1 Now they'd know what it meant to have fertile fields stripped, horses and cattle stolen, houses burned, old men and boys dragged off to prison and women and children turned out to starve.
2 No far-off cattle lowed, no birds sang, no wind waved the trees.
3 Beyond the lawn, with its pyramidal pale-gold maples and velvety firs, sloped pastures dotted with cattle; and through a long glade the river widened like a lake under the silver light of September.
4 But all these were collared, and dragged along the deck like dead cattle; and, side by side, were seized up into the mizzen rigging, like three quarters of meat, and there they hung till morning.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 5 The garden, curiously enough, was a quarter of a mile from the house, and the way to it led up a shallow draw past the cattle corral.
6 The cattle in the corral ate corn almost as fast as the men could shell it for them, and we hoped they would be ready for an early market.
7 Perhaps the barn had burned; perhaps the cattle had frozen to death; perhaps a neighbour was lost in the storm.
8 In winter she wore a sealskin coat and cap, and she and Mr. Harling used to walk home together in the evening, talking about grain-cars and cattle, like two men.
9 She knew every farmer for miles about: how much land he had under cultivation, how many cattle he was feeding, what his liabilities were.
10 Whenever we rode over in that direction we saw her out among her cattle, bareheaded and barefooted, scantily dressed in tattered clothing, always knitting as she watched her herd.
11 There he would sit down on the drawside and help her watch her cattle.
12 She begged Antonia and me to go with her, and help get her cattle together; they were scattered and might be gorging themselves in somebody's cornfield.
13 I told him nobody wanted to drownd themselves, but if we didn't have rain soon we'd have to pump water for the cattle.
14 He reminded me of Ole Benson, who used to sit on the drawside and watch Lena herd her cattle.
15 I followed a cattle path through the thick under-brush until I came to a slope that fell away abruptly to the water's edge.