feeding-ground

At two miles came across their feeding-ground; skirted the scrub until we cut our tracks.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

We have been all round the tracks forward and backward over the feeding-ground and can see nothing of him.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

The bird is capable of a very rapid and long-continued flight, so that it can pass without fatigue over the whole of the district it inhabits, and as soon as the supply of food begins to fail in one place is able to discover a fresh feeding-ground.

On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type 2004

The flocks come and go between the home and the feeding-ground with noisy exclamations and impetuous haste.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

Besides, when making a passage from one feeding-ground to another, the sperm whales, guided by some infallible instinct — say, rather, secret intelligence from the

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

"When shall we reach the deer feeding-ground you spoke of, Micah?"

Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Mrs. William T. Savage

By and by, again, when goldenrod stood brown and sere upon the hillside and the sumach glowed red in the fence corners and thickets, when the fall crickets were chiming their dirge down amid the grass roots and the air was growing frosty at nights, then the Bob Whites grew restless and took flight for a far-off pea field, noted as a feeding-ground.

Plantation Sketches Margaret Devereux

A deep soil is better than a shallow one, because it furnishes a more extensive feeding-ground for the roots.

Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French

The minaret of a mosque rises nobly beside the mules 'feeding-ground, and beyond there is the white tomb of a saint, with swaying palm trees round it.

Morocco S.L. Bensusan

Having slung their booty on the boughs of a wide-branching tree, and taken some refreshment from the supplies in the canoe, Micah declared himself good for a scramble up the hill to the feeding-ground, a proposition John readily accepted.

Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Mrs. William T. Savage