What is "ploughland"

Usage examples of "ploughland".

They are now running over the same ploughland and have to watch their step.

The rich, damp earth of the plains beyond Robertville, with its rank grass, its moist ploughland and groves of eucalyptus, was already left behind.

That gleam, I remember, and that intrinsic significance were the properties of a solitary oak that could be seen from the train, between Reading and Oxford, growing from the summit of a little knoll in a wide expanse of ploughland, and silhouetted against the pale northern sky.

He looked out over a small valley, pasture and ploughland alternating in chequers, parted by hedges and great bushy trees.

Rolling steppe spread out from the foot of the ridge, broken by loops of river, dark patches of ploughland, and the onion domes of village churches.

It was sloping upwards, that ploughland, and the horses were over their fetlocks in the red, soft soil.

He had looked down over the ploughland and the farm, with the distant faint sound of the tractor and the pale purple of the upturned earth.

Moonlight traced lighter streaks across dark ploughland and pasture, where the long windbreaks of cypress and eucalyptus caught and shaded snow.

Then the sun set over green fields and ploughland, and the night came up.

Years earlier More had written, in his fantasy Utopia, against the enclosure of ploughland for sheep.

Every hedge was white with may, every orchard a sea of blossom, the ploughlands were green with sprouting corn, and in the fat meadows there pastured cattle of an amplitude strange to one accustomed to the little lean kine of Fife.

They came on ice-fields like mammoth ploughlands, where they scarcely made three miles in the day, and mountainous seracs which would have puzzled an Alpine climber.

The heel of Sacred Sun had sunk into the line of bluish haze which was the foothills of the Kahpneezon Mountains, when Bili had Hwahltuh and his clansmen halt within the concealment afforded by the woods which flanked the ploughlands of Geertohnee.

From far away, across many fields and scattered ploughlands, came the merry peal of bells, odd and discordant, in the morning air.

And once he found a small, isolated clearing of ploughland with a mean little dwelling upon it, almost certainly an illegal assart, but law limped with both feet these days.