Sentence examples for field of barley from inspiring English sources
Little knots of men watched with critical eyes as an elderly combine harvester wheezed and rattled its way along the field of barley.
I ran for about a hundred yards, until my lungs ached, then walked in long strides down to Highway 5. Meadowlarks trilled, then exploded out of a field of barley, landing on mesquite posts.
As a roosting marsh harrier rises from a field of barley displaying wings tattered from shotgun pellets, Nimrod Mifsud, a Maltese volunteer for the charity, says local birdwatchers take little pleasure in seeing a rare bird.
Matthew Moore, an artist and farmer, takes up this theme in his series of large-scale earth works on parcels of his family's farm outside of Phoenix; for one project, he hand-hoed the floor plan of a typical suburban house, soon to be sold for residential development, into a field of barley.
The film was released in Britain in March under the title "Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang," which was a reference not to the origins of the universe but to a late plot twist involving some unexploded ordnance and the pyrotechnic harvesting of a field of barley.
Data were collected from an experimental field of barley (cv. Alexis) sown at a row spacing of 12 cm on 29 March 1993 at Rothamsted Experimental Station.
On one side, university tuition costs £9,000 a year and on the other side nothing, but how would ripening fields of barley recognise the difference?
Books like Andrew Harvey's radiant "Journey in Ladakh" had told me that I would see people living as they might have several centuries ago, in whitewashed houses amid fields of barley and wheat irrigated by glacial snowmelt.
IT is the harvest season, and although New York has no fields of barley to reap and no forests to shimmer gold on their way to winter quiet, one ancient standby from the season was in evidence last week: the sukkah, a temporary hut that Jews build and dwell in for the weeklong festival of Sukkot, which ended Wednesday evening.
These are palatial by local standards: three stories, with proper foundations, concrete floors, running water, and electricity.Beyond the plain the land opens out into a valley characteristic of central Ethiopia, long and wide, golden, with small fields of barley at the edges.
