Word: furrowing
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...father, who were always running from rattlesnakes, taught him to. Last week he chased after the children, whistling all the while a shrill whine. This child's foot, that child's leg he nipped at. Then his jaws sagged open, his hind legs dragged a faint furrow in a Levelland street, in the final stiffening of rabies, given him by one of the town hounds or by some coyote bum. Four of the children he had bitten were rushed to Austin, for treatment...
Watch them as they march, O fair Vermont! . . . Coolidge dreaming over a furrow, Balancing a testy problem As he swings the ax over cordwood. He in a man of your mountains, He is a man of your hills. Firm and honest and gentle. Leader and honest citizen- He Is a man of your breeding- Coolidye-man of the mountains
...overtone is homeliness: there is a prose poem on turning mattresses and tucking fresh sheets in an old house. Part is swiftness and grace: Mr. Dunnock, before his birds become his angels, skates on the fens like a big bird himself. Part is earthiness: angry yokels plow a furrow across the vicarage lawn, plow up the doorstep, with three chestnut horses steaming and gleaming on a snowy morning. Part is uneasy: a weathercock whines; people tell their dreams; once Mr. Dunnock stuffs his beard quickly into his mouth...
...fiddling goatherd from the hills, the Colonel's daughter, the son of a small farmer and fisherman of the Lofotens. Them and others of several kinds, three families and four bachelors, Mr. Bojer follows across the sea to the virgin plain; follows them as they turn the first furrow in the prairie sod, as they build sod houses, as they suffer and labor and grow wealthy, as wooden houses replace their sod huts, as they grow old and die, dreaming of snowclad mountains, of waterfalls and steep fiords; follows, too, those who go back to their homes in Norway...
...Viteze-in-Uckermark, Germany, a stork flying south from the autumn cold fell into a field. His wing was broken. All night he lay in a frosty furrow and when day came heard voices near at hand. Terrified out of his wits, what was his astonishment to find that some children were addressing him in soft imploring accents. They had stumbled upon him on their way to school. Now, when they go to school he struts behind them; while they construe their lessons he "stands motionless on one leg in the corner"; in the afternoon he "marches home before them...