The horses sniffed it with delight as luxuriant pasturage. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
The rich pasturage of Sussex fattened the ox into its superior size and weight. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
"Do you really think they mean to try and get pasturage here, Billee?" he asked. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders] Reference
Few people know more about grass than that it is good pasturage for cattle and sheep. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
Owing to the density of the population pasturage is scarce, and sheep are almost unknown. From Wordnik.com. [Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)] Reference
He also has certain rights over the stone quarries and the pasturage on some of the hills. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
Heavily armed southern tribes have had to compete for scarce water and pasturage in the area. From Wordnik.com. [Doctors Without Borders Suspends Southern Sudan Work Due To Violence] Reference
But these others paid and their pasturage and passage fees added to the income of the Estates. From Wordnik.com. [The Weakling] Reference
Another hundred acres adjoining, is also enclosed with a stone wall, and is devoted to pasturage. From Wordnik.com. [The Oahu College at the Sandwich Islands] Reference
If they had been, they would have been so thick that the pasturage would have given out the first day. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Herds of goats, with their attendant shepherds, occasionally cross our path, changing their pasturage. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
Our flocks, finding no more pasturage, were upon the point of perishing, when at last, the two tribes of. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
Some, again, are of great value as pasturage and for making into hay; others are positively noxious weeds. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
The earlier occupations of the Roman people were war and agriculture, or the pasturage of flocks and herds. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
Maybe the pasturage was getting poor and he would have to instruct the new headman to move to better lands. From Wordnik.com. [The Weakling] Reference
The first occupation of the Romans was agriculture, in which was included the pasturage of flocks and herds. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
Their herds multiplied and throve upon the rich pasturage and in the mild air of the region where they grazed. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
This wretched drink, together with the scarcity of pasturage, had driven almost all the Arabs from the coasts. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
Meanwhile the son of Amphitryon, his herds filled with food, was now breaking up his pasturage and making ready to go. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
So, too, stock that has been bred on poor pasturage will readily improve if transplanted to richer pastures and milder climate. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
These islands are valuable for their pasturage and their harbors, and most of all for their situation in a military point of view. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
The sides on these downs are very fine, extending for miles, and you see thousands of sheep enjoying the finest possible pasturage. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
A few minutes later they clambered over the shaky fence which separated the field from the sidewalk and neighboring dairy pasturage. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
For some miles we pass under the precipitous cliffs of Goat Mountain, where formerly numerous herds of mountain goats found pasturage. From Wordnik.com. [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference
There is no doubt that the yield of land when utilized for pasturage is less than what it will produce in the hands of the agriculturist. From Wordnik.com. [No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes] Reference
While unacquainted with the advantages of pasturage and agriculture, a greater extent of hunting lands are requisite for their subsistence. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
But the sea has obliterated more than the pasturage of the deer; a mile distant from the present shore stood the first monastery erected in. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
They found the cattle hidden in a gully, or deep valley, near the creek, and the steers were driven back to their pasturage on Three Star Ranch. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Uncle Fred's] Reference
That word, however, seems not properly applicable to plains of pasturage, often exclusively dry, though covered with grass four or five feet high. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
This pickle sets the hair and in a measure tans the skin, reducing its liability to shrinkage and rendering it less desirable pasturage for insects. From Wordnik.com. [Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration] Reference
The pasturage up there was very fine when we saw it, and there were still some cattle, descendants of the former domestic herd, which had now become wild. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Patches of wheat and rye vibrate in the winds which sweep up the valleys, and the fields of potatoes alternate on the low grounds with pasturage and orchards. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
The marshy grounds, some of which are fresh and others salt, are much neglected, yet they yield a kind of grass grateful to some animals, and are used as yet only for pasturage. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
Milk is as scarce as wine, as the pasturage was all on the other side, and cows were lost, and bread is as scarce as can be, and, instead of a dozen eggs, we only get one a day. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
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