plough-land

When morning came the factions were bickering; and the day passed anxiously; for besides these blood enemies, the Muhaisin were fighting for authority among the villagers, and further complications developed in two stranger elements: one a colony of free-booting Senussi from North Africa, who had been intruded by the Turks into some rich, but half-derelict plough-land; the other

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

'I've seen worse weather than any they can brew in the neighbourhood of Beacon Hargate,' he panted to himself, 'but it's one thing to have a good tight craft under your feet, and it's another to be bogged in the dark, over half a mile of rotten plough-land.

VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea David Christie Murray

Konstantin Levin, whose presence was needed in the plough-land and the meadows, had come to take his brother in the trap.

Chapter II. Part III 1917

Looking towards the plough-land across the river, he made out something black, but he could not distinguish whether it was a horse or the bailiff on horseback.

Chapter III. Part III 1917

From well-side or from plough-land, was there noise;

The Two Kings William Butler 1916

She that would be a mother should marry in the very bosom of her mother, among the standing crops, on the fruitful plough-land, or she should lie beneath the elm that weds the vine, on the very lap of mother earth, among the springing herbage, the trailing vine-shoots and the budding trees.

The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914

On the left the red wet plough-land showed through the doorways between the elm-boles and their branches.

Sons and Lovers 1913

Interminably passing misty snow-covered plough-land ridges

Georgian Poetry 1920-22 Various 1912

Once beyond the churchyard, in the plough-land of the island road, he continued his tormented reverie of the night.

Tongues of Conscience Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

There was plough-land and pasture, and copses of bare trees, copses of bushes, and homesteads naked and work-bare.

Women in Love 1907