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Then he started into wakefulness again, determined to watch and wait until a better time for sleep; but as he came to this determination, the sound of the insects, the soft cropping and munching noise made by Black Boy, and the pleasant breath of the morning as it came through the trees, were too sweet to be resisted, and before poor Bart could realise the fact that he was ready to doze, he was fast asleep with his head upon his breast.
Why had I not put my question to our rural mail deliverer in the beginning? Surely here was a man who knew everyone and went everywhere! The old white horse rolled placid eyes toward the car that drew up beside it, then returned to cropping the young grass by the roadside. The postman looked up from the leather sack open before him, and nodded to me. "Morning, Mr. Locke," he greeted.
The little horse was cropping at some grass, unharmed the sand and fern had saved his knees. And the languid voice behind him said: "It's all right you can leave the horses. They'll come when I call." Now that he knew she was unhurt, he felt angry. Why had she behaved in this mad way given him this fearful shock? But in that same languid voice she went on: "Don't be cross with me.
They aim at cropping, not five or six tons of grass on the acre, as we do, but from 50 to 100 tons of various vegetables on the same space; not 5 pound sworth of hay, but 100 pounds worth of vegetables, of the plainest description, cabbage and carrots. Kropotkin, ``Fields, Factories and Workshops, p. 74. As regards cattle, he mentions that Mr.
He looked crestfallen, his kindly and well-favoured countenance being overspread by an expression of disarmingly innocent penitence. "It weighed on me. I should be glad to be able to forget it, but now it's all cropping up again.
And their means to carry on the conflict were dwindling, while at the same time there was a favourable opportunity for cropping some fruit from their previous labours and sacrifices. "We are led to doubt," he wrote once more to the envoy in France, "whether the King's full powers will come from Spain. This defeat is hard for the Spaniards to digest.
He did not like staying in the same place any better than they, and nobody ever knew in what part of the country he might be found next. One day, when we was wandering about he beheld a nice fat sheep, which was cropping the grass and seemed quite contented with her lot. 'Good morning, said the jackal, 'I am so glad to see you. I have been looking for you everywhere.
It is shown that the censorship will conduce to the discouragement of all learning and the stop of truth, not only by disexercising and blunting our abilities in what we know already, but by hindering and cropping the discovery that might be yet further made, both in religious
The great modern fallacy that a constitution can be made, can be manufactured by a combination of existing forces and tendencies, was constantly cropping up in stormy times; even Machiavelli is not wholly free from it.
But she had not lost another worry, and in spite of all the wonderful things that had happened, and the interesting matters that were continually cropping up, the lost treasure-box containing the mementoes of her mother was continually fretting her mind. The opening of school was drawing near, and Janice began to take exciting little "peeps" between the covers of textbooks.
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