Sentences with phrase «wading in straw»
Like the savage, he may make his bed wherever his right arm can support him, and from his simple and athletic attitude of observation, the property - owner seems buried and smothered in ignoble externalities and trammels, «wading in straw and rubbish to his knees.»
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Weathered farmers in straw hats waded knee deep through water - logged rice plots anticipating their next harvest.
«Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, both stirred the political pot of religion and racism, the latter wading in to Jack Straw's niqab row with gusto.
On a crisp fall morning, I watched students at Lewis Elementary School, in Portland, Oregon, roll up their pant legs and wade barefoot into piles of sand, clay, straw, and water.