What is "farmland"

Usage examples of "farmland".

He removed his sons from the school at Passy and on July 27, accompanied by the servant Stephens, they were on their way north by coach, traveling fast over good roads to Compiegne and Valenciennes, through the finest farmland Adams had ever seen, at the height of one of the most abundant summers France had known.

Thus our troops are well armed, but hungry and dwindling in numbers, whilst he has the grain-fields and farmlands of Canossa and Palestrinon and Flamigrie with their big populations.

The Leas, along with two northward extensions and a short strip of coastland in the southeast, made up twenty-five percent of Smolen, but contained almost all its farmland and manufacturing.

All of this biblically inspired nonsense has taken deepest root in those dispossessed of their farmland in the last generation.

High Street, turned left again on Wallace Drive, and emerged a few minutes later on the Old River Road alongside the Ealing River: two-lane asphalt strip that had been the old route to the neighboring town of Bixley, before Highway Five had been laid over the rolling farmland on a parallel route.

These men had not many places to hide in the Kursk region, a few dispersed villages, some small forests, but the rest was flat, ranging farmland.

Below the crowding of its thatched roofs and walls of polygonal stones, vertiginous terraces of varied crops made stairsteps down the mountain for a hundred meters or so, before its sides steepened too much for even Andeans to carve their farmland from it.

Riding trains and trucks day and night through towns, farmlands, dust storms, blistering deserts, and snowy mountain passes, he had fallen into a lethargy in which-especially at night-fever dreams and reality had run together.

On the second day they passed through grass and farmlands, where charlocks and artichokes freely grew, and the needly junipers.

The Great King ruled from Phrygia in the west to the distant lands of the Hindu Kush, from fertile farmland to arid desert, from ice-covered forests to unpenetrable jungle.

Highway, a broad, rutted, well-travelled way curving south through Fabeque like a slow dusty river, through the villages and hamlets, through ancient, sleepy towns such as Gram mantes, Fleuvine and Beronde, before crossing the Niay Rise into Sevagne Province, a great lush expanse of lake-riddled farmland, at whose southernmost point the capital city of Sherreen straddled the water of the River Vir like a colossus.

All around the rich farmland showed scars of war: fields unsown, orchards hacked and burned, bloated corpses of cattle and sheep.

From looking at his own farmland, he could see that soil was created by the erosion of rocks and that particles of this soil were continually washed away and carried off by streams and rivers and redeposited elsewhere.

The island centrally below grew until it was all she could see, dividing and redividing into murals of mountain, forest, farmland, all rolling inexorably into morning .

By noon he was riding a farmland road where the acequias carried the water down along the foot-trodden selvedges of the fields and he stood the horse to water and walked it up and back in the shade of a cottonwood grove to cool it.