I expect they have been dividing the meadow.

Some Shanghainese hold large banquets when they get married.

So let France and Germany enjoy their celebration in Versailles.

Her lush hair cascaded down over her shoulders.

People with no humour are like meadows without flowers.

People with no sense of humor are like meadows with no flowers.

The chief income from his sister's estate was derived from the meadows, which were flooded every spring.

Following in the footsteps of Tajikistan, the Mayor's Office in the Uzbek capital Tashkent has banned 'lavish' weddings in the city.

They moved slowly along the uneven bottom of the meadow, where a weir had once been.

Leaving the meadow, he went down the high road toward the village.

Or the bog turtle, needing wet meadows and insects and sunny places.

The island features lush mountainous rainforests, home of many rare plant, animal, and bird species.

Then he went there himself and arranged to have the harvest gathered in partly by hired labourers and partly by peasants paid in kind.

Constantine, who was obliged to go to the cornfields and meadows, offered to give his brother a lift in his trap.

The planet s biomass forests, pastureland, savannas, and crops make up productive capital that generates a 10 return every year.

The peasants asked him to let them some meadows at a reduced rent, I think, and he refused, and I reproached him with being stingy.

The fledgling Communist Party and its three Red Armies were driven out of their bases in the South in the early 1930 s by Chiang Kaishek s Nationalist government.

Pursued and harried by their enemies, they crossed high mountains, turbulent rivers, and impassable grassland, with Mao steering the course from victory to victory.

A wide expanse of the meadow was already mown, and with its swaths of grass already giving off perfume, shone with a peculiar fresh brilliance in the oblique rays of the descending sun.

The local men opposed this innovation by all the means in their power, but the plan succeeded, and in the first year the meadows brought in almost double.

Koznyshev sat down by the willows, while Levin led away his horse, and, having tethered it, stepped into the immense grey green sea of grass, so dense that the wind could not ruffle it.

He could meet his bride seated majestically on the caparison of an elaborately decorated elephant, and she would look ravishing swathed and bejeweled in Indian finery.

The oceans, forests, grasslands, and all the places called home by the millions of other species sharing our planet are a part of our lives too.

From the hill, as he came to his first swath, he could see in the shade at his feet, a part of the meadow that was already mown, with the green heaps of grass and dark piles of coats thrown down by the mowers.

Other cutbacks include the suspension of unnecessary foreign travel for government officials, sitting allowances for seminars and meetings including those of Member of Parliament, and lavish cocktail parties and dinners by public institutions.

While the car driver obtains an approximate view of a blooming meadow the city cyclist notices the different colors and scents of the blossoms, the smell of freshly mown grass, the swoosh of leaves of a chestnut tree, the sunlight twinkling through trees shimmering green in springtime.

Agriculture there has been damaged by the cutting of walnut, apricot, and mulberry trees for winter fuel, and by a failure to replant poplar, willow, and tamarisk the trees that hold fragile meadows in place.

The bushes by the river where the grass had been cut and the river itself with its curves, previously invisible, were now glittering like steel and the people getting up and moving about, the steep wall of yet uncut grass, and the hawks soaring over the bare meadow, struck him as something quite new.