Dick had taken the precaution to place the horses where they could feed on a heap of fodder stacked in the yard, and when they mounted the beasts appeared refreshed as well as rested.

He carefully gets the meadow hay and the more nutritious grasses which grow next to that, but he leaves this fine purple mist for the walker's harvest,fodder for his fancy stock.

The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep: thou for wages followest thy master, thy master for wages follows not thee; therefore, thou art a sheep.

The ruling classes who enslave, despise and exploit you in times of peace desire now to misuse you as cannon-fodder.

I see him, up the midway cliff he creeps 470 To where a scanty knot of verdure peeps, Thence down the steep a pile of grass he throws The fodder of his herds in winter snows.

"They are laying in fodder for the Winter."

It's an old agreement between us and some peasants on a farm in Gottland, that they shall supply us with fodder in case we have snow-winter; and as a recompense they are permitted to take away those of us who become superfluous.

"We have good fodder up here on the mountain, all the year around."

But indeed there was something beside sheep fodder to look at, for one who had gotten well up on the steep.

I have no night fodder in my manger, and no bed has been made under me.

There was not much room for fields, but there was plenty of good fodder everywhere.

He looked in at the narrow pen where he had lived up till now; saw the beaten ground, the stale fodder, the little trough where he had drunk water, and the dark shed in which he had slept.

Chapter XIV Cannon Fodder At the head of each iron bed hung the nurse's chart and a few words of "history."

Yet the more one sees of it and of this cannon fodder, the people on whom the burden of war really falls, how alike they all are in their courage, simplicity, patience, and long-suffering, whether Hungarians or Russians, Belgians or Turks, the less simple is it to be convinced of the complete righteousness of any of the various general ideas in whose name these men are tortured.

When harvest time came, they worked in the fields side by side,plucked the corn, pulled the fodder, and gathered the dried peas from the yellow pea-vines.

Both man and beast looked longingly toward the town, which promised companionship and revelry to the one, and rest and fodder to the other.

He had been so entirely a stable-raised horse that this fodder was new to him.

Under the forecastle are stalls for fifteen ponies, the maximum the space would hold; the narrow irregular space in front is packed tight with fodder.

In front of the break of the poop is a stack of petrol cases; a further stack surmounted with bales of fodder stands between the main hatch and the mainmast, and cases of petrol, paraffin, and alcohol, arranged along either gangway.

Some 4 or 5 tons of fodder and the ever watchful Anton take up the remainder of the forecastle space.

Unfortunately we could not clear the line for the trawlit is stowed under the fodder.

With ponies, motor sledges, dogs, and men parties we have done an excellent day of transportinganother such day should practically finish all the stores and leave only fuel and fodder (60 tons) to complete our landing.

We found a good deal of compressed fodder and boxes of maize, but no grain crushed as expected.

We came with the loads noted below and one bale of fodder (105 lbs.)

130 Bales compressed fodder 13,650 24 Cases dog biscuit 1,400 10 Sacks of oats 1,600 ? 16,650 Teams return to ship to transport this load to Cache No. 1.

In this country they believe that water is life; thus harking back to the teaching of the Father of Philosophy, to Thales of Miletus, who lived six hundred years before Christ: "The principle of all things is water, all comes from water, and to water all returns."

'Mr. Boswell, who between his father's merit and his own is sure of reception wherever he comes, sent a servant before,' &c. Johnson's Works, ix.

According to Mrs. Piozzi (Anec. p. 5), Johnson said that his 'father's brother, Andrew, kept the ring in Smithfield (where they wrestled and boxed) for a whole year, and never was thrown or conquered.

The young lord was married on the 8th of May, 1728, and the father's will is dated the 6th of Nov. following.

'I may finish my letter,' he writes, 'especially as the conclusion of it naturally turns my thoughts from Yahoos to one of the dearest pledges I have upon earth, yourself, to whom I am a most Affectionate Father, 'ORRERY.' See ante, i. 275-284, for Johnson's letters to Thomas Warton, many of which end 'in studied varieties of phrase.'

Miss Burney wrote of him in 1780:'My father has very exactly named him, in calling him a philosophical gossip.'

Boswell's mother's grandmother was a Bruce of the Earl of Kincardine's family, and so also was his father's mother.

As they approached Auchinleck, Boswell conjured Johnson by all the ties of regard, and in requital of the services he had rendered him upon his tour, that he would spare two subjects in tenderness to his father's prejudices; the first related to Sir John Pringle, president of the Royal Society, about whom there was then some dispute current: the second concerned the general question of Whig and Tory.

Jamie then set to mediating between his father and the philosopher, and availing himself of the judge's sense of hospitality, which was punctilious, reduced the debate to more order.

He was two nights at Auchinleck, and you may figure the joy of my worthy father and me at seeing the Corsican hero in our romantic groves.'

Boswell wrote on June 19, 1775:'My father harps on my going over Scotland with a brute (think, how shockingly erroneous!), and wandering (or some such phrase) to London.'

[1045] 'The late Sir Alexander Boswell,' wrote Sir Walter Scott, 'was a proud man, and, like his grandfather, thought that his father lowered himself by his deferential suit and service to Johnson.

What, then, if he were not her father?

Even if you are" She was going on to say "if you are my father," but caught herself in time.

It is I, Prince Victor, your father.

I, Prince Victor Vassilyevski, am your father.

"Father always will have him kept on the chain, andand" "An infernally cruel thing to do!" broke indignantly from Piers.

"I hope Father won't mind," she said.

He dares do anything but fight, and fears nothing but his father's life, and minority.

His pedigree and his father's seal-ring are the stilts of his crazed disposition.

His father hath writ him as his own little story, wherein he reads those days of his life that he cannot remember, and sighs to see what innocence he hath out-lived.

The elder he grows, he is a stair lower from God; and, like his first father, much worse in his breeches.

The root of his disease is a self-humouring pride, and an accustomed tenderness not to be crossed in his fancy; and the occasion commonly of one of these three, a hard father, a peevish wench, or his ambition thwarted.

His father has done with him as Pharaoh to the children of Israel, that would have them make brick and give them no straw, so he tasks him to be a gentleman, and leaves him nothing to maintain it.

"Ah, if only your father would come!"