297 examples of foddering in sentences

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.

" "Yes, the farmer takes lots of comfort, walking on the road, foddering cattle, cutting wood.

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.

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.

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.

"Whichever you are," the boy answered heavily, "it's not herding nor foddering cattle, and so long as it's not that, I'll put my heart in it, and where the heart is, there the treasure" He suddenly remembered that his host must be acquainted with the sentiment.

Every judicious farmer who depends on turnips for foddering his stock in the winter, will do well to guard against the loss sometimes occasioned by the failure of his Turnips from frost and wet.

297 examples of  foddering  in sentences