1 In the rye the quail would be calling, and, in the grass, the corncrake, and over them would be wheeling flocks of twittering linnets.
2 And see how the rye is drooping, and nearly laid.
3 The verdure had thickened and its bright green stood out sharply against the brownish strips of winter rye trodden down by the cattle, and against the pale-yellow stubble of the spring buckwheat.
4 The wooded ravines and the copses, which at the end of August had still been green islands amid black fields and stubble, had become golden and bright-red islands amid the green winter rye.
5 Facing him lay a field of winter rye, there his own huntsman stood alone in a hollow behind a hazel bush.
6 At the very moment when she would have seized her prey, the hare moved and darted along the balk between the winter rye and the stubble.
7 The two Pavlograd squadrons were bivouacking on a field of rye, which was already in ear but had been completely trodden down by cattle and horses.
8 An ax will be useful, a hunting spear not bad, but a three-pronged fork will be best of all: a Frenchman is no heavier than a sheaf of rye.
9 But a little further on he saw infantry regiments with their arms piled and the soldiers, only partly dressed, eating their rye porridge and carrying fuel.
10 Immediately beyond the forest, on a downward slope, lay a field of spring rye.
11 Another section amid the regimental wagons and horses which were standing in a group was busy getting out caldrons and rye biscuit, and feeding the horses.
12 Other peasants, having heard of their comrades' discomfiture, came to town bringing rye, oats, and hay, and beat down one another's prices to below what they had been in former days.
13 She followed a furrow between low wheat blades and a field of rye which showed silver lights as it flowed before the wind.
14 Carol had not dared to look into the farther room while she labored over the supper of beer, rye bread, moist cornbeef and cabbage, set on the kitchen table.
15 We're taking some beer, and some of the smoothest rye you ever laid tongue to.