The principal quadrupeds that had been seen by the colonists in their various expeditions were the stag,
fallow deer, hart, black and grizzly bear, antelope, ahsahta or bighorn, beaver, sea and river otter, muskrat, fox, wolf, and panther, the latter extremely rare.
Plough in the spring; but
fallow broken up in the summer will not belie your hopes.
Furthermore, his mind was
fallow. It had lain
fallow all his life so far as the abstract thought of the books was concerned, and it was ripe for the sowing.
All your skill was used up ages ago in Palestine, and you must lie
fallow for a thousand years to git strength for more deeds!' A boy came here t'other day asking for a job, and said his name was Matt, and when we asked him his surname he said he'd never heard that 'a had any surname, and when we asked why, he said he supposed his folks hadn't been
The two years during which his mind had lain
fallow had refreshed him, he fancied, and he was able now to work with energy.
Nicholas standing in a
fallow field could see all his whips.
Sometimes they got onto a winter-rye field, or a
fallow field on which they could see stalks of wormwood, and straws sticking up through the snow and swaying in the wind; sometimes they came onto deep and even white snow, above which nothing was to be seen.
And the ploughing of the further land to go on without a break so as to let it ripen lying
fallow. And the mowing to be all done by hired labor, not on half-profits.
In a few moments a colt was seen gliding, like a
fallow deer, among the straight trunks of the pines; and, in another instant, the person of the ungainly man, described in the preceding chapter, came into view, with as much rapidity as he could excite his meager beast to endure without coming to an open rupture.
As one who has been all day ploughing a
fallow field with a couple of oxen keeps thinking about his supper and is glad when night comes that he may go and get it, for it is all his legs can do to carry him, even so did Ulysses rejoice when the sun went down, and he at once said to the Phaeacians, addressing himself more particularly to King Alcinous:
Then when he saw the slanting sunlight lying on field and
fallow, shining redly here and there on cot and farmhouse, and when he heard the sweet birds singing their vespers, and the sheep bleating upon the hillside, and beheld the swallows flying in the bright air, there came a great fullness to his heart so that all things blurred to his sight through salt tears, and he bowed his head lest the folk should think him unmanly when they saw the tears in his eyes.
When the big fellows wanted to unload Little Copper, they sent Jakey
Fallow into the New York Stock Exchange to yell out: 'I'll buy all or any part of Little Copper at fifty five,' Little Copper being at fifty-four.