| 单词 | ploughland |
| 例句 | Then they made a tour of inspection of the whole farm and surveyed with speechless admiration the ploughland, the hayfield, the orchard, the pool, the spinney. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Pastures were being scoured with ox-drawn dredges, ploughlands broken up with horse-drawn harrows. The murderers next door 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z "Rejoice," he cried, "in your ploughlands and your cattle, which I renounce throughout Tirawley." The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z O brief, enchanted dream Of sea and sky, Of ploughland, meadow, stream, And twilight loth to die, Of fire and dew— My soul is one with you! The Mountainy Singer 2012-02-20T03:00:20.273Z If a manor is said to contain seven hides ad inwaram, it is meant that it pays to the king for seven hides, although there may have been more than seven ploughteams and ploughlands. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z If we were good ploughland, we should allow nothing to be unused or lost, and in every thing, event, or person we should welcome manure, rain, or sunshine. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Between the houses and the La Bassée-Estaires road are meadows and ploughland, seamed with German trenches. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z The huge horse seemed bounding over a floor of dark-red cloud, so easily he took the ploughland of spongy clay, so noiselessly his hoofs went over it. Shadows of Flames A Novel At last he climbed a fence, thinking to drop into the road, and found himself staggering, instead, 57 among the iron furrows of a ploughland, endless, it seemed, as a whole county. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) The relation between the three-field ploughland of 180 acres and the hide of 120 suggests the inference that the official assessment started from the prevalence of the three-field rotation, and disregarded the fallow. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z Over all the brown ploughlands, and under all the leafless hedgerows, there was a stout piece of labour abroad, and, as it were, a spirit of picnic. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers I cannot but conjecture that Mr. Wells's thinking apparatus is fitted with some such automatic appliance for soaring gaily over the snags that stud the ploughlands of theology. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' How thin and clean were the tints of the dry ploughlands and the long sweep of pasture! The Thread of Gold During the rest of the summer, the hare frequented the rough pastures skirting the ploughlands, and visited the cornfields only when the weather was dry. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain It is only inaccurately that we have been speaking of a virgate of 30 acres, and of a ploughland of 180 or 160. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z It was a raw day, with a nipping wind and blinks of sunshine that swept across grass and ploughland and faded again. Blake's Burden Between the two Clandons, West and East, the road runs by what is surely the finest ploughland in the county. Highways and Byways in Surrey How pure and free were the long lines of ploughland, the broad back of the gently-swelling down! The Thread of Gold “As when reapers over against each other drive their swaths through the ploughland of a rich man of wheat and barley, and thick fall the handfuls”... On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay The hide appears as the ploughland with eight oxen, the virgate corresponds to one yoke of oxen, and the bovate to the single head. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z The Hospital of St. Nicholas, Carlisle, had from its foundation been endowed with a thrave of corn from every ploughland in Cumberland. Shakespeare's Family The ploughland is Lord Onslow's, and it must need a Minister of Agriculture to look after it. Highways and Byways in Surrey The wind had fallen with the night; as still The roads lay as the ploughland rude, Dark and naked, on the hill. Last Poems He was tanned like a harvester, Like his short clay pipe, like the leaf and bur That clung to his coat from last night's bed, Like the ploughland crumbling red. Poems It begins by stating what duties lie on each sulung, that is, on the Kentish ploughland corresponding to the hide of feudal England. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z It was a quiet, lonely, prosperous ploughland, stretching for miles, up and down, in great sweeping rolls and folds, like our own chalk downlands. The Old Front Line In Doomsday Book, Hawarden appears as a Lordship, with a church, two ploughlands—half of one belonging to the church—half an acre of meadow, a wood two leagues long and half a league broad. The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book Revised Edition, 1890 After this spirited opening he consulted a sheaf of notes, and was straightway mired in a ploughland of tramway finance and sticky statistics. Foe-Farrell Then he sent Gefjun across the sound to the north to discover new countries, and she came to King Gylfe, who gave her a ploughland. The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda It is a full ploughland, and 200 acres are commonly reckoned to belong to it. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z There was green grass above it, and green grass below it; and green grass and patches of ploughland all over the downs. Letters from France Fightest thou with me because thou hopest to reign over the men of Troy, or have they given thee a choice portion of ground, ploughland and orchard, to be thine when thou hast slain me? The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) The abbot durst no other, there he unhooded his brother, and the child gave the abbot in hand twenty ploughlands, and afterwards they proceeded forth into London. Brut Lord, it is Breton land which Duke Hod holds, and once it was rich in pasture and ploughland, but Count Riol of Nantes has wasted it. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult Three unions, each of peace a proved miscarriage, Confederate feats, joint ploughland, bonds of marriage. A Celtic Psaltery Will your oxen of their own accord yoke themselves for the deep ploughlands and draw the earth-cleaving share through the fallow, and forthwith, as the year comes round, reap the harvest? The Argonautica The hours uncalculated, and the long arrears of the night, had confused my attention; the wind, the little arrows of the ice, the absence of ploughlands and of men. Hills and the Sea Attached to this central manse was a considerable amount of land--ploughland, meadows, vineyards, orchards, and almost all the woods or forests on the estate. Medieval People Steep wooded banks rising out of the water's edge give the windings of the estuary the feeling of solemn mystery which is not obtainable from meadows or ploughlands. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association At last he climbed a fence, thinking to drop into the road, and found himself staggering, instead, among the iron furrows of a ploughland, endless, it seemed, as a whole county. Tales and Fantasies His eagle spread Wide pinions on a cloudless ground of heaven, Glad with the heart's high courage of that dawn Moving upon the ploughlands newly sown, Dead stone the rest. Georgian Poetry 1913-15 A ploughland was as much land as one plough with oxen could plough in a year. English Villages Then the sun set over green fields and ploughland and the night came up. The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories It was sloping upwards, that ploughland, and the horses were over their fetlocks in the red, soft soil. The Green Flag The insects most injurious to the rural industry of the garden and the ploughland do not multiply in or near the woods. The Earth as Modified by Human Action The rich, damp earth of the plains beyond Robertville, with its rank grass, its moist ploughland and groves of eucalyptus, was already left behind. The Garden of Allah They load the leafless hedge hard by, And the blades of last year's grass, While the fallow ploughland turned up nigh In raw rolls, clammy and clogging lie - Too clogging for feet to pass. Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses And the oxen in the ploughlands are bright varnished brown and black and blackish purple; and the peasants are dressed in the black and white of magpies; and there are great Rocks of magpies too. The Good Soldier I stand on the windy uplands among the hills of Down With all the world spread out beneath, meadow and sea and town, And ploughlands on the far-off hills that glow with friendly brown. Spirits in bondage; a cycle of lyrics This improvement is owing partly to the more thorough cultivation of the soil, partly to the groves which are interspersed among the ploughlands. The Earth as Modified by Human Action It seemed a country empty of man, though sometimes they came on derelict ploughlands and towns of crumbling brick charred and glazed by fire. The Path of the King There being little ploughland, and few woods, the Vale is only an average sporting country, except for hunting. Tom Brown's School Days The ploughland was in splendid condition; in a couple of days it would be fit for harrowing and sowing. Anna Karenina Over the ploughland riding was utterly impossible; the horse could only keep a foothold where there was ice, and in the thawing furrows he sank deep in at each step. Anna Karenina |
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