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1. An acre of potatoes is cultivated with less expense than an acre of wheat; the fallow, which generally precedes the sowing of wheat, more than compensating the hoeing and other extraordinary culture which is always given to potatoes
2. carpeted the fallow fields, and the sun shone warmly on
3. (Their hearts may been in the right place, but their brains were surely lying fallow: make home mortgages available to all and sundry, ability to pay notwithstanding
4. Ah! It must be…lying fallow? And with the waterfall adjacent, a prime location, he realized
5. acres of arable land fallow or scorched
6. In practice, however, a harvested field is much less comfortable than a fallow one and we assiduously sought out the latter
7. thousands of acres of arable land fallow or scorched
8. The pleasant odor of the fields as they lay fallow, mingled with a touch of wood smoke
9. Fields that ran fallow lined both sides of the two-lane road, heavy with wild mustard, goldenrod, and poison parsnips
10. To tell a fallow from a cinnamon (both can occur in all body colors and result in washed-out blues and greens), look at the eyes
11. A fallow always has dark red eyes, whereas a cinnamon chick has red eyes for only about a week after hatching; then the iris turns dark
12. fallow place on the bank, where nothing happens
13. To the left of the cabin she saw a small cleared field, bare and fallow this time of year, but she could imagine it brimming with herbs and vegetables in spring and summer
14. This is a Legal Sabbath – letting the law lay fallow and see what springs from its previously seeded annuals and perennials
15. In ancient times, every seventh year farmers would allow the land to lay fallow for a year
16. It stretches for miles along the coast, and is full of paths and roads that lead you to unexpected lovelinesses--sudden glimpses of the sea between huge beech trunks on grassy plateaus; deep ravines, their sides clothed with moss, with water trickling down over green stones to the sea out in the sun at the bottom; silent glades of bracken, silvery in the afternoon light, where fallow deer examine you for one brief moment of curiosity before they spring away, panic-stricken, into the deeper shadows of the beeches
17. He had also produced a number of German love-names from some hitherto fallow corner of his mind, and garnished his conversation with them in a way that made her who, nourished as she had been on the noble language of the Bible and the Prayer-book, was instantly responsive to the charm of words, laugh and glow with pleasure
18. The case seems to spiral around the question of my having failed to give notice of some things to the councilmen prior to my purchase of the fallow property called by many "The Rocks"
19. Fallow ground: Figuratively, evil habits in the heart
20. Their mating season is called troating here, too, and the sound they make is similar to the belling of the Fallow Deer
21. A sabbatical year was one in which the land must lie fallow and rest
22. Medallion looked out the window at the fallow fields
23. A few shocks of corn in a corner of the fallow stood up as if alive; she imagined them bowing; perhaps her son would be a Joseph
24. On the fallow land the young wheat shone silkily
25. "Will you come with me on to the fallow?" asked Edgar, rather hesitatingly
26. Has he not nearer home a seedfield that lies fallow for the want of the ploughshare? A habit reprehensible at puberty is second nature and an opprobrium in middle life
27. He was digging over his fallow land with a spade
28. The next strip had been left fallow, and wild grass and weeds were poking up, grazed by a few sheep
29. Caris pointed to the fallow strip where the sheep were
30. She pointed at the fallow strip
31. As the door opened, one of the elder ones that carried the lantern was just saying, 'Now then, one, two, three!' and forthwith their shrill little voices uprose on the air, singing one of the old-time carols that their forefathers composed in fields that were fallow and held by frost, or when snow-bound in chimney corners, and handed down to be sung in the miry street to lamp-lit windows at Yule-time
32. And the ploughing of the further land to go on without a break so as to let it ripen lying fallow
33. It was that time of the year, the turning-point of summer, when the crops of the present year are a certainty, when one begins to think of the sowing for next year, and the mowing is at hand; when the rye is all in ear, though its ears are still light, not yet full, and it waves in gray-green billows in the wind; when the green oats, with tufts of yellow grass scattered here and there among it, droop irregularly over the late-sown fields; when the early buckwheat is already out and hiding the ground; when the fallow lands, trodden hard as stone by the cattle, are half ploughed over, with paths left untouched by the plough; when from the dry dung-heaps carted onto the fields there
34. When they came out of the woods, all his attention was engrossed by the view of the fallow land on the upland, in parts yellow with grass, in parts trampled and checkered with furrows, in parts dotted with ridges of dung, and in parts even ploughed
35. A distant part of the estate, a tract of waste land that had lain fallow for
36. But what there was of it was good and the acres that were lying fallow could be reclaimed when times grew better, and they would be the more fertile for their rest
37. 'Ah!' he says to her, 'you'll never make a good dairymaid! All your skill was used up ages ago in Palestine, and you must lie fallow for a thousand years to git strength for more deeds!' A boy came here t'other day asking for a job, and said his name was Matt, and when we asked him his surname he said he'd never heard that 'a had any surname, and when we asked why, he said he supposed his folks hadn't been 'stablished long enough
38. Day came, and the fallow sun blinked over the lifeless ridges of Ered
39. My point is, even though the portfolio had a fallow period for over a year, it still performed excellently without lifting a finger after April 2011
40. When returns are entirely dependent on a rise in the share price, this fallow stretch is difficult to take
41. It’s fallow ground
42. Nicholas standing in a fallow field could see all his whips
43. He had felt it for the first time when the shell spun like a top before him, and he looked at the fallow field, the bushes, and the sky, and knew that he was face to face with death
44. That close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, those harsh monotonies of waste and fallow lands, the plants of early market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of the savage and the citizen, those vast desert nooks where the garrison drums practise noisily, and produce a sort of lisping of battle, those hermits by day and cut-throats by night, that clumsy mill which turns in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls squarely intersecting immense, vague stretches of land inundated with sunshine and full of butterflies,—all this attracted him
45. It’s got fallow fields
46. Our willingness to hold cash during fallow periods has enabled us to maintain a strict sell discipline regardless of whether we had anything promising to replace what we sold
47. A man might look at a fallow field and know, and see in his mind that his own bending back and his own straining arms would bring the cabbages into the light, and the golden eating corn, the turnips and carrots
48. And a homeless hungry man, driving the roads with his wife beside him and his thin children in the back seat, could look at the fallow fields which might produce food but not profit, and that man could know how a fallow field is a sin and the unused land a crime against the thin children
49. As I saw no manure, I judged that they meant to skim the land, as I had done, thinking the soil was deep and had lain fallow long enough
50. It was that time of the year, the turning-point of summer, when the crops of the present year are a certainty, when one begins to think of the sowing for next year, and the mowing is at hand; when the rye is all in ear, though its ears are still light, not yet full, and it waves in gray-green billows in the wind; when the green oats, with tufts of yellow grass scattered here and there among it, droop irregularly over the late-sown fields; when the early buckwheat is already out and hiding the ground; when the fallow lands, trodden hard as stone by the cattle, are half ploughed over, with paths left untouched by the plough; when from the dry dung-heaps carted onto the fields there comes at sunset a smell of manure mixed with meadow-sweet, and on the low-lying lands the riverside meadows are a thick sea of grass waiting for the mowing, with blackened heaps of the stalks of sorrel among it
1. Added to this is that it is fallowed by the lamentation of Jesus over the
2. Added to this is that it is fallowed by the lamentation of Jesus over the doomed city of Jerusalem, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophet’s and stones them that are sent unto her! How often would I have gathered your children together even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate” (Matthew 23:37-38)
3. The persecution that was begin by Nero was fallowed by Roman emperors up the the time of Constantine in 313 A
1. Fallows look a lot like cinnamons, but their shade of brown is darker, often with a bronzy tint
2. worships regularly, and fallows the Golden Rule in both his business and private life
3. To reap and bind the rye and oats and to carry it, to mow the meadows, turn over the fallows, thrash the seed
