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    1. He had a triple hitch today, BigThree, EndsWaving and BobbingTwo, all the kedas who over-filled the tiny pasture behind his place


    2. The Shark was conducting his main business from here, lost in the Irish countryside, hidden under a layer of lush green local pasture


    3. Thongga turn the least pasture into the most meat, but their flavor is no better than that of the garden pests that the peasants trap themselves


    4. Also, thongga could live on rougher pasture, but leave it rougher


    5. pasture and forest, as the nearby bells of Saint Jean-in-the-


    6. It was Nalu coming thru the pasture gate


    7. Near the big door, that led to the pasture


    8. The most desert moors in Norway and Scotland produce some sort of pasture for cattle, of which the milk and the increase are always more than sufficient, not only to maintain all the labour necessary for tending them, and to pay the ordinary profit to the farmer or the owner of the herd or flock, but to afford some small rent to the landlord


    9. The rent increases in proportion to the goodness of the pasture


    10. It is thus that, in the progress of improvement, the rent and profit of unimproved pasture come to be regulated in some measure by the rent and profit of what is improved, and these again by the rent and profit of corn

    11. If it was more than compensated, more corn-land would be turned into pasture ; and if it was not compensated, part of what was in pasture would be brought back into corn


    12. The advantage of inclosure is greater for pasture than for corn


    13. Those productions, indeed, which require either a greater original expense of improvement, or a greater annual expense of cultivation in order to fit the land for them, appear commonly to afford, the one a greater rent, the other a greater profit, than corn or pasture


    14. The pretence of this order was the scarcity of corn and pasture, and the superabundance of wine


    15. But had this superabundance been real, it would, without any order of council, have effectually prevented the plantation of new vineyards, by reducing the profits of this species of cultivation below their natural proportion to those of corn and pasture


    16. The rent and profit of those productions, therefore, which require either a greater original expense of improvement in order to fit the land for them, or a greater annual expense of cultivation, though often much superior to those of corn and pasture, yet when they do no more than compensate such extraordinary expense, are in reality regulated by the rent and profit of those common crops


    17. The usual and natural proportion, for example, between the rent and profit of wine, and those of corn and pasture, must be understood to take place only with regard to those vineyards which produce nothing but good common wine, such as can be raised almost anywhere, upon any light, gravelly, or sandy soil, and which has nothing to recommend it but its strength and wholesomeness


    18. It is unfit either for corn, or pasture, or vineyard, or, indeed, for any other vegetable produce that is very useful to men ; and the lands which are fit for those purposes are not fit for rice


    19. This seems, in the present times, to be nearly the state of things in several parts of Great Britain, where the profit of planting is found to be equal to that of either corn or pasture


    20. His garden gate opened out into a wide pasture with some shade along a small stream that wandered lost and confused in search of downhill

    21. "To rest and pasture the kedas


    22. We left the carriage and keda at a transient pasture and followed you by air ever since


    23. tempered with moor and pasture, the Somport was wild,


    24. They pushed and wheeled the machine over the pasture to the flat area


    25. If it did, more corn land would soon be turned into pasture


    26. The extension of tillage, by diminishing the quantity of wild pasture, diminishes the quantity of butcher's meat, which the country naturally produces without labour or cultivation; and, by increasing the number of those who have either corn, or, what comes to the same thing, the price of corn, to give in exchange for it, increases the demand


    27. But unless the price of the cattle be sufficient to pay both the rent and profit of cultivated land, the farmer cannot afford to pasture them upon it ; and he can still less afford to feed them in the stable


    28. It the price of the cattle, therefore, is not sufficient to pay for the produce of improved and cuitivated land, when they are allowed to pasture it, that price will be still less sufficient to pay for that produce, when it must be collected with a good deal of additional labour, and brought into the stable to them


    29. The rest will, the greater part of them, be allowed to lie waste, producing scarce any thing but some miserable pasture, just sufficient to keep alive a few straggling, half-starved cattle; the farm, though much overstocked in proportion to what would be necessary for its complete cultivation, being very frequently overstocked in proportion to its actual produce


    30. The poorness of the pasture had, in his opinion, occasioned the degradation of their cattle, which degenerated sensibly from me generation to another

    31. Miklos was with the sheep up in the new pasture


    32. As she came in earshot of the pasture, she called to Miklos and waved him down


    33. As the quality depends upon the breed, upon the pasture, and upon the management and cleanliness of the sheep, during the whole progress of the growth of the fleece, the attention to these circumstances, it may naturally enough be imagined, can never be greater than in proportion to the recompence which the price of the fleece is likely to make for the labour and expense which that attention requires


    34. For most golfers, though, the ideal golf outing is simply the chance to go to their favorite course with a few friends and chase golf balls all over the pasture, just having a good time and not taking the game too seriously


    35. “Who was that decrepit old fart he looked half dead and surely the army should have put him out to pasture long ago?” I replied


    36. Torin discussed these histories with Kailus as they rode slowly through the fields with scattered pine and oak trees, rabbits and deer grazing on the green pasture


    37. She shooed the goat back into the pasture and grabbed a pair of linesman pliers and some bailing wire from the barn


    38. Apparently, he likes Thimble Down so much, he’s rented a pasture on the far side of town and intends to keep a herd of goats there


    39. the pasture, and the shepherdesses sprang out of their little beds of


    40. “There were these three horses standing in a shady spot in the pasture

    41. You have to make sure that your pasture is clean and safe


    42. “Thanks,” he grumped, as the NCO’s put the men to recovering our mount from the middle of the pasture


    43. to see the far pasture where the Hereford cattle are grazing


    44. can be useful bringing the in cows from pasture


    45. Nesting curlews and magpies were crying everywhere, and green pasture by streams were dotted with young lambs and the occasional fluttering rabbit


    46. Bulls in the Pasture


    47. “Have we finished with the two bulls in the same pasture stuff yet?”


    48. He turned the horse loose in a small fenced pasture behind the house, after unhitching her from the wagon in a shed that seemed to have been made to hold a carriage


    49. Where she pointed the forest thinned out as it approached a valley, cut through my a wide but slow river, sided by green pasture populated by sheep, tiny white dots so far below us


    50. The old stallion was going to jump over the fence into the mare’s pasture one more time













































    1. The Summer Season's tourist trade impacted the livery in every way, from the numbers of horses kept available rather than pastured and the space available for seasonal boarding, up to the obvious, that is: someone who knew both what they were doing and the current state of the livery to interact with the public at large


    2. A portion of this waste land, however, after having been pastured in this wretched manner for six or seven years together, may be ploughed up, when it will yield, perhaps, a poor crop or two of bad oats, or of some other coarse grain ; and then, being entirely exhausted, it must be rested and pastured again as before, and another portion ploughed up, to be in the same manner exhausted and rested again in its turn


    3. And again I saw with my eyes as I slept, and I saw the Heaven above, and note a star fell from Heaven, and it arose and eat and pastured among those oxen; And after that I saw the large and the black oxen, and note they all changed their stalls and pastures and their cattle, and began to live with each other; And again I saw in the vision, and looked towards the Heaven, and note I saw many stars descend and throw themselves down from Heaven to that first star, and they became bulls among those cattle and pastured with them among them; And I looked at them and saw, and note they all let out their privy members, like horses, and began to cover the cows of the oxen, and they all became pregnant and bore elephants, camels, and asses; And all the oxen feared them and were affrighted at them, and began to bite with their teeth and to devour, and to gore with their horns; And they began, moreover, to devour those oxen; and note all the children of the Earth began to tremble and quake before them


    4. And they began to bring out beasts of the field and birds, so that there arose different genera: lions, tigers, wolves, dogs, hyenas, wild boars, foxes, squirrels, pigs, falcons, vultures, kites, eagles, and ravens; and among them was born a white bull; And they began to bite one another; but that white bull which was born among them begot a wild ass and a white bull with it, and the wild asses multiplied; But that bull which was born from him begot a black wild boar and a white sheep; and the former begot many boars, but that sheep begot twelve sheep; And when those twelve sheep had grown, they gave up one of them to the asses, and those asses again gave up that sheep to the wolves, and that sheep grew up among the wolves; And the Lord brought the eleven sheep to live with it and to pasture with it among the wolves, and they multiplied and became many flocks of sheep; And the wolves began to fear them, and they oppressed them until they destroyed their little ones, and they throw their young into a river of much water, but those sheep began to cry aloud on account of their little ones, and to complain to their Lord; And a sheep which had been saved from the wolves fled and escaped to the wild asses; and I saw the sheep how they lamented and cried, and begged their Lord with all their might, till that Lord of the sheep descended at the voice of the sheep from a lofty abode, and came to them and pastured them; And He called that sheep which had escaped the wolves, and spoke with it concerning the wolves that it should admonish them not to touch the sheep; And the sheep went to the wolves according to the word of the Lord, and another sheep met it and went with it, and the two went and entered together into the assembly of those wolves, and spoke with them and admonished them not to touch the sheep from from now on; And thereon I saw the wolves, and how they oppressed the sheep exceedingly with all their power; and the sheep cried aloud; And the Lord came to the sheep and they began to strike those wolves, and the wolves began to make lamentation; but the sheep became quiet and immediately ceased to cry out; And I saw the sheep till they departed from among the wolves; but the eyes of the wolves were blinded, and those wolves departed in pursuit of the sheep with all their power; And the Lord of the sheep went with them, as their leader, and all His sheep followed Him, and his face was dazzling and glorious and aweful to see; But the wolves began to pursue those sheep till they reached a sea of water; And that sea was divided, and the water stood on this side and on that before their face, and their Lord led them and placed Himself between them and the wolves; And as those wolves did not yet see the sheep, they proceeded into the midst of that sea, and the wolves followed the sheep, and those wolves ran after them into that sea; And when they saw the Lord of the sheep, they turned to flee before His face, but that sea gathered itself together, and became as it had been created, and the water swelled and rose till it covered those wolves; And I saw till all the wolves who pursued those sheep perished and were drowned


    5. ' And I saw till those shepherds pastured in their season, and they began to kill and to destroy more than they were bidden, and they delivered those sheep into the hand of the lions; And the lions and tigers eat and devoured the greater part of those sheep, and the wild boars eat along with them; and they burnt that tower and demolished that house; And I became exceedingly sorrowful over that tower because that house of the sheep was demolished, and afterwards I was unable to see if those sheep entered that house


    6. And immediately I saw how the shepherds pastured for twelve hours, and note three of those sheep turned back and came and entered and began to build up all that had fallen down of that house; but the wild boars tried to hinder them, but they were not able; And they began again to build as before, and they reared up that tower, and it was named the high tower; and they began again to place a table before the tower, but all the bread on it was polluted and not pure; And as touching all this the eyes of those sheep were blinded so that they saw not, and the eyes of their shepherds likewise; and they delivered them in large numbers to their shepherds for destruction, and they trampled the sheep with their feet and devoured them; And the Lord of the sheep remained unmoved till all the sheep were dispersed over the field and mingled with them, that is the beasts, and they that is the shepherds did not save them out of the hand of the beasts; And this one who wrote the book carried it up, and showed it and read it before the Lord of the sheep, and implored Him on their account, and begged Him on their account as he showed Him all the doings of the shepherds, and gave testimony before Him against all the shepherds; And he took the actual book and laid it down beside Him and departed


    7. And I saw till that in this manner thirty-five shepherds undertook the pasturing of the sheep, and they severally completed their periods as did the first; and others received them into their hands, to pasture them for their period, each shepherd in his own period; And after that I saw in my vision all the birds of Heaven coming, the eagles, the vultures, the kites, the ravens; but the eagles led all the birds; and they began to devour those sheep, and to pick out their eyes and to devour their flesh; And the sheep cried out because their flesh was being devoured by the birds, and as for me I looked and lamented in my sleep over that shepherd who pastured the sheep; And I saw until those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites, and they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till only their bones stood there, and their bones too fell to the Earth and the sheep became few; And I saw until that twenty three had undertaken the pasturing and completed in their several periods fifty-eight times


    8. And again I saw with my eyes as I slept and I saw the Heaven above and note a star fell from Heaven and it arose and eat and pastured among those oxen; And after that I saw the large and the black oxen and note they all changed their stalls and pastures and their cattle and began to live with each other; And again I saw in the vision and looked towards the Heaven and note I saw many stars descend and throw themselves down from Heaven to that first star and they became bulls among those cattle and pastured with them among them; And I looked at them and saw and note they all let out their privy members like horses and began to cover the cows of the oxen and they all became pregnant and bore elephants camels and asses; And all the oxen feared them and were affrighted at them and began to bite with their teeth and to devour and to gore with their horns; And they began moreover to devour those oxen; and note all the children of the Earth began to tremble and quake before them


    9. And they began to bring out beasts of the field and birds so that there arose different genera: lions tigers wolves dogs hyenas wild boars foxes squirrels pigs falcons vultures kites eagles and ravens; and among them was born a white bull; And they began to bite one another; but that white bull which was born among them begot a wild ass and a white bull with it and the wild asses multiplied; But that bull which was born from him begot a black wild boar and a white sheep; and the former begot many boars but that sheep begot twelve sheep; And when those twelve sheep had grown they gave up one of them to the asses and those asses again gave up that sheep to the wolves and that sheep grew up among the wolves; And the Lord brought the eleven sheep to live with it and to pasture with it among the wolves and they multiplied and became many flocks of sheep; And the wolves began to fear them and they oppressed them until they destroyed their little ones and they throw their young into a river of much water but those sheep began to cry aloud on account of their little ones and to complain to their Lord; And a sheep which had been saved from the wolves fled and escaped to the wild asses; and I saw the sheep how they lamented and cried and begged their Lord with all their might till that Lord of the sheep descended at the voice of the sheep from a lofty abode and came to them and pastured them; And He called that sheep which had escaped the wolves and spoke with it concerning the wolves that it should admonish them not to touch the sheep; And the sheep went to the wolves according to the word of the Lord and another sheep met it and went with it and the two went and entered together into the assembly of those wolves and spoke with them and admonished them not to touch the sheep from from now on; And thereon I saw the wolves and how they oppressed the sheep exceedingly with all their power; and the sheep cried aloud; And the Lord came to the sheep and they began to strike those wolves and the wolves began to make lamentation; but the sheep became quiet and immediately ceased to cry out; And I saw the sheep till they departed from among the wolves; but the eyes of the wolves were blinded and those wolves departed in pursuit of the sheep with all their power; And the Lord of the sheep went with them as their leader and all His sheep followed Him and his face was dazzling and glorious and aweful to see; But the wolves began to pursue those sheep till they reached a sea of water; And that sea was divided and the water stood on this side and on that before their face and their Lord led them and placed Himself between them and the wolves; And as those wolves did not yet see the sheep they proceeded into the midst of that sea and the wolves followed the sheep and those wolves ran after them into that sea; And when they saw the Lord of the sheep they turned to flee before His face but that sea gathered itself together and became as it had been created and the water swelled and rose till it covered those wolves; And I saw till all the wolves who pursued those sheep perished and were drowned


    10. ' And I saw till those shepherds pastured in their season and they began to kill and to destroy more than they were bidden and they delivered those sheep into the hand of the lions; And the lions and tigers eat and devoured the greater part of those sheep and the wild boars eat along with them; and they burnt that tower and demolished that house; And I became exceedingly sorrowful over that tower because that house of the sheep was demolished and afterwards I was unable to see if those sheep entered that house

    11. And immediately I saw how the shepherds pastured for twelve hours and note three of those sheep turned back and came and entered and began to build up all that had fallen down of that house; but the wild boars tried to hinder them but they were not able; And they began again to build as before and they reared up that tower and it was named the high tower; and they began again to place a table before the tower but all the bread on it was polluted and not pure; And as touching all this the eyes of those sheep were blinded so that they saw not and the eyes of their shepherds likewise; and they delivered them in large numbers to their shepherds for destruction and they trampled the sheep with their feet and devoured them; And the Lord of the sheep remained unmoved till all the sheep were dispersed over the field and mingled with them that is the beasts and they that is the shepherds did not save them out of the hand of the beasts; And this one who wrote the book carried it up and showed it and read it before the Lord of the sheep and implored Him on their account and begged Him on their account as he showed Him all the doings of the shepherds and gave testimony before Him against all the shepherds; And he took the actual book and laid it down beside Him and departed


    12. And I saw till that in this manner thirty-five shepherds undertook the pasturing of the sheep and they severally completed their periods as did the first; and others received them into their hands to pasture them for their period each shepherd in his own period; And after that I saw in my vision all the birds of Heaven coming the eagles the vultures the kites the ravens; but the eagles led all the birds; and they began to devour those sheep and to pick out their eyes and to devour their flesh; And the sheep cried out because their flesh was being devoured by the birds and as for me I looked and lamented in my sleep over that shepherd who pastured the sheep; And I saw until those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites and they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till only their bones stood there and their bones too fell to the Earth and the sheep became few; And I saw until that twenty three had undertaken the pasturing and completed in their several periods fifty-eight times


    13. These accordingly thus entangled pastured amongst the thorns and thistles and were exceedingly miserable being beaten by him; and he drove them hither and thither and gave them no rest; and altogether these sheep were in a wretched plight


    14. "And those who believed from the seventh mountain on which the grass was green and flourishing and the whole of the mountain fertile and every kind of cattle and the fowls of heaven were feeding on the grass on this mountain and the grass on which they pastured became more abundant were the following: they were always simple and harmless and blessed bringing no charges against one another but always rejoicing greatly because of the servants of God and being clothed with the holy spirit of these virgins and always having pity on every man and giving aid from their own labour to every man without reproach and without hesitation


    15. It is the wrong time of year for sheep to be pastured, I thought


    16. the road that were pastured to keep her company


    17. Several tens of thousands of the slain lay in diverse postures and various uniforms on the fields and meadows belonging to the Davydov family and to the crown serfs- those fields and meadows where for hundreds of years the peasants of Borodino, Gorki, Shevardino, and Semenovsk had reaped their harvests and pastured their cattle


    18. The two pastured together


    19. All you here, seven or eight healthy young men and women, have slept till ten o'clock, have eaten and drunk and are still eating; and you play and discuss music: while there, where I have just been, they were all up at three in the morning, and those who pastured the horses at night have not slept at all; and old and young, the sick and the weak, children and nursing-mothers and pregnant women are working to the utmost limits of their strength, so that we here may consume the fruits of their labour


    20. And besides mowing, each has some other business to do,—to plough up new land and harrow it; the women have the linen to make, bread to bake, and the washing to do; and the peasants must drive to the mill and to market; they have the official affairs of their community to attend to; they have also to provide the local government officials with means of locomotion, and to pass the night in the fields with the pastured horses

    21. Several tens of thousands of the slain lay in diverse postures and various uniforms on the fields and meadows belonging to the Davýdov family and to the crown serfs—those fields and meadows where for hundreds of years the peasants of Borodinó, Górki, Shevárdino, and Semënovsk had reaped their harvests and pastured their cattle


    1. It was set in the middle of extensive well-tended fields and pastures dotted with fat eight-legged cattle


    2. He brought them thru to his side patio with a view of the pastures, then sent a servant for refreshments


    3. Titania and Jameson herded the horses not required for off-season commerce up into the pastures owned by the livery for this very purpose


    4. 22Do not be afraid, you wild animals, for the pastures in the wilderness are


    5. gloom - entered a world of upland pastures


    6. Uncle Todd had come down from the top pastures where he farmed so that with his horses and dray cart he could help take the equipment and staging back to Dorts council maintenance building Everything got stored there, even Mr


    7. Whilst the group continued through the upper pastures, he turned to view once more their path, but it had gone and all he could see was jagged rock and impenetrable forest


    8. Its shore is remarkably beautiful country, thick green forests and lush pastures surrounding comfortable villages


    9. The judicious operations of banking, by providing, if I may be allowed so violent a metaphor, a sort of waggon-way through the air, enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways into good pastures, and corn fields, and thereby to increase, very considerably, the annual produce of its land and labour


    10. Three stories tall, the old mill stood picturesquely at the edge of the river, an old metal one-lane bridge at one side beckoned travelers to visit the lush pastures on the other side

    11. This isn’t unusual—she’s an inquisitive child of four and is inclined to explore with her siblings the alleys of Thimble Down, as well as the fields and pastures that surround us


    12. cow pastures of east Texas, the comrades were called off


    13. ditched the pastures for the plains


    14. I would lead those who saw me most clearly to the “greener pastures” of acceptance when opportune, while seeking to curb the wildness of even their imaginations


    15. - Come on sheep, eat the pastures! Now, now! -Elam told the animals, while gesturing with his arms and his crook visibly as he did not want them scattered


    16. They reached the pastures quickly, without a hitch


    17. "It pastures in that garden--I've seen it


    18. 12 They drop on the pastures of the wilderness, and the little hills rejoice on every side


    19. 13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing


    20. that day shall your cattle feed in large pastures

    21. darkness, show yourselves; They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places


    22. 19 O Lord, to you will I cry, for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the


    23. 20 The beasts of the field cry also to you, for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures


    24. And again I saw with my eyes as I slept, and I saw the Heaven above, and note a star fell from Heaven, and it arose and eat and pastured among those oxen; And after that I saw the large and the black oxen, and note they all changed their stalls and pastures and their cattle, and began to live with each other; And again I saw in the vision, and looked towards the Heaven, and note I saw many stars descend and throw themselves down from Heaven to that first star, and they became bulls among those cattle and pastured with them among them; And I looked at them and saw, and note they all let out their privy members, like horses, and began to cover the cows of the oxen, and they all became pregnant and bore elephants, camels, and asses; And all the oxen feared them and were affrighted at them, and began to bite with their teeth and to devour, and to gore with their horns; And they began, moreover, to devour those oxen; and note all the children of the Earth began to tremble and quake before them


    25. Christchurch’s Avon river runs through its pastures


    26. It was moving and forming a whole landscape with green pastures, trees and a river


    27. Jack was put on six months’ probation for punching the lights out of an IRS agent who hassled him a bit too much at his trailer on the summer mountain pastures in Delhi


    28. And again I saw with my eyes as I slept and I saw the Heaven above and note a star fell from Heaven and it arose and eat and pastured among those oxen; And after that I saw the large and the black oxen and note they all changed their stalls and pastures and their cattle and began to live with each other; And again I saw in the vision and looked towards the Heaven and note I saw many stars descend and throw themselves down from Heaven to that first star and they became bulls among those cattle and pastured with them among them; And I looked at them and saw and note they all let out their privy members like horses and began to cover the cows of the oxen and they all became pregnant and bore elephants camels and asses; And all the oxen feared them and were affrighted at them and began to bite with their teeth and to devour and to gore with their horns; And they began moreover to devour those oxen; and note all the children of the Earth began to tremble and quake before them


    29. CHAPTER 5: TO FRESH WOODS AND PASTURES NEW


    30. My father’s simple solution, as you have heard, was to get rid of it wherever he was, whether into lakes, pastures, under restaurant tables or, in this case, out of the windows of a private airplane

    31. cows had to move to higher pastures, where the grass was still green


    32. There was a magnificent sunset in progress there, revealing herds of hundreds of fine horses running over hilly pastures, then a vastly expanded area of corrals and barns, then four new large two-story buildings in an open block around a complex of runs and yards, and finally the previously existing yards and buildings of the guest ranch


    33. The children were on the wormy land, while I was standing on the green pastures area


    34. Sometime later a break in the mountains to the east held the promise of greener pastures beyond


    35. More rains than usual had come which would keep the pastures green longer, they had been told by the few who would talk to them, but finally the urgency to search for summer pasturage was upon them


    36. She finally fell asleep on the couch while watching a program on TV about the green pastures and castles of lovely England and Scotland, and could not help thinking that the program was being aired especially for her


    37. east held the promise of greener pastures beyond


    38. More rains than usual had come which would keep the pastures green longer, they had been


    39. The seventh mountain again had cheerful pastures and the whole mountain was blooming and every kind of cattle and birds were feeding on that mountain; and the more the cattle and the birds ate the more the grass of that mountain flourished


    40. Beyond were pastures where beef and dairy cattle grazed--a lovely pastorial scene

    41. To the fields and pastures of green


    42. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters


    43. The floor was a sparkling mosaic of pastures and rivers


    44. The spiritual pastures of these gifts belong to the love of the heavenly Father, who knows our situations


    45. The soldiers, amazed to see lush green pastures and livestock happily grazing, also noticed orchards, houses, a school, a large laboratory and hospital with children playing and swimming in a cavern lake


    46. They had created an eco system with sunlight and rainfall, regulated within the cavern as the pastures and orchards flourished with fruit and flowers


    47. Some people had gathered in the pastures and a few milled around looking above the cave wall where a few moments ago they’d seen a terrific light illuminated the cave and now became focused on the lift as the three cautiously stepped out


    48. Norman watched, as usual, as the curling mist bathed the pastures and orchards


    49. There were several hostelries and stables at the near end of the lane which continued out of the city to what were fields and pastures for livestock


    50. to pastures where their herds could graze












































    1. The land is manured, either by pasturing the cattle upon it, or by feeding them in the stable, and from thence carrying out their dung to it


    2. But the sheep escaped from that water and went out into a wilderness, where there was no water and no grass; and they began to open their eyes and to see; and I saw the Lord of the sheep pasturing them and giving them water and grass, and that sheep going and leading them; And that sheep ascended to the summit of that lofty rock, and the Lord of the sheep sent it to them; And after that I saw the Lord of the sheep who stood before them, and His appearance was great and aweful and majestic, and all those sheep saw Him and were afraid before His face; And they all feared and trembled because of Him, and they cried to that sheep with those who was among them: 'We are not able to stand before our Lord or to see Him


    3. And I saw till that in this manner thirty-five shepherds undertook the pasturing of the sheep, and they severally completed their periods as did the first; and others received them into their hands, to pasture them for their period, each shepherd in his own period; And after that I saw in my vision all the birds of Heaven coming, the eagles, the vultures, the kites, the ravens; but the eagles led all the birds; and they began to devour those sheep, and to pick out their eyes and to devour their flesh; And the sheep cried out because their flesh was being devoured by the birds, and as for me I looked and lamented in my sleep over that shepherd who pastured the sheep; And I saw until those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites, and they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till only their bones stood there, and their bones too fell to the Earth and the sheep became few; And I saw until that twenty three had undertaken the pasturing and completed in their several periods fifty-eight times


    4. But the sheep escaped from that water and went out into a wilderness where there was no water and no grass; and they began to open their eyes and to see; and I saw the Lord of the sheep pasturing them and giving them water and grass and that sheep going and leading them; And that sheep ascended to the summit of that lofty rock and the Lord of the sheep sent it to them; And after that I saw the Lord of the sheep who stood before them and His appearance was great and aweful and majestic and all those sheep saw Him and were afraid before His face; And they all feared and trembled because of Him and they cried to that sheep with those who was among them: 'We are not able to stand before our Lord or to see Him


    5. And I saw till that in this manner thirty-five shepherds undertook the pasturing of the sheep and they severally completed their periods as did the first; and others received them into their hands to pasture them for their period each shepherd in his own period; And after that I saw in my vision all the birds of Heaven coming the eagles the vultures the kites the ravens; but the eagles led all the birds; and they began to devour those sheep and to pick out their eyes and to devour their flesh; And the sheep cried out because their flesh was being devoured by the birds and as for me I looked and lamented in my sleep over that shepherd who pastured the sheep; And I saw until those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites and they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till only their bones stood there and their bones too fell to the Earth and the sheep became few; And I saw until that twenty three had undertaken the pasturing and completed in their several periods fifty-eight times


    6. Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-


    7. There are no big trees in the garden of The Willows, because it was built in the middle of meadows where there weren't any, but all round the iron railings of the square garden--the house being the centre of the square--and concealing the wire netting which keeps the pasturing cows from thrusting their heads through and eating the shrubs, is a fringe of willows


    8. That friend and fellow-Sheep, who spoke of himself as pasturing in the country prisons; who was he?"


    9. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander


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    Synonyms for "pasture"

    eatage forage grass pasturage pasture grazing land lea ley pastureland browse crop graze range tillage field meadow plot garden mead grassland

    "pasture" definitions

    a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock


    bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle


    let feed in a field or pasture or meadow


    feed as in a meadow or pasture