Near at hand, upon the topmost spray of a birch, sings the brown thrasher -- or red mavis, as some love to call him -- all the morning, glad of your society, that would find out another farmer's field if yours were not here.
To me, away there in my bean-field at the other end of the town, the big guns sounded as if a puffball had burst; and when there was a military turnout of which I was ignorant, I have sometimes had a vague sense all the day of some sort of itching and disease in the horizon, as if some eruption would break out there soon, either scarlatina or canker-rash, until at length some more favorable puff of wind, making haste over the fields and up the Wayland road, brought me information of the "trainers." It seemed by the distant hum as if somebody's bees had swarmed, and that the neighbors, according to Virgil's advice, by a faint tintinnabulum upon the most sonorous of their domestic utensils, were endeavoring to call them down into the hive again.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
She would go away from Windsor--travel again as she had done the last week, and get among the flat green fields with the high hedges round them, where nobody could see her or know her; and there, perhaps, when there was nothing else she could do, she should get courage to drown herself in some pond like that in the Scantlands.
Perhaps it was because she had fixed her mind on the grassy Warwickshire fields, with the bushy tree-studded hedgerows that made a hiding-place even in this leafless season.
Adam Bede
The
field was the place to witness his cruelty and profanity.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave
The Queen uttered a little piping call, and in an instant a dozen pretty
field mice had emerged from their holes and stood before their ruler, awaiting her orders.
The Marvelous Land of Oz
The huntsman standing in the hollow moved and loosed his borzois, and Nicholas saw a queer, short-legged red fox with a fine brush going hard across the
field. The borzois bore down on it....
War and Peace
The reports of the firearms became rapid, whole volleys rising from the plain, as flocks of more than ordinary numbers darted over the opening, shadowing the
field like a cloud; and then the light smoke of a single piece would issue from among the leafless bushes on the mountain, as death was hurled on the retreat of the affrighted birds, who were rising from a volley, in a vain effort to escape.
Pioneers
None of the
field hands working in the
field to which Williamson was going had seen him at all, and the most rigorous search of the entire plantation and adjoining country failed to supply a clew.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories
He dreamed he was in the middle of a
field. The
field was full of vines heavy with grapes.
Adventures Of Pinocchio
Upon the veranda of his house by the ravine, Wing Biddlebaum continued to walk up and down until the sun had disappeared and the road beyond the
field was lost in the grey shadows.
Winesberg Ohio
Along one side of the
field the whole wain went, the arms of the mechanical reaper revolving slowly, till it passed down the hill quite out of sight.
Tess of the dUrbervilles A Pure Woman
I went down across the
fields, and Tony saw me from a long way off.
My Antonia
In the world-language of Barsoom she heard a man issuing instructions--so many were to pick usa, so many were to irrigate this
field, so many to cultivate that, and so on, as a foreman lay out the day's work for his crew.
The Chessmen of Mars
Over the hedge on one side we looked into a plowed
field, and on the other we looked over a gate at our master's house, which stood by the roadside; at the top of the meadow was a grove of fir trees, and at the bottom a running brook overhung by a steep bank.
Black Beauty