79 Verbs to Use for the Word pastures

But before that the Paiutes, mesne lords of the soil, made a campoodie by the rill of Pine Creek; and after, contesting the soil with them, cattle-men, who found its foodful pastures greatly to their advantage; and bands of blethering flocks shepherded by wild, hairy men of little speech, who attested their rights to the feeding ground with their long staves upon each other's skulls.

" "Good-bye, little lambs and dear old sheep," said Miss Laura, as her uncle opened the gate for her to leave the pasture.

The way up from Mojave to Red Butte is all desertness, affording no pasture and scarcely a rill of water.

Cattle are suffered to graze their pastures without stint; but the slaves are restrained in their food to a fixed allowance.

Perhaps you saw 'm MYSELF: I saw them: that is one reason I bought the back pasture.

No lure Shall draw me to disown them, or forsake The meagre wandering herd that lows for help And needs me for its guide, to seek my pasture Among the well-fed beeves that graze at will.

Then: "Do you really wish to see him?" The hushed voice made Donnegan smileit was such a voice as one boy uses when he asks the other if he really dares enter the pasture of the red bull.

On this rock lie the rich cheese pastures, and the best tracts of the famous "hunting shires" of England.

One of them had mooed at her as she crossed a pasture and she had hastily climbed a fence.

They do not, like our crusading ancestors, "sell the pasture to buy the horse," but the horse to buy the pasture; so that we may expect to see in many places large farms in the hands of those who are obliged to neglect them.

Industry is a loadstone to draw all good things; that alone makes countries flourish, cities populous, and will enforce by reason of much manure, which necessarily follows, a barren soil to be fertile and good, as sheep, saith Dion, mend a bad pasture.

There is something awful in the contemplation of these terrific animals, clothed with tremendous strength, and ranging their native pastures in untamed wildness, strangers almost to the face of man: they know no one but the solitary herdsman who attends upon them, and even he at times dares not venture to approach them.

Running fires are set everywhere, with a view to clearing the ground of prostrate trunks, to facilitate the movements of the flocks and improve the pastures.

Half an hour's walk, through mud up to their ankles, brought them to Uncle Mike's house, which stood at the end of the road, and, climbing over the fence that inclosed his pasture, they struck off through the woods toward the lake.

The same spirit prompted him to allow labourers who could manage the undertaking to rent pasture for a few cows; and the experiment, he thought, had succeeded.

It is perhaps four miles in circumference, its waters generally shallow, and so covered with pond lilies, and skirted with wild grass, as to form the most luxuriant pasture for the deer and moose to be found in all this region.

The river bounded this pasture on the north and west.

The forest round about was cleared away, though blackened stumps still dotted the pastures, orchards, and tilled fields.

When you close your pastures (to the stock) clean them and root out all weeds.

The shore-line, overgrown with grass and prickly sensitive-plants quite eight feet high, makes capital pasture for carabaos.

On the right, as you approach the head, is a deep bay, skirted by a natural meadow, where the rank wild grass, and the pond lilies that grow along the shore furnish a rich pasture for the deer.

"Martha Vaughn has got the best pasture and the prettiest girl in this part o' the country.

In this valley it neither rained nor snowed, but the abundant springs gave a rich green pasture, that irrigation would spread over all the valley space.

"Yes," he replied; "I am going up to the woods pasture to examine my Shropshires.

Thereabouts are certaine mountains hauing good pastures for cattell upon them.

79 Verbs to Use for the Word  pastures