 The ploughs, thirty-five in number, each drawn by its team of ten, stretched in an interminable line, nearly a quarter of a mile in length, behind and ahead of Vanamee. They were arranged, as it were, en echelon, not in file — not one directly behind...  The Octopus - Page 160by Frank Norris - 2008 - 488 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frank Norris - 1901 - 672 pages
...line, then all around him at the landscape inundated with the brilliant glow of the early morning. it, exhaling the moisture of the early dew. The atmosphere,...ahead of Vanamee. They were arranged, as it were, en echekn, not in file — not one directly behind the other, but each succeeding plough its own width... | |
 | Nettie Stewart Gaines - American literature - 1910 - 272 pages
...was alive—roused at last from its sleep, palpitating with the desire of reproduction. The plows, thirty-five in number, each drawn by its team of ten,...one directly behind the other, but each succeeding plow its own width farther in the field than the one in front of it. Each of these plows held five... | |
 | Nettie Stewart Gaines - American literature - 1910 - 266 pages
...was alive — roused at last from its sleep, palpitating with the desire of reproduction. The plows, thirty-five in number, each drawn by its team of ten,...They were arranged, as it were, en echelon, not in file — not one directly behind the other, but each succeeding plow its own width farther in the field... | |
 | Frank William Scott, Jacob Zeitlin - English prose literature - 1914 - 690 pages
...clod that was not swollen with fertility, not a fissure that did not exhale the sense of fecundity. The ploughs, thirty-five in number, each drawn by...They were arranged, as it were, en echelon, not in file — not one directly 1 From The Octopus, Doubleday, Page and Company. Reprinted by permission.... | |
 | GEORGE WHARTON JAMES - 1914 - 706 pages
...pictures of them in the first of a proposed trilogy of novels dealing with " the epic of the wheat." " The ploughs, thirty-five in number, each drawn by...interminable line, nearly a quarter of a mile in length. They were arranged, as it were, en echelon, not in file — not one directly behind the other, but... | |
 | George Wharton James - California - 1914 - 628 pages
...pictures of them in the first of a proposed trilogy of novels dealing with " the epic of the wheat." " The ploughs, thirty-five in number, each drawn by...interminable line, nearly a quarter of a mile in length. They were arranged, as it were, en echelon, not in file — not one directly behind the other, but... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - American literature - 1922 - 600 pages
...not swollen with 10 fertility, not a fissure that did not exhale the sense of fecundity. The plows, thirty-five in number, each drawn by its team of ten,...They were arranged, as it were, en echelon, not in file — not one directly behind the other, but each succeeding plow its 20 own width farther in the... | |
 | Will Christopher Wood, Alice Cecilia Cooper, Frederick A. Rice - American literature - 1925 - 368 pages
...was not swollen with fertility, not a fissure that did not exhale the sense of fecundity. The plows, thirty-five in number, each drawn by its team of ten,...en echelon, not in file—not one directly behind each other, but each succeeding plow its own width farther in the field than the one in front of it.... | |
 | Marjorie Hope Nicolson - Art - 1925 - 472 pages
...the land was alive; roused at last from its sleep, palpitating with the desire of reproduction. . . . The ploughs, thirty-five in number, each drawn by...They were arranged, as it were, en echelon, not in file — not one directly behind the other, but each succeeding plough its own width farther in the... | |
 | Frank Norris - 1928 - 298 pages
...dozen steps upon the ranches without the brusque sensation that underfoot the land was alive; aroused at last from its sleep, palpitating with the desire...They were arranged, as it were, en echelon, not in file — not one directly behind the other, but each succeeding plough its own width farther in the... | |
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