116 Metaphors for fields

" Fields was now an entire master of the situation.

The fields are all the bishop's or the king's. WALTER.

Its great coal-field in the S.E. is the most celebrated in the world, and is the county's greatest source of wealth, and includes upwards of 100 collieries; Newcastle, Alnwick (county town), Hexham, and North Shields are the principal towns.

This field, however, is the property of Judge Willoughby, and here I feel at liberty to thrash you.

He illustrates his subject from daily life; the fields, the streets, stars, flowers, music, and babies are his favorite emblems.

Tigers do we care to be? Fields like these so desolate Are to us a hateful fate.

One field was bare, its surface of an ochreish colour deeper than that of clay, broken and smoothed as perfectly as the surface of the most carefully tended flower-bed.

His subsequent fields of labor were Fort Atkinson, Lake Mills, Greenbush, Sheboygan Falls, and Fond du Lac, where he succeeded to the District.

The field of battle where he gathered his gay knights was a slough.

It took the field as if the field were a ball-room.

Dick Field was cook, and the rest of us drove the oxen.

His next field was Rock Prairie, to which he was sent in 1848.

Outside, beyond the foliage, where the sunlight lies on the slate-coloured roofs, the ridged rice-fields beyond the roofs, and the hills beyond the rice-fields, is all Japanonly all Japan; and this that they call the old French Legation is the Garden of Eden that most naturally dropped down here after the Fall.

"In the eyes of warriors," said Ferámurz, "the field of fight is the mansion of pleasure.

His last field of labor was Amoy, entering it in January, 1842, when the port had just been thrown open and while the British army was still there, and leaving it in January, 1845.

Every field is a great bird's- nest.

The field in which we fought with these Indians was very stony, and swarmed prodigiously with locusts, and these animals sprung up in such numbers during the action, striking us in the face, that we hardly knew when to raise our shields in our defence, or whether it was locusts or arrows which flew about us, they were so mixed together.

The battle-field in France, owing to continued rains and wet weather, had become one great sea of slimy mud, through which it was impossible to drag the cannon.

Finally he settled upon the "Cosmopolitan Window Fastener," meaning that its destined field of usefulness was the whole civilized globe.

The peaceful and industrious Moquis, with their gay and warm blankets, their fields of corn and beans, and their flocks of sheep, are the quarry which attracts this ferocious cavalry of the desert, these Tartars and Bedouin of America.

He is the thinker of detail, and his proper field is psychology and matters of taste.

His last field was Baraboo Station, where he passed from labor to reward, leaving to his brethren the record of a spotless life and unswerving devotion to the Master's work.

It was entirely out of the question; that a good deal depended upon the state the fields are inthat his people, for instance, could, with much ease, if they chose, clean 170 trees by half-past three o'clock.

Our fields are a laughing-stock to the neighbours, they're that poor and wasted.

The more fields, however, that ripen, the higher become the reapers' wages, rising to twenty, thirty, forty, even fifty per cent; indeed, the executive sometimes consider it to be necessary to force the people to do harvest by corporal punishment and imprisonment, in order to prevent a large portion of the crop from rotting on the stalk.

116 Metaphors for  fields