1 Nevertheless, without openly admitting it, he was devoted to Boxer; the two of them usually spent their Sundays together in the small paddock beyond the orchard, grazing side by side and never speaking.
2 The halt was but momentary, for the noise resolved itself into the steady bites of two animals grazing.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody 3 The sun was just grazing the top of the oak.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 4 Holmes followed him, and I, leaving the horse grazing beside the road, followed Holmes.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST 5 He took us down to see his chickens, and his cow that was grazing on the hillside.
6 The cow had evidently been grazing somewhere in the draw.
7 The cornfields were far apart in those times, with miles of wild grazing land between.
8 We passed one fenced stock-farm with grass and grazing cattle, that looked very home-like after endless corn and cotton.
9 It was worth a trip to Holland, too, just to get a sight of three or four hundred fine Holstein cows grazing in one of those intensely green fields.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XVI. 10 The nag was grazing at some distance, not suspecting any harm.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan SwiftContext Highlight In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII. 11 So at least it seemed to Vronsky, just as it seems to a man with a sore finger that he is continually, as though on purpose, grazing his sore finger on everything.
12 I have had the wheels removed from your koliaska, Monsieur Chichikov, and have sent your horse, Platon Mikhalitch, to a grazing ground fifteen versts away.
13 Here, an inaugural sight, four horses of snowy whiteness are grazing abroad on the grassy plain.
14 On Sundays he had earned the right to graze in the pasture and rest.
15 But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship's direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.