64 collocations for cropped

Dark and darker the shadows crept down, deepening to a night soft and warm and very still, whose quietude was unbroken save for the drowsy lap and murmur of the river and the sound the war-horse Mars made as he cropped the grass near by.

Field crops management.

The royalists were denominated Cavaliers; a word which, though applied to them at first in allusion to their quality, soon lost its original acceptation, and was taken to be synonymous with papist, atheist, and voluptuary; and they on their part gave to their enemies the name of Roundheads, because they cropped their hair short, dividing "it into so many little peaks as was something ridiculous to behold.

Now Beltane, yet astride the mighty roan that snuffed the fragrant air and stooped to crop the tender herbage, looked upon the youthful paladin 'neath wrinkled brow, and pulled his lip as one in doubt.

And even if his wicked heart is not changed, he will be obliged to treat them with outward kindness, through fear of punishment" The young man looked convinced, and almost as ashamed as if he had been the one to crop my ears.

I cropped my head lest you should know me.

But while I have stopped to tell you all this he had almost finished the crèche; the little houses were all in place, and the animals grouped about the holy stable, or else seeming to crop the tufts of moss on the mimic rocky hillside.

It crops the tender leaves confidingly, and swings its head as much as to say: "Don't fear, Dick; Fin here.

"The honey-bags steal from the humble bees, And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs.

1125 And many years did this poor Ass, Whom once it was my luck to see Cropping the shrubs of Leming-Lane, Help by his labour to maintain The Widow and her family.

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

So we dined on hard bread and black coffee, and our forlorn beasts walked languidly about, cropping the dry stalks of weeds and the juiceless roots of the dead grass.

We catch glimpses of grouse cropping heather buds, of whi

If he liked to crop a thistle or a blade of grass, I would stop a moment, for I thought he would grow fatter in that way, and I should not lose so much when I sold him again.

" Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, sluggard, and be wise: No stern command, no monitory voice, Prescribes her duties, or directs her choice; Yet, timely provident, she hastes away, To snatch the blessings of the plenteous day; When fruitful summer loads the teeming plain, She crops the harvest, and she stores the grain.

" "In Olynthia," said Agrius, "they are said to crop the land every year but to get a greater yield every third year.

Nothing could have been more considerate than the Westerner's manner, nothing could have been kinder than his prompt actionBennington saw that his pony, now cropping the brush near at hand, was black with sweatnothing could have been more straightforward than his assistance in the matter of the claims.

Master Skyffington sat behind a central table, a little pompous of manner, clad in sober black with well-starched linen cuffs and collar, his scanty hair closely cropped, his thin hands fingering with assurance and perfect calm the various documents laid out before him.

There was a kind of dull pleasure in cropping the elder hedge, and even in collecting the dead branches scattered under the trees.

At will I crop the year's increase My latter life is rest and peace.

710 To a close lane they now are come, Where, as before, the enduring Ass Moves on without a moment's stop, Nor once turns round his head to crop A bramble-leaf or blade of grass.

In the very first line out crops Shylock's love of good bargains; and I give the reader my word, the little Frenchmen saw that this was characteristic, and applauded vehemently.

The various swarms which boundless ocean breeds, The countless tribes which crop the flowery meads, All know their kind, but hapless man alone Has no instinctive feeling for his own!

It became desirable to keep this grass down, and Kitty being unable to crop a meadow of so many acres, Mark was compelled to admit his pigs and poultry again.

The kine are couched upon the dewy grass; The horse alone, seen dimly as I pass, Is cropping audibly his later meal: [C] Dark is the ground; a slumber seems to steal 5 O'er vale, and mountain, and the starless sky.

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