases could not sustain themselves in small bands of hunter-gatherers and slash-and-burn farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Wealthy farmers and their families carried buckets of slopping milk and rounds of cheese. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “Farmers are busy; farmers are busy; if farmers weren’t busy, where would grain to get through the winter come from?” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z At first they took no notice of the farmer standing on the edge of their circle, and as his dazzled eyes adjusted to the light, he finally noticed the musicians playing along the sidelines. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Tom Watson, who had been among the most forceful advocates for an interracial alliance of farmers, concluded that Populist principles could never be fully embraced by the South until blacks were eliminated from politics. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I remembered Uri’s story of my beginnings, of becoming a slave to farmers. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Organic farmers generally use less fuel to grow their crops. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Well, and Wang the farmer!” she said, lingering with malice on the word farmer, “and who would think to see you here!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Rum was easier to get and we could usually get cider, because every farmer made it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The farmer, through his lobby, is the most government-subsidized special-interest group in America today, because a million farmers vote, not as Democrats, or Republicans, liberals, conservatives, but as farmers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A skilled debater, he advocated for the interests of farmers and businessmen in his district. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Racing downhill in early evening darkness through cornfield stubble, Shin came across a farmer’s shed half buried in the hillside. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Fear drowned out grief and that night we packed clothes and dishes and loaded them into a farmer’s wagon. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘They’ve caught one of their own men selling a musket to a farmer.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A Renaissance man of the plains, he is a farmer, welder, businessman, machinist, ace mechanic, commodities speculator, licensed airplane pilot, computer programmer, electronics troubleshooter, video-game repairman. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The vast majority of farmers lived in permanent settlements; only a few were nomadic shepherds. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Egyptian farmers raised a wide variety of fruits and vegetables—harvesting rich vineyards, tending extensive orchards, and producing record amounts of grain for domestic use and for export. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z No, he stands crookedly, like a humble farmer, out of place in this city, out of place on the milk-white tile floor. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The death of the farmer’s daughter saw to that. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z ‘Happens they caught more than the farmer and the soldier?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In past years Mr. Jones, although a hard master, had been a capable farmer, but of late he had fallen on evil days. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z When prices were higher, farmers sold their grain and repaid the government. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “You don’t need to stay for the farmers’ market?” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z "Yes, an orphan, poor thing. One of our farmers found her, wrapped in blankets near the crossroads at the base of the mountain." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z A farmer played a one-stringed harp like a hunter’s bow and sang to himself as he waited for someone to buy his chickens. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If loggers or farmers clear away the vegetation, they also remove the local supply of nutrients. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The benches were crowded, townsfolk and farmers mingling freely with all manner of travelers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In the early 1600s, the British seized a half-million acres from Irish farmers, drove them from their lands, and opened those lands to settlers who would be under English protection. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z As part of my research I kept hearing about this incredible farmer in Virginia. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The plan, full of details intended to fool Clinton, was put into a pouch and given to an agent pretending to be a Tory farmer. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In Vietnam, he interviewed all kinds of people: soldiers, rice farmers, orphans, generals, and even the South Vietnamese president, Nguyen Van Thieu. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The farmer now spoke to White and his men. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The farmer’s wife I usually deal with is just setting up her booth and complains that I have been going elsewhere. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Zach said the farmers had planted and harvested their cotton early this year because of the boll weevil. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They like vegetables, especially eggplants, and they like to raid farmers’ crops. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The early farmers of the Fertile Crescent and China were heirs to the technology that behaviorially modern Homo sapiens had been developing to exploit local resources in those areas for tens of thousands of years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The farmer’s daughter tended it with loving care; she would comb its coat and wreathe its horns with garlands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But giving shelter to three North Koreans had annoyed the farmer. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The Lombard was so surprised and disoriented that he likely would have kneeled to a pig farmer. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He was a long- limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “A thousand apologies,” says the farmer, falling to his knees to wipe the pearls with his shirt. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z My first night as a chicken farmer passed far too quickly. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z A little before dark I passed a farm-house, at the open door of which the farmer was sitting, eating his supper of bread and cheese. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z His tobacco fetched a high price each year at the Auction Holdings Limited in Lilongwe, where the farmers sold their hundred-kilogram bales on the auction floor. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z In a sense, they too were “grass farmers.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The farmer had been in his cups, moaning about how his and his neighbors’ cane fields had been flooded. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The farmer’s wife—her name was Elzbieta—fed me with the pigs. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The land in southern Georgia lay vastly undeveloped, with fewer and fewer settlements of farmers. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z There were reports that farmers, after meeting state quotas, would be allowed to keep and sell food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z These days he’s a farmer, just like his own father and the father before him. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z I had a dismaying feeling of being eight again, eight and lost in the wrong part of town, harried by farmers’ sons. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z In the pig farmer’s kitchen over the next month, Shin finally found plenty to eat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z A good white farmer promised freedom and a piece of bottom land to his slave if he would perform some very difficult chores. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Toward the end of the summer Mama took us to a farmers’ market to buy fabric to make new curtains for our bedroom. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z This he would have done but he was ashamed lest men see him, who was no longer held a farmer within the gates of the town, but a landowner and a rich man. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The look of the defeated— his father’s look—big, plodding strawberry farmer. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z In particular, Bantu farmers who acquired cows and sheep spread out of their homeland in West Africa and within a short time overran the former hunter-gatherers in most of the rest of sub-Saharan Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Every evening at five o’clock the farmers and the fishermen would close up their stalls, pack their trucks, and go home. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I asked to see the farmer, and when he appeared I assumed a humble demeanor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The elder Andrews was a prosperous farmer; he had not much money in the bank, but he owned land valued at approximately two hundred thousand dollars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Although he came from a modest background–his father was a farmer in upstate New York–his uncle was the supremely rich and extraordinarily indulgent financier George Peabody. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Because tobacco seeds require loads of water for them to break ground, many farmers plant nursery beds by the dambos where they can easily water them daily. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z In the parking lot, I found a farmer’s pickup truck, chock-full of farm-related wares. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I had heard him say it plenty of times—that there was more out in the world than just being a farmer, like most of the other kids’ parents. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Even a poor cabbage farmer’s son like my father knows the custom. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z There were concession stands there, too, like at a farmers’ market, selling roasted peanuts and cotton candy. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z "They did leave her in the morning, when the farmers drive their rice carts down the road. And our village does have a reputation in this area for taking in orphans." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Apothecary shops were broken into and medicines stolen; food was taken from the few farmer’s wagons to appear in town. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z These are the descendants of the fifteen million original inhabitants of the land, the majority of whom were farmers who lived in towns. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z California Native American hunter-gatherers traded with Native American farmers in the Colorado River valley. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But when I saw Father’s occupations I exclaimed, “Hey, he wasn’t a farmer, he was a ...” He had been a gambler. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Conditions on the potato farms in the Bethal area, where black prisoners were often taken to relieve the overcrowded jails in Johannesburg and provide cheap labour for white farmers, were described as inhuman. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He and Jakob kept their faces pressed to the window, fascinated by the thatched roofs of the simple country cottages and the sight of farmers plowing with horses. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z American farmers produce thirteen billion bushels of corn a year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z There was a pet stag belonging to a Latin farmer, a beautiful creature, so tame that it would run free by day, but at nightfall always come to the well-known door. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The Grapes of Wrath, the classic novel about the Dust Bowl and the migration of Oklahoma farmers to California, ends with death and a glimmer of renewed life. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Sometimes the unprepossessing farmer with his filthy coveralls is actually an enormously rich man with a four-thousand-acre spread, and sometimes the teenager is coming back later with Mom and Dad. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z But he laughed and he seized her small, curling hands in his soiled ones and he laughed again and said, “Now you see that your lord is but a farmer and you a farmer’s wife!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z They sell the pesticides and fertilizer to the farmers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Today, scholars agree that agriculture sprang up in other parts of the world not by the action of Middle Eastern farmers exporting their revolution but entirely independently. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there was a couple of farmers from Redding Center I didn’t know, and, of course, Sam. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He stopped when he saw her hiding in the bushes around the side, gripping a huge carving knife and all dressed up to look like a Pianosan farmer. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z They dance scenes depicting farmers at work, the harvesting of rice, nurses helping wounded soldiers, and soldiers winning batdes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Before hybrids, a farmer could plant eight thousand corn plants in an acre. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Most lived in rural country and were eager to put a stake in the lush ground, no longer as slaves but as farmers of their own land. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Thus, the crops and animals of the Fertile Crescent’s first farmers came to meet humanity’s basic economic needs: carbohydrate, protein, fat, clothing, traction, and transport. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He is a farmer and very fond of horses. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a youth of about seventeen, with the blunt hands of a farmer. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Some old farmer dragged me and Philbert out of his yard by the elbows, so screaming mad we thought he was going to kill us dead. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z One morning Johnny knew Rab was meeting the farmer at market. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, farmers waste most of the fertilizer they buy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Under what circumstances would it remain preserved for early farmers? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “They enjoy it. Let them spend a little money on a show now and then. A hill farmer works pretty hard and gets mighty little for it.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrote proudly of how the government agent had brought other farmers to see how well his crops were doing. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Our village at the edge of the Białowieża Forest was made up of farmers and blacksmiths, butchers and tailors, teachers and shopkeepers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Both Bookman and Noyes believed in the American concepts of “growth” and “progress”; hence, they could see no justification for the small farmers’ wrath. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Bailey said that the cotton up North was so tall, if ordinary people tried to pick it they’d have to get up on ladders, so the cotton farmers had their cotton picked by machines. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The chemical most popular with the farmers was toxaphene, one of the most destructive to fishes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Hinton was a respected farmer with an enviable spread, a cousin of the governor. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Within a month, Shin’s arrangement with the farmer turned sour. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Washington knew that just the opposite would happen, because the farmer was a Tory who would quickly report the conversation to British officers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It was always crowded with succulents that Bitter kept buying at the farmers’ market and Jam kept trying to relocate into other parts of the house so they could actually use the table. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I was told later that the farmer whose tractor we’d hit rushed from his house. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z For obvious reasons its farmers did not relish the prospect of buffalo herds trampling through their fields. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And then they could not imagine how parents drowned their daughters, as they knew farmers in China often did — bathing the baby, it was called. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “What if she doesn’t tell these people her real name? She’ll tell them she’s the daughter of a simple farmer or goat herder, or something else.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Instead, he was born in Braintree, twelve miles south of Boston, in 1735, the son of a farmer and shoemaker, who sent Adams to Harvard in the hope he might become a minister. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Mom and I took a trip to a farmers’ market where I discovered that there are so many different types of apples and that my new favorite food was the apple cider doughnut. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The clinic’s seventy community health workers, who lived among the peasant farmers and had until recently been peasant farmers themselves, spoke often about the economic obstacles to treatment. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z As the freezing water flowed around us we rubbed the dirt off our bodies and without dirt both of us looked white as ghosts with farmer’s tans on our face and neck and arms. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She had been befriended by stout German farmers, whose guttural speech surprised her and whose well-kept farms astonished her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I never said she killed the farmer’s daughter, the monster said. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Another resulted in a replacement, throughout almost the whole of tropical Southeast Asia, of indigenous hunter-gatherers by farmers of ultimately South Chinese origin. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The army of farmers seized Trenton and later proudly paraded some of their 900 Hessian prisoners through the streets of Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anybody can be a farmer,” she said, flipping away my dream. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She came in smiling big at two farmers who wanted Papa to extend credit for a new mule, and then greeted Mr. Cratic Flournoy, who was complaining of indigestion. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It was noisier than ever before, talk, talk, talk, friends sharing the news, overblown laughter, strong-lunged farmers bellowing their wares. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Shipping food thousands of miles and burning up fossil fuels went against his whole philosophy as a farmer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z That’s the way farmers had always gotten their seed—they just kept some of their crop to be planted for the next season. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But before the horse got more than two or three paces he tripped on a headstone and the farmer fell off and broke his neck and was dead a minute later. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "I never walked the whole time. A farmer brought me half that way on his cart. I even slept a bit on his load of straw." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z They filled the skin with baboon droppings, sewed it up, and propped it against the farmer’s door. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Irish and the Italians were peasants, tenant farmers from the impoverished countryside of Europe. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Farm kids will strike sparks onto a fresh cow pat and watch it burn. That’s why farmers have to be careful about storing manure. The gas can build up and explode.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The rats and mice destroyed the farmers’ grain in the fields and in their stores. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Wheat was attacked by rabbits and locust swarms, so the farmers built fences and stood guard over the fields. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But this one time each May, on the day of San Isidro, who was the patron saint of all farmers, they opened the small adobe church in town. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They wanted people to be able to buy their food from local farmers instead of from big corporations. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The memory of her treating a farmer’s ulcerated arm the last time we visited her was still fresh in my mind, so I decided to wait and see what she could do for Pita’s leg. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z At one point, I remember, one of the farmers looked up and shaded his eyes, staring across the field at us, then after a time he wiped his forehead and went back to work. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It shares roots, of course, with tending—a farmer’s or gardener’s activity—but also with tension, the stretching of a pea tendril to incline it toward sunlight or to train it on an arbor. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A hundred thousand people lived in the dam catchment area, but up to a million peasant farmers, coming from far away, relied on the clinic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He made sure that fertilizer was available to every farmer in the country who needed it. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z “White bread? So that is what one eats in Lublin. White bread is for rich folk, not for farmers.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Banda may have been a cruel dictator, but he did care deeply for farmers and the land. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z His clothing—the gift of the pig farmer—was made locally and attracted little attention. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z For example, for every dollar a consumer spends to buy eggs, forty cents finds its way back to the farmer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Each morning at five thirty, six days a week, Mrs. Nielsen makes breakfast for her husband, usually fried eggs and toast, and he leaves for the store to open for the farmers at six. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z But as the largely self-educated son of a Kentucky farmer, he wasn’t able to tap into the knowingly arcane by-ways of classical history with which his predecessors were able to signal their patrician credentials. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z 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 Son to an English professor who hated everything about the South, grandson to a gentleman farmer who loved everything about it. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Besides tending pigs, he hunted with the farmer for wild boar in the surrounding mountains. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Then one day a man came in a horse and cart and said something to the farmer and went away. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z He will sleep in a bed in the farmers house. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The young woman in the house—Shin found out she was the farmer’s mistress—cooked for him and taught him rudimentary Chinese. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Breeding them, just like the farmers bred cows or sheep. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He was proud because he had three sons and one was a scholar and one a merchant and one a farmer. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “I’m not going to be a farmer and you’re not going to be a farmer’s wife.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There are as many methods as there are farmers for determining the readiness of the earth for planting. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I spent a lot of time riding around among the farmers buying whatever they had. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Briefly, at high population densities only a portion of the people came to be farmers, but they were mobilized to devote themselves to intensive food production, thereby yielding surpluses to feed nonproducers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Ways in've been wired off or walled up by brambles and farmers. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Because we gobble up all the nasty little insects that are gobbling up all the farmer’s crops. It helps enormously, and we ourselves don’t charge a penny for our services.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Mama was worth a lot, and before she finished high school they had promised her to the upright son of a well-to-do farmer in the territory. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Under primitive agricultural conditions the farmer had few insect problems. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Why did olive trees yield to Stone Age farmers, whereas oak trees continue to defeat our brightest agronomists? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My father always claimed that a league wasn’t really a unit of measurement at all, just a way for farmers to attach numbers to their rough guesses. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When farmers first planted hybrid corn in the 1930s their yields doubled or tripled. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But that didn’t keep them from hauling for Grandpa’s big warehouse—delivering to the mill or depot when farmers who stored their cotton with us finally sold it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The sun had just finished burning away the morning dew, and farmers harvesting wheat and barley in the fields looked up as we thundered past. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z 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 The fox took the fat duck home to his wife and babies, and the farmer was too late to prevent it. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Before I had a chance to answer, he added, “We have excellent vocational programs in car mechanics, electronics, and wood shop. We also have a program for future farmers.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z But Levi’s tribe of hunters and famous warriors had been robbed of its lands by the immigrant white farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The man, a Chinese farmer who spoke some Korean, invited Shin inside and ordered a young woman to cook rice. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It therefore seems extremely unlikely that wild species of potential value would have escaped the notice of the first farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z No princes had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast-growing spurge. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The older farmer grinned at me and held out a pair of the knobby squash we’d been unloading. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z One of our passengers, a peasant farmer, had a son, Michela, who was being held on suspicion of murder. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Sometimes, she even went to the farmers market so that there would be bright apples on the table instead of thick gray books like Representations of the Feminine in Ancient Hindu Sculpture. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z No matter what Pa might be saying to Mr. Carter that morning, he had to be echoing a passel of other farmers. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Most of the migrants were farmers, and real estate offices were flooded with inquiries about the availability of cheap acreage near Seattle. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The farmer gave me his pay for that month—ten dollars—and turned us out of the house. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But still, how had a farmer’s daughter bought a silk dress? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The only other clothes that fit me were someplace in the Pennsylvania countryside with the farmer who had abandoned us. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was harder and harder for Papa to earn money as a farmer. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z A farmer smiles nervously at approaching American troops, one with his weapon at the ready, 1967. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The bad news was that the river destroyed many of the boundary markers, erasing all of the landmarks that told farmers which land was theirs to cultivate. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The farmer bought Shin antibiotics for the burns on his legs, along with warm winter clothes and work boots. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In the Pearl River Delta, the rice farmer planted two and sometimes three crops a year. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Even the chemical industry recognizes the frequent misuse of insecticides and the need for education of farmers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I’ll try not to be too busy, but a farmer’s wife has an awful lot to do.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The crop was so severely damaged that farmers sought to bring suit against the state for negligence in not warning them that this might happen. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z James walked down the hallway to hand over the two bags he’d brought back from the farmers’ market. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “And these are from me to keep those calloused farmer’s feet of yours from wearing out the demons’ streets.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Those were some of the advantages that the Fertile Crescent’s flora afforded the first farmers: it included an unusually high percentage of wild plants suitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A farmer ran up to help him, and a larger group of Russian men arrived in a car, surrounding him as he lay sprawled on the ground. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They went into the farmer’s kitchen, and sat by the wide fire-place. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The weather was good for the farmers so there was plenty of food to eat, and business was good for the city’s merchants. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z The farmers supply eight different varieties of dried maize to his shop, Itanoni, where the kernels are carefully ground, hand-pressed into tortillas, and cooked fresh for customers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “More like several hot knives through several dozen farmers,” Bast said dryly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The United States Department of Agriculture would doubtless answer that it has advised farmers to keep milk cows out of treated pastures for 30 to 90 days. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Mott wrote to Stanton, urging her to keep her expectations low: “The convention will not be as large as it otherwise might be, owing to the busy time with the farmers, harvest, etc.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Shop doors opened for business, and ships once again sailed upriver to discharge cargo; farmers arrived, their wagons loaded with provisions bound for the markets of a very hungry city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z St Emilion is now secure under his patronage, and the convent prospers as a result of my commerce with the local merchants and farmers, so Mother Ermentrude and the bishop are pleased. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z 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 Or changing the Government so that farmers were allowed to raise pigs or use hydroponics, and ordinary people, not just Barons, could have better lives. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z In towns further west that did not get the news until morning, farmers were in such haste to join the battle in Lexington that they literally left their plows in the fields. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Member of this and that Leading businessman and farmer. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The farmer placed his hand on my shoulder, but I shook it off, knowing that I could explain nothing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The government told farmers it would pay them for all the corn they could grow. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The ground is so wet that farmers grow rice between their rows of corn. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In fact, farmers today treat several of these crops as weeds—they routinely blast little barley with herbicides. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But a month later, the same neighbor who had awakened Thom from his enchanted sleep came across the farmer again, except this time he would not awaken, for he was dead. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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