Sentence examples for ancient fields from inspiring English sources

"It took down the largest of structures, killed thousands of people, and inundated ancient fields, making them fallow for years to come".

For farmers like Magdy Abdel-Rahman, the new buildings not only ruin the rural tranquillity of his ancient fields, with the constant hammering and commotion, but they also reduce his yields.

When Joni Mitchell sang about how they paved paradise and put up a parking lot, she could have been speaking for those who lament the loss of ancient fields of play.

Relicts of ancient fields and lynchets (i.e., banks of earth that build up on the downslope of a field ploughed over a long period of time), which are visible in the field as well as in DTMs (Fig. 2), provide strong evidence for the former agricultural land use.

Although these great city squares are naturally the focus of attention, many of the world's most impressive and enjoyable city centres boast whole sequences and networks of squares: London with its restful, if all too-often locked, garden squares; Turin with its glorious colonnaded Baroque piazzas; Venice with its campi, ancient fields long paved over.

In this paper we present an overview of the process of mapping and field surveying of an area of ancient fields and irrigation canals around the pre-Hispanic sites of Topaín, Paniri and Turi, in the Andean highlands of northern Chile.

But on the ancient field-walls, his stones remain.

Within that glow, undetectable Yanks and Orioles were playing the last game on that ancient field where Lou Piniella used to work.

In the past, he said, scientists had to peruse their predecessors' work in scrawled entries in ancient field notebooks in rare-book collections.

Thus much of what visitors see at Ceide Fields are these bamboo poles delineating the ancient field wall system -- which somewhat resemble an enormous game of connect-the-dots.

Even if the trip is to someplace where actual wisdom might be acquired -- a museum, say -- the student's time will be allocated according to this ancient field-trip formula: Bus travel: 25percentt.